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Monday, May 13, 2013

Amber Smalltalk progressing

The Helios IDE of Amber Smalltalk is progressing. Read more.

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Suggestions in Pharo 3.0

The upcoming Pharo 3.0 provides "suggestions" in the code editor. Here is a demo video.

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High-Level Musical Concepts in µO

There is a new paper available about Musical concepts represented in Smalltalk code.

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Monday, May 06, 2013

Bootstrap

Using ObjectSpaces one can bootstrap a Smalltalk system ... read more.

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Sunday, May 05, 2013

Kinematic Templates in Smalltalk

The Kinematic Templates interaction technique suggests adjusting the user's mouse input to it tends to match a drawing template. That allows the user to draw in free-hand mode and obtain a "beautified" version of it's hand drawing.

There is an implementation for Pharo. Read more or watch the video or read the paper.

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Redline ST IntelliJ plugin

There is now a preview video for the IntelliJ IDEA Redline Smalltalk plugin available.

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Gnome2 look for VW

A look redesign for VisualWorks matching Gnome2 is now available.

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Experiments with ObjectSpaces

Experiments with ObjectSpaces.

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Saturday, May 04, 2013

Your own SmalltalkHub

If you want to implement a feature in SmalltalkHub then just use your own private SmalltalkHub instance to implement.

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Friday, May 03, 2013

Gemstone

Leaving VMWare Gemstone is now independent again moving Smalltalk products forward:

http://gemtalksystems.com

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BabyMock 1.0

BabyMock is a visual mock object library for Pharo Smalltalk. Read more here or read the docu on SmalltalkHub.

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Thursday, May 02, 2013

Amber Smalltalk Helios IDE with integrated documentation

The new Helios IDE for Amber Smalltalk now provides integrated documentation.
Nice!

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files.pharo.org

The Pharo fileserver got a new interface: http://files.pharo.org

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Creating Time-based One-time Passwords with Pharo

Nice article about creating Time-based One-time Passwords with Pharo.

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Elasticsearch with Smalltalk

Elasticsearch claims to be a "flexible and powerful open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud". There is now a Pharo binding available for it from Paul.

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Sqnappy - a Squeak/Pharo binding of the snappy compressor library

Snappy is a compression/decompression library. Its does not provide best compression - but is very fast. Now there is a Squeak/Pharo binding to the compressor library available. Read more here.

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ESUG 2013 Call for Participation

You can find more infos about this years ESUG on James blog or from Stefs initial post.

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Scratch conference 2013

There is a scratch conference (Citilab Barcelona) running 25-27 July, 2013

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