The room was flat with several monitors around, and people could see well (I tested beforehand).
If the fonts get much larger, having several panes side-by-side makes things look ugly and you kind of lose the perspective :(. That is why I am so looking forward for Bloc (so that I can scale things nicely) :). Cheers, Doru On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:50 AM, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi doru > > did you get problems with the fonts? Because I was wondering why you did > not make them a bit larger. > > Stef > > On 11/6/14 16:10, Tudor Girba wrote: > > Thanks :). > > Just some background information: > > As you can see, I used the GTInspector to show the liveliness of the > system. I actually used the Moose image + some other goodies (like Seaside, > Postgres connection and a couple of others). I tried this story for the > first time, and while it still needs a bit of polishing, I think it works > well on two levels: > - you can use it as an argument for people to start adopting Pharo as a > programming platform by emphasizing the liveliness, > - but at the same time you can use the same demo to show how using Pharo > can replace scripting, querying and charting tools for common tasks like > string, file system or db manipulation. This in itself is a niche that we > can tap on. > > The result was that people actually got excited, and the message rippled > a bit and I got to do several other demos outside the public session. > > Every step you saw in the demo is setup through a script that gets > triggered from the world menu. These scripts spawns windows and sets the > state of objects. It's really simple, but it accelerates the demo. My goal > is to get a demo that can be repeated by others in other contexts out of > the box. There are still some setup issues, but once I get it done, I will > make it more public. In the meantime, if you want to contribute or play > with it you can use the following script in a Moose image: > > Gofer new > smalltalkhubUser: 'PharoExtras' project: 'PostgresV2'; > configuration; > load. > (#ConfigurationOfPostgresV2 asClass project version: '2.0-baseline') load. > > Gofer new > smalltalkhubUser: 'Moose' project: 'GToolkit'; > package: 'GT-InspectorExtensions-PostgresV2'; > package: 'GT-InspectorExtensions-XML'; > load. > > Gofer new > smalltalkhubUser: 'RichardWettel' project: 'CodeCity'; > configuration; > loadDevelopment. > > Gofer new > smalltalkhubUser: 'PharoExtras' project: 'MorphExamplesAndDemos'; > package: 'MorphExamplesAndDemos'; > load. > Gofer new > smalltalkhubUser: 'Moose' project: 'GToolkit'; > package: 'GT-InspectorExtensions-MorphExamplesAndDemos'; > load. > > Gofer new > smalltalkhubUser: 'Moose' project: 'GToolkit'; > package: 'GT-Scenery'; > load. > > > Cheers, > Doru > > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:31 AM, kilon alios <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> very good presentation that clearly shows the capabilities of Pharo. If >> that does not convince people to use / try pharo, nothing will :) >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I added a new entry: >>> >>> http://pharo.org/news/playing-with-live-objects >>> >>> >>> Marcus >>> >> >> > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Every thing has its own flow" > > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
