Pharo: Objects at your fingertips

A new presentation for those who know OOP but not Pharo is available.

Dead simple intro to Metacello

Read more.

Pharo is yours

Pharo is yours presentation from Smalltalks 2013 conference.

Moose 4.9

Moose 4.9 is released. It now uses Roassal completely (Mondrian is removed).

Kontolino Seaside App

Another online application based on Seaside web framework goes live: Kontolino. Joachim can tell you more.

Smalltalk Devroom at FOSDEM2014

Again this year there is a Smalltalk Devroom at FOSDEM2014. Read the Call for Participation

Advanced Reflection in Pharo

Slides of the "Advanced Reflection in Pharo" lecture from Marcus Denker

Scratch for Arduino

Nice - there is a Scratch for Arduino

Beyond changes files ...

Epicea - an advanced way of recording code changes than the current ".changes" mechanism. Read more

Roassal 3D lights

Roassal 3d supports different modeling of lights. Screenshots here.

PV is choosing Pharo Smalltalk

Another project that agreed on using Pharo Smalltalk for its future.

Pharo Shop online

There is a new Pharo shop online. Go shopping if you like.

Pharo and RaspberryPi

Running Pharo on RaspberryPi is slowly progressing ... there is now also a CI job to build the Stack VM (non JIT/non Cog version). Lets see when it is ready ...

Mustache templates for Pharo

Mustache is a popular templating engine that is supported in many programming languages. Now there is also a Pharo port from Norbert.

Bootstrap for Seaside3 project (Release 0.1.0)

I published the "Bootstrap for Seaside" project and announced it on the Pharo and Seaside lists.

Features are:

• nearly feature complete regarding components (Nav, Navbar, Jumbotron, Buttons, Alarms, Layouts, ...)
• uses the latest Bootstrap libraries (http://getbootstrap.com)
• covered by more than 160 tests
• completed with an example browser that shows Bootstrap components and according Smalltalk code
• available at STHub (http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~TorstenBergmann/Bootstrap)
• documented (see mentioned project website on STHub) with docu support for PharoOnlineHelp and catalog
• controlled by CI (https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/Bootstrap/)
• easily loadable using config browser in Pharo 2.0

You can easily load it in a fresh Pharo 2.0 as "Bootstrap" from the config browser. It loads Seaside3

as a dependency. After loading evaluate

  ZnZincServerAdaptor startOn: 8080 

to start the webserver and go to http://localhost:8080/bootstrap to browse the samples. Here are some screenshots, click to enlarge:

   

Feel free to use it for your next Pharo/Seaside/Bootstrap based web project