[Glass] GS for OSX

Fri Sep 27 09:33:08 PDT 2013

Thanks James! Very interesting. And it cannot be more timely for me :)
Cool. I will try it today or next week.

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:03 PM, James Foster <
James.Foster at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

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> On Sep 27, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Where can I read about the "new GS for OSX" ?
> Thanks,
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:43 PM, James Foster <
> James.Foster at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm working on the PaaS support (did you catch my ESUG presentation at
>> https://programminggems.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/video-of-esug-2013-presentation/?).
>> I'd be interested in working with a few people who would like to have
>> GemStone as a PaaS.
>>
>> As to interfacing Ruby to GS, see https://github.com/jgfoster/topaz_web,
>> https://github.com/jgfoster/gemstone_ruby_sample, and
>> https://github.com/jgfoster/gemstone_ruby (this is hard-coded to 3.1.0.4
>> for now).
>>
>> James
>>
>> On Sep 27, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Charles Monteiro <charles at nycsmalltalk.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> good man, unlike those traitors that darted over from Cincom to Google :)
>>
>> One of the reasons I don't use Gemstone/ S for my own pet projects is
>> because I can't get any Paas support,and  its just too costly (for me) to
>> keep a server up on EC2, the other issue would be a lightweight way of
>> doing http service calls to GS , perhaps have a Ruby C lib interface to a
>> linked gem ?, with something like Sinatra backed by a fast http server
>> fronting it, not convinced that Seaside  on GS or Aida will scale, I
>> actually have local clients doing http calls i,e. not a web app
>>
>> Gemstone / S is awesome but I wont' be interfacing to it via VW any more
>> and thus that changes the proposition for me which is why Maglev has peaked
>> my interest but ti seems that project is stagnating
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:03 AM, James Foster <
>> James.Foster at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think that most of the ESUG attendees were either employed or
>>> students. ;-)
>>>
>>> If you are developing a web-based application you could certainly use a
>>> Mac for development (with testing on a Windows machine). I'm also looking
>>> at making it easier to use a hosted server for GemStone/S development.
>>>
>>> I'm not really a good person to give advice on Ruby (including MagLev)
>>> since I'd do my best to stay with Smalltalk.
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>> On Sep 27, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Charles Monteiro <charles at nycsmalltalk.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> the other question is how many of those are employed :), anyhow I do use
>>> a Mac mini as my main dev machine but have Windows on vmware  since our
>>> clients deploy the UI apps on Window boxes, sure webtools would be fine, in
>>> the case of maglev would you use Sinatra?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:06 AM, James Foster <
>>> James.Foster at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Charles,
>>>>
>>>> Good question, and the answer is no, we do not expect people to deploy
>>>> on a Mac. The goal is to make development easier, especially for those who
>>>> are using Smalltalk but have not tried GemStone. Take a look a what
>>>> machines Smalltalk developers are using (
>>>> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201373129904046) and you get
>>>> an idea of what I have in mind.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jupiter,
>>>>
>>>> You have several options: (1) you can enter a port number in the field
>>>> that currently has a name, (2) you can add the name & port to your local
>>>> /etc/services, and (3) if you start your client from a shell that has the
>>>> proper environment (e.g., using the 'Terminal' button), then the name
>>>> should map properly to the port.
>>>>
>>>> As to a client UI, at first I was thinking of duplicating Jade for
>>>> Windows (http://seaside.gemtalksystems.com/jade/), but now I'm leaning
>>>> toward a web-based suite of tools (https://github.com/jgfoster/webtools
>>>> ).
>>>>
>>>> James
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 27, 2013, at 6:55 AM, Charles Monteiro <charles at nycsmalltalk.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> question, not trying to be critical, the mac app does look great and I
>>>> can see how its very helpful for development purposes but folks would not
>>>> really deploy on a Mac OS X server ? or would they ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Jupiter Jones <jupiter.jones at mail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've been playing with the new GS for OSX and it's everything a one
>>>>> button mouse user could ask for :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I only have one feature request - the ability to set the netldi port
>>>>> along with the name. That would save having to update the configurations…
>>>>> unless I can use the name rather than the port. Just thought of that while
>>>>> typing - will have to give it a try.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, keen to know what's going to happen when we can create Logins… A
>>>>> OSX native tODE? Now that would be awesome!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the great app!
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jupiter
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