[Cuis] A formal presentation to the list

[Casey Ransberger]

Good to meet you! I'm in Seattle, Washington in the USA. Not terribly far from Ken as it happens. 

I did the main work around visual themes in Cuis, the original taskbar (which has since been replaced with something much nicer) and an odd little thing for moving assets in and out of the image called ContentPack. I also did some work to update our icons.

In the future I look forward to contributing to the Morphic 3 effort, and to help continue Juan's earlier work with mobile devices. 

I was the second committer to Cuis (after Juan) and I must say that it's been a real joy to watch the community grow. 

It's a wonderful system. I think probably the strongest evidence that Juan's approach has been successful is that we were able to actually add features at the same time as removing classes and methods. Having a smaller, more manageable core opens up possibilities like this.

Another part of this which is important to me is the idea that "the code is the curriculum," that the best way to make a complex system easy to understand and learn is to include only the highest quality code we can imagine, and avoid unnecessary complexity (or "complication") wherever possible. 

Glad to have you on the list, Ignacio!

--Casey

> On Dec 7, 2013, at 5:53 AM, nacho <0800nacho at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My name is Ignacio (aka "nacho"). I'm a smalltalker apprentice, I live in
> Buenos Aires, Argentina.
> I came to Cuis from Squeak's homepage.
> Instantly get identified with Juan's observations, thoughts and reflections.
> It was like reading what I expect from a simple, powerful and personal
> development system.
> Cuis is amazing. Maybe it does not have Seaside, Roassal, Athens, etc. But
> that simplicity of only one person knowing all the aspects of the system is
> invaluable.
> I work in a company and most of the software I need it's developed by me, so
> knowing the system deep it's something very important for me. And build from
> there.
> Thanks Juan for developing such a wonderful Smalltalk environment.
> Best regards
> Nacho
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> Nacho
> Smalltalker apprentice.
> Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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