Interactive Web site testing

Laurent created a new screencast on using Selenium (a java web application test system) and Pharo to interactively test web applications. See more.

Smalltalk and wine

A fine glass of wine is something you may find enjoyable while developing software.
The interesting part is that there is a german IT expert now selling wine called "Smalltalk", "Pearl", "DreamWeaver", ...

Read more (german article)

Enjoy a "SmallTalk 2008 Rheingau Riesling QbA trocken"

Instantiations bought by Google

Instantiations was acquired by Google - mainly to get the Eclipse, Java expertise. Interesting enough the company now continues with its VA Smalltalk business:

"The new Instantiations will focus entirely on Smalltalk and remains fully committed to supporting and evolving the products we all know and love!"

The Wave is closed

Google Wave is closed. I think there was too much of a hype than usable technology. Read the announcement.

BTW: The announcement was written by Urs Hölzle who formerly worked at Animorphic systems (yes, the company that had one of the fastest Smalltalk JIT's and that was later acquired by Sun).

TextLint

You may know the lint tools for Smalltalk or Java helping you to common errors in code.

There is now also a nice app called "TextLint" which is written in Pharo Smalltalk. It is a lint tool for common style errors in natural language. You can use it to process your text/latex/... files.

Here are videos (1 and 2)showing the tool in action.

Seafox.xpi - HTML to Seaside plugin

Nick released Seafox.xpi - a small plugin for Firefox that translates a websites HTML into the appopropriate seaside methods.
Nice and helpfull! Read more.

Reddit in Smalltalk

Sven Van Caekenberghe provides a new Seaside article on "Reddit.st - In 10 elegant Smalltalk classes"

Pharo 1.1. Setup for Windows

The new Pharo 1.1 release comes (similar to the first version) as a large download: the one-click image with virtual machines for all major platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux).

As before for those who want to use/run Pharo 1.1. on Win32 system only I additionally prepared a smaller installer for the new release. Read more. As ever it is also available on the Pharo project site.

Aida on Pharo 1.1

Not only Seaside 3.0 is running on the new Pharo 1.1. release. Also the Aida Smalltalk
web framework is running nicely on the open source Smalltalk platform. Read more.

Pharo by Example on Amazon

Pharo by Example can now finally be ordered at Amazon.com and therefore also orderable at any bookstore. You can also visit the online version.

Pharo 1.1. released

Pharo 1.1. - the next milestone of the Pharo project is released. Here is a short summary what's new.

Sunset or Eclipse with Oracle JVM

When you run the new Oracle JVM 6u21 and Eclipse you may encounter frequent Eclipse crashes.

Eclipse launcher (which is written in C/C++) reads the JVM vendor and if it detects a Sun JVM, it adds a necessary memory parameter for Eclipse to function.
Since now the "Java" vendor was changed from Sun to Oracle it crashes.

So the current version of Eclipse does not work with the current version of Java on the most popular platform - at least not out of the box.

There is a bug report already ...

Seaside in Czech

Two new Seaside applications on the radar:

http://www.webchod.cz
http://www.kalorik.cz

Cycles in your software

Jannik Laval announced a new tool to see your software package structure and to fix cycles between packages. It is based on Pharo and Moose.

Read more.

Squeak-SSL

Andreas announced a new SSL interface for Squeak.

The project page can be found on squeaksource.

Self programming language

Self 4.4. is released. Read more.

Boot Squeak

Intersting alternative to SqueakNOS: Michael van der Gulik describes
a way to boot Squeak on a tiny core linux.

Seaside 3.0 RC

Julian announced Seaside 3.0 RC.

Yet another Smalltalk success story

There is a very nice web based ERP system built with Pharo and Seaside by Inceptive. Read more.

Squeak is now part of the SCF

Squeak is now a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Read more.