Dimarts passat, dia 3 de març, en Bernat ens va presentar l'Easy Morphic GUI, tot i que encara estem bastant impressionats pel Polymorph que ens va començar a explicar el Josep i que alguns de nosaltres ja hem començat a explorar (fixeu-vos en el joc de la vida d'en Joan). Potser per això, l'Easy Morphic GUI no va rebre tota l'atenció que segurament mereix. Altres membres del grup continuen explorant els aspectes gràfics d'Squeak, com el Sergio amb el seu prototipus de Sudoku.

Ahir dia 10 en Jordi ens va fer cinc cèntims de les possibles aplicacions de thisContext. Essencialment va explicar-ho tal i com està descrit a la lliçó sobre Reflection, del curs open source del Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz, amb l'exemple del haltIf.També va fer servir l'article de L. Peter Deutsch, Building Control Structures in the Smalltalk-80 System (Byte, Agost 1981, pp. 322-346), per explicar l'exemple del Dynamic Binding. Per acabar, va fracassar en provar d'explicar les continuacions tal com les implementa Seaside. Molt oportunament, fa poc ha aparegut un fil a squeak-dev anomenat Continuations on apareix un exemple magnífic per entendre-les adeqüadament.

La setmana que ve la Marina ens continuarà parlant de Polymorph allà on ho va deixar en Josep. La Marina està treballant ara mateix en la programació d'Arduino des d'Squeak, tot i que la programació del port série està sent una mica més difícil del que ens pensàvem. També ens ho explicarà en properes reunions.

En Raimon ha explicat al seu Blog com aprofitar squeakSoup i el regex engine per automatitzar una mena de google fight.

Com veieu, continuem amb el tema, i més entusiasmats que mai!

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On March 3, Bernat introduced us to the Easy Morphic GUI, even though we are still pretty impressed with Polymorph which Josep had started to explain and with which some of us have begun to explore (check out the Game of Life by Joan). Maybe for this reason, the Easy Morphic GUI did not receive all the attention that it surely deserves. Other members of the group continued to explore the graphic aspects of Squeak, like Sergio with his Sudoku prototype.

On the 10th, Jordi gave us a brief explanation of the possible applications of thisContext. Essentially he explained what is written in the lesson about Reflection, in the open source course by Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz, using the example of haltIf. He also used the article by L. Peter Deutsch, Building Control Structures in the Smalltalk-80 System (Byte, August 1981, p. 322), to explain the example of Dynamic Binding. Finally, he failed in trying to explain the continuations as they are implemented in Seaside. Luckily however, a short time ago a thread called Continuations appeared on squeak-dev which contains a great example which makes them less difficult to understand.

Marina is going to take up where Josep left off in explaining Polymorph. She is working right now on programming Arduino from Squeak, even though the programming of the port series is a little more difficult than we imagined. She will be explaining more in future meetings. Raimon, in his Blog, explained how to use squeakSoup and the regex engine to create a kind of google fight.

As you can see we are carrying on with the project more enthusiastically than ever!