Squeak People diary for GermanArduino

12 Mar 2008

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:15:39 -0700

Being that free time is more and more rare to have, I decided to post almost only on my main blog http://germanarduino.blogspot.com trying my best effort to write an understandable English, to share Squeak things with the Squeak community.

27 Jan 2008

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:09:09 -0700

Trying to test the newest Squeak and Seaside versions I developed a tiny app that show the people of SqueakPeople grouped by its certifications.

The example was also to use a web page as data source, a common need in some business applications on these days.

To see the app working press here .

If time permits I plan some additional features and, of course, comments or suggestions are welcomed.

8 Dec 2006

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:32:35 -0700

Squeak in Business

After a long time without posting here (ok, I must admit, I don't likes to write in English) I'm back :)

I've added my project A1-Business CMS, that is in its firsts versions.

The web site, by now, is only in Spanish, but I think that screenshots may be understood.

The source code isn't (yet) freely available, because I've not decided yet about this question. I'm developing A1 with one main reason: To earn money.

A1 started as a custom project to a local real estate agency and after evaluate another (easy) possibilities, as use some ready-made php script, I decided to start developing my own "micro" CMS being that an idea I was considerating from a time ago.

A1 has yet a lot of ideas to incorporate, as documentation to write and important decisions to take (as licensing by example). By now I'm going slowly, taking care of each step, and trying to make a good solution to my actual customer. In the same time, I'm learning all time about several things of having a squeak image running in a web hosting shared server.

Squeak isn't the only topic to learn to offer a solution as this (I'm selling not the software else the service of having the software running in a server, "a la ASP Application Service Provider)".

In the maintime I'm evaluating another possibility: offer a website with A1 multiuser, were each user may configure his own site, sharing the system in a non-exclusive way (as DabbleDB offer).

Then, I've decided incorporate A1 in squeakpeople list of projects to share my thinking and ideas (I think that is more appropriate here than in squeak-dev) to hear the ideas of the community.

I love Squeak and want to work in Squeak, but at the same time, I need to earn money from my work. Then the A1 idea (sell the software as service with a monthly fee) appeared suddenly and I'm trying it.

Well, is the A1 history and I'm really interested in hear your opinions.

As ever, sorry because my English is really poor.

15 Dec 2005

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:26:01 -0700

I'm developing a web interface to access legacy data from a MS SQL Server database. To access it I'm heavily using ODBC for Squeak, from my friend Diego Gómez Deck.

Today, I've packaged the original ODBC from Diego, adding a decimal fix from Chris Cunningham and published the new release to Squeak 3.8.

I hope works ok, at least in the images were I've tested, all worked ok.

7 Nov 2005

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:56:22 -0700

To try Promoter online, hosted by Cees press here.

6 Nov 2005

Sun, 06 Nov 2005 01:25:38 -0700

Smalltalk and Squeak have really a lot of things fascinating, but I think that the most important and valuable thing that a person can find in Squeak is the Squeak People. Lots of friendly persons ready to help whichever need.

One of this persons, Cees de Groot has hosted in his server my product Promoter only to permit me to make some tests, taking in account that no Squeak hosting is available in the normal shared hosting providers.

Another friendly Squeaker Ken Causey has helped me with some Linux remote commands to setup mi product.

Really thanks to both, Cees by the server and Ken by the help.

18 Jun 2005

Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:12:17 -0700

In the middle of April I've switched to Dolphin Smalltalk to develop a payed project.

I like Dolphin but I'm not happy of abandon Squeak (this new project will take several months) but exactly this question is IMHO the main drawback of Squeak: Isn't ready to develop business applications, at least not as the customers of Windows SO are expecting.

Will be back asap.

20 Apr 2005

Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:42:44 -0700

A long time after my last post (absorbed by the work to pay the bills) I'm really happy of present my product Promoter in the next ESUG Innovation Technology Awards.

A friendly person, Dr. Noury Bouraqadi will present Promoter in my name because is impossible to me trip to Brussels. Really Thanks You very much Noury!.

The registration page is here.

Promoter isn't an Innovation Technology, but is a proof of concept about one of my big concerns with Squeak: "Bring Squeak to business arena".

16 Oct 2004

Sat, 16 Oct 2004 19:42:19 -0700

Finally today I've got serializing working in Promoter.

I've been in trouble for several days with this because seems that SmartRefStream has some type of bug in 3.7 version.

Must try if works in 3.6 version.

1 Sep 2004

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 11:53:31 -0700

I've published now the Windows Installer to the Plugin of Squeak of Small-Land. Can be downloaded from this page, on the link of Method (Método) 2 (It's in Spanish).

Is developed also with NSIS tools and add support to Squeakland projects in addition to Small-Land projects.