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by philippeback 9y ago
From what I read on your project, it was quite daring to expose you to Bloc and Iceberg and the latest Pharo. I wouldn't have. Because these things are still in flux. These things are interesting and are the way forward. But not ready
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by philippeback 9y ago
Dabbling is easy. Doing serious work is demanding. But so is serious work in any environment.
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by philippeback 9y ago
It is like fitness. One just hates it when it aches all over the place and then quits. Or keeps on moving through the pain/grind and grow a lot in all kinds of ways. And saying that VA or VW give a better user experience when coding vs
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by philippeback 9y ago
Not it doesn't. Iceberg is breaking new ground compared o Kraken/SourceTree etc. Pharo took the risk of integrating git support in the tools. It takes a few iterations. So what? Either one is a user or one is inventing new stuff.
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by philippeback 9y ago
Tooling appears exotical because you are not using it day in day out. And I actually find things like Spotter, Code Rewriter, GTInspector and Calypso pretty neat. IntelliJ is not simpler and is closed source. It is neat, true. We even use i
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by philippeback 9y ago
I have been using Pharo since its 1.x releases and deployed commercial solutions using it. Very stable. Quite powerful. And it was/is a pleasure to work work with it. One has to invest time and effort to master it. I would say that thi
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by philippeback 9y ago
I hate open offices for being productive. They are cool for chatting and socializing. My pair of Bose QC20 are a must if I want to get anything done. Actually I ended up having my own 3 storey building where I can actually site/lounge
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by philippeback 9y ago
Used it but it never stayed for long. With larger phones, typing works fast enough for me. Also I need a somewhat accessible keyboard.
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by philippeback 9y ago
48 here. Best time ever. And innovation is definitely easier now that I have the means to fund my ideas and their implementations. I work with young people but because they are not as ossified as a lot of older ones. They are the future in
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by philippeback 9y ago
I always liked SimpleOrm https://berglas.org/simpleorm/index.html It should be used more...
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by philippeback 9y ago
Dev edition is fast. The other ones not so much indeed.
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by philippeback 9y ago
They are buying lots of land in Europe that is for sure.
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by philippeback 9y ago
Amen to tmux+vim. Best combo, especially when doing things on remote boxes.
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by philippeback 9y ago
Kerberos support in curl: a godsend
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by philippeback 9y ago
This is exactly what made me quit desktop development on Windows. MFC, ATL, COM+ learning going to waste was a bridge too far.
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by philippeback 9y ago
Done wrongly.
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by philippeback 9y ago
Lazarus: definitely cool
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by philippeback 9y ago
I did this one a while ago. http://pharo.org/success/CableExpertise So is is good for doing some web application dealing with lots of devices. Have a Jira client for doing lots of Jira automation using the REST API, al
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by philippeback 9y ago
Well, I am coding all day long in that thing and it is stable. I do not feel stuck but have a few tricks: https://github.com/Pharophile/ExternalTools (and for the save thing: https://github.com/Pharophi
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by philippeback 9y ago
Feel free to add new features! PRs welcome.
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by philippeback 9y ago
As an employee I do not know. But as an entrepreneur or self employed developer providing solutions, there are quite a few successful people. Maybe they are flying under the radar. Yes, there are some slick apps being done, with no need for
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by philippeback 9y ago
The image is the compiled bytecode. There is no source in there. The source code is in the PharoXX.sources files and .changes files. Deploying is easy, it is as any executable with some dlls and resources. I deploy web apps on Azure with Wi
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by philippeback 9y ago
Ah, and about the "for it", you may want to have a look at scale, which lets you play with Pharo on the CLI. https://github.com/guillep/Scale
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by philippeback 9y ago
Pharo 5 VM had a bug with a double free in the FreeType integration. So, using truetype fonts instead of the basic raster font made the VM crash. It took a while to find out why this double free occured. The crash was not from Pharo bytecod
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by philippeback 9y ago
Could be interesting to make an ADHD theme...
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by philippeback 9y ago
Yeah.
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by philippeback 9y ago
Hey @agumonkey, small world.
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by philippeback 9y ago
It shines when one puts the tools together. e.g. Roassal + GTInspector + PetitParser can do a ton. Coupled with Zinc (HTTP Client + Server) and XMLPullParser, data can be brought in easily. One key thing here is that there is much less acci
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by philippeback 9y ago
There were more pressing matters to solve. A lot of Pharo devs are using Macbook Pros with retina display, so they have an itch to scratch. But the issue lies on the VM side for now, so that limits the numbers of contributors + PharoVM reun
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by philippeback 9y ago
Here is the presentation of Pharo 6.0 at Pharo Days 2017 with screenshots and more clues. https://www.slideshare.net/pharoproject/pharo-6

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