Hi Lex,

I've been using Nebraska as a remote server interface.  It's an amazing tool
and could be much more amazing (with the ideas you've described in your
postings ).

Derek

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 3:34 PM
Subject: playing with Nebraska


> Here are some things you can glue together, once you have the efficient
> remote interaction Nebraska gives you.
>
> 1. You can give people flaps that live on the local machine, and let
> them drag and drop things into and out of the shared world.
>
> 2. Conversely, you can swap modes and have the shared stuff be in a
> flap, for times when you are primarily working locally but want to have
> a collaboration window available.
>
> 3. You can have a large shared world that is scrollable, like the
> original Kansas (in fact, the reason Kansas got its name).  This way
> multiple people can really bump elbows.  :)
>
> 4. You could set it up to display only, and thus have a very efficient
> format for Squeak movies or Squeak streaming presentations.
>
>
> There are also other nice things that could be done:
>
> 1. NetworkTerminalMorph should have a border, so that you can interact
> with it on the client.
>
> 2. The password-handling code I posted a while ago should be integrated
> into the main system.
>
>
> Have a blast!  Nebraska is just one of a load of components in Squeak
> that you can combine in lots of interesting ways.  A little bit of
> programming can take you a long way, if you are programming in Squeak.
>
>
> Lex
>
>
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