I wonder if this great email from Frank wouldn't be a good start for some sort of testimonials page on Squeak.org? Just an idea that came to me, I'm not sure if it's particularly good or not.
Ken
-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Frank Shearar frank.shearar@rnid.org.uk Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: [squeak-dev] A big word of thanks! Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:49:42 +0200
THANK YOU to the clever, clever people who have worked on Squeak over these many years!
I had an image hang on me last night, such that it rendered just fine, but wouldn't accept user input. I thought I'd lost about 8 hours of work. It was very late, so I left the image alone, in the hopes that it was just my sleep-addled mind playing tricks.
In the morning, the image was still non-responsive, so I regretfully gave up and shut it down without saving. And then I thought, hang on a minute, what's the timestamp of the changes file? And I saw that it was just a few minutes before my troubles started. So I restarted Squeak, opened a FileList, and selected the changes file. I saw a "recent changes" button, and clicked it. It asked me how far back I wanted to see the changes, and there I could see back to the last time I'd saved the image. All I needed to do was simply select all the "method:" items, and all the code I'd thought lost was restored! (And then I neatly undid the very last change, so I wouldn't repeat the story!)
So, thanks to the many people who've put thought and care into Squeak over the years, I didn't lose those hours of work after all!
frank
great idea!
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Ken Causey ken@kencausey.com wrote:
I wonder if this great email from Frank wouldn't be a good start for some sort of testimonials page on Squeak.org? Just an idea that came to me, I'm not sure if it's particularly good or not.
Ken
-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Frank Shearar frank.shearar@rnid.org.uk Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: [squeak-dev] A big word of thanks! Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:49:42 +0200
THANK YOU to the clever, clever people who have worked on Squeak over these many years!
I had an image hang on me last night, such that it rendered just fine, but wouldn't accept user input. I thought I'd lost about 8 hours of work. It was very late, so I left the image alone, in the hopes that it was just my sleep-addled mind playing tricks.
In the morning, the image was still non-responsive, so I regretfully gave up and shut it down without saving. And then I thought, hang on a minute, what's the timestamp of the changes file? And I saw that it was just a few minutes before my troubles started. So I restarted Squeak, opened a FileList, and selected the changes file. I saw a "recent changes" button, and clicked it. It asked me how far back I wanted to see the changes, and there I could see back to the last time I'd saved the image. All I needed to do was simply select all the "method:" items, and all the code I'd thought lost was restored! (And then I neatly undid the very last change, so I wouldn't repeat the story!)
So, thanks to the many people who've put thought and care into Squeak over the years, I didn't lose those hours of work after all!
frank
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