smallwiki August 2007

smallwiki@list.inf.unibe.ch

19 participants
38 discussions

[ANN] Seaside+Pier+Magma image available

by Keith Hodges

First (alpha!) release of Pier running with Magma Persistency. Image available from ftp.seasidehosting.st User: preloaded Password: squeak enjoy Keith ------ Image Use Instructions In pier configuration click on 'Magma Control Panel', which will inform you that the repository does not exist. If you have placed this image on seasidehosting then you will have to manually create the repository directory. Given the list of options as to what repository to create, click the 'create' button (and wait). The existing pier kernel should appear in the list with a 'persist' button next to it, click 'persist'. Then try it and see! ------ ------ Detailed Log of Image Creation Steps (alternative title: "monticello tutorial") This image was prepared as follows: Beginning with Squeak3.8-6555full Initial start asks for updates: select "do not ask again" - this is important should you wish to deploy. Headless servers (e.g. seasidehosting) cannot handle user interaction and will stop at this point. From "world menu > open.... > Monticello Browser" Browser opens with (Monticello....) Click the "+Repository Button", select "HTTP" as the repository type, and enter MCHttpRepository location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/Seaside' user: '' password: '' as the repository info (if you have a login on Squeaksource then you can enter your initials as the 'user' above.) Add the following repository for Monticello. MCHttpRepository location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/Monticello' user: '' password: '' Add the following repository for Magma. MCHttpRepository location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/MagmaTester' user: '' password: '' and the following two repositories for Magritte and Pier MCHttpRepository location: 'http://mc.lukas-renggli.ch/magritte' user: '' password: '' MCHttpRepository location: 'http://mc.lukas-renggli.ch/pier' user: '' password: '' also: MCHttpRepository location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/OmniBrowser' user: '' password: '' (to edit this information: click the menu button in the right hand pane of the Monticello Browser) ---- Loading Latest Monticello. More recent versions of Monticello provide better feedback as to which packages are currently loaded. Select the http://www.squeaksource.com/Monticello repository, click "open", select the latest package (Monticello-avi.279) from the main "Monticello" branch, and click "load". Select the Monticello package on the left hand pane, and the squeaksource/Monticello repository in the right hand pane. Click 'open'. In the repository browser, click on the latest version (Monticello-avi.279.mcz) and click 'Load'. ---- Loading Seaside Select "world menu > open... SqueakMap"... and a dialog will ask if you wish to upgrade SqueakMap. Which you do. Notice that SMBase, SMLoader packages appeaer in the Monticello browser, since the upgrade is performed by loading Monticello packages. In SqueakMap, select the ever so convenient "Seaside Installer" which should load in the whole of seaside with its dependencies in one go. To do this select the left had pane menu button, "install". (Part way through the install you will be prompted to enter an admin username (seaside) and password (admin)) (if SqueakMap doesnt work it is being knobbled by a more recent package-cache, remove it and try again) Select the seaside repositoryClick the "open" and the repository browser will open. Select Seaside2.6b1 which is the current latest. In the right hand pane are the releases. Releases may be made by anyone and they may be small branches off from the main stream. Periodically an effort will be made to ensure that all changes are merged. Click the history button in order to browse the history of this package to get some idea of what is going on. Look at the ancestors of a package to see if one version is being sequentially built on the next, or whether any branching is occurring. Seaside is fairly mature and changes infrequent, therefore it is likely to be safe to grab the latest version. Loaded Seaside2.6b1-mb.79 Loaded Scriptaculous-lr.137 To start Seaside doit: WAKom startOn: 8080. ( Or use the "beach flags" SeasideMorph available from: http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5862 ) To test if everything is running, check the following url in your normal web browser. http://localhost:8080/seaside/config you should be prompted for you username and password (as given earlier). ---- Loading Magma Back to the Monticello Browser. Deselect the selected package by clicking on it once. This should re-reveal all of the registered repositories. (It is worth saving this. In the right hand side pane menu button there is a menu item: "Save Repositories", which writes a simple configuration script to the working directory.) Select the http://www.squeaksource.com/MagmaTester repository, and click "open". Select MagmaServerLoader, and click "load". (it takes a while!) loaded MagmaServerLoader-cmm.21 loaded Ma client server-cmm.123 loaded Ma exception handling-cmm.22 loaded Ma time objects-cmm.37 ---- Load Magma Seaside Integration Package Select "Magma Seaside" (lhs) and the latest package and click "load", loaded Magma Seaside-kph.18 ---- Load Magma Seaside Sushi Store Demo fixes loaded Seaside-Examples-Store-Magma.kph-11 ---- Before using Magma may need to execute the following. MagmaSession initialize. MagmaRepositoryController initialize. useful snippets MagmaSession allInstances cleanUp. MagmaSession disconnectAndCloseAllConnectedSessions. ---- Load Magritte loaded Magritte-All-lr.171 Load Pier loaded Pier-All-lr.109 Load OmniBrowser loaded OmniBrowser-avi.258 loaded Pier-OmniBrowser-lr.19 ---- Latest Pier-Magma code loaded Pier-Model-kph.80 loaded Pier-Seaside-kph.80 loaded Pier-Magma-kph.1 ---- Pre-upload actions: Monticello Browser - "flush cached versions". ---- Release Preloaded Image as Sqk3.8f-smp.image ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

16 years, 3 months

Extracting a pier root

by Damien Cassou

Hi, what is the best solution to extract a pier website from an image and put the extracted root into another image ? Thanks -- Damien Cassou

16 years, 10 months

Documenting Pier

by Paul Bennett

Hi, I am a newbie to programming and especially Smalltalk/Seaside/Pier. I've been fuddling around for a while trying to learn more in a Smalltalk environment that is not exactly set up for *complete* newbies like me. So with that in mind I thought I would start collecting all the information I can into one place to help others who may (foolishly! ;) ) follow me. This might be a bigger undertaking than I realise just yet - but I'm game to give it a shot. My sense is that there is a quiet group of people out there wishing this was already available. Here is the situation - I am not exactly sure the best way to start. I have books (I've started with SQEAK - A Quick Trip To Objectland) and more that I've downloaded from the web. But when it comes to Pier and Seaside (I know this is a Pier list so we can focus on that specifically) there is not a lot of help for people in my shoes - and I've heard this cry elsewhere. For example, even though I'm committed to learning Smalltalk, is Pier even ready for a non-programmer yet? So I have set up a website @ http://www.BeatTheDrums.org where I will start to place all the information I gather or create. I am currently reading a lot of Lucas Renggli's writings and trying to grok them :). With his kind permission I will be taking what I learn from that and re-formating it (in a format that works for novices - I want to be clear that I am showing no disrespect for his work) and adding in everything else I discover from this list and elsewhere on the web. The site itself is in extreme ALPHA right now as I try to get my head around everything and find a starting point and a way to structure my "journey". So, on the advice of Lucas, I am announcing my intentions to the list (sticking my head out!) and asking for your suggestions and advice. Lucas did mention that most of you are programmers and not inclined to document your experiences - so whatever pearls you throw my way are welcome. Perhaps I should start with a direct question - If you were a complete novice how would you approach getting started on Pier, given that you have no access to any professional Smalltalk education (schools, classes or user groups). Thanks Paul

17 years

Magritte book

by Jimmie Houchin

I am reading Lukas book Magritte – Meta-Described Web Application Development. I have tried to type in the code and run it. But it doesn't run. :( DateDescription selector: #birthday label: 'Birthday') between: (Date year: 1900) and: Date today; yourself. This is in the latest squeak-dev image. It complains that DateDescription doesn't exist and offers MADateDescription instead. Okay. But then #year: isn't a method in Date either. :( It would be nice if Pier/Magritte/Seaside had current documentation. Would it be possible, reasonable to put up an OO.org doc or some such of the original book so that it could be kept up to date by the community? I know this is asking a lot. But I also hate to ask Lukas to do all of the work by himself. I don't know exactly what would be the best process for community stewardship over material like this. But it would be nice if we had an excellent place to start. And I think this book is. It would be nice if it was current with the current favored images. If this isn't doable for whatever reason, I certainly respect Lukas' wishes concerning his material and authorship. Next best thing until a different book or such material came out would be an excellent errata page for this book. Lets make choosing Squeak/Seaside/Pier as easy as possible. Any way, some thoughts for consideration. Thanks. Jimmie

17 years

Pier v. Plone

by Jimmie Houchin

Hello, I am exploring my options for a couple of websites. I am a big fan of Squeak, Seaside and Pier. But I have been exploring and learning about Plone. There is a tremendous amount of energy and work behind Plone and products available for it. Plone 3.0 is about to be released. They have put a lot of work into UI usability and into a lot of areas which are nice to not necessarily implement yourself. That said, I don't really have a grasp as to how far Pier is from Plone-like abilities for both the end user and the developer. One thing I am looking at is the Plone4Artist product which implements a very sweet package for multimedia and Plone. http://www.plone4artists.com/ I do very much like Squeak over Python. In general I like Seaside/Pier over Zope/Plone. I know that Lukas has used Zope/Plone, but I don't know how current his knowledge is. How far is Pier from offering a competitive experience to end users and developers with regard to something like Plone? Is there any interest in the community of competing in that sphere? Or do most here happily use Seaside/Pier as a toolbox and the bigger application type CMS isn't on the radar? And initially I speak as to a basic Plone 3.0 out-of-the-box capabilities and user/developer experience. Not necessarily the plethora of add-on products. Those can come later if the out-of-the-box experience is compelling enough. Naively it seems that content types are easier to develop in Pier as opposed to Plone. I just don't know how much I could build on Pier towards a Plone-like experience in the time it takes to do some things in Plone. And I really don't know how much of the machinery that makes Plone what it is, is in Pier. Or the effort to get there. Comments regarding my questions above or most anything relevant to Pier v. Plone 3.0 are greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jimmie

17 years, 1 month

RE: Magritte book

by i p

yeh thats a good point, it would be great if we could use the thesis as a foundation to create an up to date versioned Magritte/Pier documentation > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:47:12 -0500> From: j.squeak(a)cyberhaus.us> To: smallwiki(a)iam.unibe.ch> Subject: Re: Magritte book> > i p wrote:> > > > "Magritte – Meta-Described Web Application> > Development" is not a book. but its Lukas's Masters degree thesis work. > > The thesis documents the the design and overall architecture of > > magritte, the benefits of magritte and what problems it solves, this is > > not going to be updated (i dont think ) as it is not inteded to be a > > book for magritte, but this document will give you a good understanding > > of the overall architecture and design decisions made in designing > > magritte .> > The wiki would be a good place to have up to date information and > > current documentation, up to date class names etc> [snip original message]> > Yes, you are technically correct. It is not a book technically. I > thought it was his thesis, but missed inside where it said so.> > Nevertheless. It can provide an excellent foundation for such a book. It > is being provided as documentation for Magritte. It would still be nice > if this documentation was current. If Lukas wishes for this be to be > left alone and remain a thesis and a historic artifact it can be so and > with great respect to him for the work he put into his thesis and the > value it currently provides. But over time it will diminish as > documentation. In any living system if the documentation isn't also > changing, then the documentation will at some point become a historic > artifact of the program at a point in time.> > So the question still remains on whether this thesis can form the > foundation of a documentation book or booklet which can and will remain > current documentation of Magritte, Pier, etc? Or do we from the > knowledge gained from all of the materials start from scratch to create > such a work?> > His thesis will always be his thesis. That is a historical and > documented fact. But if it is made available as the beginning of some > versioned Magritte/Pier documentation then that document can be kept > current with the state of Squeak, Seaside, Magritte, Pier.> By versioned I mean it can have a version number which states the > versions of Squeak, Seaside, Magritte, Pier that are used in its pages.> > Stale documentation always frustrates and hinders beginners and people > exploring new technology. We need to enable the adoption of these tools. > Not provide another excuse for passing them by and instead using > "industry standard" and accepted tools which in many ways are less > productive than the Squeak toolset.> > Any way just some thoughts.> > Jimmie> > > > _______________________________________________> SmallWiki, Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ...> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

17 years, 1 month

RE: Magritte book

by i p

"Magritte – Meta-Described Web ApplicationDevelopment" is not a book. but its Lukas's Masters degree thesis work. The thesis documents the the design and overall architecture of magritte, the benefits of magritte and what problems it solves, this is not going to be updated (i dont think ) as it is not inteded to be a book for magritte, but this document will give you a good understanding of the overall architecture and design decisions made in designing magritte . The wiki would be a good place to have up to date information and current documentation, up to date class names etc Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:41:58 +0200From: matthias.berth(a)googlemail.comTo: smallwiki(a)iam.unibe.chSubject: Re: Magritte bookI think that an "errata" or "comments" page is an excellent idea. How about a wiki page on http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/smallwiki/pier/ and a hint on http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/smallwiki/pier/pierfaq/ ? You can use anonymous/xopu to login.Cheers Matthias On 8/24/07, Jimmie Houchin <j.squeak(a)cyberhaus.us> wrote: I am reading Lukas book Magritte – Meta-Described Web ApplicationDevelopment.I have tried to type in the code and run it.But it doesn't run. :(DateDescription selector: #birthday label: 'Birthday') between: (Date year: 1900) and: Date today; yourself.This is in the latest squeak-dev image.It complains that DateDescription doesn't exist and offersMADateDescription instead. Okay. But then #year: isn't a method in Date either. :(It would be nice if Pier/Magritte/Seaside had current documentation.Would it be possible, reasonable to put up an OO.org doc or some such ofthe original book so that it could be kept up to date by the community?I know this is asking a lot. But I also hate to ask Lukas to do all ofthe work by himself.I don't know exactly what would be the best process for community stewardship over material like this. But it would be nice if we had anexcellent place to start. And I think this book is. It would be nice ifit was current with the current favored images.If this isn't doable for whatever reason, I certainly respect Lukas' wishes concerning his material and authorship. Next best thing until adifferent book or such material came out would be an excellent erratapage for this book.Lets make choosing Squeak/Seaside/Pier as easy as possible. Any way, some thoughts for consideration.Thanks.Jimmie_______________________________________________SmallWiki, Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ...https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

17 years, 1 month

Magritte: adding a condition on the whole object in its description

by Matthias Berth

Hello, I want to add a condition to a Magritte-described object that checks the whole object for consistency (and not just a single attribute). Is that possible? Example: Think about creating a workgroup from some of the users of your site. The workgroup has a manager. The condition is that the manager must be one of the members of the workgroup. I've tried to do this. I have two descriptions on the workgroup class side: one for the manager (saying that it can be any of the site's users) and one for the users (saying that this is a subset of all users). I can add a method #description to modify the standard description that is assembled from the description* methods on the class side. So I tried: Workgroup>>description ^super description addCondition: [:workgroup | workgroup users includes: workgroup manager] labelled: 'Manager must be a member of the workgroup'; yourself Alas, trying to edit an existing workgroup, I learned that the argument of the condition block is a MACheckedMemento, so I can't ask it for users. What would be the best way to have this check everytime the work group is edited? Or should I just write the #manager: method such that the condition will be satisfied automatically? Cheers Matthias PS: I want to say a big thank you, especially to Lukas, for the great answers on this list. I have learned something every time, and I was impressed when my questions on how to do something were answered with a patch. PPS: No, this email is not a request for a patch :-)

17 years, 1 month

[Enh] MACustomDescriptionBuilder

by Keith Hodges

I wrote this because I want my data model classes to have one set of #description's to model their data structure and another set of #settings to model the view/filter settings that are available for each class. I dont know what the best way to achieve this with magritte would be, but I figured being able to have multiple sets of descriptions for different unrelated purposes could be very useful. As an implementation detail, it might be useful if the MADescriptionBuilder 'Cache' was a class instance var rather than a classVar. best regards Keith p.s. Lukas, I want to thank you for all of the great help you have provided, especially in the past few days. In http://mc.lukas-renggli.ch/pieraddons Name: Magritte-CustomBuilder-kph.1 Author: kph Time: 18 August 2007, 2:53:47 am UUID: dc2d465c-4d2d-11dc-b626-000a95edb42a Ancestors: - Variant of MADescriptionBuilder that is not tied to #description as a prefix. usage: (MCCustomDescriptionBuilder prefix: #settings) for: anObject Notes: Includes a performance enhancement to double speed of description building. (selectors of Object are ignored) before: [ 1000 timesRepeat: [MADescriptionBuilder default build: (ProductData) ] ] timeToRun. 21622 after: [ 1000 timesRepeat: [(MACustomDescriptionBuilder prefix: #description) build: (ProductData) ] ] timeToRun. 11075

17 years, 1 month

RE: Error in PUUsersWidget

by i p

thanks lukas i found that when i click on 'Groups' or 'superuser' column sort on the users. i get the following error. if i click on groups i get "MessageNotUnderstood: OrderedCollection>><=" and if i click on 'superUsers' column i get messageNotUnderstood: True>> <=. is it just a matter of adding <= to Boolean so it can respond to the binary message <= , for orderedcollection not sure any ideas ?> From: renggli(a)iam.unibe.ch> Subject: Re: Error in PUUsersWidget> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:36:37 +0200> To: smallwiki(a)iam.unibe.ch> > The problem is fixed in:> > Name: Pier-All-lr.230> Author: lr> Time: 17 August 2007, 6:35:49 pm> UUID: 49baa1a6-da58-4dfb-8c98-ec9d1c2a521e> Ancestors: Pier-All-lr.229> Dependencies: Pier-Model-lr.162, Pier-Tests-lr.73, Pier-Seaside-lr. > 194, Pier-Security-lr.87, Pier-Blog-lr.58> > - fixes: "when i added a system users component to a page, when i > click on any thing on the component which invokes a callback. i get > the following error 'Components not found while processing callbacks: > an Array(a PUUsersWidget)'. " (thanks to isaiah)> > > I see the same problem, I have two images, the older one where it> > works, and the newer one with the problem:> >> > Working:> > Pier-Security-lr.85> > Pier-Seaside-lr.185> > Pier-Model-lr.158> >> > Not working:> > Pier-Security-lr.86> > Pier-Seaside-lr.192> > Pier-Model-lr.161> >> > I've had a look at the changes in Pier-Security, but I have no idea> > what could cause this problem.> >> > Cheers> >> > Matthias> >> >> > On 8/17/07, isaiah <cappadonza(a)hotmail.com> wrote:> >>> >> hey i got the latest version of pier, when i added a system users > >> component> >> to a page, when i click on any thing on the component which invokes a> >> callback. i get the following error> >> "WAComponentsNotFoundError: Components not found while processing > >> callbacks:> >> an Array(a PUUsersWidget)" .> >> any ideas how to resolve this> >> --> >> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Error-in- > >> PUUsersWidget-tf4286525.html#a12202036> >> Sent from the SmallWiki mailing list archive at Nabble.com.> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________> >> SmallWiki, Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ...> >> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki> >>> >> > _______________________________________________> > SmallWiki, Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ...> > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki> > -- > Lukas Renggli> http://www.lukas-renggli.ch> _________________________________________________________________ Explore the seven wonders of the world http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

17 years, 1 month

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

smallwiki August 2007