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.

pdx.st meeting

There is a Portland Smalltalk User Group meeting happening on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 from 7–9pm

Pharo Compiler - Opal

The work on the new compiler ("Opal") is progressing. Read more.

ZincSSO and DropBox

It is now also possible to access DropBox from Smalltalk (Pharo) using Zinc.

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).

Loom

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

ZincSSO update

There is an update for Zinc SSO for Pharo together with two new demos: - http://sso.stfx.eu - http://sso.doit.st See details here.

FluidSynth and Khoros for Pharo

FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer and there is a project called "Khoros" that is based on Pharo to use it. Here is a screenshot and another one. Some details are here.

SmalltalkHub 0.9

SmalltalkHub.com got an upgrade today - nice!

InternalReprogrammability

Martin Fowler writes about "Internal Reprogrammability" in the context of Smalltalk and Emacs.

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.

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.

Jun for Smalltalk

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

Pharo Finder Tricks

Ben shares some tricks about the Pharo Finder tool.

Oak - distributed persistence using Smalltalk

Göran writes about Oak - a project for Smalltalk to make use of Riak for distributed and easy object persistence.

Fuel 1.8.1

There is a new Fuel release now ready for many image versions: Pharo 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.0 Squeak 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 Read more here.