Keyboard control for a Smalltalk IDE, part 2

another session recorded as video.

L Peter Deutsch and Allan Schiffman

In the 1984 POPL conference there appeared a paper, Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System, by L Peter Deutsch and Allan Schiffman. This paper introduced the first truly modern just-in-time compiler and described several novel implementation techniques, still in widespread use, to improve the performance of object-oriented languages.

Ecstatic

Ecstatic - a static website generator for Pharo based on Pillar.

Validating Metric Thresholds with Developers: An Early Result

This paper reports the first results of an empirical study aimed at validating relative metric thresholds with developers. The study was conducted on 79 Pharo applications and using four source code metrics

Eliots Spur talk on SPLASH 2015

Eliot Miranda is invited to give a talk at SPLASH 2015 in Pittsburgh. He's going to talk about Spur, his latest Smalltalk memory manager, and exaptation in software design, since Spur exapts a couple of key architectural features of fast Smalltalk VMs to provide efficient support for schema evolution and hence live programming.

Fri 23 - Fri 30 October 2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Keyboard controlled code editor

Check out the video.

Jun4Pharo chemistry

Jun4Pharo can now do some Chemistry.

• Reads XYZ files
• Atoms are objects; Each atom knows its own chemical properties such as symbol, atom number, mass, van der waals radius, covalent radius

Pharo Jenkins - query Jenkins servers from Pharo

An API to directly inspect the Jenkins servers from Pharo. Announcement is here and code is here. Nice!

StatsD client

A StatsD client from Holger Freyther. Note that it is AGPLv3 and not the regular MIT.

Livecoding with Pharo 5

can be seen here.

MathEx 0.1 is out

First release of MathEx. Code is here and announcement here.

Smalltalk-talk magazine

Richard Eng created a new Smalltalk magazine on Medium: https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk

DesktopManager in Pharo 5

Phratch 4.1

Phratch 4.1 based on Pharo 4 is here. Read more

Pharo public sprint dates

Pharo public sprint dates in Lille are here

Moose: creating a custom analysis for a Delphi legacy application in 15 minutes

Moose: creating a custom analysis for a Delphi legacy application in 15 minutes. Another video on Vimeo.

TCAP for Pharo

Sysmocom provides a complete TCAP implementation for the OpenSource Smalltalk/Pharo programming environment

Pharo dependencies

Pharo depenency overview: read here and look here and in the report.

Amber example GoogleCharts

Amber Smalltalk example with GoogleCharts published on a Static Resource Pharocloud Appliance  

How to connect Pharo Image to a remote MongoDB appliance in PharoCloud

A new video shows how:

emoji

Smalltalk invented emoji apparently. See here and

searchQuick

an offline text search utility in Pharo 4.0. Read more

Mathex

Mathex: Generating latex math from Pharo. Photo is here.

Ecstatic

Found Ecstatic - the ecstatic site generator for Pharo. Ecstatic uses pillar as its markup language to describe pages, mustache templates to accommodate your content and plugins completely written in Pharo.

Here is some basic info.

Flattr to support Pharo

want to support Pharo - then check Flattr here.

Pillar 1.0.0

A new initial major release Pillar 1.0.0 was announced today.

 It also includes a documentation on "Documenting your Project with Pillar". Read more.

Smalltalks 2010 playlist uploaded

The freshly uploaded playlist of Smalltalks 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCGAAdUizzH349nC5qQrpDyZkcApqacrZ

Dr. Geo 15.09

a new release.

HTTPS configuration for multiple PharoCloud sites

is described in a new article.

Brick for Pharo in Material Design

Brick for Pharo

• Beautiful widgets
• Vectorial rendering
• Material design

 Have a look at: http://gt.moosetechnology.org/brick/

Feedback About SmallLint Rules

The Feedback collected in Pharo about the SmallLint Rules could be seen here.

Camp Smalltalk Portland 2015

photos are here.

Pharo Consortium is growing

The number of consortium members is growing: there is again new gold member. It's a germany company called Projector.

1st iteration of a Mindmapping tool

in Pharo. Read here - Video is here.

WAV support in Pharo

Read about WAV sound support in Pharo.

Publish Smalltalk Image online from Pharo

Nice article on how to publish Smalltalk Image online from Pharo Workspace/Playground to PharoCloud. The shared Smalltalk workspace for this is here.

Smalltalks 2015 invitation

The Fundación Argentina de Smalltalk proudly invites you to one of the premier Smalltalk conferences in the world. Let's meet in Buenos Aires, November 11-13! For more details, see here

FastTable performance

A blog post of FastTable usage with more than 1,2 million of scientific names in one of the most useful bioinformatics curated databases, the NCBI Taxonomy Database.

SmaCC 2.0.5

SmaCC 2.0.5 for Pharo released with JavaScript, Cucumber, Python, CSV, C, C# and Java parsers. Read more here.

Magma 1.5

an OO database from Chris Müller is available in version 1.5.

Continuous Integration Automated Build for your Pharo Application

a Tutorial from Jigyasa for using CI to automate your Pharo application builds.

Design Structure Matrix (DSM) in Roassal

Read more here.

Squeak 5 with Spur is out

Nice: Squeak 5 is out and it is the first of the Squeak / Pharo / Newspeak programming environments that includes the new Spur memory management. Read more.

Twilio-smalltalk for Pharo

I already posted about a Tropo binding for Pharo to work with phones and SMS.

Now there is another option available: a Smalltalk library for communicating with the Twilio REST API (http://twilio.com). The project is hosted on GitHub.

ISO 3166-1 for Pharo

An utility package to deal with ISO 3166-1 countries/country codes in Pharo by Hernan.

Cable eXpertise

Next Pharo success story, this time from Philippe Back.

Woden Tutorial

Ronie start to work on a Woden tutorial

Lightning JSON-RPC

LtJsonRpc is a lightweight JSON-RPC implementation. It only depends on Zinc and JSON packages. You can quickly create JSON-RPC services in a few lines of code. Check out the project on STHub.

Rete

Looks like Udo is working on implementing the Rete algorithm for Pharo in his rete project on STHub.

ESUG2015 Photos

Photos from ESUG 2015

Choosing Smalltalk On Porpoise

A new article on Dolphin Smalltalk.

Amber Alert: We can do mobile apps!

A new article on Medium.com on using Amber Smalltalk and Cordova.

Pharo 5 progress

Read about the progress Pharo 5 already made.

ScrumBoard, part 4

more from Stephan here.

Tabular and XLSX

XLSX import functionality was added to Tabular

k means clustering visualisation with Roassal, Pharo

Smalltalk User Group Hamburg

has a meetup on 30th of July. Read more.

Squeak 4.6

There is a new Squeak version: 4.6 available.

BlueInk

Pharo 5 now also includes a new pretty printer (BlueInk). Read more.

Jun4Pharo texture mapping

A texture mapping demo of Jun4Pharo. The World as a flat texture and the World as a spherical surface.

   

More from Woden

Woden quick demo: parallax mapping



 Woden: Blender exporter

StackBarPlot

StackBarPlot in Roassal. Click here.

Pharo and PostgreSQL in the cloud

Pharo+PostgreSQL" appliance is available at Pharocloud

Ephemeric Cloud

with Pharo using Pharocloud. Read more.

 

The Early History of Smalltalk

available online.

Telescope Tutorial

is here.

Roassal on VW

Although mostly Pharo is used for Roassal development there is also a port for VisualWorks Smalltalk.


 

SendGrid and Pharo

SendGrid API Library to send emails very easily using Smalltalk. A howto is here.

ESUG 2015 Videos

The videos from ESUG 2015 are available.

Pharo and OpenMP

Looks like Pharo's NativeBoost works great with OpenMP. Read more.

Smalltel

Pharo 5 now fully includes Opal Compiler - the old one will be removed. This allows for many nice extensions.

 For instance Ronie Salgado has a small package called "Smalltel" - the name is an abbreviation for Smalltalk string template language. The package provides a class SmalltelCompiler as a subclass OpalCompiler.

There is also a class SmalltelObject overriding the method #compilerClass to return the new compiler class. With the custom compiler one can provide templates with expressions in Smalltalk, a little bit similar to what Java has with Expression Language (EL):

condition: cond value: value
 ^ ByteString streamContents:
<[Here goes a header:
 ${ cond ifTrue: [ }$
  Conditional value: $( value printString )$
 ${ ]. }$
]>

Roassal HTML Exporter

As presented on ESUG 2015:



You can try out yourself: http://objectprofile.com/examples

MultiCity

A new Pharo sucess story: MultiCity.

PharoVX

OpenVX is an open, royalty-free standard for cross platform acceleration of computer vision applications.

Looks like Dmitry Matveev is working on introducing OpenVX in Pharo. According to the SmalltalkHub project page of PharoVX the Khronos reference implementation is supported. The code uses NativeBoost for the binding. He is working on it while at ESUG2015.

Update: it is now available on GitHub https://github.com/dmatveev/pharovx-homepage/blob/master/index.md

Reflection in Pharo 5

Marcus provides his ESUG2015 slides about Reflection in Pharo 5.

Searching XMLs with GTSpotter

As it is easy to extend the moldable Pharo tools it is easy to extend the Spotter search to search through XML files

Roassal Camp Smalltalk Result

Nice results from the Roassal CampSmalltalk. Load the latest Roassal packages if you want to try yourself.

StakePoint Project-Portfolio

StakePoint is a Portfolio Project Management solution that manages resource workloads across multiple projects of an organization through interactive Gantt charts. StakePoint integrates Earned value management, uses a constant critical path model, is compatible MS-Project and introduces matrix type navigation to improve project visibility. Implemented in VisualWorks Smalltalk.

QualityAssistant v1.0 for Pharo

QualityAssistant v1.0 is out. Read more here: https://github.com/Uko/QualityAssistant

You should also not muss the talk on Thursday 2:30pm by Yuriy Tymchuk on ESUG2015.

ESUG 2015 on Twitter

You can following the conference on Twitter using #ESUG15 hashtag,

DynaCase Modeling Platform

That one really rocks:

UnQLite Jx9 Part II

More from Pierce on this topic.

PharoJS

PharoJS is to allow developing and testing apps in Pharo while deploying them on top of a JavaScript engine. It is a general purpose infrastructure. For example, PharoJS can be used to develop client side web applications. It can also be used to support cross-platform mobile apps based on Phone Gap. Code is here, read more here.

An updated docu can be found here.

ESUG 2015

Due to the weather forecast (36-38°), the local organizers decided to move the conference venue to an air-conditioned place

Pharo web deployment

The new Pharocloud pricing plans include SSD disk appliances starting from $2. Nice for Pharo web app deployment!

Pharo OpenAL bindings

Ronie made bindings for OpenAL, a 3D audio library. Read here. Make sure to have your speakers loud when watching the video:

PharoPro

PharoPro - a new offer from the Pharo Consortium. Read more here and here.

Cornucopia Scorecards

Egg rating implemented by Sean using Amber Smalltalk. Read more.

The Power of Moldable Tools in Pharo

In just a few minutes, Pharo's moldable debugger let's us turn a useless error message into a much better format - diffed even!

Thanks to a moldable debugger.

Tired of Ruby - Go Smalltalk

Tired of Ruby - then go Smalltalk.

Email Reply Parser for Pharo

Want to extract the interesting bits of an email reply? Then check out this project for Pharo which is a port of the code GitHub uses to parse mails.

Pharo sprint & Moose dojo

Friday, 10th July, starting at 10:00am at the Inria Lille, Building B, third floor (RMoD offices). Remotely, you can join us on the official IRC channel #pharo on irc.freenode.net server. Read more.

Pharo MacroRecorder

SATToSE is the Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution.

Gustavo Santos demoed his Pharo MacroRecorder there: a tool which would allow the developer to record a sequence of transformations and allow to reapply them later (parameterized)

Here is a picture, here the presentation and here is the code.

Ubuntu Theme for Pharo

styling your Pharo image like Ubuntu with a new theme.

Google speech engine and Pharo

need text to speech from Pharo? There click here.

Morphic ScrumBoard, part 3: WebSocket SVG export

a new video demonstrating the new features of the ScrumBoard built with Pharo.

ESUG 2015, 12th Innovation Technology Awards

Read more.

Vizualising epidemiological Model with Pharos GT Tools

Using GTInspector for vizualising a migration multi-species epidemiological model: see here

A fast table for Pharo

is already in Pharo 5.

Read more.

Yaqe - Yet Another Quake Editor for Pharo

Ronie is working on a Quake style level editor using Woden (World Dynamic Engine for Pharo), a with a user interface similar to the one present in Blender. Video is below and code is here.