Re: can this be done via modification to the Squeak/Pharo IDE?

On 2/29/12 4:14 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
[...]
> For the original question: "can this be done via modification to the
> Squeak/Pharo IDE?".  Even though some Squeak tools, and Etoys, do
> possesses the potential to be the basis of such dynamic environment,
> if the word "this" in the question really means what he actually does,
> the answer would be different.  What he actually does takes absolute
> attention to any detail and the ability of explaining things clearly,
> and uber-programming ability combined in one person.

All of those attributes and abilities can be improved with practice, of 
course, and they enhance each other: the uber-programmer knows what he 
wants to do and creates tools to do it, which also happens to enable the 
uber-presenter to make a more clear presentation.

However, we can't all be uber-presenters  AND uber-programmers, so 
having the right tools available will enable people with lesser talents 
to accomplish related goals.

L.

Re: can this be done via modification to the Squeak/Pharo IDE?

On 28 February 2012 01:46, Lawson English <lenglish5 <at> cox.net> wrote:
> http://vimeo.com/36579366
>
> Lawson
>

now after i found time to watch this video, i can comment on it :)

Strangely enough, but i was driven by the very same idea when i first
found squeak and joined community.
I imagined the scene with animation, like a bullet leaving the gun and
flying towards its victim, and i wanted to give an
artist/designer/engineer to
be able to stop the scene at any moment, interact with objects, like
inspect their properties, allow them to change the code and then
continue again.

What i seen in those days, that smalltalk is much more enabling
environment for doing that, than anything else!
And i still keep that idea in mind, every time i doing something, be
it VM, FFI or Morphic or OpenGL or bug fixes..
every single step gets me a bit closer to this.. even if i won't be
able to work on this thing directly, i trying to push things in
direction which would allow
others to get to that point.

So, i think Lawson, this is my answer to your question.

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Best regards,

Re: Jenkins now live

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:03:12AM -0500, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> http://76.74.255.163:8080/
> 
> Our Jenkins server is now live. 
> 
> I'll get it running behind squeakci.org. Then I'll configure the Workspace, zip files, and directories,
so that users
> can cut an paste Smalltalk or Codex (the Mason build system DSL) into a window to have a Squeak 4.3 image 
> execute, run tests, create a zipped deliverable, etc. 
> 
> I'm about four weeks ahead of schedule, as I said I'd get this done after Smalltalk Directions. 

Very encouraging, thanks for the update!

Dave

my principle (was: can this be done)

Bret encouraged people to "have a principle" and, it turns out, I seem
to have one.

      "Ensure computers serve humans, not vice-versa."

Re: my principle (was: can this be done)

Rats!  I meant to click "Save" not "Send".  I do not have time to
elaborate at this moment, please diesregard.

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Bret encouraged people to "have a principle" and, it turns out, I seem
> to have one.
>
>      "Ensure computers serve humans, not vice-versa."

Re: Re: my principle (was: can this be done)

On 1 March 2012 07:30, Chris Muller <asqueaker <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Rats!  I meant to click "Save" not "Send".  I do not have time to
> elaborate at this moment, please diesregard.
>
No need to elaborate.
Principle is not a principle if you need too many words for describing it :)

> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bret encouraged people to "have a principle" and, it turns out, I seem
>> to have one.
>>
>>      "Ensure computers serve humans, not vice-versa."
>

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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.

Re: Re: my principle (was: can this be done)

Re: OmniBrowser (Re: Some Community numbers)

On 2/25/12, Colin Putney <colin <at> wiresong.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:50 PM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Colin,
>>
>> That is good news. Is the GUI now ToolBuilder based?
>
> Yup. It requires a few patches to Morphic and some extensions to
> ToolBuilder, which I'll roll into the trunk when they're ready.
>
> Colin
>

This might be a reason to go for a release 4.4 after that.

--Hannes

Re: can this be done via modification to the Squeak/Pharo IDE?

> http://vimeo.com/36579366
>
> Lawson

I did not care to start watching a 54 minutes video just to know what 
you are talking about.

I think it would be adequate to describe the topic of your post with a 
few sentences along the video link. The link alone, it feels a bit like 
spam to me.

No offense intended,

Stef

Re: can this be done via modification to the Squeak/Pharo IDE?

Well, to me, the various demos shown were quite compelling, and I 
thought, at the least the interface innovations were something that 
Squeak and Pharo developers might want to adopt. Certainly, for  any 
kind of  graphics/games-oriented development, they're the "wave of the 
future." As to describing them in a few sentences, I didn't think it 
necessary or even really worth trying to do. A picture is worth a 
thousand words, and these were highly interactive pictures.

Lawson

On 3/1/12 4:48 AM, Stéphane Rollandin wrote:
>> http://vimeo.com/36579366
>>
>> Lawson
>
> I did not care to start watching a 54 minutes video just to know what 
> you are talking about.
>
> I think it would be adequate to describe the topic of your post with a 
> few sentences along the video link. The link alone, it feels a bit 
> like spam to me.
>
> No offense intended,
>
> Stef
>
>