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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Play with Arduino and Pharo

In case you want to play with Arduino and Pharo Smalltalk then check out this blog post.

Also note that since the VM packaged with the 1.3 one click image from the pharo-project.org download has a bug when using FFI package you should use the latest Cog VM as it is also described here.

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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

FOSDEM Report

There are photos, a short report and a presentation from the FOSDEM Smalltalk meeting available.

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Kiwi for Smalltalk

Kiwi is a Behaviour-Driven development tool inspired by Cucumber based on Pharo. Read more.

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Friday, February 03, 2012

A cave built in Smalltalk

Nice.

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Smalltalk and Git

Want to use Git versioning system with Smalltalk code? Then read more here.

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Pharo sprint in Brussels

There is a Pharo sprint in Brussels on Feb 4th. Read more.

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Monday, January 16, 2012

SqueakSource down

SqueakSource is often down, this time due to a network error.
But there is help by using a mirror.

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DrGeo running on Pharo running on iPad

And DrGeo is running on Pharo - and Pharo is running on iPad. The result is shown here.

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Scratch running on Pharo running on Android

So Scratch is running on Pharo - and Pharo is running on Android. The result is shown here.

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Amber Smalltalk 0.9.1 is out!

Significance of 1.1.1753

When working in IT you often have "magic" numbers or dates. Remember the year 2000 bug (Y2K)?

One interesting date is is 1.1.1753 - which is a limit in SQL-Server. Interesting to know.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Smalltalk/X tour

There is now a "Guided tour on Smalltalk/X (Part 2) video available.

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