<P>I am a fascinated Squeak-newbie bursting with questions. I have lots of Smalltalk experience, but in other dialects (VA & VW). I'm finally ready for Squeak, but am still trying to get familiarized with my new environment. I have a couple of questions.</P>
<P>- What are some best-practices for maintaining my code in a safe-as-ENVY way. If I'm writing new code every day that I do not want to lose, is it reliable enough to simply back up my changes file every day? Or do I need to file-out all of my ChangeSets for a more reliable recovery should the need arise. I imagined there would be some sort of automatic recovery script that would re-apply all changes in the changes file after the timestamp of the image save, similar to the "Make Image Consistent" command in an Envy-based environment. I noticed a couple of interesting methods:</P>
<P> Utilities applyUpdatesFromDisk</P>
<P>wants to pull fileouts out of a folder named 'updates', accounting for the version number tag appended when I file out a ChangeSet. So this doesn't seem to be intended for the changes file.</P>
<P>I also noticed:</P>
<P> Smalltalk recover: 100000</P>
<P>but this doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for either. Is there something else I can use? I noticed there are code-elements known as a "projects" but my naive understanding about their intent is to have multiple "desktop" displays. They offer no code-management advantage over ChangeSets. Is this correct?</P>
<P>- What is the best way to minimize method collisions when extending base classes? I have used two-character method prefixes in other Smalltalks. It was effective and tolerable for me, but I think I would feel like I was littering the simple and gorgeous world of Squeak if I did it there. Does anyone have have an opinion about this?</P>
<P>- The same question also applies to classes. I saw the article about "Environments" on the Swiki. But it appears that "root environment" (Smalltalk) is not an instance of Environment, but of SystemDictionary, so I was unable to makeSubEnvironmentNamed:. </P>
<P>I welcome and appreciate your input..</P>
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