... Tools like GLORP are very nice: they save you writing SQL directly. But look at your line of code: it is SQL in message form. I wasn't talking about...
J J
azreal1977@...
Jan 1, 2007 9:26 am
114635
... Hash: SHA1 Friends, To make sure that Squeak can be installed on every relevant Debian (GNU/Linux) version, I decided to create builds for all the three...
Matej Kosik
kosik@...
Jan 1, 2007 10:21 am
114636
... You know, that is a good point. I think it would be easy to emulate the squeak collections operations though. ie database users detect: [:ea | ea...
Todd Blanchard
tblanchard@...
Jan 1, 2007 9:53 pm
114637
Squeak 3.7 ish - I've got this meta model that stores attribute names as symbols. I frequently derive labels from the attribute names and this often ends up...
Todd Blanchard
tblanchard@...
Jan 2, 2007 12:20 am
114638
Hi! ... Magma uses a similar trick in its query capabilities (in order to make seemingly iterative block-code actually generate a query with optimization and...
goran@...
Jan 2, 2007 9:57 am
114639
... I would be much more convinced if you had said "I've been making this change to all my programs for the past year and have never ran into any difficulty...
Ralph Johnson
johnson@...
Jan 2, 2007 10:15 am
114640
... Well, let me clarify my position a little. I don't feel that ODB's are useless or anything. Things you see in the Rails demo's should probably have been...
J J
azreal1977@...
Jan 2, 2007 10:18 am
114641
... That's something I've never really understood: what is the domain in which Relational Databases excel? - Data too large to fit in memory? Well, most uses...
Howard Stearns
hstearns@...
Jan 2, 2007 2:32 pm
114642
On 2006 December 29 01:27, Jerome Peace wrote: <<snip>> ... Jerome, Could you point out a few concrete examples (class, method) of this behaviour? I started...
Milan Zimmermann
milan.zimmermann@...
Jan 2, 2007 2:42 pm
114643
Funny, I just blogged about this. http://www.blackbagops.net/?p=93...
Todd Blanchard
tblanchard@...
Jan 2, 2007 3:22 pm
114644
That sounds like a fine idea - I'll definitely continue to check it out. I did spot a case or two where the point was to ultimately generate a symbol, but...
Todd Blanchard
tblanchard@...
Jan 2, 2007 3:30 pm
114645
Yesterday I moved over a bunch of packages from the 3.7 stable universe to the 3.9 one currently being built. As a result, 3.9 has 67 new packages, bringing...
Lex Spoon
lex@...
Jan 2, 2007 4:31 pm
114646
... Todd, As a long-time user of Object Databases (and now a vendor's employee) I found your comments interesting. A few responses with regard to ...
James Foster
Smalltalk@...
Jan 2, 2007 4:59 pm
114647
... And oh, I forgot the first time - Avi did ROE which is also very interesting: http://map.squeak.org/packagebyname/roe regards, Göran...
goran@...
Jan 2, 2007 5:36 pm
114648
... As an aside, having a public package universe can provide more input to these decisions. The idea is, packages include self tests, and you have a package...
Lex Spoon
lex@...
Jan 2, 2007 5:40 pm
114649
... Just glancing over a few places it's pretty obvious that at least CategoryViewer>>getterTilesFor:type: and SlotInformation class>>type and ...
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab@...
Jan 2, 2007 5:45 pm
114650
I would not recommend this. Normally, one would expect that a transformation like #capitalized would return an object of the same class. It would make more...
Terry Raymond
squeak-craft@...
Jan 2, 2007 5:46 pm
114651
... How about the following: capitalizedString ^self asString capitalized capitalized ^ self capitalizedString asSymbol ? Marcel...
Marcel Weiher
marcel@...
Jan 2, 2007 5:53 pm
114652
Chris, What about the common scenario of writing software for users who are not going to change? It can manifest as avoidable training costs, matching user...
Bill Schwab
BSchwab@...
Jan 2, 2007 6:53 pm
114653
Well the problem he is having is that the symbol work is taking up a lot of time, so he wants to avoid it. As I understand it, the capitalization code is in...
J J
azreal1977@...
Jan 2, 2007 7:23 pm
114654
... Handling and dynamically querying large amounts of data where the data format is not necessarily completely stable and ad-hoc query performance is...
Peter Crowther
Peter@...
Jan 2, 2007 7:23 pm
114655
Ausome work. I assume the package setup is like it is in e.g. debian no? For example: There is a core universe that just has the core and depends on nothing...
J J
azreal1977@...
Jan 2, 2007 7:28 pm
114656
I would probably just send #asString to the symbols vs. adding the new method. I agree that returning an instance of the same class is the correct behavior. ...
Bill Schwab
BSchwab@...
Jan 2, 2007 7:29 pm
114657
Ralph, I wish you much success. Your idea of defining behavior by tests is a good start. Good tests for Morphic will be hard to write, and there will...
Bill Schwab
BSchwab@...
Jan 2, 2007 7:32 pm
114658
... Damn it, that's the wrong paper. I don't know what this one is about, but it might be similar. The paper I meant was on LTU somewhere within the last ...
J J
azreal1977@...
Jan 2, 2007 7:43 pm
114659
... Handling large amounts of enterprise data. If you have never worked in a large company, you probably wont appreciate this. But in a large company you...
J J
azreal1977@...
Jan 2, 2007 8:19 pm
114660
... I don't think so. The obvious solution for this problem is to use "#foo asString capitalized" which is both more explicit and avoiding the symbol...
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab@...
Jan 2, 2007 8:43 pm
114661
Yes, I'm quite serious. I'm asking what kinds of problems RDBMS are uniquely best at solving (or at least no worse). I'm not asking whether they CAN be used...
Howard Stearns
hstearns@...
Jan 2, 2007 8:51 pm
114662
Of course. No question. Except, of course, where they don't. The 3-tier enterprise software scenario is -- to me -- an example of it NOT working. I used to...
Howard Stearns
hstearns@...
Jan 2, 2007 9:30 pm
114663
... The main benefit: They work. There is no question how to use them, apply them to problems, map them into different domains etc. This has all been worked...
