Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Marea: Swapping Objects

A new paper was published on Marea, an object graph swapper for Smalltalk. Read more here or directly go to the PDF.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Smalltalk and CouchDB

If you want to develop an application with Smalltalk (Pharo) and CouchDB, then continue reading this paper.

It includes a port of the Mustache web template library which is easy to use if you work with JSON. Look here for a syntax example.

Code lives on SS3 and will soon move over to SmalltalkHub (at least the project is there already, still empty).

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Loom

There is another new tool from ObjectProfile called "Loom - Threads Monitor Tool" which is available for Pharo and VisualWorks.

Monday, January 07, 2013

AsmJIT

Want to work with assembler even in high level languages? Then have a look at "asmjit" - a complete x86/x64 JIT Assembler for C++ Language. There is a port to Smalltalk at http://www.squeaksource.com/AsmJit.html It is already used in Pharos NativeBoost project.

Sunday, January 06, 2013

TalkFFI

There is an initial release for TalkFFI - a new project to automatically generate the Smalltalk bindings for FFI (here NativeBoost in Pharo) right from the header files.

Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Jun for Smalltalk

The Jun for Smalltalk project (a library to handle 3D graphics and multimedia) has a new version "Jun794" released.

Tuesday, January 01, 2013