Class annotations for Pharo

Experiments to provide Class Annotations for Pharo.

Creating Bloc Widgets in Pharo

Bloc is ready for experiments. In this video Stephan Eggermont is playing with Bloc widgets:

Kobald - Web Usability as a Service

Kobald - Web Usability as a Service. A tool to find usability issues on your Web App automatically. Developed at LIFIA - Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina using Pharo and Seaside.

See it live at http://autorefactoring.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar and check the code at https://github.com/juliangrigera/Kobold

Smalltalk ENVY

Nice - this blog post brings back some memories on ENVY - a Smalltalk source code management system. I used ENVY in the past too and still have a signed copy of the book "Mastering ENVY/Developer" in my bookshelf

And yes - after coding in VisualAge for Smalltalk I also used VisualAge for Java which was really a nice tool for that time - it lowered the Java pain. Because at that time most Java people coded in editors like Notepad while VisualAge for Java was a full IDE with Browser, Debugger and all. It was built on top of the Smalltalk version like most of the members of the VisualAge family

Tonel

Tonel is a file-per-class format for monticello repositories. It allows to store the class definition and methods in a single file. The idea is to use this for a more performant git support in Pharo (as currently a file per method is used). Code is in https://github.com/pharo-vcs/tonel

Updated Pharo Launcher

According to Peter the updated Pharo Launcher automatically downloads the proper VM. No more VM juggling.

First-class undefined classes for Pharo

Lets assume a class A requires a class B which is defined in a different package than class A.

If you defined the wrong load order of packages (so you load the package with A before the package with B) you might easily hit the problem of "Undefined classes".

Pharo will now address this issue better by having first class entities representing missing (or yet undefined) classes. It is already planned for Pharo 7.

Here are the slides from ESUG 2017 on this topic to give you more informations.

Contestia

Another new Pharo success story. Read more

Studio

Studio is a debugger for the data produced by complex applications. It is ongoing work based on Pharo and Roassal - but nonetheless interesting. Read more here.

DataFrame - Towards exploratory data analysis for Pharo

Intro video to DataFrame in Pharo. Code is here.

 

Jun4Pharo

Jun4Pharo, a 3D graphics library, now works on Pharo 5.0. As Pharo 5.0 adopted UFFI and SDL binding, Jun4Pharo uses Pharo's SDL and OpenGL low-level interfaces.

BlockStyler for Pharo

Highlights blocks to make them stand out more and detect nesting levels more easily. Code is on
GitHub

ESUG 2017 is running

The ESUG 2017 conference started today. You can follow the latest news from ESUG 2017 on twitter.

Lowtalk - a new Smalltalk dialect

Lowtalk, a new Smalltalk dialect written in Pharo that could eventually replace Slang (the dialect that is used to build the Smalltalk virtual machine).

Read the announcement and checkout the code.

Pharo 6 Generating Ruby-on-Rails Applications

The Rails Express RAD framework in Pharo 6.0 Smalltalk