Re: [Pharo-project] [FYI] Athens tutorial

2013-04-04 Thread Jimmie Houchin
y the one that I tried. Jimmie On 04/04/2013 12:33 PM, p...@highoctane.be wrote: Same error here on OSX. I guess it is because we need to use the FreeType fonts instead of the default StrikeFonts. 2013/4/4 Jimmie Houchin mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com>> On 04/04/2013 11:34 AM, Ig

Re: [Pharo-project] [FYI] Athens tutorial

2013-04-04 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 04/04/2013 11:34 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 4 April 2013 17:38, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, I am on Ubuntu 12.10 32bit. ... SNIP ... I then open the image and proceed with loading the code and the tutorial. I skip page 1 and "doit" on page 2 and I get this error. Error: fai

Re: [Pharo-project] [FYI] Athens tutorial

2013-04-04 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am on Ubuntu 12.10 32bit. I have followed the directions below for the Tutorial. After the bash script completed it gave me these instructions. Please install the 32bit libraries sudo aptitude install ia32-libs I typed the above into the terminal and was told that I do not have "

[Pharo-project] NativeBoost problems on Linux

2013-04-02 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am having problems with code interfacing a C library on Ubuntu 12.10 32bit. I loaded my code into a clean Pharo 2.0 install. My code works perfectly when run on Windows 7. The Linux libraries work perfectly when running the demo C apps which come with the library. "I create the obj

Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] NativeBoost project moved to new hosting: smalltalkhub

2013-01-31 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 1/31/2013 8:47 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 31 January 2013 15:13, Norbert Hartl wrote: Am 31.01.2013 um 15:08 schrieb Igor Stasenko : If you want to be added as developer(s) to NativeBoost or AsmJit , make sure you are registered at smalltalkhub, and then send me your credentials. This is

Re: [Pharo-project] FileSystem inconsistency

2013-01-08 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 1/8/2013 11:18 PM, Yanni Chiu wrote: On 09/01/13 12:05 AM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Part of the problem is that I did not sufficiently read the documentation in the class comment. I also did not know of the PBE2 chapter referenced by Stef. I used to assume that class comments were empty

Re: [Pharo-project] FileSystem inconsistency

2013-01-08 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 1/8/2013 12:14 PM, Camillo Bruni wrote: On 2013-01-08, at 18:01, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: anyway, even if there are easier ways to create references, I think Jimmie is right, there are inconsistencies in the protocol. maybe for 3.0? yes definitely :). Jimmie, maybe you can open an issue o

Re: [Pharo-project] FileSystem inconsistency

2013-01-08 Thread Jimmie Houchin
.2013, at 17:07, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, I was writing a small utility using FileSystem. I had never used FileSystem before. So I am browsing the code trying to learn where to start and how to use it. It took me a little while to learn to do something like: fs := FileSystem store: (Disk

Re: [Pharo-project] FileSystem inconsistency

2013-01-08 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 1/8/2013 10:35 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: We wrote a chapter on FileSystem. Did you miss it? http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/pbe2/ Stef Thanks Stef. I had not seen that. Jimmie

Re: [Pharo-project] FileSystem inconsistency

2013-01-08 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 1/8/2013 10:33 AM, Ben Coman wrote: Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, I was writing a small utility using FileSystem. I had never used FileSystem before. So I am browsing the code trying to learn where to start and how to use it. It took me a little while to learn to do something like: fs

[Pharo-project] FileSystem inconsistency

2013-01-08 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I was writing a small utility using FileSystem. I had never used FileSystem before. So I am browsing the code trying to learn where to start and how to use it. It took me a little while to learn to do something like: fs := FileSystem store: (DiskStore activeClass createDefault). It wo

Re: [Pharo-project] CI down?

2012-12-16 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 12/16/2012 5:45 PM, Camillo Bruni wrote: I repeat: Do not use the CI to download stuff from... Use our static file server: http://pharo.gforge.inria.fr/ci/ ci jobs may change names and jenkins is too brittle to support heavy traffic! I think the easiest way to encourage this would be to ch

Re: [Pharo-project] NB Types and C Types

2012-12-16 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 12/15/2012 6:00 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 14 December 2012 20:48, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, In my app using NB and have a few questions on types. In one function I have an size_t *arg for an argument. Is NBUInt64 proper for this argument? No. 'size_t*' is a pointer. A s

[Pharo-project] NB Types and C Types

2012-12-14 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, In my app using NB and have a few questions on types. In one function I have an size_t *arg for an argument. Is NBUInt64 proper for this argument? I also have a DATE which uses OLE Automation date format which is described as: IO2GRequestFactory.fillMarketDataSnapshotRequestTime """

Re: [Pharo-project] NBFFICallback fnSpec

2012-12-07 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 12/6/2012 1:29 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 5 December 2012 22:28, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, In one of my callbacks I have an fnSpec with an enum. ^#( void (enum sessionStatus)) from typedef void (*SESSION_STATUS_CALLBACK)(O2GSessionStatus eSessionStatus); How are enums handled in NB

Re: [Pharo-project] NBFFICallback fnSpec

2012-12-05 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, In one of my callbacks I have an fnSpec with an enum. ^#( void (enum sessionStatus)) from typedef void (*SESSION_STATUS_CALLBACK)(O2GSessionStatus eSessionStatus); How are enums handled in NB? What would be the proper type for the fnSpec and how do I access the values in an enum in my

Re: [Pharo-project] NBFFICallback fnSpec

2012-12-04 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 12/4/2012 8:48 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 5 December 2012 03:22, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, I am working through implementing NativeBoost interface to a C wrapper dll. I have 8 callback functions to call in this interface. I am subclassing NBFFICallback as stated in the documentation

[Pharo-project] NBFFICallback fnSpec

2012-12-04 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am working through implementing NativeBoost interface to a C wrapper dll. I have 8 callback functions to call in this interface. I am subclassing NBFFICallback as stated in the documentation. I am also implementing the fnSpec method based on the code in the header file. fnSpec

Re: [Pharo-project] NB Capabilities

2012-11-12 Thread Jimmie Houchin
2 5:35 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 10 November 2012 19:34, Jimmie Houchin wrote: I am considering C++. I know that it is the favorite among quants. I also know it would open up a world of libraries and code. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_analyst When you say make a VM plugin ar

Re: [Pharo-project] NB Capabilities

2012-11-10 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello Frank, On 11/10/2012 4:05 PM, Frank Shearar wrote: On 10 November 2012 21:42, Jimmie Houchin wrote: On 11/10/2012 11:03 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote: It is too much imo.. Clojure->java -> c++ i would just write C++ code The API is either Java or C++ or .NET. I agree that n

Re: [Pharo-project] NB Capabilities

2012-11-10 Thread Jimmie Houchin
advise you to learn C++ basics. It will open a door to other languages of C family (because of similar syntax & rules). You may/will need it one day anyways :) On 10 November 2012 18:42, Jimmie Houchin wrote: On 11/10/2012 11:03 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote: It is too much imo.. Clojure->jav

Re: [Pharo-project] NB Capabilities

2012-11-10 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 11/10/2012 11:03 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote: It is too much imo.. Clojure->java -> c++ i would just write C++ code The API is either Java or C++ or .NET. I agree that no sane person would go Clojure->Java->C++ :) Clojure would provide the option of interfacing natively the Java API, wit

Re: [Pharo-project] NB Capabilities

2012-11-10 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 11/10/2012 2:30 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: Jimmie did you look at JavaConnect? This is on our roadmap for Moose in December January. So that we can connect better to Java. Stef No I did not look at JavaConnect? I was not familiar with it. This looks like it would be awesome. The business

Re: [Pharo-project] NB Capabilities

2012-11-09 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 11/9/2012 7:22 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 9 November 2012 12:19, Jimmie Houchin wrote: The COM API is deprecated and no longer supported. Only the C++ API is what is available for use from Pharo. On 11/8/2012 11:31 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 8 November 2012 23:25, Jimmie Houchin wrote

Re: [Pharo-project] NB Capabilities

2012-11-09 Thread Jimmie Houchin
The COM API is deprecated and no longer supported. Only the C++ API is what is available for use from Pharo. On 11/8/2012 11:31 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 8 November 2012 23:25, Jimmie Houchin wrote: On a second look at the API's documentation, the DLL is C++ not C. I don't know

Re: [Pharo-project] NB Capabilities

2012-11-08 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 11/8/2012 7:50 PM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: I am developing an application which needs to access a proprietary business API to access data from their servers. Currently because I don't know how to do that from within Pharo, I have been using Python/COM. But that API is deprecated and ex

[Pharo-project] NB Capabilities

2012-11-08 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I am developing an application which needs to access a proprietary business API to access data from their servers. Currently because I don't know how to do that from within Pharo, I have been using Python/COM. But that API is deprecated and expires soon. Now I have to move to an app which acce

Re: [Pharo-project] [NativeBoost] pass an array of args to external function

2012-11-08 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 11/8/2012 1:30 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: And you can be pretty sure that most pharoers (including myself) have a pretty vague notion about malloc/free, combined with the internals of an third party C library, that makes a pretty unstable field. Again, no silver bullets here, but less arroga

[Pharo-project] FileStream not opening file, if file opened elsewhere

2012-06-11 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I have run into what seems to be a bug in FileStream/StandardFileStream. I attempt to open a file. f := StandardFileStream oldFileNamed: 'pathToFile'. If file is open elsewhere for editing, f = nil. If the file is not open elsewhere, then the file opens properly. If I attempt to open re

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo is exploding

2012-05-16 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 5/16/2012 10:06 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: I think that some official Pharo blog (maybe written by Esteban) would be very helpful. Some kind of not very extensive technical information source that will help people to stay in touch with Pharo progress. Ok we will do a private mailing-list. I

Re: [Pharo-project] Machine Learning

2012-04-16 Thread Jimmie Houchin
23 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck mailto:marianop...@gmail.com>> wrote: Guille will answer you about the ObjectBrowser. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Jimmie Houchin mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, Are there any machine learning tools or libra

[Pharo-project] Machine Learning

2012-04-16 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, Are there any machine learning tools or libraries available or portable to Pharo? I am not knowledgeable about the field and am just learning and exploring. Any pointers greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jimmie

Re: [Pharo-project] Must watch: Momentum, roadmaps and more by Jason Fried

2012-04-02 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 4/2/2012 9:58 AM, Philippe Marschall wrote: On 04/02/2012 04:22 PM, Sebastian Sastre wrote: Hey guys, another must watch: Momentum, roadmaps and more by Jason Fried [1] it's a bit old but is great stuff Is there somewhere a non-Flash version? Cheers Philippe I like to download using Dow

Re: [Pharo-project] Enjoyed the reading..

2012-03-10 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 3/10/2012 10:29 AM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: [snip] And I believe in Pharo's case, that approachability is an area that will is greatly as the appearance, browsers and editors are getting improved and polished. ^^ And I be

Re: [Pharo-project] Enjoyed the reading..

2012-03-10 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 3/9/2012 5:02 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: According to this guy, we're using 3rd most powful programming language (or, well one of 4.. to not insult anyone ;). http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html So, we're not that bad, eh? :) I think were pretty good. :) I personally don't think anything co

Re: [Pharo-project] Netstyle experience (was Do not feed the trolls)

2012-02-22 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello Sudhakar, I totally agree. I believe we can build the future we want. And if we don't, we deserve to get what others provide or envision for us. I believe we can deliver a better experience as a client, and a better developer experience as a server. I personally don't know of anything

Re: [Pharo-project] How to cook Mr Popatoe Process?

2012-02-21 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 2/21/2012 2:37 AM, Noury Bouraqadi wrote: On 21 févr. 2012, at 07:44, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: Hi guys we have practically two solutions to cook a troll: - either I remove his email address from the list (2 min) a bit rude and unfriendly but this is a troll after all ;) +1

Re: [Pharo-project] HTTPS

2012-02-18 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 2/18/2012 8:02 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: For completeness, I should add that Zodiac delivers general purpose TLS/SSL streams. These can then be used to implement for example HTTPS when combined with a suitable client such as Zinc HTTP Components. It also works for some other use cases

Re: [Pharo-project] TabbedPane Class/ Package / Workspace browsers

2012-02-16 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I agree. I value highly many of the abilities our current UI. I would not want to give up the ability to have multiple browsers open and placed in certain positions to give me view into code in multiple areas as I edit whatever I am editing. I do agree that we could make improvements and that

Re: [Pharo-project] how to load rb in pharo 1.4?

2012-02-14 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 2/13/2012 2:11 PM, Tudor Girba wrote: Hi, I lost track of the latests developments around RB. What is the way to load RB in Pharo 1.4? Cheers, Doru Hello Doru, Below is the content of that thread. Re: Ann: OmniBrowser stable for 1.4 with RB Gofer it squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepositor

Re: [Pharo-project] Latest changes in FS

2012-01-22 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 1/22/2012 7:28 AM, Camillo Bruni wrote: oh my bad... I am so used to git that I constantly forget to update and merge remote changes first... will update the config, thanks for the remark :) Hello, I am not used to git, so I do not understand what git does for you that Monticello/Metace

Re: [Pharo-project] New IDE alternative (was Misc. newbie questions)

2012-01-19 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 1/18/2012 12:19 AM, Friedrich Dominicus wrote: Jimmie Houchin writes: I am all for improving our editing experience. But I want it in my image and not in Emacs/vi. I would rather see our world improved than to see it require an external editor which sees code as text, not objects, where

Re: [Pharo-project] New IDE alternative (was Misc. newbie questions)

2012-01-19 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 1/17/2012 2:57 PM, Frank Shearar wrote: Emacs + SLIME = image-based, interactive development. As image-based as you'd like, at least. Eclipse + Cusp = image-based development: you're connecting to a running Common Lisp image, which you can snapshot and restore any time you like (just like ch

Re: [Pharo-project] New IDE alternative (was Misc. newbie questions)

2012-01-17 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 1/16/2012 4:43 PM, Frank Shearar wrote: On 16 January 2012 20:08, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: After pounding at the system and countless books/articles/keynotes, I get that Smalltalk is a vision, not a syntax. Fortunately, I was hooked from the beginning by Alan Kay's TED Talk, so I enthusiastic

Re: [Pharo-project] New IDE alternative (was Misc. newbie questions)

2012-01-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 1/15/2012 6:55 AM, Gerry Weaver wrote: Hi Andreas, I am not comfortable with the idea to write parts of an application in different languages. Typically the disadvantages overweigh the advantages to do so as you would have different languages and systems to master and update. Interoperabilit

Re: [Pharo-project] Simple vs. Easy

2011-11-04 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Access FFI UTF8 and other encodings … I want a practical Smalltalk that I can use to build useful applications, building on top of great frameworks. Pharo takes on all these and at the same time tries to simplify things, the hard way. Sven On 04 Nov 2011, at 14:35, Jimmie Houchin wrote

Re: [Pharo-project] Simple vs. Easy

2011-11-04 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Forward with permission from Juan Vuletich Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:42:03 -0300 Hi Folks, I'm answering you off-list because I'm not subscribed to the Pharo list. Feel free to forward this there, if you wish. I think it is great to put focus on simplicity (an objective value) over easyness (a subjec

Re: [Pharo-project] Simple vs. Easy

2011-11-03 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 11/3/2011 4:53 PM, Carlo wrote: It's a great talk and I found him to be an engaging speaker. Out of interest, what parts don't you agree with and would it affect how we move Pharo forward? Cheers Carlo On 03 Nov 2011, at 10:21 PM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: It is a very interestin

Re: [Pharo-project] Simple vs. Easy

2011-11-03 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello Stef, In the video he distinguishes and defines Simple and Easy. I will not define them here. I will let the video speak for itself. Easy is what a lot of languages are. Simple is the goal. Simple Made Easy is the ultimate. :) Simple ~= Easy Easy ~= Simple Simple is sometimes Easy Easy i

[Pharo-project] Simple vs. Easy

2011-11-03 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I watched a video presentation by Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure, on Simple Made Easy. www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy It is a very interesting video. I don't necessarily agree with everything he says. But I believe he makes some valuable distinctions between simple

Re: [Pharo-project] Comment Syntax

2011-11-03 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 10/31/2011 3:12 PM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: Would it be difficult/valuable to create an alternate comment syntax? I often find myself wanting to comment a large block itself containing comments. It would be nice to have something like C++'s /* */. I feel like this may have been brought up befo

Re: [Pharo-project] opening a text in a window

2011-08-31 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I am working in a Pharo 1.3 image and this works well for me. ws := Workspace openLabel: 'my new workspace'. ws toggleStylingActive. ws contents: 'my new content'. I like opening with a descriptive label rather than just adding another "Workspace" window on my screen or on my tabs at the bottom

Re: [Pharo-project] opening a text in a window

2011-08-31 Thread Jimmie Houchin
No syntax highlighting and no quoting as a comment required. Thought maybe this would be helpful to anyone in like situation. This is in a Pharo 1.3 image. Thanks. Jimmie On 8/31/2011 12:42 PM, Alexandre Bergel wrote: Thanks for your help. Alexandre On 31 Aug 2011, at 14:15, Jimmie Houch

Re: [Pharo-project] opening a text in a window

2011-08-31 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 8/31/2011 11:04 AM, Alexandre Bergel wrote: hi! Is there a way to open a text in a window in Pharo? Doing: Workspace  openContents: 'hello world' shows  Is there a way to remove the syntax highlighting?

Re: [Pharo-project] #name

2011-08-27 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I want to state that I naively and accidentally experienced this. I was using #name as a temp variable in a class method, representing the name of a file. I did not notice that my anticipated temp variable was not a temporary variable but rather a variable that once assigned to change the name

Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry

2011-05-05 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 5/5/2011 8:19 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 6 May 2011 01:03, Jimmie Houchin wrote: On 5/5/2011 4:25 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 5 May 2011 21:39, Jimmie Houchin wrote: On 5/5/2011 12:21 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 5 May 2011 18:57, Jimmie Houchinwrote: [Big Snip] Well said. Except

Re: [Pharo-project] Making cr to autocomplete as well as tab (in Pharo 1.3)

2011-05-05 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 5/5/2011 11:00 AM, Tudor Girba wrote: Hi, This is not great at all. Please read this before going forward. We had this in OCompletion before and then it got changed to not use CR for a reason. The problem is when using fluent APIs that are best read when written on multiple lines. For exam

Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry

2011-05-05 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 5/5/2011 4:25 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 5 May 2011 21:39, Jimmie Houchin wrote: On 5/5/2011 12:21 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 5 May 2011 18:57, Jimmie Houchinwrote: [Big Snip] Well said. Except that i'm not sharing your view that its hard to interface with foreign libraries

Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry

2011-05-05 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 5/5/2011 12:21 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: On 5 May 2011 18:57, Jimmie Houchin wrote: [Big Snip] Well said. Except that i'm not sharing your view that its hard to interface with foreign libraries. Its not hard at all. Of course to connect two different worlds, you need to have knowled

Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry

2011-05-05 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 5/5/2011 10:32 AM, Toon Verwaest wrote: On 05/05/2011 05:26 PM, Cédrick Béler wrote: Lastly, most Smalltalk systems are image based... ...which makes you feel the system is "alive", hence one **huge benefit** of Smalltalk: its debugger which enables on the fly debbuging... and also test d

Re: [Pharo-project] Making cr to autocomplete as well as tab (in Pharo 1.3)

2011-05-05 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 5/5/2011 7:53 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote: Hi, i just found inconvenient that for autocompletion i should press tab all the time while i tend to always hit enter, which instead of pasting suggestion, inserts cr into text. So i hacked a lil piece of code to make autocompletion to insert suggested

[Pharo-project] ZnClient ConnectionTimedOut

2011-05-03 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am happily use ZincHttpComponents, specifically ZnClient for my application. I make a request to the Python server part of my application which retrieves data from another server. This at times takes longer than the provided "timeout" for a connection. I am currently doing, ZnCli

Re: [Pharo-project] new Cog VMs uploaded

2011-05-03 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 5/3/2011 4:40 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote: What approach do you suggest should I take? I have no idea. You could try and break down the various activities and benchmark them separately I suppose. You could look at the profiles you're already generating in higher resolution to see where

Re: [Pharo-project] System time

2011-05-01 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Windows Vista computers. One a laptop, and the other a Desktop machine I use as a server. Both are reasonably current Dells. The laptop with a duo-core processor and the desktop a quad-core processor. I have not done any attempts on any other OS. Thanks. Jimmie On 4/30/2011 12:03 PM, Jimmie

Re: [Pharo-project] System time

2011-04-30 Thread Jimmie Houchin
e OS clock and manually selected the next minute before I executed. However, I was within that 34 second window. So now I am exploring the problem. Thanks. Jimmie On 4/30/2011 5:06 PM, Alexandre Bergel wrote: 'Time now' gives me the same result than OSX Alexandre On 30 Apr 20

Re: [Pharo-project] System time

2011-04-30 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 4/30/2011 11:50 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: I am developing a time sensitive application. I poll a server every minute for new data. The data is time sensitive and the sooner I can get the data to the release of the data the better. I have noticed that Pharo's system time drifts away from t

[Pharo-project] System time

2011-04-30 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I am developing a time sensitive application. I poll a server every minute for new data. The data is time sensitive and the sooner I can get the data to the release of the data the better. I have noticed that Pharo's system time drifts away from the OS system time. I would really like the Phar

Re: [Pharo-project] PharoCasts with experts

2011-03-28 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I don't know how to a screencast either. But many here, like Mariano are worried about English speaking skills. How hard is it to dub over the voices of the original screencast? Would we be able to make the spoken language part in multiple languages? If this is reas

Re: [Pharo-project] Congrats

2011-01-14 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 1/14/2011 1:41 PM, Steven Baker wrote: I can't find an english translation. Can someone summarize this in english for me? Thanks, -Steven On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Miguel Cobá wrote: Congrats Stéph, http://www.inria.fr/centre-de-recherche-inria/lille-nord-europe/actualites/un-cherc

Re: [Pharo-project] Origins [poll]

2011-01-06 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Jimmie Houchin | English | Hello / Howdy| Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA | North of Dallas, Texas, USA | Chile Head, Pepper Belly, writing a Financial Investment app

[Pharo-project] Proper Smalltalk lots of classes

2010-12-31 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am porting the FIX protocol to Squeak/Pharo. http://www.fixprotocol.org/ It is the Financial Information eXchange protocol. It is used by many firms in the financial industries, stocks, forex, etc. There is good documentation and also a semi-reference implementation in Java. http:/

Re: [Pharo-project] Why Smalltalk ? Which Smalltalk ?

2010-12-22 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Personally I haven't read any real animosity from Levente toward Pharo in this thread. His issue was not the choice of Pharo but rather the incorrect information stated as a basis of the decision. Pharo has enough good things to represent itself without basing decisions on false data. I happe

Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity or not of smalltalk?

2010-12-07 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 12/7/2010 7:26 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote: Hear hear!! (specific responses below) On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com> wrote: On 12/7/2010 5:38 PM, csra...@bol.com.br

Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity or not of smalltalk?

2010-12-07 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 12/7/2010 5:38 PM, csra...@bol.com.br wrote: Sean, Hope that additional to the fun, we can converge to an understanding how can we increase Smalltalk popularity. OTOH, I made the reference as a sample, I did not intend to have this as all encompassing list of issues nor start a thread abou

Re: [Pharo-project] Is there a good example of an app using SqueakDBX to output data?

2010-12-05 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 12/3/2010 7:52 PM, Frank Church wrote: I am looking for a SqueakDBX demo that shows how to display the output of records from the database, like outputting them in a tabular format. Does anyone know of an example somewhere? Hello, I apologize, I didn't even see this message until I saw

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo integration in enterprise feedback

2010-11-26 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 11/25/2010 3:40 PM, laurent laffont wrote: Hi, I'm looking for feedback on Pharo integration in enterprise. Especially how you have managed to put Pharo in your enterprise. For example, I'm involved in web application development in other languages. For functional testing I'm able to scrip

Re: [Pharo-project] Calling Python from Pharo

2010-09-29 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 9/28/2010 4:56 PM, Alberto Bacchelli wrote: Hi,  Is there any way to make Pharo and Python communicate? Thanks,  Alberto On 28 September 2010 20:10, Alexandre Bergel wrote: > Hi! >

Re: [Pharo-project] Statistic tools in Pharo

2010-09-28 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 9/28/2010 8:52 PM, Serge Stinckwich wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: On 9/28/2010 1:07 PM, Alexandre Bergel wrote: Hi! Is there a statistic library in Pharo? Computing the correlation, linear regression, ... Cheers, Alexandre In a conversation with Stef

Re: [Pharo-project] Statistic tools in Pharo

2010-09-28 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 9/28/2010 1:07 PM, Alexandre Bergel wrote: Hi! Is there a statistic library in Pharo? Computing the correlation, linear regression, ... Cheers, Alexandre In a conversation with Stef earlier, he pointed me toward http://www.squeaksource.com/DHBNumerical.html I haven't explored it yet, so a

Re: [Pharo-project] [squeak-dev] Morphic

2010-09-20 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 9/20/2010 5:30 PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Jimmie Houchin wrote: I presently do not see a Pro-business or even particularly business-friendly vision from Squeak. Just my perspective and opinions

Re: [Pharo-project] [squeak-dev] Morphic

2010-09-20 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 9/20/2010 11:33 AM, Hilaire Fernandes wrote: Le 20/09/2010 17:50, Levente Uzonyi a écrit : On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Hilaire Fernandes wrote: Really I don't understand CUIS long term objective, why this work is not done in Pharo? They share the same vision. You could ask the same question with

Re: [Pharo-project] Morphic

2010-09-17 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 9/17/2010 12:29 PM, DeNigris Sean wrote: I was doing a lot of playing with Morphic this week at ESUG in Barcelona. Many people seem to really not like it and complain about it, but it seems very vague i.e. they can't point to a specific problem with it. I think it's amazingly powerful and

Re: [Pharo-project] Memory problems on Windows

2010-09-04 Thread Jimmie Houchin
n. Jimmie Houchin On 9/4/2010 2:14 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: You can also ask in VM mailing list. I cc'ed them. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, Sorry for the delay in reply. For some reason the first time I looked at your message in my newsread

Re: [Pharo-project] Memory problems on Windows

2010-09-03 Thread Jimmie Houchin
ing the data in memory that is absolutely necessary for the analysis I am attempting. Jimmie On 9/1/2010 4:48 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: do you have the same problem with the normal VM? On Sep 1, 2010, at 5:25 AM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, I am developing an application which processes

[Pharo-project] Memory problems on Windows

2010-08-31 Thread Jimmie Houchin
"Tell the VM to do a fullGC for good measure if the above growth exceeded 16MB" SmalltalkImage current gcBiasToGrowLimit: 16*1024*1024. "default: 0" Thanks, Jimmie Houchin ___ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project