ESUG 2022 videos released

It took a while this time until all presentation videos were reviewed and published. And it took me some time as well to write this post. On youtube you can findpresentation videosshow us your project videosLast year I did the following presentations:There is no magic until you talk about databases. In this presentation I describe how our technology stack grow much smaller by focusing on the es...

BYOB - object serialization

In the initial post I described the motivation behind developing a new OO database from scratch in pharo. At the end of that post I've sketched a possible API for Soil. Let's pick that and see how we can make it happen. I copied the snippet over here:"create a new database path and initialize its content" soil := Soil new path: 'soil'; initializeFilesystem. "create a transaction from soil whi...

BYOB - build your own (data)base

Persistency is not simple. We can make programs that create data structures and operate on it rather easy. But persisting the same thing is not easy. If the data structure you are dealing with is not super simple, persisting gets complicated really quick. Why is that? Why do we even need to persist data? At one time in history storage technology divided itself into fast-expensive and slow-cheap...

Picking it up

What happened so far? I did the usual thing. I created a blog and wrote a blog engine for it. The only content in the blog was about creating the blog engine itself. And as usual after the first release nothing happened anymore...This time it is different because it wasn't the end of the project and the blog. Foliage got a new user which made me quite proud. After several years of instable web ...

Foliage released

Foliage is a static web site generator pretty much like Octopress/Jekyll. Instead of being a tool you invoke from the commandline foliage is meant to be a library to create a customized web site with a script. The script can then be used to invoke foliage headless on a commandline. The basic idea of foliage is to reify all structures of the web site from filesystem hierarchy down to the HTML DO...

Blog navigation

Last time I've added a page header and a page title to the rendering so the site can be navigated in a basic fashion. Adding those was possible because I added a render context that enables the rendering process to access more information it needs for rendering. The header works well for global navigation but I wanted to add a way to navigate between the blog articles.At the moment we have a h...

A page context for a header

The last milestone improved the blog generation situation significantly. A model on which I can operate has certain advantages I do not want to miss. After writing the article I refactored the website model a bit further to separate reading from disk and model objects more. There is no microdown page in the model anymore because it is converted to pillar and that should be the central page model.With th...

A website model

After the last milestoneon-to-number-2.html) of creating this blog I've chosen a simple approach of page generation. Files in a raw/_ folder are recursed and produced directly into the output directory as HTML. This is straightforward but not what is helpful in the long run. I want this library to be flexible and extensible.As an object oriented programmer what do we do if we want to manage an...

On to #2

Writing the second page is especially exciting if it is about rendering the first page. The first markdown document is present but how to put it on the web? Step by step...Sketching the basic process to render a page I use the simplest markdown possible. # Hello Some text to form a paragraphIn pharo we just put this in a file called hello.md and the rest can be done from the playground.Microdown

Nothing new

This is one of the articles I have written quite a few times in my life. It is the first one to start a blog. So it means a few years have past and I feel the need for a new blog. Well, every single time that I do this it is less about writing articles than to play with a new blog software. Nothing new this time. It is a new software and it is written by myself as mostly. One of the reasons is ...