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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN class=796030015-15052007>Hi
there,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
class=796030015-15052007> I been thinking about the value of
blogs talking daily Squeak use. Squeak users/developers probably use the
squeak's environment in different ways according to what they do/develop.
And because Smalltalk was designed with the extremely valuable feature of making
possible to be all inteligible for one individual, that sometimes could be a
lonely task. That hasn't to be bad until the developer starts to loose valuable
experiences because of that. For instance, if you are in pair programming, one
developer could learn about a new way to find a method faster or a different
class browser or a different subtle and clever way to use the browser, and so
on... </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
class=796030015-15052007> That subtlelties that are easily
transmitted person to person so meetings, BOf's and educational
experiences are great to patch that, but what if your profile just don't
have access to that at certain moment to any of those?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
class=796030015-15052007> I think, (and I may be right or
not in this) that there are lots of people that fits in this profile at least
for some time and there is a gap on support to those people. The result of that
gap is clear, or the person surpass it by itself or not. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
class=796030015-15052007> If is interesting to us
that more persons can surpass that gap and find the completeness
of the squeak experience I think that fact makes interesting to us to have
vehicles (blogs are the more feasible I think) with articles that friendly
introduces stories of developments that in fact are merely excuses to
comunicate tips that should be fulfilling the gap. Even when they may seem
to be silly for more experienced developers.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"><FONT size=2><FONT><SPAN
class=796030015-15052007> I barely imagine a newbie's
frustration to understand the complete cycle experience of developing with
squeak because it happends to me the silly thing that I dicovered yesterday
</SPAN></FONT><FONT><SPAN class=796030015-15052007>the preferences browser after
some years of using squeak. Yes I know, I wasn't reading the menu and exploring
that option by myself, but maybe that shouldn't be the only access to that
information and access to information is what I'm talking
about.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"><FONT size=2><FONT><SPAN
class=796030015-15052007> Maybe universities and schools that
uses Squeak are aware and have taken measures about this, but I wanted to put
this here "just in case" and because I think that is valuable for squeak and the
whole smalltalk comunity that we have more bolgs that concentrates the veteran
squeakers virtual-environmental experiences that acts as welcome and friendly
"doors" to the knowledge and people can have an emotionally smoother experiences
surpassing the squeak/smalltalk experience gaps and knowledge
barriers.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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cheers,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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