Smalltalk meetup in Cologne 03/2010

Get the details here: http://colstme.selfish.org/events/stammtisch02

New Pharocasts

New Pharocasts are available:

• How to build the VM on Linux
  
• How to contribute to Pharo
  

Trax for Squeak

Stephen Pair released Trax, a general object versioning system for Squeak.

Read more here.

Building a Pharo/Squeak VM on OSX

Hey ... and Adrian is using my metacello config for VMMaker too. He just described on how to build the virtual machine on OSX. Nice.

Building Squeak VM on Linux

Laurent wrote on how to build the Squeak VM on Linux. Nice that the VMMaker metacello configuration I created (see here and here) is used.

Google Summer of Code with Smalltalk

There is a new page for the Google summer of code with Smalltalk:

http://gsoc2010.esug.org/

You can read more about it here.

Next Pharo Sprint: March 13, 2010

The next pharo sprint:

Date: March 13, 2010
Time: 9:30 - 21:30
Place: Software Composition Group, University of Berne, Switzerland

See here for more details.

Chapter on Exceptions for Pharo by Example book

The http://pharobyexample.org book now includes a new chapter on Exception handling in Smalltalk.

The Moose Book

If you want to do software and data analysis then you should read the
new online book from Tudor Girba:

http://www.themoosebook.org/book

about the Moose technology. Moose is an analysis platform written in Smalltalk.

The (yet unfinished) book already includes descriptions on how to use Moose, how to build a browser with Glamour or how to load the latest Moose version into Pharo using Metacello.

One interesting aspect (beside a good documentation on Moose) is that this is now the second dynamic web book on Smalltalk technologies (after the Seaside online book) which is written using the Smalltalk based Pier Content Management System.

Squeak is twittering

The commits to Squeak trunk (the new community development model) are now also visible in Twitter:

http://twitter.com/SqueakTrunk

Should be easy to follow development now.

If you want to know about other package commits (SqueakSource) then
you could use the already known Planet Squeak code:

http://planetmisc.squeak.org

ScratchViewer for iPhone/iPad

John is building a scratch viewer for the iPhone and iPad.

Cologne Smalltalk Meetup Website

There is now a new website available for the Cologne Smalltalk Meetup.

Physical Etoys

Physical Etoys is a visual programming tool that connects the virtual world of computers with the real world in which we live in. Now a first beta version is released.

It is based on the Squeak Smalltalk system. The announcement is here.

Printed version of "Dynamic Web Development with Seaside"

Lukas announced the printed version of "Dynamic Web Development with Seaside".

Re-licensing Squeak

After years it is very close:

"The Squeak Oversight Board plans to finalize the multi-year effort of re-licensing Squeak. Squeak 4.0 is scheduled to be released on Monday, March 15th, 2010 and will be licensed under the MIT License [1] with some original parts remaining under the Apache License [2]."

Read more here ...

Seaside book

Lukas has a first copy of the Seaside book which is printed from the online version.

Hobbes for Pharo

Pavel announced "Hobbes for Pharo". Hobbes (Highly Objectified Blue Book Equivalent Smalltalk) is a virtual machine for the original Smalltalk-80 Version 2 by Xerox.

The Squeak/Pharo port is available now at SqueakSource:

http://www.squeaksource.com/Hobbes.html

Hobbes was first ported to Squeak by Dan Ingalls, later ported to VisualWorks by Vassili Bykov. There is an old version for Squeak available here.

You can see the VisualWorks version in action on a Simberon page.

Iliad webframework

The Iliad web framework for Smalltalk now has a new website online:

http://www.iliadproject.org

Monticello, Metacello ... Metaceller

Metacello is a nice package management system for Monticello in Pharo.
There are already various configurations for well known packages available in the MetacelloRepository project.

With a pharo image installed Metacello can be used to load a specific (or the latest) versions of Seaside:

  Gofer new
    squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository';
    package: 'ConfigurationOfSeaside30';
    load.

 (Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfSeaside30) loadLatestVersion

Tudor Girba now created a basic version of a browser called "Metaceller" for managing Metacello configurations that are already loaded in the image. Read more here.

To load in Pharo evaluate:

 Gofer new 
        squeaksource: 'glamoroust'; 
        package: 'ConfigurationOfGlamoroust'; 
        load. 
 (Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfGlamoroust) perform: #loadDefault. 

After loading you can open the tool using:

 GTMetaceller open

Smalltalk meetup in Cologne

There is a Cologne Smalltalk User Meetup on 18th of February.
Read more here.