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!
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
IntelliJ icons in Pharo
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.
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!
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.
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.
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:
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
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.
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.
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.
Project (and more demos) are on SmalltalkHub.
VariableTracker in Pharo
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)
Monday, April 20, 2015
Bitwise Magazine and Pharo
Remember this post from 2005? It was about the "Bitwise Magazine and Smalltalk" - an online magazine from Huw Collingbourne running a series on Smalltalk.
Looks like Huw now found out about Pharo and may start some articles on it as well. Nice!
Friday, April 17, 2015
Development on Pharo 5.0 started
Directly after Pharo 4.0 was released this week the development on Pharo 5.0 started:
- the bugtracker includes a new milestone "Pharo 5.0: 01.04.2016" to mark issues
- there is a new Pharo 5.0 inbox and a Pharo 5.0 repository
- there is a CI job for Pharo 5.0
- the images are provided at http://files.pharo.org/image/50/
- the PharoLauncher allows to download Pharo 5.0, a new launcher image is on CI
- there is also a meta repo for Pharo 5.0 to fill the config browser
- a first integration update #50001 was already done
Feel free to help shaping the future and also make Pharo 5.0 a successful release.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
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Graphs on Maps
Need to map charts and graphs on top of a geographical maps? Then read here and look at the screenshot.
Monday, April 06, 2015
Thursday, April 02, 2015
Canadian Smalltalk Competition
A kickstarter campaign and Canadian software competition for Smalltalk.
Provided by Richard Eng (the man behind the smalltalkrenaissance to promote the use of Smalltalk)
Provided by Richard Eng (the man behind the smalltalkrenaissance to promote the use of Smalltalk)