Pharo 6.1 released

New image and new VM for better Git support. Read more.

Sista Open Alpha

The Cog VM already made a huge difference in performance for the OpenSmalltalk VM shared by Squeak, Pharo, Cuis and Newspeak. But now Sista - the optimizing JIT is getting open alpha and it looks good to increase performance even more. Read here.

RedditSt20

Pierce extended Sven's excellent "Reddit.st in 10 elegant classes" with even more. Read more.

PharoLambda

PharoLambda is a simple example and GitLab build script for deploying a minimal Pharo Smalltalk image/vm to AWS Lambda.

Teapot: Web Programming Made Easy

Nice article on how to write a web application with Pharos Teapot framework.

Iceberg 0.5

A new release of Iceberg for Pharo is available to work with Git.

CORA

An add in for Pharos Quality assistant. Read more

Visualization of Regular Lattice with Pharo & Roassal

Quuve

Debris Publishing have a new version of Quuve - an investment management platform written in Pharo and Seaside#. It is another success story and another example of "things people built with Smalltalk". They use my Twitter Bootstrap for Seaside project. Reminds me that I wanted to updated the project if my spare time permits. Full video demo is here.

Seaside 3.2.4 released

Seaside 3.2.4. was released today.

P3, a modern, lean and mean PostgreSQL client for Pharo

P3 is a modern, lean and mean PostgreSQL client for Pharo provided by Sven. P3Client uses frontend/backend protocol 3.0 (PostgreSQL version 7.4 [2003] and later). Read the announcement here and check the source code here.

Moldable Debugger in Pharo

Pharo has a moldable debugger built in. So you can even customize the debugging experience for own needs. Look at this debugger for formal specs for an example:

 

VerStix

A new project to connect Pharo images to various services/languages in a reactive way via Vert.x. Vert.x TCP EventBus Bridge client for Pharo Smalltalk.

You can interact with various vert.x components (Web, Auth, DB, MQ, etc) via EventBus. Code is on GitHub