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

Thursday, May 28, 2015

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.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Pharo on LinkedIn

There is a Pharo group on LinkedIn.

Pharo on Raspberry Pi video

I made a video about it:

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

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.

Monday, May 25, 2015

Pharo4 getting started tips

Some Pharo 4 Getting-Started Tips.

DLS 2015

11th Dynamic Languages Symposium 2015 has a call for papers.

My Smalltalk

The Smalltalk on Rails project has been replaced by "My Smalltalk". Another Smalltalk that is written on top of JavaScript.

Smalltalk Reflections #14

Episode 14 on Coding Style

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Seaside meets Mustache

Tired of writing all HTML in Seaside using methods. Then just combine Seaside with Mustache - saves you some time in the first place and later you can convert to messages and refactor the way you like.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

ICSEconf tool demo video on Vidi in Pharo

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Smalltalk Reflections episode 13 - an Interview with John O'Keefe from Instantiations

The Smalltalk Reflections podcast episode 13 is up - An Interview with John O'Keefe from Instantiations.

ARM Cog progress

Tim can now run the ARM cog/spur system on a Pi 2. Read about the progress they made.

Scripting with Pharo

as demonstrated by Pierce.

Monday, May 18, 2015

Osmocom and Pharo

Osmocom (Open Source Mobile Communication) is a collection of Free Software / Open Source Software projects in the area of mobile communications. There is also some activity in the Pharo space for it with an own Osmocom team on SmalltalkHub with several projects like GSM, SMPP, TCAP, ...

Pharo HoneyGinger on CI

HoneyGinger is a fluid dynamics simulator and visulalizer based on the SPH method written in Pharo. There is now a CI job for it.

Sunday, May 17, 2015

NBSQLite3 Online Backup

is described by Pierce here.

Portfolio management with Quuve

written in Pharo. Here is a video about it. Read more for the details.

Poppy with Phratch

Here is a video of a project to connect and to control Poppy with Phratch. Phratch is a Pharo port of Scratch.

System Monitoring for Pharo Images

explained by Norbert. Code is on SmalltalkHub.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

C.H.I.P. with Smalltalk

The C.H.I.P (also known as the 9$ computer) will ship with Scratch - and therefore Smalltalk. Nice!

Playing with Smalltalk and Pharo

There is a newbee playing with Smalltalk and Pharo. See here and here. Nice to see how others find out what we know and do for years. He might soon become shocked when he finds out that he is still at the tip of the iceberg ;)