Beginners March 2007

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Squeak in commercial projects
by Jens Pall 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Hi How can I use Squeak in a commercial closed source project (whole image)? How about upgrades? I want to be able to send an upgrade to the customer which only contains the changed code. Thanks, JP

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Squeak Foundation Board 2007 Election Results
by Ron Teitelbaum 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

All, Thank you again for voting. Our percentage of votes was higher then last year. We had 182 votes from 392 ballots that were sent out. The winners are: (in alphabetical order) Andrew P. Black Cees de Groot Stéphane Ducasse Bert Freudenberg Craig Latta Yoshiki Ohshima Tim Rowledge You can see more details about the election here: http://tinyurl.com/ypm95q Thanks again and congratulations to the new Squeak Foundation Board 2007. Ron Teitelbaum & The Squeak Elections Team

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Last chance to vote!
by Ron Teitelbaum 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Hello everyone, There is only about one hour left for you to vote for the 2007 Squeak Foundation Board. If you are an eligible SqueakPeople member (you have a certification of at least Apprentice) and you couldn't find your voting email, it is not too late. Let me know and you too can vote!! Ron(a)USMedRec.com Voting ends at 10PM EST when the results will be announced! The Squeak election team would like to thank everyone that has participated, all the voters and candidates and everyone that has worked to bring you this election. We wish the new board great success and thank all of those that ran for stepping up to help and we look forward to your continued participation in our very unique community. Ron Teitelbaum & The Squeak Elections Team

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Squeak slows to start up in Windows
by Hilaire Fernandes 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

I am pretty sure I read it somewhere in the Squeak mailing list why Squeak can be slow to start in Windows... but I cannot find the information. I have just rename the image and executable with the same name, located in the same directory, but it start a bit slowly, about 20s. What is the trick? Hilaire

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Squeak Foundation Election 2007 Polls close in 6 hours
by Ron Teitelbaum 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hello Everyone, The Squeak Foundation Election 2007 Polls will close at 10PM EST. This is just a reminder that the polls will be closing in 6 hours. If you have not voted please do. If you did not receive or lost the email with instructions on how to vote but you were registered on SqueakPeople and had a certification of at least Apprentice you can still send me an email requesting a ballot. Ron(a)USMedRec.com Please vote so that your voice will be heard! Thank you, Ron Teitelbaum Squeak Elections Team Member

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The Election Ends TODAY, you have about 12 hours left to vote
by Ron Teitelbaum 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hello everyone, First thank you everyone that has already voted. Your participation is very much appreciated. If you have not voted you still have time. Voting ends today at 10pm EST which is just over 12 hours from now. If you did not receive an email or if you lost it please let me know. We can resend it to you if you are on the list of squeakPeople with an account certification of at least Apprentice. Thank you again, Please Vote. Ron Teitelbaum Ron(a)USMedRec.com Squeak Elections Team Member

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array literal - a misunderstanding?
by Thomas Fischer 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hello list, I'm starting for a couple of days with smalltalk/squeak - maybe it's not my last post :) I like to construct a flat array, but get a nested array: #(1 2 (1 + 3)) "unexpected result: #(1 2 #(1 #+ 3)) " Why squeak means, that "(1 + 3)" is an array and not 4? The syntax for an array literal is defined via"#(" - isn't it? salute Thomas -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/array-literal---a-misunderstanding--tf3344098.html#a9… Sent from the Squeak - Beginners mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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RE: [Newbies] Where do I put it?
by Ron Teitelbaum 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi Blake, I agree that you questions have general value and I'm happy to help publicly. I only offered to help you offline because it is clear that you are getting something from our conversation so I wanted to remove the distractions of the public list if it was causing any difficulty. It does seem that there are games where the deck arrangement is so different that it needs its own coding. The benefit of the factory implementation that I showed you is that you now have a deckFactory superclass to write code that is common among all decks (like shuffle). Ultimately the greatest benefit of shared code comes from having more then one game that can use the same deck. In that case all you have to do is implement the deckType on your game and you are good to go. You are asking very good questions, please keep them coming! Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: Blake > > On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:20:39 -0800, Ron Teitelbaum <Ron(a)USMedRec.com> > wrote: > > > I just wrote all this off the top of my head and didn't test any of it, > > and I didn't include all the code you need. I guess I'm just giving you > > a > > pattern that will work, but that leaves you plenty to learn on your > > own. I tried to make it simple, but I've been told that I don't do that > > very well. So if you need a more detailed explanation I can go over > > each step in my > > thinking, please don't be afraid to ask. If you like we can continue > > this conversation offline, either way works for me. > > Well, I hope the questions I post have some general educational value. I'm > building mini-Smalltalk lessons and decided to do a series on card games > because when =I= was learning, each game defined its own deck of cards > with its own set of code. (If suit wasn't important to a game, for > example, the program simply wouldn't specify it.) Lotta duplicated > read-only code. A deck of cards seemed like a good, beginning design > question, but I began to think (overthink?) the relationships of physical > cards, decks, the symbols used, etc. > > I hadn't thought of using a factory; I'll brood on that one. > > Thanks. > > ===Blake===

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How to remove the need of the Squeak.source file
by Hilaire Fernandes 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

For distribution purpose to end user, I don't want to ship the Squeak.source file. How can we remove the check of the sourcefile at image start up ? Hilaire

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Squeak Foundation Election 2007 polls are still open
by Ron Teitelbaum 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

All, This is just a reminder that the Squeak Foundation 2007 Election polls are still open. The election ends Wednesday March 7th 2007 at 10pm EST. If you have a SqueakPeople certification of at least Apprentice then you should have already received an email asking you to vote for the Squeak Foundation Board. If you did not get that email but believe you should have please feel free to contact me and let me know: Ron(a)USMedRec.com You can find more information about candidates at: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5920 . Remember to press the vote button on the bottom of the ballot after ranking the candidates. Your participation is very important to the community. Please VOTE! If you have any questions please feel free to ask your list, the elections team or send me an email. Thank you, Ron Teitelbaum Squeak Elections Team Member

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