I’ve made a new version of the Context presentation… check out the fly-through trailer and the slides. I’ll be presenting it at the next Appsterdam Wednesday lunch lecture, and I hope to post a video of that presentation. Thanks in advance for any feedback!
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Context presentation fly-through, version two
Posted in Appsterdam, Context, Naiad, Spoon with tags context on 17 March 2012 by Craig LattaInterviewed on James Robertson’s Smalltalk podcast
Posted in Naiad, Spoon on 6 March 2012 by Craig LattaJames Robertson and I had a nice chat about Spoon on his “Industry Misinterpretations” podcast. Thanks, James!
Simulating Cuis
Posted in Spoon with tags Cuis, smalltalk, spoon, squeak, virtual machine simulator on 3 March 2012 by Craig Latta
simulating Cuis
I fixed a few bugs with the virtual machine simulator in Squeak 4.3, and now I have it running Cuis. Next I’ll run Dissolve on it, to see how small I can get it.
Context presentation 2012-02-26
Posted in Context, Naiad, Spoon with tags context on 26 February 2012 by Craig Latta
This is the first complete version of the Context presentation, with slides and narration.
Context presentation 2012-02-24
Posted in Context, Naiad, Spoon with tags context on 24 February 2012 by Craig Latta
This is a fly-through of my next presentation about Context (netjam.org/context). I hope to present it at the next Pharo conference, 24-25 May 2012 in Lille, France.
I’m available for work.
Posted in consulting on 20 February 2012 by Craig LattaI’m looking for new clients or an employer. Here’s my resume. I’d love to hear from you; thanks!
next steps 2012-02-20
Posted in Spoon on 20 February 2012 by Craig LattaThanks for all the feedback on the 3 alpha 3 release! I’m preparing 3a4 now. Sorry for the delay, I had paid-work issues to deal with for the last few months. Speaking of paid work, I’m available for new clients or a full-time assignment. Here’s my resume. I’d love to hear from you!
If you had trouble starting 3a3, please let me know. I’d be happy to get together with you online and debug it together. While Bert Freudenberg’s “all in one” packaging technique for Squeak has made things considerably simpler, it seems there are still ways that the configuration of an individual machine can interfere with successful startup.
The next feature I’m working on is more convenient startup of the history memory from a subject memory. Since this is the execution of a single well-known command, I decided that using OSProcess is overkill. Instead, I’m adding a Flow primitive that forks and execs the appropriate command (and the equivalent action on Windows).
I’ve also submitted a Kickstarter project proposal to fund work on Spoon.
Thanks again for your interest!
first draft of the next Context presentation
Posted in Context, Naiad, Spoon with tags context on 19 February 2012 by Craig LattaHere’s the first draft of my next Context presentation. I’d love to hear any feedback you have. Thanks!
Context 3 alpha 3 released
Posted in Context, Naiad, Spoon with tags context on 19 August 2011 by Craig LattaHey there, I’ve released Context 3 alpha 3. I look forward to tearing through a few more alphas in the coming days at ESUG! :) See you soon.
first Naiad module page created
Posted in Naiad, Spoon on 10 July 2011 by Craig LattaNaiad is Spoon’s module system. For every Naiad module, there can be a webpage describing it and providing something for Google to crawl. This is the basis of a discovery system for Naiad modules. It includes…
- a well-known master Naiad module pages ID (so that one can search the web for all Naiad module pages)
- the module’s name
- the module’s author’s ID (so that one can search the web for the pages of the modules by that author)
- the module’s ID
- a description of the module’s content
- the module’s current version
- the module’s latest timestamp
- the module’s tags
- the IDs of the module’s prerequisite modules (for which one may search the web)
- one or more installation links. When clicked, an installation link hits a webserver running in a local Spoon system. The link contains an encoded hostname and port for a remote Spoon system which actually serves the module.
I created the first Naiad module page, for the “fundamental constants” module. I also made a custom search engine for finding Naiad module pages.
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