SDL2, Cairo & Headless for realtime native applications

An SDL2 based game in Pharo.

Smalltalkware

Hardware gets cheaper each day. It also gets faster and faster to run dynamic object oriented systems like Smalltalks even on tiny single board computers. In this tweet Chris Thorgrimsson runs VisualWorks and Pharo side by side on Lattepanda, a cheap palm sized Windows 10 computer which costs around 100$. Nice!

TaskIt v0.2

for Pharo is available

Toronto Smalltalk User Group meeting - Sept. 12

Next Toronto Smalltalk User Group meeting: Sept. 12 about COG VM, GNU Smalltalk, Redline Smalltalk, Amber/Pharo JS

LamResearch and Pharo

A story on LamResearch and Pharo work. Nice!

Smalltalk Syntax Shirt

The Smalltalk syntax fits on a shirt as you can see here.

ESUG 2016 - First slides

First slides of ESUG 2016 are available on Slideshare.

Later all the slides, videos and all will be archived on http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2016/

ESUG 2016 - Show us your projects

Show us your projects session from ESUG2016 is available on Periscope

ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards - MacroRecorder

MacroRecorder is one of the candidates for the ESUG Technology Awards

ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards - Kit

Kit (Programming for the rest of us) is one of the candidates for the ESUG Technology Awards

ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards - Caffeine

Caffeine is one of the candidates for the ESUG Technology Awards

ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards - Educational Bureau

Educational Bureau (using Phratch based on Pharo) is one of the candidates for the ESUG Technology Awards. Video is here.

ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards - Let it Bee

Let it Bee is one of the candidates for the ESUG Technology Awards

ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards - RemoteDebugger

RemoteDebugger is one of the candidates for the ESUG Technology Awards

ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards - OpenPonk

OpenPonk is one of the candidates for the ESUG Technology Awards

ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards - Woden 2 Game System

Woden 2 Game System is one of the candidates for the ESUG Technology Awards

ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards - PolyMath

PolyMath is one of the candidates for the ESUG Technology Awards

ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards - MatchTool

MatchTool is one of the candidates for the ESUG Technology Awards

ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards - smalltalkCI

smalltalkCI is one of the candidates for the ESUG Technology Awards

Cuis now runs on Spur!

Additionally to Squeak and Pharo now also Cuis Smalltalk runs on the faster Spur version of the virtual machine. Nice!

ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards

Have you written innovative Smalltalk? Then read more here.

Squeak 5.1. beta

Squeak 5.1 is in beta mode - you can already try it here: http://files.squeak.org/5.1beta/

Phratch in education in Brazil

A video about Phratch used in eduction.

Moose 6.0

Moose 6.0 based on Pharo 5 was released. Read more.

Release of Agile Visualization

Agile Visualization is a book about the Roassal Visualization engine. Read more here or directly jump to http://agilevisualization.com

Freewill

The Freewill project moves on and gets good results for ruzzle chromosomes

Marquette Camp Smalltalk September 15-18th

there is a Camp Smalltalk at Marquette. Read more.

SmallPOS Status

SmallPOS is a POS and accounting system for small business written using Seaside web application framework for Smalltalk. Pharo is used as platform and the Code is on SqueakSource. The license of SmallPOS is MIT.

SmallPOS itself is a framework that can be used to build POS management applications.

Looks like there are some activity now to update the framework code and there are some screenshots of a russian SmallPOS-based management system that was built with the SmallPOS framework (click to enlarge):

Modtalk

In 2014 there was a presentation about Modtalk - an MIT licensed modular compiled Smalltalk.

There is a nice webpage on https://www.modtalk.org with a copyright of 2016. So there seems to be some activity behind the scenes. But the GitHub repo is still empty. I wonder about the status of the project...

MatchTool implementation Tutorial

MatchToo for Pharo

A new tool that can help you to understand to the pattern code is working in match & rewrite rules

PunQLite now also moved to Pharo-NoSQL GitHub repo

Beside Voyage and MongoTalk now also the PunQLite project was moved to the "pharo-nosql" GitHub Repo as you can see in the worklog. This repo created by Esteban should host all NoSQL efforts in the Pharo community.

Amber demos

There is a mashup of several AmberSmalltalk demos on http://amber.confusedprogrammer.com

Sista: closed alpha version ??!

More work on Sista summarized by Clement.

Does 1/7 + 6/7 = 1 ?

Short reminder from Benoit St-Jean.

ThingLab

Alan Borning's “ThingLab” (graphical constraint solver) running on the Smalltalk-78 VM by Bert Freudenberg and Dan Ingalls right in your webbrowser. Nice!