ESUG 2014 Photos

Photos from European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) 2014 conference can be found here.

Smalltalk news on all sides

While I often blog about news in the open source Smalltalk scene one additionally has to note that the commercial Smalltalk vendors are also playing well. Interesting news from Instantiations about upcoming VASmalltalk and similar news from Cincom about CincomSmalltalk appear regulary on the web. Nice!

VISSOFT 2014

2nd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization is currently held in Victoria, CA. From the twitter posts it looks like the Pharo based agile visualization tools are interesting for the participants.

Smalltalk block translator

Use blocks for parsing. Read more.

Quicksilver - a Framework for Hierarchical Data Analysis in Pharo

Read the paper.

Calling Blender

Calling Blender using Pharo with Ephestos 0.1

PocketCube solved by DijEvolution

Dijkstra shortest path search algorithm can find solution for PocketCube using Pharo. See the video here.

Visualize network latency using Pharo

Visualize network latency using Pharo. Read more here.

 


More infos here.

Bootstrap (V0.12.2) for Seaside

An updates version of Bootstrap (V0.12.2) for Seaside is available. You can easily load it from the Configuration Browser in Pharo 3.0 or the project site.

Beside more tests it features vertical tabs which is a simple wrapper of a component found on the web. 

Look at the online demo for Bootstrap to see how easy one can use them: http://pharo.pharocloud.com/bootstrap/browser/Vertical%20Tabs

DataTables jQuery plugin for Seaside

If you build a web application using Seaside and Pharo, maybe using my Bootstrap wrapper project you might be interested in a good data table plugin to display tabular data.

There is a nice (commercial) jQuery plugin called DataTables. Esteban made it available as a plugin for Seaside now and describes this here.

Saucers 1.5

A nice little game built with Squeak using Morphic.

Pharo Sprint Lille 26th september

see here.

SciSmalltalk v0.14 is released.

Read more here and check the project here.

SortFunctions for Pharo

SortFunctions allow you to easily work with sorting in Smalltalk. Checkout the project at SmalltalkHub where you will also find the docu and examples.

Test Coverage with Hapao

Hapao2 for Pharo is arrived. Read more details here.

Performance enhancement of list updating operation

see here.

Seaside 3.1.3

is released. Read the announcement or browse the change log.

OSMMaps

OSMMaps is a Pharo package to interact with OpenStreetMap. Read more here.

New Release of Essence Sharp: Nīsān-2 (Alpha Build 23)

A new Release of Essence Sharp: Nīsān-2 (Alpha Build 23) is available. Read more.

Invitation to Smalltalks 2014

The Fundación Argentina de Smalltalk (FAST) invites you to the 8th International Conference on Smalltalk Technologies. Read more.

Kontolino demo vide

Kontolino.de - a Seaside Smalltalk application from germany company Objektfabrik is now also demonstrated in a first video:

Pyonkee

A Scratch clone running on iPad, read more here.

Pharo Seaside : Looking at HTTP Traffic

If you want to easily look at the HTTP traffic in your Pharo based Seaside application then just evaluate:

       ZnLogEvent open

This will open an spy on the Zinc announcements. Then start your server using:

     ZnZinServerAdaptor startOn: 8080.

and use the webbrowser to browse your Seaside application. You will now see any HTTP exchange between the client and the server.

The video demonstrates this:

IDE4PLC based on Pharo

A free IDE for Programming PLC's (Programmable Logic Controller) based on Pharo Smalltalk written by Eric Nicolás Pernia from the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes.

Read more on the page site or browse the code on GitHub.

How to run Pharo 3.0 on top of Linux 64 bits

Read more here.

PointerDetective

A small tool to find references to an object visually. Code is on SmalltalkHub.

Also on PharoWeekly.

Reddit.st — In 10 Cool Pharo Classes

Another nice article published by Sven on how to use Pharo, the Seaside web framework and the Glorp ORM together with Postgres DB to create a Reddit.st version.

Read more here.