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.