[Webteam] [Fwd: [squeak-dev] A big word of thanks!]

[Brad Fuller]

great idea!

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Ken Causey <ken at 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 at rnid.org.uk>
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> 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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Brad Fuller