I have enabled your DFlow tool, but it looks like it severely slows down Pharo. Browsing through methods was instantaneous but with DFlow I see at least a one second lag which make its use quite an obstacle to my workflow.
I am on macos 10.9 maverics with a 2011 macbook air. On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Roberto Minelli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I agree with you Kilon, thanks for your observation (and future help). > > My interaction profiler is only a means to the end. As Doru is saying, my > goal is to use the data captured by > DFlow to understand how developers work and what they need in their > context. > > In the short term I want to analyze how developers work, but then I will > do my best to bridge the gap between > what our IDEs offer and what we need. > > P.s. Thanks Doru for your support! > > Cheers, > Roby > > On Aug 12, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Kilon, > > > > Excellent observation! > > > > The Glamorous Toolkit implements the idea of a Moldable IDE. The idea is > simple: make it dead cheap for the developer to mold the IDE to his/her > contextual needs. > > > > Until now, we have announced an inspector and a debugger that do just > that. The inspector makes it possible to mold the tool for every little > object if you desire. For example, I alone have built literally hundreds of > extensions for various objects. Actually, the inspector goes as far as to > allow you to mold the flow to the context in which you are. The debugger > lets you define custom debuggers that you can switch to while debugging. > All these extensions are incredibly small (an object inspector extension > has an average of 8 lines, and the debuggers we implemented consist of a > couple of hundred loc), they are independent of each other, and they are > put together through a small frame. Add to that the potential of using > multiple rendering engines and we get a brand new philosophy that I believe > holds the potential to change software development significantly. > > > > This is not a far goal. It's a reality now. At ESUG, we will show how > these tools work now in practice. > > > > What Roberto is doing is complementary to our efforts. Data mining will > certainly play a significant role in this picture, precisely when we will > start to have thousands of these little contextual tools. At this time, > DFlow is experimental, but eventually a tool like this should become part > of the IDE as we need to understand how developers work in their context > and what they need in their context. That is why his effort should be > supported by our community. Please install it and give feedback. > > > > Cheers, > > Doru > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:06 PM, kilon alios <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I think the future are tools tailor made for specific kind of tasks . > The age of IDEs and Languages has come to an end. Neither programming > languages and IDEs can maintain the complexity of modern software. They are > too generic.I think that what we need is a UNIX system but with GUIs , a > collection of tools that can talk to each other but at the same time have > an extremely limited scope as tools. Smalltalk definitely moves towards > that direction but even Smalltalk is far from that goal. > > > > I see that paradigm a lot in 3d art, it raises the amount of knowledge > required because you end up with learning hundreds of tools contained in a > single application but if you want professional results and you are dead > serious about efficiency and productivity then its the way to go. > > > > I will install DFlow and help you in your saga, but bare in mind that > DFlow will tell you what I use and I how , but it wont answer you the most > important question "what I want to use and how I want to use it" . > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Roberto Minelli < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I uploaded a web page to explain Self-Adaptive IDEs, the vision I will > develop for my Ph.D > > http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/minelli/self-adaptive-ides/index.html. > > > > Please take a minute to look at it and tell me your opinion! > > > > At the moment we are conducting an experiment with my interaction > profiler (DFlow). It would be > > great if you could participate! This will cost you little effort but > help me to gather an understanding > > of development practices and interactions. This is the ground for > improving our Pharo IDE! > > > > Cheers and thanks in advance, > > Roberto > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > www.tudorgirba.com > > > > "Every thing has its own flow" > > >
