On Dec 23, 2010, at 1:14 AM, Germán Arduino wrote: > 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.
excellent news. I'm happy for you. > > 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 :) do you think that a good open-source ERP in Smalltalk would help you? > 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. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >
