Friday, June 28, 2013

Playing with Cairo and Athens in upcoming Pharo 3.0

The next Pharo version (Pharo 3.) which is in preparation now has Athens and Cairo integrated for better graphics. If you want to play with it just read this.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Monday, June 24, 2013

Redline Smalltalk on JavaOne

RedlineSmalltalk will be presented at JavaOne JVM Languages track - CON7805 in SanFrancisco (September 22–26, 2013).

Friday, June 21, 2013

Custom icon themes for Pharo / Eclipse icons

As you may know you can change the UI theme in Pharo.

Just click "System" - "Settings" to open the settings browser and select the user interface in the appearance section. Beside the "Pharo" theme there are also themes called "Vistary" (if you like Windows) or "Watery"/"Watery2" (if you are used to Mac).

You can even implement own themes (as Doru demonstrates with his "White theme").

In the upcoming Pharo 3.0 you can even provide an own custom icon theme.Esteban demonstrates this with this goodie that allows Pharo to look like Eclipse since it uses the same icons as the Eclipse Java IDE.

                   

Click on the screenshot images to zoom. Very useful if you want to show someone fluent in Java the wonderful world of Smalltalk.

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Better rewriting rule tool

There is a GSoC Project to provide a better rewriting rule tool. If you are interested you can follow its progress on this blog or find the code here.

Monday, June 17, 2013

Presenty

Presenty is a user interface framework for Pharo based on MVP (Model view presenter). Read more about it on Denis blog. Code is on SmalltalkHub.

Friday, June 14, 2013

STIC 13 - VA Smalltalk Roadmap

First video recorded by James from this months "STIC 13" conference, Wigwam resort, Phoenix Arizona (June 9-12). Expect more to come in the next days ...

Barcodes in Smalltalk

Didnt know Barcodes are so easy to implement in Smalltalk. So I started with EAN13 barcode together with unit tests.

Project lives on: http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~TorstenBergmann/Barcode

You can also load it using the config browser in Pharo 2.0 now. It is already usable - thanks to the power of Pharo.

Short Guide:

 To instantiate: BarcodeEAN13 value: '2109876543210'
You can get the binarySequence of a barcode:

(BarcodeEAN13 value: '2109876543210') binarySequence


calcuate the checksum (last digit):

 (BarcodeEAN13 value: '2109876543210') computeChecksum


 or visualize the barcode:

  BarcodeEAN13 example asForm asMorph openInWorld


 or to write to a file:

   PNGReadWriter putForm: BarcodeEAN13 example asForm onFileNamed: 'sample.png'


  Now includes EAN8 as well

Units in Smalltalk

I uploaded a "ConfigurationOfUnits" to the MetaRepoForPharo20. With this the "Units" framework is easily loadable from the Pharo 2.0 config browser.

Here are some examples from the Unit framework:

(10km + 10km) gives you 20km

You can also convert easily

  (10km + 24m) as: 1m

gives you  10024 metres.

It is also simple to compare:

  1hour < 10 seconds

which gives you false.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Log4s for Pharo

Log4s - a logging framework for Smalltalk was open sourced with MIT license by Instantiations. It runs on Pharo 2.0.

Some details about it can be found in this presentation.

libsodium Binding for Pharo and Squeak

libsodium ( a portable shared-library version of the NaCl cryptography library) can now be used from Pharo and Squeak. Read more.

Magritte for Morphic

Magritte is a framework allowing you to easily build seaside apps by adding meta informations to domain classes that can be used to easily build the UI.

Now there is also support for Morphic available. Just watch the video.

Sunday, June 09, 2013

Friday, June 07, 2013

Web with Pharo Conference 6 June 2013 @ Lille

The program from yesterdays Pharo web conference is already on twitter:


Lets see when the first videos appear on the web.

Thursday, June 06, 2013

Tektronix Smalltalk Document Archive

This page contains annotated links to primary documents related to the development of Smalltalk products at  Tektronix in the 1980′s. 

Amber Smalltalk on the iPhone

Sebastian Sastre is playing with Amber - so here is Amber Smalltalk running on the iPhone. Click the image to enlarge.

Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Sunday, June 02, 2013

SourceCity is OpenSource now

SourceCity is a 3D visualization tool for analyse object-oriented systems. It is now OpenSource with MIT License! Read more.