Pharo Academic partner program

Pharo community started an academic partner program

Pharo Tutorial - Rediscovering the UX of the legendary HP-35 Scientific Pocket Calculator

Sven provides a nice tutorial for Pharo and a nice appetizer for using Smalltalk.

Pharo and GoogleMaps

By accident I found http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~smaass/GMaps a small project to access google maps from Pharo. Allows you to easily work with Google maps by querying for an address:

|g|
g := GoogleMaps geocode: 'Rue du Bel air, Paris'.
^ g address inspect

or visiting a location in the browser:

|g url|
g := GoogleMaps geocode: 'Rue du Bel air, Paris'.
url := String streamContents: [:s |
 s nextPutAll: 'https://www.google.de/maps/@';
    nextPutAll: g location x asString;
    nextPut: $,;
    nextPutAll: g location y asString;
    nextPutAll: ',16z' 
].
NBWin32Shell shellBrowse: url

Requires NeoJSON, so load this first from configuration browser.

Geopolitical territory in Pharo

Territory is an application made in Pharo to build geopolitical territory, written by Hernan Morales Durand.

Code is here and a screenshot here.

FIFAWorldCup2014

Looks like Hernan started to implement a FIFAWorldCup2014 app.

CodeCity and Spec

Want to combine CodeCity for Pharo with Spec. Then check out this link with a video and the expression to load the code.

LaTeX to Pillar converter

A LaTeX to Pillar converter is provided by Damien.

ZnLogEvents

ZnLogEvents is the new logging mechanism of Zinc HTTP Components, the HTTP framework of Pharo. See how easy it is to build a live updating requests per seconds counter for a server.

Read more here or watch the video.

Beacon - logging engine based on Announcements

Tudor provides "Beacon" - a slim logging engine based on announcements following Svens idea about "logging with objects". Read all the details here

Woden for Pharo

Ronie Salgado is working on OSWindow (support for native Windows) and Woden - a new 3D graphics engine for Pharo. Look at the first results:

Spur progresses

Eliot is moving Spur forward. Read more here and here.

Base62/Base36

Want to encode numbers in short strings in Pharo? Then use these utilities from Norbert. Read more.

Chain for Pharo

Chain is another nice example for the extensibility of the Smalltalk language. It is a simple extension that lets you chain keyword messages without using lots of parentheses.

Playing with live objects in Pharo

Nice introduction to Pharo from Tudor.

BPEL Analyzer

Analyzing BPEL complexity with Pharo. Read more or watch the video:

Refactoring in Pharo

will soon improve. If you have something to contribute (ideas/code) contact Mark Rizun.

2048 game in Pharo too

Looks like the 2048 game now has a Pharo implementation too. Video is here and pictures here and here.