Squeak People diary for gokr

22 Feb 2007

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:55:48 -0700

Hehe, funny, Maya is now 3 and a half years old, so it was a while since I edited this diary. :)

The election is coming up soon (Squeak board) and that will be very interesting to see how it unfolds.

29 Aug 2004

Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:46:46 -0700

Finally back to Sweden after having visited China to get our wonderful daughter Maya! Life has suddenly changed in a BIG way. :)

I am currently downloading 2799 emails using a 56k modem - obviously it will take time for me to catch up. If you have any urgent stuff - email me privately - I will read those first.

I will be home for the next 2 months. Hopefully I will get a little time for Squeak during that! :-)

15 Jul 2004

Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:42:10 -0700

The last week has been a continuous hacking session to get a new, improved, bug fixed version of SM in the water.

I started collecting FIXes and ENHs, mostly for the Loader, and this has caused some adjustments and also bug fixes to the base code.

I haven't started yet with the server, but that will come now since I published the 1.01 version of base and loader yesterday.

I am also writing two articles, one on Lunar Linux + Zepto 4200, and the other about "The Art Of Minimalism".

/Göran

8 Jul 2004

Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:54:34 -0700

Been battling my new laptop the last days. I bought one FREE from the Microsoft tax (a nordic company called Zepto) and decided to finally make the jump over to Linux on my desktop.

We already use Debian on all our servers at Bluefish but for various reasons I decided to jump onto Lunar Linux - "out of this world!". Lunar is a source based distro, like Gentoo, and it is really nice but with a much smaller community (which fits me perfect, being a Squeaker).

For anyone interested in Lunar, email me because I have prepared Lunar "modules" for Squeak etc. I also just managed to get Squeak (both Ian's tar-balls, and current HEAD from SF CVS) compiled AND autoconf'ed (make in ../platforms/unix/config) using autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.8.5.

Automake 1.8.x has not been working and the general advice has been to use 1.7.x instead. But automake 1.7.x wasn't available on Lunar (though in my struggles I have made a module for that too). It all turned out to be some kind of bug in 1.8.x regarding M4 "sinclude()". A workaround made the trick and I have posted about it with a CC to Ian.

Well, that was a very nice victory, and I learned much more than I ever wanted to know about autoconf/automake. Hideuous stuff! But very, very useful. Kudos to those guys, even if the Perl I saw made my eyes hurt. :)

/Göran

2 Jun 2004

Wed, 02 Jun 2004 14:29:58 -0700

Hmmm, it seems suspiciously slow in the Squeak community right now. Not much is happening on this site and the squeak-dev list is also pretty slow. At least we are some regulars on the IRC squeak channel on irc.freenode.org. :)

Are people already going on vacations?

/Göran

PS. Discovered this: totally hilarious!

27 May 2004

Thu, 27 May 2004 11:09:06 -0700

Well, it was a long time ago I wrote in the diary so I thought I should spill a few words. :)

I am focusing on getting new releases of SqueakMap2 (base, server and loader) out. Since lots of other things are happening in my life it has been slow - but it is moving. I am currently working my way through SM related ENHs/FIXes in BFAV. Sidenote: BFAV is so nice :)

Later today I will revive an old Squeak webapp that was quite a bit of fun 2 years ago. Will announce the availability to the list and you will all see what it is. :)

Finally I must say that wow, its fun being a Squeaker these days!. Shout, Chuck, Exupery, Omnibrowser and the don't-know-what-Colin-calls-it-but-it-sounded-really-cool-AST-stuff and plenty more cool projects going on. Tons of fun!

PS. GtkPlugin is sleeping, will see when/if I pick it up again. So little time and so much to do. :)

31 Mar 2004

Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:08:03 -0700

Sat up late yesterday trying to get my Gtk plugin "callbacks" working. Got stuck on some C-non-knowledge. This morning though I cracked it (don't ask) and what do you know! It works.

So now I just need to hack some Squeak side code to turn this into when:send:to-style events and we are in business!

It works roughly like this - a generic callback C function is registered to catch all events from Gtk. For each call it creates a struct holding the GtkWidget pointer and the userdata pointer and pushes that into a GQueue.

Then, when Squeak calls the primitiveMainIteration (every 5 ms or so, driving Gtk) it will end by popping that queue and createing an Array of ByteArrays containing the two C-side pointers and then returning that to Squeak.

Squeak will then subsequently look up the GtkWidget instance in a Dictionary (using the ByteArray handle/pointer as key) and then call #triggerEvent:.

Tada!

/Göran

8 Mar 2004

Mon, 08 Mar 2004 17:52:55 -0700

Was a while since I wrote in this diary. Have been:

Doing some harvesting and ENHs/FIXes in connection with 3.7 entering beta.
Writing two articles on Squeak and eToys respectively to be published in Sweden in a small magazine focused on computers in school. The first one is already published.
Stuffing my foot in my mouth on squeak-dev regarding trying to improve the code quality in the standard packages. Don't really know how to handle that, just posted a "rewind" message and waiting to see what happens with that one, might crash and burn yet again. Then I really give up.

Now I will, besides the harvesting, focus entirely on SM and getting through the piled up todo for it.

/Göran

6 Feb 2004

Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:28:26 -0700

As some have seen I have taken a little "SM2-TFNR-vacation" and have been playing a bit with plugins and Gtk on Win32.

It's damn fun! I have done the easy part and now I am going to try to hook up the signals/events so that we actually can use this stuff. :)

I intend to write a little article about the whole shebang eventually, the plugin voodoo really needs a friendly introduction.

19 Jan 2004

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:44:06 -0700

Phew.

Yesterday I finally deployed SM2. It took quite a few hours, but went generally fine.

Today I posted a pretty long article about SM2 and also wrote another article in swedish about Squeak. And also fixed some bugs and problems in SM2.

Now I just want to sit back and do something relaxing... :)