AWS SDK for Smalltalk and Elastic Transcoder

According to this tweet the AWS SDK for Smalltalk now supports Elastic Transcoder

Open Exchange Rates

Pharo Wrapper for the Open Exchange Rates API

SqueakJS JavaScript bridge

Didnt notice (until today) that SqueakJS has a JavaScript bridge allowing you to call JavaScript from Squeak running in your browser. Nice!

BTW: when it does not work when you visit the page first time, then just reload the page. Bert already has a bug for this.

Dolphin Smalltalk 7

Dolphin Smalltalk is a nice Smalltalk System for Windows. Version 7 will be available today and it will be fully open source with MIT license on GitHub. Read more.

The sources for both the image and the virtual machine will be available.

For those who do not know it:
Dolphin is a Smalltalk system for Windows provided by Andy Bower and Blaire McGlashan from www.object-arts.com. The article from BitwiseMag gives an overview.

The existing Dolphin 6.2 codebase was brought by Andy Bower now under Git and compiles completely under VisualStudio Community 2013. This is a new version, Dolphin 7, that is modelled off the previous X6.1 Professional Edition (although you can choose to build Dolphin Community Edition from it if you like).

Spur is fast

Spur is fast! Read more.

SmallWorlds

SmallWorlds is a Smalltalk text adventure framework. It was originally developed in Dolphin Smalltalk and is now ported to Pharo. To try out:

Gofer new
    url:'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/ericvm/Smallworlds/main';
    package: 'ConfigurationOfSmallworlds';
    load.

((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfSmallworlds) project version:'0.3') load.

where 0.3 is the current version and then

(AdventureShell world: (CDGameWorld new)) openWithSpec.

ESUG 2015 Report

from Niall Ross

Pharo for Cirela.org

cirela.org develops solutions for resilience to disasters and climate change. Visualizations are important in this area. They use Pharo for that as this picture shows.

RDBMS support survey for Pharo

Read about the results.

Cog 64-bit Spur VM progress

Now Eliot Miranda has Cog 64-bit Spur x64 VM evaluating 3+4 correctly on Mac OS X.
Very nice!

TinyBlog with Pharo

A new tutorial on building a blog with Pharo - so far only in french.

Another video on Pharo MacroRecorder

Douglas Crockford on Smalltalk

"Smalltalk is the best designed programming lang in the history of programming languages."

I agree and that is the reason for this blog.

OopluCon 2016 - A Day for the Smalltalk Programming Language and its Friends

A Day for the Smalltalk Programming Language and its Friends: Sunday 10 April 2016 8am - 4pm in San Francisco, USA.

Pharo: Migration to Spur VM

Pharo community is preparing the transition to Spur VM. Exciting times to get an even faster MIT licensed open source full object oriented system. Some more infos here.

Pharo full-time engineer(s)

Want to work as Pharo engineer, then look at these job descriptions:

 - Pharo Engineer, Infrastructure
 - Pharo Engineer, IoT

Next steps in a keyboard driven Smalltalk IDE

new video on Vimeo.

CableExpertise

CableExpertise - another new online Software with Pharo inside. This time for monitoring IP & HFC-Networks

PharoDays 2016

PharoDays 2016 in Belgium.

CollPhir

There is a product called "Collphir" based on Smalltalk. It is developed in Cologne in Germany and they are looking for Smalltalk developers. I like the ballon on the http://collphir.de page

Smalltalk Advents Calendar 2015

There is a japanese Smalltalk Advents Calendar.

Material Design Lite

for Seaside is avilable. You can now style your seaside application to look like Google MDL.

Singleton variations in Pharo

explained in a blog post.

Pharocloud OS

Mike published his build scripts to package Pharo application as a bootable ISO:

   http://os.pharocloud.com/

This was used as a base for PharoNOS.

What if Clippy Would Criticize Your Code?

New slides about the Quality assistent tool in Pharo. Nice!

Pharo macro recorder

MacroRecorder, a tool to provide support for composing custom transformations in Pharo. The developer can record a sequence of code transformations and then replay this sequence in other similar code locations. Load it from catalog browser in Pharo 5.

Read more and check out the video:

Remote debugger in Pharo for Pharo (progress)

Remote systems exploration with the existing tools in Pharo. Work in progress but already nice to read about it and look at the initial results:

VA Smalltalk 8.6.2

is now available.

Objects all the way down

More people find out about Smalltalk

Breakpoints and Watchpoints in Pharo 5

In recent images of Pharo 5 beta Breakpoints and Watchpoints are integrated.

Automata project

Automata project from Mike Filonov (from pharocloud.com) to write workflow automation scripts for microservices

• https://github.com/mikefilonov/automata (The project)
• https://github.com/mikefilonov/automata-example (Example)
• https://github.com/mikefilonov/restannouncer (REST announcer)

Project GeekO

A project from students from Arizona State University using Pharo - Visualizing Tweets: https://sites.google.com/a/asu.edu/project-geeko/

Project is located on GitHub.

Twisty

A newtext framework called "Twisty" was announced for Pharo

Twisty is text implementation based on active state idea. In this library text instances announce any change which happens with it. Due to this behavior Twisty provides cursors and layout objects which state are automatically restored after text changes. It is simplified implementation of text tools which operate on single text instance

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2015

is now available here.

Pharo RDBMS Support Survey

Esteban Maringolo runs survey on Pharo RDBMS Support. Please complete it and share it with whom you consider relevant.

TwitterAPI for Smalltalk

Smalltalk wrapper for Twitter's REST API with Pharo as the reference platform provided by Bracken Spencer. Project location and description is on SmalltalkHub.

PhysicalEtoys Accessibility

PhysicalEtoys (based on Squeak Smalltalk) now has eye tracking capabilities.

Live translation VDM-SL into Smalltalk

The Vienna Development Method (VDM) is one of the longest-established formal methods for the development of computer-based systems.

The VDM Specification Language (VDM-SL) can be lively translated into Smalltalk as this video using Pharo proves:

PharoJS progress

"The new test framework is out. Now, the same test case can run on multiple web browsers." found on twitter.

RenoirST slides from Smalltalks2015

First slides from Smalltalks2015 conference: RenoirST

ChronosManager

A nice example on custom UIs in Pharo using Morphic.

 

QualityAssistant V2.0 Update

QualityAssistant V2.0 Update is now included in Pharo 5.0 beta. Read about the changes.

AutomaticScaling In Roassal

Smalltalks2015

conference just started. Interesting talks - read more.

Call with David Ungar

Smalltalk on Windows phone

Smalltalk is portable and runs nearly everywhere.

Even within your browser or on a small windows phone as this picture proves.

QuickAccess in Pharo

A new small tool that I wrote, read more or check out the video:

OopluCon 2016

OopluCon 2016, San Francisco

A Day for the Smalltalk Programming Language and its Friend. Read more, also some more details here.

Aida 6.6 now runs also in newest Squeak 5

Janko Mivšek updated the Aida 6.6 release also for latest Squeak 5.

RenoirSt 2.0.0

A new release 2.0.0 of RenoirST - a framework to handle CSS with Pharo.

The case of Pharo and Moose

The 8th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering was held in Pittsburg during 25-27 October 2015.

There was a keynote from Stéphane Ducasse entitled: "What's the value of an end user? Platforms and Research: The case of Pharo and Moose".

It summarizes a little bit what has been achieved so far with Pharo, although it does not include all the community efforts. Here are the 171 slides

Mondrian in action

Mondrian - Agile visualization in action is now uploaded to Vimeo as a video.

Early Squeak files

Pharo Smalltalk and Cuis Smalltalk have their roots in Squeak Smalltalk. Squeak itself was based on the open sourced Apple Smalltalk. You can find some of the original Mac files used in the early days of Squeak here.

QualityAssistant V2.0 Release candidate

Version 2 of QualityAssistant brings some core changes of critics handling. There is a release candidate for Pharo 5 already. Read more.

Towards Moldable Development Tools

a presentation from SplashCon 

Working with Pharo on the Raspberry Pi

I wrote a short article on Medium on how to setup the Piwith a touch screen and Pharo. Hope one or the other might be interested.

Roassal2 in Pharo

Another nice video:

Robulab + PhaROS

A PhaROS driver for the Robulab. Try it out with your robot and Pharo.

CalipeL

a benchmarking tool for Smalltalk/X and Pharo. Nice!

filetreeCI

A lightweight tool for testing Squeak/Smalltalk projects on Travis CI

Unix Command availability in Pharo

A small utility that can determine if a command is available from the command line. Written for Pharo.

  https://github.com/juliendelplanque/commandavailability

Smalltalk Meetup in Zürich: Nov 10, 2015

Smalltalk Meetup in Zürich: Nov 10, 2015. Read more.

Pharo Sprint at Oct 23

University of Chile (PLEIAD laboratory) is organizing Pharo Sprint at Oct 23. Read more

Agile TweetViz

Sprint2 Demo - Agile TweetViz (Team Technocrats, ASU) using Pharo, Moose and Roassal:

New brick preview

Another preview on Brick which is a visual library on top of Bloc (future Morphic replacement in Pharo).

ObjectStudio 8.7 and VisualWorks 8.1

New versions of Cincom Smalltalk are available. Read more.

Smalltalks 2015 keynote speakers

John Brant, Damien Cassou, and Clément Béra. Read more.

GemStone/S 64 Bit 3.2.10 release

A new version is available.

ST-80 on Hatari

Hatari is an emulator, Udo used it to run Smalltalk-80

MathEx 0.3 is out

Generate Latex math code from Pharo - version 0.3

Pharo based ATM like device

CodeWeek 2015 – Squeak and Etoys

SAP Innovation Center is running a Europe Code Week 2015

Vancouver Island CampSmalltalk in November

Vancouver Island Smalltalkers have decided to have a small CampSmalltalk again, November 6-8th. Read more.

Reviving Smalltalk-78

Running Smalltalk History with Smalltalk 78: test it in your webbrowser and read the PDF.

Smarter Critics: First Steps

Yuriy Tymchuk is working on Smarter Critics for Pharo:

Smalltalk at Codemash in January

There is a Codemash session about Smalltalk in January (Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio )

Roassal2 visualizations in VW

A new video:

Logoot - P2P collaborative editing system

A peer-to-peer collaborative editing system based on Trantor.

Trantor

A (work in progress) peer2peer solution for Pharo. Nice

Seeking a Smalltalker for a PhD on Multi-Robot Systems

Want to work with Pharo? Noury Bouraqadi is looking for a PhD student to work on multi-robot exploration and mapping.

Smalltalk vs JavaScript

Richard Eng continues his Smalltalk series with "Smalltalk vs JavaScript".

In my opinion even when JavaScript is not optimal it is highly dynamic as well and a lot can be done with it. It might become the next assembly layer to stay portable (WebAssembly, asm.js and EmScripten can be used as target). We all know that the web grows and there are more devices where you can run on with JS out of the box. And yes: Amber and PharoJS are interesting projects for this as well.

For sure emulation/virtualization technology will increase in the future: you can already boot Linux in a browser, even with network support. You can also run a whole Smalltalk environment in your browser like with SqueakJS or Amber.

Pharo Sprint October 23

Pharo sprint / Moose dojo Friday, 23th October, starting at 10:00am. (Local Time Lille). Read more.

Nao Writes Arbitrary Words with Pharo

Pharo and ROS to make Nao write arbitrary words: read more.

Windows support for GitFileTree

is now working. If you want to try look here.

Variables in Pharo 5

Variables in Pharo 5: Slides and video:

Using Pharo to Hack Everyday Tasks

A short but nice article.

Roassal 3D

A short preview of Roassal 3D

Pharo on Slack - Invitation

If you want to join Pharo discussions on Slack then register here: http://slack4pharo.trentosur.com

New Scratch version for Raspberry Pi

There's a new version of Scratch for Raspberry Pi: it's faster, and has built-in GPIO support and access to the camera module. Examples are available to help you get started with easy projects using LEDs, sensors and motors, and a beginners' tutorial is on the way. I guess Scratch is the most widely distributed Smalltalk app (written in Squeak Smalltalk)

Pharo halt

"Conditinal Halting in Pharo" - nice and short summary on halting in Pharo.

Pharo workshops at Jazoon

Two workshops about Pharo at Jazoon Tech days:

• "Introduction to Pharo" (details) 
• "Pharo – Hands-on" (details)

One interesting aspect is that Jazoon once was "The international conference on Java technology" and is now labeled as "The Software world besides Java".

Updated Pharo catalog page

http://catalog.pharo.org was updated today so the page is better to use

Pharo for the Software Architect

Pharo provides an excellent platform for the Software Architect. See this video.

Amber maintenance release 0.14.17

Read more if you want to switch over.

Pi Podcast

with Tim Rowledge, known from Squeak Smalltalk VM/development for Scratch.

Grafeo for Pharo 5

Grafeo is a nice Morphic graph editing toolkit by Eiichiro Ito. It forms the basis for Fluo (Video here). It was updated to Pharo 5.

Setup Cuis with Git

A description setting up and starting Cuis using Git and the command line. Read more.

Smalltalk on Code.talks 2015

There is a presentation of a Smalltalk project from Christian Haider (Smalltalked Visuals GmbH) at Code.talks 2015 in Hamburg today. You may know him from his SmallCharts project and the PDF4Smalltalk open source PDF library for Smalltalk.

Pharo 5 Reflectivity

Lots of progress on the Pharo 5.0 Reflectivity project…

• Reflectivity: AST Link Annotation Infrastructure
• Reflectivity: Tiny progress of the day: MetaLink
• Reflectivity: Progress-for-Breakpoints
• Reflectivity: simple #before and #after links working
• Reflectivity: Support for primitive methods
• Reflectivity: Links on Block creation vs. execution
• Reflectivity: Links on Literal Variables
• Reflectivity: Links on Slots

Kendrick Book

There is more documentation for Kendrick (which is built on top of Pharo) - the Kendrick book. Nice!

Explora in Pharo

Explora is a visualisation tool for the analysis of multiple metrics of software corpora. It includes the PolyGrid, a novel visualisation technique that encourages users to detect patterns among metrics. Done in Pharo Smalltalk.



The project is on STHub, either on:
  http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~merino/Explora or
  http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~merino/Explora2

Bee Smalltalk

The prerelease of Bee Smalltalk from 2014 is still not accessible on GitHub as it was stated in the announcement. So I thought the project is dead. But now a new blog post appeared. Looks like there is still activity. Looking forward in trying out.

Live Robot programming with Pharo

Pharo Touch Demo

Pharo touch demo:

Ephemeric Cloud to a MongoDB hosted at Digital Ocean

Crossconnecting the web with Pharo. Read more.

Keyboard control for a Smalltalk IDE, part 2

another session recorded as video.

L Peter Deutsch and Allan Schiffman

In the 1984 POPL conference there appeared a paper, Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System, by L Peter Deutsch and Allan Schiffman. This paper introduced the first truly modern just-in-time compiler and described several novel implementation techniques, still in widespread use, to improve the performance of object-oriented languages.

Ecstatic

Ecstatic - a static website generator for Pharo based on Pillar.

Validating Metric Thresholds with Developers: An Early Result

This paper reports the first results of an empirical study aimed at validating relative metric thresholds with developers. The study was conducted on 79 Pharo applications and using four source code metrics

Eliots Spur talk on SPLASH 2015

Eliot Miranda is invited to give a talk at SPLASH 2015 in Pittsburgh. He's going to talk about Spur, his latest Smalltalk memory manager, and exaptation in software design, since Spur exapts a couple of key architectural features of fast Smalltalk VMs to provide efficient support for schema evolution and hence live programming.

Fri 23 - Fri 30 October 2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Keyboard controlled code editor

Check out the video.

Jun4Pharo chemistry

Jun4Pharo can now do some Chemistry.

• Reads XYZ files
• Atoms are objects; Each atom knows its own chemical properties such as symbol, atom number, mass, van der waals radius, covalent radius

Pharo Jenkins - query Jenkins servers from Pharo

An API to directly inspect the Jenkins servers from Pharo. Announcement is here and code is here. Nice!

StatsD client

A StatsD client from Holger Freyther. Note that it is AGPLv3 and not the regular MIT.

Livecoding with Pharo 5

can be seen here.

MathEx 0.1 is out

First release of MathEx. Code is here and announcement here.

Smalltalk-talk magazine

Richard Eng created a new Smalltalk magazine on Medium: https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk

DesktopManager in Pharo 5

Phratch 4.1

Phratch 4.1 based on Pharo 4 is here. Read more

Pharo public sprint dates

Pharo public sprint dates in Lille are here

Moose: creating a custom analysis for a Delphi legacy application in 15 minutes

Moose: creating a custom analysis for a Delphi legacy application in 15 minutes. Another video on Vimeo.

TCAP for Pharo

Sysmocom provides a complete TCAP implementation for the OpenSource Smalltalk/Pharo programming environment

Pharo dependencies

Pharo depenency overview: read here and look here and in the report.

Amber example GoogleCharts

Amber Smalltalk example with GoogleCharts published on a Static Resource Pharocloud Appliance  

How to connect Pharo Image to a remote MongoDB appliance in PharoCloud

A new video shows how:

emoji

Smalltalk invented emoji apparently. See here and

searchQuick

an offline text search utility in Pharo 4.0. Read more

Mathex

Mathex: Generating latex math from Pharo. Photo is here.

Ecstatic

Found Ecstatic - the ecstatic site generator for Pharo. Ecstatic uses pillar as its markup language to describe pages, mustache templates to accommodate your content and plugins completely written in Pharo.

Here is some basic info.

Flattr to support Pharo

want to support Pharo - then check Flattr here.

Pillar 1.0.0

A new initial major release Pillar 1.0.0 was announced today.

 It also includes a documentation on "Documenting your Project with Pillar". Read more.

Smalltalks 2010 playlist uploaded

The freshly uploaded playlist of Smalltalks 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCGAAdUizzH349nC5qQrpDyZkcApqacrZ

Dr. Geo 15.09

a new release.

HTTPS configuration for multiple PharoCloud sites

is described in a new article.

Brick for Pharo in Material Design

Brick for Pharo

• Beautiful widgets
• Vectorial rendering
• Material design

 Have a look at: http://gt.moosetechnology.org/brick/

Feedback About SmallLint Rules

The Feedback collected in Pharo about the SmallLint Rules could be seen here.

Camp Smalltalk Portland 2015

photos are here.

Pharo Consortium is growing

The number of consortium members is growing: there is again new gold member. It's a germany company called Projector.

1st iteration of a Mindmapping tool

in Pharo. Read here - Video is here.

WAV support in Pharo

Read about WAV sound support in Pharo.

Publish Smalltalk Image online from Pharo

Nice article on how to publish Smalltalk Image online from Pharo Workspace/Playground to PharoCloud. The shared Smalltalk workspace for this is here.

Smalltalks 2015 invitation

The Fundación Argentina de Smalltalk proudly invites you to one of the premier Smalltalk conferences in the world. Let's meet in Buenos Aires, November 11-13! For more details, see here

FastTable performance

A blog post of FastTable usage with more than 1,2 million of scientific names in one of the most useful bioinformatics curated databases, the NCBI Taxonomy Database.

SmaCC 2.0.5

SmaCC 2.0.5 for Pharo released with JavaScript, Cucumber, Python, CSV, C, C# and Java parsers. Read more here.

Magma 1.5

an OO database from Chris Müller is available in version 1.5.

Continuous Integration Automated Build for your Pharo Application

a Tutorial from Jigyasa for using CI to automate your Pharo application builds.

Design Structure Matrix (DSM) in Roassal

Read more here.

Squeak 5 with Spur is out

Nice: Squeak 5 is out and it is the first of the Squeak / Pharo / Newspeak programming environments that includes the new Spur memory management. Read more.

Twilio-smalltalk for Pharo

I already posted about a Tropo binding for Pharo to work with phones and SMS.

Now there is another option available: a Smalltalk library for communicating with the Twilio REST API (http://twilio.com). The project is hosted on GitHub.

ISO 3166-1 for Pharo

An utility package to deal with ISO 3166-1 countries/country codes in Pharo by Hernan.

Cable eXpertise

Next Pharo success story, this time from Philippe Back.

Woden Tutorial

Ronie start to work on a Woden tutorial

Lightning JSON-RPC

LtJsonRpc is a lightweight JSON-RPC implementation. It only depends on Zinc and JSON packages. You can quickly create JSON-RPC services in a few lines of code. Check out the project on STHub.

Rete

Looks like Udo is working on implementing the Rete algorithm for Pharo in his rete project on STHub.

ESUG2015 Photos

Photos from ESUG 2015

Choosing Smalltalk On Porpoise

A new article on Dolphin Smalltalk.

Amber Alert: We can do mobile apps!

A new article on Medium.com on using Amber Smalltalk and Cordova.

Pharo 5 progress

Read about the progress Pharo 5 already made.

ScrumBoard, part 4

more from Stephan here.

Tabular and XLSX

XLSX import functionality was added to Tabular

k means clustering visualisation with Roassal, Pharo

Smalltalk User Group Hamburg

has a meetup on 30th of July. Read more.

Squeak 4.6

There is a new Squeak version: 4.6 available.

BlueInk

Pharo 5 now also includes a new pretty printer (BlueInk). Read more.

Jun4Pharo texture mapping

A texture mapping demo of Jun4Pharo. The World as a flat texture and the World as a spherical surface.

   

More from Woden

Woden quick demo: parallax mapping



 Woden: Blender exporter

StackBarPlot

StackBarPlot in Roassal. Click here.

Pharo and PostgreSQL in the cloud

Pharo+PostgreSQL" appliance is available at Pharocloud

Ephemeric Cloud

with Pharo using Pharocloud. Read more.

 

The Early History of Smalltalk

available online.

Telescope Tutorial

is here.

Roassal on VW

Although mostly Pharo is used for Roassal development there is also a port for VisualWorks Smalltalk.


 

SendGrid and Pharo

SendGrid API Library to send emails very easily using Smalltalk. A howto is here.

ESUG 2015 Videos

The videos from ESUG 2015 are available.

Pharo and OpenMP

Looks like Pharo's NativeBoost works great with OpenMP. Read more.

Smalltel

Pharo 5 now fully includes Opal Compiler - the old one will be removed. This allows for many nice extensions.

 For instance Ronie Salgado has a small package called "Smalltel" - the name is an abbreviation for Smalltalk string template language. The package provides a class SmalltelCompiler as a subclass OpalCompiler.

There is also a class SmalltelObject overriding the method #compilerClass to return the new compiler class. With the custom compiler one can provide templates with expressions in Smalltalk, a little bit similar to what Java has with Expression Language (EL):

condition: cond value: value
 ^ ByteString streamContents:
<[Here goes a header:
 ${ cond ifTrue: [ }$
  Conditional value: $( value printString )$
 ${ ]. }$
]>

Roassal HTML Exporter

As presented on ESUG 2015:



You can try out yourself: http://objectprofile.com/examples

MultiCity

A new Pharo sucess story: MultiCity.

PharoVX

OpenVX is an open, royalty-free standard for cross platform acceleration of computer vision applications.

Looks like Dmitry Matveev is working on introducing OpenVX in Pharo. According to the SmalltalkHub project page of PharoVX the Khronos reference implementation is supported. The code uses NativeBoost for the binding. He is working on it while at ESUG2015.

Update: it is now available on GitHub https://github.com/dmatveev/pharovx-homepage/blob/master/index.md

Reflection in Pharo 5

Marcus provides his ESUG2015 slides about Reflection in Pharo 5.

Searching XMLs with GTSpotter

As it is easy to extend the moldable Pharo tools it is easy to extend the Spotter search to search through XML files

Roassal Camp Smalltalk Result

Nice results from the Roassal CampSmalltalk. Load the latest Roassal packages if you want to try yourself.

StakePoint Project-Portfolio

StakePoint is a Portfolio Project Management solution that manages resource workloads across multiple projects of an organization through interactive Gantt charts. StakePoint integrates Earned value management, uses a constant critical path model, is compatible MS-Project and introduces matrix type navigation to improve project visibility. Implemented in VisualWorks Smalltalk.

QualityAssistant v1.0 for Pharo

QualityAssistant v1.0 is out. Read more here: https://github.com/Uko/QualityAssistant

You should also not muss the talk on Thursday 2:30pm by Yuriy Tymchuk on ESUG2015.

ESUG 2015 on Twitter

You can following the conference on Twitter using #ESUG15 hashtag,

DynaCase Modeling Platform

That one really rocks:

UnQLite Jx9 Part II

More from Pierce on this topic.

PharoJS

PharoJS is to allow developing and testing apps in Pharo while deploying them on top of a JavaScript engine. It is a general purpose infrastructure. For example, PharoJS can be used to develop client side web applications. It can also be used to support cross-platform mobile apps based on Phone Gap. Code is here, read more here.

An updated docu can be found here.

ESUG 2015

Due to the weather forecast (36-38°), the local organizers decided to move the conference venue to an air-conditioned place

Pharo web deployment

The new Pharocloud pricing plans include SSD disk appliances starting from $2. Nice for Pharo web app deployment!

Pharo OpenAL bindings

Ronie made bindings for OpenAL, a 3D audio library. Read here. Make sure to have your speakers loud when watching the video:

PharoPro

PharoPro - a new offer from the Pharo Consortium. Read more here and here.

Cornucopia Scorecards

Egg rating implemented by Sean using Amber Smalltalk. Read more.

The Power of Moldable Tools in Pharo

In just a few minutes, Pharo's moldable debugger let's us turn a useless error message into a much better format - diffed even!

Thanks to a moldable debugger.

Tired of Ruby - Go Smalltalk

Tired of Ruby - then go Smalltalk.

Email Reply Parser for Pharo

Want to extract the interesting bits of an email reply? Then check out this project for Pharo which is a port of the code GitHub uses to parse mails.

Pharo sprint & Moose dojo

Friday, 10th July, starting at 10:00am at the Inria Lille, Building B, third floor (RMoD offices). Remotely, you can join us on the official IRC channel #pharo on irc.freenode.net server. Read more.

Pharo MacroRecorder

SATToSE is the Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution.

Gustavo Santos demoed his Pharo MacroRecorder there: a tool which would allow the developer to record a sequence of transformations and allow to reapply them later (parameterized)

Here is a picture, here the presentation and here is the code.

Ubuntu Theme for Pharo

styling your Pharo image like Ubuntu with a new theme.

Google speech engine and Pharo

need text to speech from Pharo? There click here.

Morphic ScrumBoard, part 3: WebSocket SVG export

a new video demonstrating the new features of the ScrumBoard built with Pharo.

ESUG 2015, 12th Innovation Technology Awards

Read more.

Vizualising epidemiological Model with Pharos GT Tools

Using GTInspector for vizualising a migration multi-species epidemiological model: see here

A fast table for Pharo

is already in Pharo 5.

Read more.

Yaqe - Yet Another Quake Editor for Pharo

Ronie is working on a Quake style level editor using Woden (World Dynamic Engine for Pharo), a with a user interface similar to the one present in Blender. Video is below and code is here.


 

Example of Recognizer with Pharo

Modern Events Touch and Gestures in Pharo

Interactive Table with Pharo

Interactive table support in Pharo (thanks to the new OS window architecture). Thanks Thales for the sponsoring!

 

Camp Smalltalk Portland 2015

Camp Smalltalk Portland, August 21st through the 23rd: Register here.

ESUG 2015

Conference schedule is here.

Squeak Website

Squeak Smalltalk got a fresh new look on the

 http://squeak.org

website,

MetaBorg

MetaBorg, a framework for building board games. Read more here and browse code here.

Roassal - New Preview for ESUG 2015

ObjectProfile is working hard on new Roassal visualizations. A preview of what will be presented will be found in this video.

Morphic Scrum Board Part 2 - DragPanels

Part 2 on DragPanels

Roundtrip

When I use Eclipse and Java I still like the nice eUML2 AddOn Tools as they allow to define quickly a conceptual model in UML. It's also the only tool I've found for Java that is able to support roundtrip engineering and that allows you to keep close to the code while still doing modeling.

DynaCase for Pharo looks promising but such roundtrip tools are still missing in the Pharo tools universe.

Demo stories

Tudor gave a demo on demoing stories including a demonstration of Spotter. Video is here.

Sonar importer for Moose

an importer for Sonar for Moose platform.

Unified IDE

Lots of new editors for JavaScript appear - Atom, Brackets, ... and now Nuclide.

The web page of the last one tells us that Nuclide is a "A unified IDE". Hey - wake up! It is just a fancy editor - nothing more and I really wonder if these guys have ever see a real unified IDE with browsers, refactoring tools, test runner etc.

Code, Crime, Complexity: Analyzing software with forensic psychology

Nice talk on code, crime and complexity including CodeCity:

Babelsberg/S

allows for Object-Constraint Programming in Squeak. Check it out here (based on Squeak) or read about the JS variant here.

2000 STHub users

SmalltalkHub now has 2000 registered users. Nice.

ARM Cog Spur JIT VM

Eliot provides new Cog VM binaries.

What is cool about it this time: the busy VM developers now added the ARMv5/ARMv6 Cog Spur JIT VM! It has been tested on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian - feel free to help testing also on other ARM based Linux systems.

Read more here and here or just download and try:

• Cog VM ARM (cogspurlinuxhtARM-15.24.3386.tgz)
• Stack VM (stklinuxhtARM-15.24.3386.tgz)
• Stack VM - Spur based (stkspurlinuxhtARM-15.24.3386.tgz)

Note that this is for ARM v5/v6 and v7 systems. And before I forget to mention: if you quickly need a 64bit VM for ARM v8 architecture just send $1,000,000 to Tim

SeSSE - Seaside with Server-Sent Events

SeSSE is a small library for supporting Server-Sent Events (SSE) on Seaside.

Elasticsearch and Smalltalk

Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open source Java search engine that stores data in a structure optimized for language based searches.

Elasticsearch can be used to search all kinds of documents. Just download and run. Here is a short intro on how to run it. If you want to use it from Smalltalk then have a look at this project.

NeoConsole

Sven provides a nice demo that shows how to use his new project NeoConsole, a command line (REPL) interface, to interact with and control a running, headless Pharo image.

The video also shows how to start from scratch, downloading Pharo, installing NeoConsole, running a headless image with the REPL installed in the background. Next, an HTTP server is added to the image and later a specific response is added as well.

Short summary: Pharo is well suited for maintaining cloud and web based applications as it allows live interaction even after deploying.


 

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk

If you havent already you should read it.

Dr. Geo 15.07

is available. Some of the features are shown in pictures here.

EventZoom web application

Another nice Smalltalk web application is http://eventzoom.net - which is currently in beta.

The application displays maps of historical events and is described here. It uses data from WikiData. If you have a Q-ID from Wikidata you can paste the ID and after importing the data the map is automatically generated.

The application is written in Seaside on top of Pharo and is hosted on PharoCloud.

Morphic Scrum board

A Video is here and code is here. To load into your Pharo image just run:

Gofer it 
  smalltalkhubUser: 'StephanEggermont' project: 'Documentation'; 
  package: 'CardsMorphic'; 
  load. 

#CardsApplication asClass open




A4BP

Visually assess Business Processes with A4BP - here is the website. The tool was developed in Pharo.

NanoStrand - Pharo Smalltalk bindings for nanomsg

nanomsg is a simple, fast socket abstraction library that supports many communication patterns ("scalability protocols").

NanoStrand is a gate to the nanomsg world for Smalltalk users. Since there are many language-bindings for nanomsg, integrations with other network programs would be much simpler via NanoStrand.

The project page includes a nice description on how to use it in Pharo, there is also a presentation available.

LRP - Live Robot Programming

A DSL for Life Robot programming using Pharo.

Allows for easy programming as demonstrated here.

Squeak and Pharo in Bloomberg's "What is Code?"

Nice essay! Just read it.

Bulle qui rulle

Music composition with Squeak Smalltalk. Read more.

Multi Agent visualisation with ROASSAL

Multi Agent visualisation with ROASSAL with animation on top of Pharo project.

Smalltalk in The Cloud

There is not only the PharoCloud offer to run Pharo (with Seaside, Zinc, Teapot or other on top) but also CleverCloud who can run Pharo. Read more.

How (Smalltalk) developers spend their time

Nice paper.

A gentle introduction to Amber

A new article on how to get started with Amber Smalltalk: "A gentle introduction to Amber"

Pratt Parser

A Pratt Parser Extension for PetitParser. Read more.

Nagare Logger for Pharo

is here.

CampSmalltal Roassal

on Sunday 12 July. Read more

BetaNine Pharo success story

Sven from belgian BetaNine wrote an article about their customer applications for vehicle tracking. The nice and surprising thing is that he uses my Seaside/Bootstrap project that I started in September 2013.

Cool to see it used for these nice looking apps - and thanks for the reference! It's already mentioned as yet another commercial Pharo success story. We are on the righ track. More to come to shape the future...

ESUG early registration deadline

ESUG early registration deadline is June, 1st. So if you want to be an early bird click here.

Pharo at Tomsk State University

There is an annual students conference at computer science department of Tomsk State University - two of the topics include Pharo:

• Implementation of Book Editor for PillarHub Application
• Developing new collections for Pharo

STON integrated into Pharo 5

While recently Pharo 4 was pushed out of the door the community is really busy to prepare Pharo 5.0 as a next iteration. In update 50072 pushed out today there is now STON support integrated.

STON refers to Smalltalk Object Notation. STON is a lightweight text-based, human-readable data interchange format for class-based object-oriented languages like Smalltalk. It can be used to serialize domain level objects, either for persistency or network transport. As its name suggests, it is based on JSON (Javascript Object Notation). It adds symbols as a primitive value, class tags for object values and references.

If you would like to know more read the STON paper.

Pharo on LinkedIn

There is a Pharo group on LinkedIn.

Pharo on Raspberry Pi video

I made a video about it:

SoundsLike

Soundex, Double Metaphone and NYSIIS algorithms from Robert Jarvis were ported to Pharo by Udo. Project "SoundsLike" is on SmalltalkHub. There is also "Phonet" - a program for context-sensitive phonetic string replacement.

Pharo4 getting started tips

Some Pharo 4 Getting-Started Tips.