Squeak People diary for simon

26 Oct 2005

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:10:43 -0700

oopsla/time (from joyfulsystems.blogspot.com)

I'm still here.. thanks for the recent patches and bug reports, which I'll get to asap (my way of forwarding patches to the repo seems to have broken..)

OOPSLA/Wikisym was terrific. I met a lot of interesting people, including Ward C who gave a great talk about the anti-spam steward tools at WikiWikiWeb, and got energised and stimulated.

I didn't do any demo or speaking about Zwiki; I had my hands full just figuring out what to do and where to go in this huge conference. In fact I didn't really get to hang out a lot at wikisym, because in truth I was more interested in the all-day squeak croquet workshop which was on the other side of the campus.

One high point: together with Lex Spoon and Adam and Alex (who work on Klein, which is Self implemented in itself), I was there when David Smith and Andreas Raab fixed the bug that allowed them to run the real TeaTime for the first time. Hurrah! At this conference I got a big boost for continued squeak and croquet work; it's really exciting stuff. I also bought philikon's zope 3 book and got a big boost there too.

Since, I have been experimenting with a new "one focus per day" discipline. Today was to be the day for zwiki and squeak. But as so often happens, my client's project seems to just eat time; the days I've spent have not produced enough progress that I feel ok leaving it for even a day.

I think this heavily ttw-customized, rdbms-integrated, multi-product plone 2.0 site just exceeds my available brain space at this point. If this were the only focus I could still handle it, but it's just the current priority among many. I've got to simplify this thing and get out of this mess so I can feel productive again. Also, I need a pair programmer. I put out the call last night.

27 Aug 2005

Sat, 27 Aug 2005 01:20:27 -0700

I make occasional squeak-related posts at my blog, but so far it is almost all non-squeak content. I am a squeaker, though. Should planet squeak include squeak-related blog posts, or the blogs of squeakers ?

For today I'll cc my last one to SqueakPeople, and get it into the rss stream.

(Wednesday, August 10, 2005) squeaking!

I went to the LA smalltalkers user group meeting and saw a cool demo image presented by Darius. Many things which I had read about but never seen on the screen (and certainly never with so little effort :).

Today: "Thanks for the stimulating meeting.. boy, it fired up my smalltalking urges.. In fact this morning they broke through and I did some web hacking. Cleaned up my squeak notes at http://squeak.joyful.com and went looking for something like planet.debian.org for Squeak.

RSS is like a universal api to web updates of all kinds. There has been no general RSS aggregator for squeak and it's been hard to get a complete picture of what's happening. I found planet smalltalk, found it hard to read, prodded the maintainer to fix it a little, and set up an experimental planet squeak:

http://squeak.joyful.com/planetsqueak http://squeak.joyful.com/planetsqueak2

Comments welcome."

16 Nov 2003

Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:45:03 -0700

Hurrah! I have got squeak running in my hosted freebsd server account, manageable via VNC. This is great. Now I can run seaside, gardner, httpview, smallwiki, etc. Though it looks like getting some of these to run in a 3.7 or even 3.6 image is tough right now.

I'm guessing the most efficient thing will be to configure this image locally, then upload it. After that maybe I can synchronize code between local and server via monticello.