squeakland November 2009

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re-synced forums and mailing lists
by Timothy Falconer 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hi everyone, Good News & Bad News . . . First the bad: Just visited the Squeakland web forums for the first time in a while. There were several real messages from people that don't have mailing list subscriptions, some asking for help. Since most of use read the mailing lists and not the forums, these have gone unnoticed. Now the good: Also since I detached them (almost a month ago), there's only been one bogus account created and two spam messages, which is quite good. The result: I've resync'ed the forums and mailing lists again, at least until the spammers rediscover us. For some history, here's part of the email from October 19th: --- I've disconnected the automatic forwarding of forum posts to the the mailing lists, which will solve the problem for the current majority of our community that uses mailing lists (at least until the human spammers discover them as well.) This doesn't solve the other problem though, which is spam on the forums, which is unfortunately because most new users and children are likely to read the forums first, not the mailing lists. This means I need your help. Please volunteer to become a moderator on the forums, so you can help me weed out the spam there. Yes, we'll be attempting new technical solutions, such as blocking the most troublesome human spammer websites. But as with all spam, this is a game of tug-a-war between the spammers and the rest of us. There will always be spam we do not catch automatically, which means we will always need help deleting it before someone gets the wrong idea about Squeakland. For a history of this issue, search for "forum spam" in forum search. It had gotten better for a while, now it's worse again. -- -- Timothy Falconer Squeakland Foundation http://squeakland.org 610-797-3100 -- "Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do." ... piaget

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The Future of Squeak as of 2001
by Bert Freudenberg 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Ken G. Brown" <kbrown(a)mac.com> > Date: 9. November 2009 20:27:04 MEZ > To: squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > Subject: [squeak-dev] Future of Squeak - Dan Shafer > Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > > > > Perhaps some will find this of interest in relation to the current > discussion of the vision for Squeak: > > Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia > <http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/> > > The Future of Squeak - Dan Shafer > <http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/uploads/futuresqueak2.pdf> > > Ken G. Brown That chapter by Dan Shafer is a very interesting read even (or especially) today ... - Bert -

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Re: [squeakland] point towards the mouse?
by p.a.dreyfuss＠excite.com 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Hi,Bill You'll find the tiles mouseX and mouseY in the playfield category of a playfield or of the world. get an arrow fom object catalog/graphics move the ble rotation handle sligtly to make te center or rotation visible and move it shift/drag to the foot of the arrow. get the viewer of the arrow category polygon, et the arrow's vertex .cursor to 2 (head of the arrow). now just build the tiles : arrow's x at cursor _ playfield's mousex arrow's y at cursor _ playfield's mousey You probably just need to find where the tiles mouse and mousey were lying, but this will help other people. Regards -----Original Message----- From: "Hilaire Fernandes" [hilaire.fernandes(a)edu.ge.ch] Date: 11/11/2009 02:51 AM To: "Bill Kerr" <billkerr(a)gmail.com> CC: "squeakland.org mailing list" <squeakland(a)squeakland.org> Subject: Re: [squeakland] point towards the mouse? You may have to write something like that script1 self setHeading: (self costume referencePosition bearingToPoint: ActiveHand x @ ActiveHand y) This example does not work yet, but you get the idea. Hilaire 2009/11/11 Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire.fernandes(a)edu.ge.ch>: > For point 2., you may have to write the script in Smalltalk mode then > use the code > > ActiveHand x to get abscissa of the mouse pointer > > Hilaire > > > 2009/11/11 Bill Kerr <billkerr(a)gmail.com>: >> 1) Is it possible to get an arrow to point towards the mouse pointer in >> etoys? >> I can get it to point towards a box which is being moved with the mouse with >> this script: arrow's heading <-- arrow's bearing to box >> In the world menu in the playfield pane there are mouse x and mouse y >> detectors but arrow's bearing will not accept those detectors as input to >> replace just the box part >> 2) I also wanted to detect a mouse click but can't see any way to do that. >> The input pane in the world menu detects last keystroke but not a mouse >> click. >> _______________________________________________ >> squeakland mailing list >> squeakland(a)squeakland.org >> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland >> >> > > > > -- > http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire > -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire _______________________________________________ squeakland mailing list squeakland(a)squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland ------------------------------------------------------------ Earn your MBA from Regis University, 100% online. Free info packs! Regis University MBA http://tagline.excite.com/c?cp=LfMTzzmeOE8zCBI7sFDD9wAAKZToN1182YPvy_lW2lk3…

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showcase fixes
by Timothy Falconer 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Hi everyone, We had a real backlog of projects waiting to go live on the site. This weekend I tweaked several things and fixed a few bugs, and as a result, a slew of new ballots went out. Now every public project has at least one vote, which means they're all visible. We're up to 102 projects! Quite a selection. Lots of great stuff. http://squeakland.org/showcase/ On a more technical note, I changed the "re-ballot" priority to make things more fair. As ballots expire, projects are picked to get new ballots. Before tonight I favored projects that were the oldest. I've switched to favor projects with the fewest votes. Why? Because there's a real imbalance in the rank list . . . many with lower average points are at the top of the rankings because they're old (such as the Waveplace ones), simply because they have almost 10 voters apiece. Other, better, projects are still down the list because they haven't gotten as many voters yet, mostly because of the earlier priority. This switch in ballot priority should even the playing field a bit. Keep in mind, this system was designed for a bigger pool of rankers. We're a bit saturated now, so there's a bit of a logjam. Please consider helping us rank projects . . . it's quick, fun, and really helps. You *don't* need to be an educator, just someone who likes Etoys. Visit http://squeakland.org/action/signup and click "Yes, I'd like to help rank projects!" Take care, TIm -- Timothy Falconer Squeakland Foundation http://squeakland.org 610-797-3100 -- "Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do." ... piaget

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DrGeo translation
by Hilaire Fernandes 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Hello, So far DrGeo is proposed in English, French ans Spanish. It is quite easy to translate it. To do so, download http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/istoa/trunk/artefacts/drgeo/po/DrGeoII.pot, rename this file to your locale and send it back. Encoding should be UTF-8. I will merge it back to the SVN repository. We are looking at integrating DrGeo in next Etoys release. Hilaire -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire

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