Simulating the Cog VM

A new article from Clément Béra about "Simulating the Cog VM"

Glorp for Pharo

Glorp (the Smalltalk ORM framework) for Pharo was updated

Pharo in use - Sorabito

The largest asian online market place for big machines developed by Sorabito Inc in Pharo

Epicea in Pharo 6

Epicea is now integrated into Pharo 6.

Who uses Smalltalk

A new article from Richard Eng on who uses Smalltalk.

There are many people and projects all over the world who use Smalltalk. And yes it is true that mostly new projects start in more "fashioned" languages like Java. So this is more a question about how well known Smalltalk is and about popularity. There is also this common misbelief that new technologies must be better out of the box. I have some doubts in that - because today many software technologies or languages are very specific, written in a hurry or lack a solid and stable engineering foundation.

My answer to the question on who uses Smalltalk would be much easier: anyone who is interested in clean OO solutions and knowledgable enough to value increased productivity and long term maintainability.

Pharo Newsletter

There is a low traffic “Pharo Newsletter” Mailinglist. If you want to join read here.

Visualize Commit History

for Pharo in Pharo. Read more.

GitRepositoryScanner

A small tool to show local FileTree repositories in GTSpotter, as a way to add them into repositories list. Read more.

Panama Papers: a case for reproducible research, data activism and frictionless data

Want to step into the details of the Panama leak using Pharo? Then continue reading here.

Pharo 64 bit in preparation

Pharo 64 bits image on 64 bits VM running on Mac & Linux. Yay!!! Read more.

Sysmocom

Free Software for Mobile Communication in Pharo. Read more.

HashIds

Generate short unique ids from integers also for Smalltalk. Read more

OpenSmalltalk virtual machine repo

The virtual machine used for open source Smalltalks like Squeak and Pharo is now moved from Subversion to GitHub.

Read about the details.

TokyoDB

I did not know yet about this project from Esteban:

TokyoDB is a Pharo wrapper for Tokyo Cabinet.

Pharo 6 development

As Pharo 5.0 is now available for download the work on Pharo 6.0 directly started. There are already nice things in the pipe like Immutability

Virtual Machines and Managed Runtimes

Want to learn about virtual machine programming? Then have a look here.

Pharo packages for ArchLinux

Pharo packages for ArchLinux

Stanford Seminar - Eliot Miranda and Clément Béra

Eliot and Clément discuss Sista at Stanford:

Pharo 5.0 - RELEASE

Lots of work in all the details for each member of our Pharo community - but now Pharo 5.0 is pushed out of the door. Great!!!

AstaresDistribution of Pharo

I assembled some of my free goodies for Pharo into a Pharo distribution called "AstaresDistribution".

• DesktopManager
• QuickAccess
• HubCap
• WebBrowser
• MessageFlowBrowser
• ...

If you use PharoLauncher you can easily load it. The image is available on the Pharo Contribution CI server.

Pharo 5.0 - soon

Pharo 5.0 is still in preparation - but you can already try before the final release step.

IWST 2016 - Call for Papers

International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST) 2016 Call for papers

Seaside 3.2.0

Seaside 3.2.0 is now final

Changing source code from tests

Nice article on changing source code from tests.

Parasol

Parasol is a Pharo Smalltalk framework to automate web browsers. It's particularly useful to write automated tests for Seaside web applications. Its design and implementation are based on the Java Selenium WebDriver API.

Google Cloud Vision API

for Pharo. Check out the code here.

Pharo MOOC is open now

The online course in Pharo starts today.