In order to dynamically edit content people tend to introduce a lot of complexity by using powerful CMS systems, databases, search engines etc. Moreover, you’ll need to spend significant efforts on maintenance, high availability, for all this stuff.
What if you can just use Markdown and provide a short training course to people? What if you can use Hugo and Github Actions pipelines or similar for publishing?
Literally everything becomes more simple, thus more robust. What power can you gain by using simple text based format like this? Countless amount of tools for editing, processing and automation. Think about this.
I’m always happy to gain a new knowledge, so this time I was putting efforts into Pharo programming course and voila, enjoyed it challenges and got a Certificate of accomplishment.
To define your own format, write down what the reference time would look like formatted your way; see the values of constants like ANSIC, StampMicro or Kitchen for examples. The model is to demonstrate what the reference time looks like so that the Format and Parse methods can apply the same transformation to a general time value.
Namely, you write an example of time date, not just “dd-MM-yyyy” but real date and time using numbers as values.
Here is go example:
01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700
Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006
if we want to print output similar to dd-MM-yyyy we’d specify just
