Showing posts with label Pharo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pharo. Show all posts
Thursday, July 19, 2012
alpha testers
I am looking for alpha testers for a Curl app (www.curl.com) - just a utility.
Would you consider ? It is intended to help recall secure multi-word passphrases used as alternatives to passwords. It is web browser based in this alpha (no JavaScript but does use Curl )
There is a snapshot view at passphrases.aule-browser.com
I have committed to moving this to Pharo Smalltalk 2.0 for Android. Curl also has an Android app generator called CAEDE at curlap.com
And then there is Mobl ...
( I sometimes generate Curl markup with Seaside in Pharo or VW Smalltalk but Seaside remains very tied to SGML in some base classes.)
Thursday, July 5, 2012
SCSK Curl and Beta Etiquette
SCSK's Curl team disabled my local PC applets.
How? By expiring the runtime engine for their Andoid development CAEDE beta IDE.
So I reinstall the old 8.0 runtime Surge® engine.
Nope. No applet will run under that 8.0.0 browser plugin until the NON-browser 8.0.1 IDE is uninstalled ( a separate selectable/optional step in the uninstaller itself !! )
My Smalltalk vendor did something like this back in the big merger that killed Smalltalk (it was years before I was willing to buy another professional Smalltalk IDE license.)
Now Instantiations owns the VA code and Pharo may get onto Android devices. And there is the Mobl language - and Red may replace Rebol.
In its day, Borland could be outrageous as could IBM and Microsoft and Oracle. But we are now in the post-Java manager-gotta-buzzword era - are we not? Don't managers now talk about "open-source methodology" as if that meant something? JavaScript is no longer a bad ECMA joke?
But here I am - hung out to dry again by a language vendor.
Challenge: name one web app framework that generates non-HTML markup such as Curl without significant revisions which break updates. No, it is not yet Seaside 3.0.x - that future must wait a little longer.
Remember when XHTML was declared by committee to be the future of web markup? Ahem. How long can it take me to start calling HTML5 simply 'HTML' ? By 2014?
At least I never fell for Google Gears ... just DBX, Nuon, OS/2 SOM/DSOM, Rebol 3 ...
How? By expiring the runtime engine for their Andoid development CAEDE beta IDE.
So I reinstall the old 8.0 runtime Surge® engine.
Nope. No applet will run under that 8.0.0 browser plugin until the NON-browser 8.0.1 IDE is uninstalled ( a separate selectable/optional step in the uninstaller itself !! )
My Smalltalk vendor did something like this back in the big merger that killed Smalltalk (it was years before I was willing to buy another professional Smalltalk IDE license.)
Now Instantiations owns the VA code and Pharo may get onto Android devices. And there is the Mobl language - and Red may replace Rebol.
In its day, Borland could be outrageous as could IBM and Microsoft and Oracle. But we are now in the post-Java manager-gotta-buzzword era - are we not? Don't managers now talk about "open-source methodology" as if that meant something? JavaScript is no longer a bad ECMA joke?
But here I am - hung out to dry again by a language vendor.
Challenge: name one web app framework that generates non-HTML markup such as Curl without significant revisions which break updates. No, it is not yet Seaside 3.0.x - that future must wait a little longer.
Remember when XHTML was declared by committee to be the future of web markup? Ahem. How long can it take me to start calling HTML5 simply 'HTML' ? By 2014?
At least I never fell for Google Gears ... just DBX, Nuon, OS/2 SOM/DSOM, Rebol 3 ...
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