[Pharo-users] FreeBSD

2021-01-13 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I am planning an install of FreeBSD. I am new to FreeBSD, but a long time Linux user. I know that FreeBSD has support for Linux binaries and I can try to start there. I know there are no FreeBSD builds. I was wondering what it would take for me to build it on FreeBSD. This will be new to

[Pharo-users] Re: subclassResponsibility

2020-12-23 Thread Jimmie Houchin
? No. Pretty much, you need to avoid subclassing concrete classes. i.e. if A has subclasses B and C, refactor to create an abstract A' and move A to be a leaf subclass of A'. -Original Message- From: Jimmie Houchin [mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com] Sent: December 22, 2020 15:08 To: Any question about

[Pharo-users] subclassResponsibility

2020-12-22 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I have created a class which will have many subclasses some of which will have subclasses of their own. I want every single class to implement a class method #shortName which will provide a short string as a human readable short identifier to the object. I have in the highest

Re: [Pharo-users] ZnClient - how suppress popup notifications

2020-09-02 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 9/2/20 2:36 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: Hi Jimmie, On 2 Sep 2020, at 20:29, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Before I get to my problem. I want to thank Sven for the huge effort that had to be made to provide all of the Zinc networking tools. Thank you. Thanks, you're welcome. I am using

[Pharo-users] ZnClient - how suppress popup notifications

2020-09-02 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Before I get to my problem. I want to thank Sven for the huge effort that had to be made to provide all of the Zinc networking tools. Thank you. I am using ZnClient in an app. It is working fine. But I do not want any UI Notifications. This will eventually be headless on a server. But

[Pharo-users] Pharo 8 stability and large images

2020-03-06 Thread Jimmie Houchin
nd beyond hold. Thanks again for this amazing language and environment. I hope someday to be able to repay the blessing I have received from all who have contributed to what I enjoy today. Jimmie Houchin

[Pharo-users] Trying to understand Smallapack

2019-04-28 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I have installed Smallapack into Pharo 7.0.3. Thanks Nicholas. I am very unsure on my use of Smallapack. I am not a mathematician or scientist. However the only part of Smallapack I am trying to use at the moment is something that would  be 64bit and compare to FloatArray so that I

Re: [Pharo-users] How to write out simple Json?

2019-02-28 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I don't know if you really need OrderedDictionary or not. But I am a big fan of and use all the time simple Arrays or OrderedCollection of pairs. It is neat, clean and readable. ex := Dictionary newFromPairs: {     'track'. 'pharo.     'language'. 'smalltalk'.     'exercises'. Dictionary

Re: [Pharo-users] Subscribing to streaming input with ZnClient

2018-12-28 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 12/27/18 9:00 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: Hi Jimmie, On 27 Dec 2018, at 15:15, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, I am wanting to subscribe to a perpetual stream of JSON data in my app. I have failed to find an example which helps me understand how to do so. It may be there but I

[Pharo-users] Subscribing to streaming input with ZnClient

2018-12-27 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am wanting to subscribe to a perpetual stream of JSON data in my app. I have failed to find an example which helps me understand how to do so. It may be there but I have not discovered it. How do I do something like that? A curl example from the website. curl \ -H "Authorization:

[Pharo-users] Lambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram

2018-11-23 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, Interesting video using Pharo for presenting its points. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxtyeFVn3w Wondering if anybody else has seen this video. What can be learned from this outside perspective. He is mostly positive about Pharo and is using it as an example of things he would

[Pharo-users] ESUG 2018 Videos

2018-11-21 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Any idea when they will be available. No pressure. Just interested and curious. Thanks. Jimmie

[Pharo-users] Http persistent connections

2018-10-31 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am writing an app which accesses a REST api. The documentation says this. Connection Limits To provide equal resources to all clients, we recommend limiting both the number of new connections per second, and the number of requests per second made on a persistent connection

Re: [Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-16 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 04/13/2018 07:33 AM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: On 13 Apr 2018, at 14:23, Ben Coman > wrote: Unfortunately there probably isn't one list. Its hard to unlearn what is accumulated and easy to take for granted what we know is obvious to

Re: [Pharo-users] Namespaces (was Re: Behold Pharo: The Modern Smalltalk)

2017-10-20 Thread Jimmie Houchin
namespace, I think that the best way to get a namespace system for Pharo is to help doing something else. This way we can concentrate on building a real working solution for Pharo. But since we have many other things to do then it takes time. Stef On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 2:30 AM, Jimmie Houchin

Re: [Pharo-users] Namespaces (was Re: Behold Pharo: The Modern Smalltalk)

2017-10-19 Thread Jimmie Houchin
that Pharo, Squeak, Cuis all share? cheers -ben On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:27 AM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com <mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com>> wrote: I watched this video a year ago and was intrigued. I have not thought about it deeply and do not know consequences of th

Re: [Pharo-users] Namespaces (was Re: Behold Pharo: The Modern Smalltalk)

2017-10-19 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I watched this video a year ago and was intrigued. I have not thought about it deeply and do not know consequences of this model. However, Gilad is a smart man who has thought deeply about these things and has experienced consequences as a language designer. But it does sound interesting and I

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-10-19 Thread Jimmie Houchin
In addition to the excellent replies you have already received I would like to offer this from Stack Overflow. In their 2017 Developer Survey,  Smalltalk was the second most loved language at 67% of developers surveyed. This is a regular occurrence. Now if you look at the rest of the survey

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-10-04 Thread Jimmie Houchin
. Not very friendly for some small situations. Jimmie On 10/04/2017 08:09 AM, Ben Coman wrote: On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 1:45 AM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com <mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com>> wrote: Back on topic. To my understanding, if I should port anything GPL lic

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-10-04 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 10/04/2017 03:48 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: On 3 Oct 2017, at 06:10, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com> wrote: Good and valid questions. Primarily consumer side. I am a longtime user of Linux, 20+ years. I prefer and advocate for open source software even when required

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-10-02 Thread Jimmie Houchin
) ? Sven On 2 Oct 2017, at 22:06, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com> wrote: No I have not. I don't tend to go their direction very often. I am an advocate of open source software but am not a fan of FSF's ethics or political opinions. And as you say, that want all software to be GPL. Also

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-10-02 Thread Jimmie Houchin
No I have not. I don't tend to go their direction very often. I am an advocate of open source software but am not a fan of FSF's ethics or political opinions. And as you say, that want all software to be GPL. Also, I do prefer to hear third party opinions especially those who have potentially

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-10-02 Thread Jimmie Houchin
to the relicensing. https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/1570 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/racket-dev/FiBLEZ-fmn8/8uLTbNamEwAJ Again thanks for the lesson and help. Jimmie On 10/02/2017 01:47 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: On 2 Oct 2017, at 19:45, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com>

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-10-02 Thread Jimmie Houchin
approach for most anyone in the Pharo community if they desire to port and use GPL software? Thanks. Jimmie On 09/15/2017 03:49 PM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, Pharo 7 to my understanding fundamentally changes Pharo. It is my understanding that Pharo 7 starts with a core Pharo kernel

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-09-26 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 09/26/2017 06:09 AM, Ben Coman wrote: On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com <mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, thanks for the reply. I have thought about recursive and unfortunately it is not in my opinion an adequate o

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-09-25 Thread Jimmie Houchin
d to build a better computing community, where freedom is 1st consideration, even at the expense of a lower acceptance. Hilaire Le 20/09/2017 à 21:30, Jimmie Houchin a écrit : So my question to you. What words would you use instead of viral and infection that equally describe that characteristic

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-09-21 Thread Jimmie Houchin
nd give it for free. Is that your case? [1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920036593.do 2017-09-21 17:16 GMT+02:00 Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com <mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com>>: On 09/21/2017 09:47 AM, Ben Coman wrote: [SNIP] Its horses for courses.  No o

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-09-21 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 09/21/2017 09:47 AM, Ben Coman wrote: [SNIP] Its horses for courses.  No one viewpoint fits all circumstances. Another way to look at it is that permissive licenses give a developer more freedom to combine libraries with different licenses. I do like this radical simplification I bumped

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-09-20 Thread Jimmie Houchin
license for Pharo nowadays. I'm not discussing that. I just couldn't remain silent thinking there's an obvious consensus that GPL is "viral" or an "infection" and that should be avoided at all costs. 2017-09-20 21:30 GMT+02:00 Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com <

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-09-20 Thread Jimmie Houchin
T+02:00 Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com <mailto:b...@openinworld.com>>: On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 7:00 PM, stephan <step...@stack.nl <mailto:step...@stack.nl>> wrote: > > On 17-09-17 06:59, Jimmie Houchin wrote: >> >> And the GPL

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-09-16 Thread Jimmie Houchin
be you can talk to the people of the libraries you want to use and see if they are interested in a dual license. Stef On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, Pharo 7 to my understanding fundamentally changes Pharo. It is my understanding tha

[Pharo-users] Pharo 7 license question

2017-09-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, Pharo 7 to my understanding fundamentally changes Pharo. It is my understanding that Pharo 7 starts with a core Pharo kernel and like many languages out there, imports or adds code from a variety of external sources to the image being built. With that understanding, I am curious if

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing XML

2017-09-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
#parseFileNamed:/#onFileNamed: to get portable automatic file decoding when parsing. Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 1:02 PM From: "Jimmie Houchin" <jlhouc...@gmail.com> To: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Subject: [P

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing XML

2017-09-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
ic file decoding when parsing. Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 1:02 PM From: "Jimmie Houchin" <jlhouc...@gmail.com> To: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Subject: [Pharo-users] Writing XML Hello, I am attempting to read and

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing XML

2017-09-14 Thread Jimmie Houchin
rik Sperre Johansen wrote: Jimmie Houchin-5 wrote I still do not know how to do this correctly. But I have something that seems to work for the moment. Using #asUTF8Bytes f nextPutAll: (writer write contents asUTF8Bytes). Now the file is in UTF-8 and normal size. openForWriteFileNamed: open

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing XML

2017-09-13 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I still do not know how to do this correctly. But I have something that seems to work for the moment. Using #asUTF8Bytes f nextPutAll: (writer write contents asUTF8Bytes). Now the file is in UTF-8 and normal size. Jimmie On 09/13/2017 12:02 PM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, I am

[Pharo-users] Writing XML

2017-09-13 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am attempting to read and write an XML document. Currently I have parsed the document successfully. I have basic navigation and have learned how to modify the XMLDocument. Now I want to write the modified document back to the file system. What I have tried so far is: writer :=

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-14 Thread Jimmie Houchin
newcomers. Of course, if we were to move, we would need to translate a lot of quality docs to a new format - but I would be up for contributing to that if that was a deciding factor. Tim On 14 Aug 2017, at 16:41, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com <mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com>> wrote

Re: [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-14 Thread Jimmie Houchin
TL;DR Main points: Their is no universally accepted markup language. Other communities use their own markup and tools and their markup and tools choice is not determine by other communities decisions. We need a language and tool chain that we can control and maintain which accomplishes our

Re: [Pharo-users] Documentation

2017-07-27 Thread Jimmie Houchin
editor. I am using Vim with pillar syntax. There is some Emacs available but I do not use Emacs. HTH Phil On Jul 26, 2017 22:58, "Jimmie Houchin" <jlhouc...@gmail.com <mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com>> wrote: I am looking at participating in the documentation if that is a

[Pharo-users] Documentation

2017-07-26 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I am looking at participating in the documentation if that is a good area to plug in. I do not necessarily have the expertise on the subjects, but I can bring fresh eyes and the eyes of a native English speaker. What is the best way to assist? For example I am currently reading the

Re: [Pharo-users] Beyond Live Coding

2017-07-26 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Thanks for the reply. Absolutely, I love what you say, "Pharo is yours". Which is why last month I joined the Association. I felt I needed to make the commitment. I had thought I wanted to do BountySource on a monthly basis. I signed up at the Association level but nothing happened with

Re: [Pharo-users] Beyond Live Coding

2017-07-24 Thread Jimmie Houchin
d unique advantages in the end Pharo is Pharo offering its own unique experience we all love and respect. Emulation is never the same as the actual thing. On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 at 19:36, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com <mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com>> wrote: Pharo (Smalltalk) is m

[Pharo-users] Beyond Live Coding

2017-07-21 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Pharo (Smalltalk) is much more than simply live coding. All of us here dearly love live coding. Kilon states it is possible to do live coding in other languages. I have no experience doing so in any other language. I will say that I know of no other language that it is integral to development

Re: [Pharo-users] Smacc debugger

2017-03-29 Thread Jimmie Houchin
. Shalom. Jimmie Houchin On 03/29/2017 12:25 PM, Thierry Goubier wrote: 2017-03-29 18:07 GMT+02:00 Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.s...@gmail.com <mailto:stepharo.s...@gmail.com>>: Ok I should say that I do not understand the differences and why there are two versions of Sma

[Pharo-users] Pharo Association

2017-03-01 Thread Jimmie Houchin
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Re: [Pharo-users] The Ultimate Smalltalk Tutorial

2016-10-26 Thread Jimmie Houchin
rogramming, 1982 ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), September 1982, pp. 7–13 Hope this helps someone. Jimmie Houchin On 10/23/2016 07:36 PM, Ben Coman wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: I was looking my entire life for something like Pharo ,

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] New Pharo blog - "Pharo Trek"

2016-10-26 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I look forward to giving Ecstatic a try. Much to learn first. dynamically is misspelled as dinamically on the fast_feedback page. Thanks. Jimmie Houchin On 10/26/2016 10:50 AM, stepharo wrote: What is octopus? Because what you can do with ecstatic (and this is written in the doc

Re: [Pharo-users] OT - an opinion on node.js

2016-05-23 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 05/23/2016 01:05 PM, Bob Clark wrote: On 05/23/2016 09:50 AM, Ben Coman wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Peter Uhnák wrote: The video is intentionally inflammatory and I don't really see a reason why we would need to either start a flame war (if there are

Re: [Pharo-users] OT - an opinion on node.js

2016-05-23 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Personally, I don't think it is out of line. Off topic, as you stated, but not out of line. Here is the deal. The people on this mailing list form a community. We get to know each other in a manner. We trust and value the opinions of at least some of the people in this community. To me it is

Re: [Pharo-users] On Class and Method comments

2016-05-17 Thread Jimmie Houchin
sed to write inline comments), but I think it was lost during migration to BlueInk. But I'll have a look. On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com <mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 05/17/2016 01:40 AM, Peter Uhnák wrote: As a

Re: [Pharo-users] On Class and Method comments

2016-05-17 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 05/17/2016 01:40 AM, Peter Uhnák wrote: As a note, maybe try to avoid inline comments unless formatter is fixed, because autoformatting _will_ misplace them. (Not to mention that imho inline comments in Smalltalk are a result of a bad design… if you need an inline comment, maybe turn that

Re: [Pharo-users] What other languages can do something similar?

2016-05-02 Thread Jimmie Houchin
to the execution (so launching from any modern IDE) should be able to do it. But of course the developer experience is somewhere completely different. Plus they won't ship it to production with the debugger attached. We would. :) Peter On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.

[Pharo-users] What other languages can do something similar?

2016-05-02 Thread Jimmie Houchin
While working on a project I made a mistake in some code. A common mistake in most languages, a less common one in Smalltalk or Pharo. Something similar to the below. foreverTrue | index end | [ index < end ] whileTrue: [ "Do something clever. But forget to increment index." ]. ^

Re: [Pharo-users] CommandLineHandler surprises

2016-01-27 Thread Jimmie Houchin
You are right, I just easily added it. :) Tested it and it works. Now I just need to go read up on how to "Contribute to Pharo" and become a productive citizen. :) Shalom Aleichem Jimmie On 01/27/2016 04:32 PM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: On 27 Jan 2016, at 23:28, Jimmie Houch

Re: [Pharo-users] CommandLineHandler surprises

2016-01-27 Thread Jimmie Houchin
version core dumped. Just wanted to let you know. Shalom Aleichem Jimmie On 01/27/2016 12:59 PM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, I am reading the Deep Into Pharo book. I have been playing with the CommandLineHandler. I have been surprised by some of its behavior. Though I have used Pharo a long

[Pharo-users] CommandLineHandler surprises

2016-01-27 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am reading the Deep Into Pharo book. I have been playing with the CommandLineHandler. I have been surprised by some of its behavior. Though I have used Pharo a long time. I have not played with it from the command line. I am a very long time Linux user and am very comfortable on the

Re: [Pharo-users] CommandLineHandler surprises

2016-01-27 Thread Jimmie Houchin
evaluates passed in one line scripts $ ~/pharo/bin/pharo ~/pharo/build/Pharo.image eval '123 factorial' 1214630436702532967576624324188129585545421708848338231532891816182923589236216766883115696061264020217073583522129404778259109157041165147218602951990626164673073390741981495296 HTH Sven On 27 Ja

Re: [Pharo-users] Dynamic Typing > Static Typing? « games.greggman.com

2016-01-20 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I will not argue whether or not Smalltalk and Lisp were right all along. However, the fact that Smalltalk and Lisp are where they are is not simply a matter of technical merit. There were many, many, political decisions made by the owners of the technology which participated in its successes

Re: [Pharo-users] why Pillar

2015-12-28 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 12/28/2015 09:21 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: b. It has support for bibliographic references, footnotes a a more complete feature set. I wonder how is it that despite being present for so long, it does miss such features... Well that's the cost of being part of a small

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo RDBMS Support Survey

2015-11-25 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I attempted to answer the survey. Question 6 behaved strangely. It would only allow answers to each question if each answer was a different answer. It would not allow more than one good, or more than one very good, or more than one of any of them. This does not seem like expected behavior.

Re: [Pharo-users] A stopwatch tool with calendar support

2015-10-25 Thread Jimmie Houchin
This is one of the things I love about Pharo and over time hope to see more of. I would love to see apps in Pharo which are equal and better to native OS apps. I would love to see the day that a high percentage of what we want to do can be done from within our Pharo environment. Thus leaving

Re: [Pharo-users] Thanks for Pharo

2015-10-19 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 10/18/2015 11:51 AM, Ben Coman wrote: Thanks very much for your thoughts Jimmie. Day to day, its easy to take for granted what we have. On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com> wrote: Sometimes conversations revolve around perceived deficiencies in

Re: [Pharo-users] Thanks for Pharo

2015-10-19 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 10/19/2015 08:59 AM, Marcus Denker wrote: On 19 Oct 2015, at 15:39, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com> wrote: On 10/18/2015 11:51 AM, Ben Coman wrote: Thanks very much for your thoughts Jimmie. Day to day, its easy to take for granted what we have. On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 6

[Pharo-users] Thanks for Pharo

2015-10-16 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Sometimes conversations revolve around perceived deficiencies in Pharo. What Pharo is missing. Or what Pharo doesn't do as well as my previous language, my favorite language, my other language, etc... These conversations are necessary to understand where Pharo is and to provide understanding

[Pharo-users] Pharo and VPS

2015-10-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am exploring getting a VPS similar to the 1GB option. https://www.linode.com/pricing I have not selected a company or service at this time so this is simply an example and one of my options. I have not used such a service before. How suitable is Pharo currently for such an use

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo and VPS

2015-10-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Thanks for all of the replies and suggestions. Thanks to the smart man in the room. I will explore DigitalOcean and setup up a droplet when ready. Thanks for the referral. Jimmie On 10/15/2015 02:20 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: On 15 Oct 2015, at 20:54, Esteban A. Maringolo

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo and SQLite

2015-10-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
/data/entries/data-kitchen-frictionless-data-moldable-tools-pocket-infrastructures-permanent-workshops-for-community-empowerment Cheers, Offray On 15/10/15 17:10, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello Offray, If we didn't have the big push for GitHub. I would love to see a Fossil source code interface

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo and SQLite

2015-10-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
us posted, Offray On 15/10/15 12:58, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, I am working on a project for my wife. I initially thought I would keep all my data inside Pharo because it is a simple project and Pharo is great at persistence in the image. But as I pursued the project it felt like I was r

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo and VPS

2015-10-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Thanks for the reply. Sounds like a winner to me. Jimmie On 10/15/2015 10:32 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com <mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, I am exploring getting a VPS similar to th

[Pharo-users] Pharo and SQLite

2015-10-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am working on a project for my wife. I initially thought I would keep all my data inside Pharo because it is a simple project and Pharo is great at persistence in the image. But as I pursued the project it felt like I was reinventing the database. So I thought why am I considering

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo and SQLite

2015-10-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
this technology for my stack. Thank you, Robet On 10/15/2015 01:58 PM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, I am working on a project for my wife. I initially thought I would keep all my data inside Pharo because it is a simple project and Pharo is great at persistence in the image. But as I pursued the project

Re: [Pharo-users] Exploring Pier

2015-10-14 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hola Offray, Thanks for the positive reply. I was hoping you wouldn't take anything I wrote negatively. On 10/13/2015 12:20 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: Hi Jimmie, On 05/10/15 09:16, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello Offray, My apologies for the delay in reply. I have been

Re: [Pharo-users] Exploring Pier

2015-10-05 Thread Jimmie Houchin
11:30, Jimmie Houchin wrote: I know there are options to Pier. To a certain extent part of the purpose of my email was to explore whether or not Pier is a viable option and if it has community support that I am not easily seeing. I want to stick with reasonably well supported options. I

Re: [Pharo-users] Learning GT - Glamorous Toolkit

2015-09-25 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 09/24/2015 11:52 PM, Damien Cassou wrote: Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com> writes: Any advise on documentation or best way to proceed in learning GT greatly appreciated. you may want to read (buy?) Deep into Pharo which contains a chapter on Glamour: http://rmod.lille.in

Re: [Pharo-users] Learning GT - Glamorous Toolkit

2015-09-24 Thread Jimmie Houchin
model to explore? Cheers, Alexandre On Sep 24, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, I have watched most all of the videos about GT. I am interested in learning how to use the Glamorous Toolkit. I am failing to find a beginning place for learning how

Re: [Pharo-users] Learning GT - Glamorous Toolkit

2015-09-24 Thread Jimmie Houchin
? Do you need help to define the class-model? Alexandre On Sep 24, 2015, at 3:20 PM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Alexandre, I have added moose-dev to this reply. I do not at this time have any particular object models that I require exploring. I have simply w

Re: [Pharo-users] Learning GT - Glamorous Toolkit

2015-09-24 Thread Jimmie Houchin
literally for free. Does this make sense? Do you need help to define the class-model? Alexandre On Sep 24, 2015, at 3:20 PM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Alexandre, I have added moose-dev to this reply. I do not at this time have any particular object models

[Pharo-users] Learning GT - Glamorous Toolkit

2015-09-24 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I have watched most all of the videos about GT. I am interested in learning how to use the Glamorous Toolkit. I am failing to find a beginning place for learning how to use and program GT. I am probably overlooking it some where. I have downloaded the gtoolkit.image to begin learning.

Re: [Pharo-users] [Moose-dev] Learning GT - Glamorous Toolkit

2015-09-24 Thread Jimmie Houchin
tudy the examples, play with them, change them. The UI of most tools in Pharo is also implemented using Spec. Browse the hierarchy below ComposableModel to find them. (Komitter, Versionner, Critics, Metacello, the old Eye Inspectors, ..). Watch and learn. —snip— On Sep 24, 2015, at 18:55, Ji

Re: [Pharo-users] Exploring Pier

2015-09-23 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 09/23/2015 02:59 AM, Damien Cassou wrote: Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com> writes: I definitely want to learn Pillar as it is required if at some point I want to contribute to any of the documentation. And it looks like a pretty powerful tool. indeed I do not have any clearly d

Re: [Pharo-users] Exploring Pier

2015-09-22 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 09/22/2015 02:38 AM, Damien Cassou wrote: Hi, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com> writes: I am interested in learning to use Pier. I browsed the mailing list to learn about current status and documentation. It seems to be pretty quiet on the mailing lists. There seems to be some ac

[Pharo-users] Exploring Pier

2015-09-21 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am interested in learning to use Pier. I browsed the mailing list to learn about current status and documentation. It seems to be pretty quiet on the mailing lists. There seems to be some activity on Smalltalkhub on Pier3. I am interested to see how well supported Pier is (is going

Re: [Pharo-users] Linux Install -- problems, but eventually successful

2015-07-26 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Just as a curiosity what Crunchbang install are you using? I have used my script on Crunchbang. But I haven't used #! since it ended. I like staying current so I always installed Waldorf and the ran another script to upgrade to Sid install all of my stuff. Then I would run my script in my new

Re: [Pharo-users] Linux Install -- problems, but eventually successful

2015-07-25 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, Welcome to Pharo and the Pharo community. Smalltalk/Pharo are exceptionally empowering tools. And getting better all the time. My apologies for your difficulties. I personally have not seen that page before as I already have scripts for installing all of the requisite libraries. This

Re: [Pharo-users] [OT] Bill Gross: The single biggest reason why startups succeed

2015-07-24 Thread Jimmie Houchin
projects and libraries make for an ever increasingly attractive and powerful object environment empowering its users to accomplish great things. Jimmie Houchin On 07/23/2015 01:29 PM, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: for me as a beginner a big turn off was the quality of documentation and my fear that third

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo on 64bit Ubuntu

2015-07-12 Thread Jimmie Houchin
checked this morning and I noticed I was missing libssh2-1:i386 It's needed for libgit. I'll take your script and make it a gist, for future reference ! Thanks, Thierry Le 11/07/2015 01:57, Jimmie Houchin a écrit : Hello, I don't know if this is the problem. But in your example I do not see sudo

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo on 64bit Ubuntu

2015-07-10 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I don't know if this is the problem. But in your example I do not see sudo apt-get dist-upgrade which might be necessary to install the libraries after the update. You might have actually did dist-upgrade or upgrade and just didn't put it in the email. Or maybe the install

Re: [Pharo-users] ZnClient and percent characters

2015-06-11 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Jun 2015, at 16:19, Jimmie Houchin jlhouc...@gmail.com wrote: This is exactly why I expressly state I am not a language lawyer and explicitly do not know what is and is not expressly forbidden or allowed with regards to a comma. You are correct about the Wikipedia article. Is it every wrong

Re: [Pharo-users] ZnClient and percent characters

2015-06-10 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 06/10/2015 10:32 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: On 10 Jun 2015, at 17:24, David stormb...@gmail.com wrote: El Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:14:37 -0500 Jimmie Houchin jlhouc...@gmail.com escribió: Hello, I am attempting to use ZnClient to request data. The request requires a %2C (comma

Re: [Pharo-users] ZnClient and percent characters

2015-06-10 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 06/10/2015 10:32 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: On 10 Jun 2015, at 17:24, David stormb...@gmail.com wrote: El Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:14:37 -0500 Jimmie Houchin jlhouc...@gmail.com escribió: Hello, I am attempting to use ZnClient to request data. The request requires a %2C (comma) delimited

Re: [Pharo-users] ZnClient and percent characters

2015-06-10 Thread Jimmie Houchin
wrote: That's because the comma does not need to be escaped in the query part of the uri. Norbert Am 10.06.2015 um 22:00 schrieb Jimmie Houchin jlhouc...@gmail.com: On 06/10/2015 10:32 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: On 10 Jun 2015, at 17:24, David stormb...@gmail.com wrote: El Wed, 10 Jun 2015

Re: [Pharo-users] ZnClient and percent characters

2015-06-10 Thread Jimmie Houchin
the character set you need to have encoded. In ZnClient you just set your ZnUrl derived class object as #url: Cannot think of anything better for a quick resolve of your problem. Norbert Am 11.06.2015 um 00:26 schrieb Jimmie Houchin jlhouc...@gmail.com mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com: I am

Re: [Pharo-users] ZnClient and percent characters

2015-06-10 Thread Jimmie Houchin
of anything better for a quick resolve of your problem. Norbert Am 11.06.2015 um 00:26 schrieb Jimmie Houchin jlhouc...@gmail.com mailto:jlhouc...@gmail.com: I am not an expert on URIs or encoding. However, this is a requirement of the API I am using and I am required to submit an encoded URI with %2C

[Pharo-users] ZnClient and percent characters

2015-06-10 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am attempting to use ZnClient to request data. The request requires a %2C (comma) delimited string as part of the query. Below is a snippet. znClient addPath: '/v1/instruments'; queryAt: 'fields' putAll: 'displayName%2Cinstrument%2Cpip'; get ;

Re: [Pharo-users] Blitzkrieg!

2015-01-18 Thread Jimmie Houchin
glommed onto the handle. If you think this reflects poorly on everyone, then I apologize. Jimmie Houchin-5 wrote I do not think anybody is trying to compel you to be politically correct or intellectually dishonest. However, most of what you have been doing is being done in the name of marketing

Re: [Pharo-users] Blitzkrieg!

2015-01-18 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I do not think anybody is trying to compel you to be politically correct or intellectually dishonest. However, most of what you have been doing is being done in the name of marketing. When marketing you choose what words you use and what words you don't use. You choose in order to effect a

Re: [Pharo-users] Blitzkrieg!

2015-01-18 Thread Jimmie Houchin
ranked high in that regard. Jimmie Houchin-5 wrote As an USAmerican, I would not have associated Generalissimo with WWII. It is a common term for a leader in many Hispanic nations or armies. Many of them unfortunately are dictators. I also not being a WWII buff, was not familiar with horrido

Re: [Pharo-users] Could we keep Pharo-dev for Pharo-dev?

2015-01-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
+1 All Pharo discussions have taken place on this mailing for a long time. Even after starting pharo-users, for people who were already longtime readers of this list favored this list for any and all discussions concerning Pharo. It will be a culture shift for longtime Pharo users, lurkers.