TY - JOUR A1 - Rein, Patrick A1 - Taeumel, Marcel A1 - Hirschfeld, Robert T1 - Making the domain tangible BT - implicit object lookup for source code readability JF - Design Thinking Research N2 - Programmers collaborate continuously with domain experts to explore the problem space and to shape a solution that fits the users’ needs. In doing so, all parties develop a shared vocabulary, which is above all a list of named concepts and their relationships to each other. Nowadays, many programmers favor object-oriented programming because it allows them to directly represent real-world concepts and interactions from the vocabulary as code. However, when existing domain data is not yet represented as objects, it becomes a challenge to initially bring existing domain data into object-oriented systems and to keep the source code readable. While source code might be comprehensible to programmers, domain experts can struggle, given their non-programming background. We present a new approach to provide a mapping of existing data sources into the object-oriented programming environment. We support keeping the code of the domain model compact and readable while adding implicit means to access external information as internal domain objects. This should encourage programmers to explore different ways to build the software system quickly. Eventually, our approach fosters communication with the domain experts, especially at the beginning of a project. When the details in the problem space are not yet clear, the source code provides a valuable, tangible communication artifact. KW - Source Code Readability KW - Domain Objects KW - StackOverflow KW - Squeak KW - Custom Writable Class Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-319-60967-6 SN - 978-3-319-60966-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60967-6_9 SP - 171 EP - 194 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Beckmann, Tom A1 - Hildebrand, Justus A1 - Jaschek, Corinna A1 - Krebs, Eva A1 - Löser, Alexander A1 - Taeumel, Marcel A1 - Pape, Tobias A1 - Fister, Lasse A1 - Hirschfeld, Robert T1 - The font engineering platform T1 - Eine Plattform für Schriftarten BT - collaborative font creation in a self-supporting programming environment BT - kollaborative Schriftartgestaltung in Einer selbsttragenden Programmierumgebung N2 - Creating fonts is a complex task that requires expert knowledge in a variety of domains. Often, this knowledge is not held by a single person, but spread across a number of domain experts. A central concept needed for designing fonts is the glyph, an elemental symbol representing a readable character. Required domains include designing glyph shapes, engineering rules to combine glyphs for complex scripts and checking legibility. This process is most often iterative and requires communication in all directions. This report outlines a platform that aims to enhance the means of communication, describes our prototyping process, discusses complex font rendering and editing in a live environment and an approach to generate code based on a user’s live-edits. N2 - Die Erstellung von Schriften ist eine komplexe Aufgabe, die Expertenwissen aus einer Vielzahl von Bereichen erfordert. Oftmals liegt dieses Wissen nicht bei einer einzigen Person, sondern bei einer Reihe von Fachleuten. Ein zentrales Konzept für die Gestaltung von Schriften ist der Glyph, ein elementares Symbol, das ein einzelnes lesbares Zeichen darstellt. Zu den erforderlichen Domänen gehören das Entwerfen der Glyphenformen, technische Regeln zur Kombination von Glyphen für komplexe Skripte und das Prüfen der Lesbarkeit. Dieser Prozess ist meist iterativ und erfordert ständige Kommunikation zwischen den Experten. Dieser Bericht skizziert eine Plattform, die darauf abzielt, die Kommunikationswege zu verbessern, beschreibt unseren Prototyping-Prozess, diskutiert komplexe Schriftrendering und -bearbeitung in einer Echtzeitumgebung und einen Ansatz zur Generierung von Code basierend auf direkter Manipulation eines Nutzers. T3 - Technische Berichte des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts für Digital Engineering an der Universität Potsdam - 128 KW - smalltalk KW - squeak KW - font rendering KW - font engineering KW - prototyping KW - Smalltalk KW - Squeak KW - Schriftrendering KW - Schriftartgestaltung KW - Prototyping Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-427487 SN - 978-3-86956-464-7 SN - 1613-5652 SN - 2191-1665 IS - 128 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Freudenberg, Bert A1 - Ingalls, Dan A1 - Felgentreff, Tim A1 - Pape, Tobias A1 - Hirschfeld, Robert T1 - SqueakJS A Modern and Practical Smalltalk that Runs in Any Browser JF - ACM SIGPLAN notices N2 - We report our experience in implementing SqueakJS, a bitcompatible implementation of Squeak/Smalltalk written in pure JavaScript. SqueakJS runs entirely in theWeb browser with a virtual file system that can be directed to a server or client-side storage. Our implementation is notable for simplicity and performance gained through adaptation to the host object memory and deployment leverage gained through the Lively Web development environment. We present several novel techniques as well as performance measurements for the resulting virtual machine. Much of this experience is potentially relevant to preserving other dynamic language systems and making them available in a browser-based environment. KW - Smalltalk KW - Squeak KW - Web browsers KW - JavaScript Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/10.1145/2661088.2661100 SN - 0362-1340 SN - 1558-1160 VL - 50 IS - 2 SP - 57 EP - 66 PB - Association for Computing Machinery CY - New York ER -