The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...: April 2015

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

ARM Cog fires up

Interesting to hear from Tim that he managed to compile a Cog virtual machine for ARM. Still work in progress but step by step we will get a fast Squeak and Pharo Cog VM for ARM architecture.

Cool!

Eye candy IntelliJ icons in Pharo are available now. Read more here. If you are on Pharo 4.0 you can download the package from Config browser and then use the settings to switch to this new icon theme.

An Object-Oriented Approach To Algebra System Design

The PDF is here.

Monday, April 27, 2015

TMM Web framework for Pharo Smalltalk

TMM (Teapot, Mustache, Mongo) is a simple to use Web/CRUD framework built on Pharo Smalltalk.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

CORMAS CI job on pharo-contribution

CORMAS - an agent-based simulation framework is currently ported to Pharo.

As of today it is available as a new CORMAS CI job on the continuous integration server (pharo-contribution CI) which is green now as well!

Kendrick on CI

Kendrick is a Domain-Specific Language and Simulation Plaform for mathematical epidemiology modeling.

The Kendrick project now since today has a Kendrick CI job on the pharo-contribution CI server and runs on Pharo 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 with all tests green.

This also means you can easily download it using PharoLauncher.

Dr. Geo (once more)

Exploring a Postgres database with the GTInspector

The video shows a demo of exploring a Postgres DB using the GTInspector. The session includes exploration, SQL querying, creating a chart, and extending the inspector:

QualityAssistant v0.4

is ready.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Roll

Roll is a simple repl for Pharo. Check out the project on STHub.

Aconcagua AddOns

Sean provides some new extensions to Aconcagua. Aconcagua provides a model that represents measures as first class objects.

SqueakSSL moved + Fixes

If you use the SqueakSSL plugin there are some changes:

https://code.google.com/p/squeakssl/ moved to https://github.com/itsmeront

There are also some fixes to the SqueakSSL Plugin:
- Levente Uzonyi's patches to the Linux version
- Marcel Taeumel and Tobias Pape ported this to the OS X and Windows version as well

They also provide new binaries. Read more.

CampSmalltalk Nanaimo 2015

coming up real soon. Read more.

Tekka - Japanese character input system on Pharo/Squeak

Tekka is a modeless Japanese character input system on Pharo / Squeak systems. You can type a Japanese word in a plain alphabet, and then press cmd-j to convert it to Japanese characters using SKK dictionary.

Project (and more demos) are on SmalltalkHub.

VariableTracker is a tool used to collect and analyze information about variables being written during run time in Pharo. It is described in the Bachelor Thesis "Evaluating the dynamic behavior ofSmalltalk applications" by author Roger Stebler (click here for PDF)