Ey, I want join also to the feelings of Sven and Laurent. I'm in Smalltalk from year 2000 aproximately but only in the last years I'm achieving one of my goals that is work 100% in Smalltalk in my small entrepreneurship dream called Arduino Software. A big part of this history is thanks to Pharo and Seaside and lot of other cool stuff on squeaksource.
I think that the business orientation of Pharo was a key factor to caught my attention and, even when I also love Squeak and its people (a lot of us are on both sides trying to help) I have now in Pharo the tools to fight in the commercial arena. Modestly I try to help in the areas I can and in the time I have and want to say here a big big thanks to a lot of people working hard and (as Stef said) not only in the cool part of development but also on more boring (but needed stuff) as admin, doc, etc. Thank you all dear fellow of Pharo/Seaside/etc community by the effort put in this work and for the help I received each time I needed it. And also a BIG thanks to ESUG by the continuos effort to help in the Smalltalk advance. Now we must go for more in 2011, for example in develop the next big success on the startups market, this one with Pharo :) Very good 2011 to all of you! Germán. 2010/12/22 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>: > :) > > I showed Smalltalk to hilaire too :) and he was living in this lost place too > :) > > Stef > > On Dec 22, 2010, at 8:55 PM, laurent laffont wrote: > >> Funny, I was thinking of writing such mail two hours ago back from work :) >> >> I join my thanks to you because I feel 2010 has been my most intense year of >> my programmer life. I've learned tremendous stuff, meet amazing people and >> have the chance to contribute a little with lot of help from the community. >> >> The Pharo community is great, warm, cool people: thanks Mariano, Marcus, >> Adrian, Torsten, Alexandre, Christoph, Doru, German, Eliot, Dale and all and >> all !! >> >> And a special special big big thank you to Stephane who showed me Smalltalk >> 2 years ago at RMLL in a lost place in France. I remember he told me >> something like "We've just started a cool thing called Pharo, stay tuned". >> Now I teach Pharo at University :) >> >> Can't wait for an amazing 2011 ! >> >> Laurent Laffont >> >> Pharo Smalltalk Screencasts: http://www.pharocasts.com/ >> Blog: http://magaloma.blogspot.com/ >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote: >> Since about the middle of 2010 I have been actively following Pharo and it >> has been an amazing time. >> >> These are my highlights, there are probably many others. >> >> 0.x became 1.0, then came 1.1 and finally 1.1.1. There has been amazing >> activity on 1.2. >> >> Seaside became 3.0. >> >> I learned how to deploy Seaside and manage it in production. >> >> I learned how to work efficiently with Monticello and SqueakSource. >> >> Hudson integration servers were customized and deployed for various >> Smalltalk projects and for Pharo itself. >> >> I learned how to build my own development and deployment images. >> >> I learned how to do load balancing and static content serving for Seaside. >> >> I love the Glamorous theme and the improved DejaVuBitmapFonts loader, I like >> the the Pro theme. >> >> I am successfully using Glorp and PostresV2. >> >> I am using the Cog VM every day. >> >> I simply love developing in Pharo. >> >> The Pharo community is just as great, from the leadership to the core >> developers, the dev image developers, the application and framework >> developers, those doing documentation, screencasts, help systems, the >> testers, to the countless people answering questions on this list. >> >> Thank you all ! >> >> Sven >> >> PS: I can't wait for 2011. >> >> PPS: Of course, part of the above are results of the greater Smalltalk >> community. Pharo is my view into this world. >> >> >> > > >
