Xtreams up to date

Martin provides an up to date port of Xtreams for Pharo/Squeak. It now matches the docs and VW version better.

Virtual environment creation for Gemstone/Seaside

Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments. It helps you automate virtual machine creation using Oracle’s VirtualBox (which I use to manage my virtual computers)

There is now a new tutorial from John Thornton available that will setup a Vagrant VM and install GemStone and SeaSide 3.0 on it. Read more.

Nice!

Connecting Scratch with Kinect

Kinect is a great add-on for the XBox 360. New hardware to connect to your Smalltalk system ...

Stephen Howell shows how he connects Kinect to the Scratch application (which is written in Squeak Smalltalk):

- video
- blog

Pharo and Amazon S3

Sven announced an Amazon AWS S3 Client written in Pharo Smalltalk. Read more here.

Custom Windows styles in CLFramework for Pharo

Gerard (aka nullPointer) now finally I implemented the posibility of create a custom windows in CLFramework (a UI builder framework for Pharo)

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Cool!

Hotswap

Year 2011 B.C. and Java is still fighting with hotswap. Why not choose Smalltalk ;)

GetItMade.com - Seaside and JQuery widget boxes getting live

Nick Ager is one of the contributors to the JQueryWidgetBox project for Seaside. I created the widget box project back in October 2009 to bring more interactive web applications by wrapping jquery widgets in Smalltalk code and using them in seaside applications.

Looks like in 2010 Nick also developed a new site using Seaside and the widget box:

http://www.getitmade.com

getitmade was founded by Rob Dobson and Nick Ager to satiate their frustration at the difficulty of getting stuff made.

Nice to see the stuff actually in production use! Really cool.

Seaside in the cloud - a free EC2 micro instance

Amazon has a new offer of a free micro instance for a year. Nice.

Nick provides a video on how to deploy your Seaside application for free with an EC2 micro instance and Gemstone. Here are the detailed instructions.

Smalltalk and Music

The Cyclades project, a project led by a team of researchers and composers from the Geneva University of Music (Hes-So) in partnership with Pharo's developers.

The purpose of their research is to conceive and create ways of representing several different elements of the structure or texture of music by using any kind of rendering computers can provide. Code and programs will be implemented in Pharo. Nice!

They also provide a one click image.

New Cog VMs

Eliot provides the next round of Cog virtual machines.

Tropo - Calling Smalltalk

You look for a way that users can interact with your smalltalk application using their telephones or SMS messages. Then check out the Tropo project (written by Paul DeBruicker) from which is a Pharo interface to Tropo.com

Bootstrapping Squeak

In Smalltalk you typically work in an image where all the objects live and can be changed. So an image is an object memory snapshot that is maintained over time and that includes new and old objects (some of them may date back to ST-80 times).

Yoshiki Ohshima was playing with John's MicroSqueak and created a bootstrap Compiler - a first step to (re)create a Squeak image from simple "text files".

More about it here and in the README.

Seaside remote Server

Dmitri Zagidulin will describe a remote server setup based on Ubuntu, Pharo and Seaside. Lets see how this compares to my own server setups using the same technologies. Will follow his blog and this post is a reminder.

Seaside 3.0.3. is ready

Seaside 3.0.3 is ready, if you still use 3.0 please update. Read more.

Seaside - Why Should You Care?

Julians talk from OSDC.fr 2010 on "Seaside - Why Should You Care?" is online. It starts in french but then he switches to english.

VPRI Report

When Morphic, Hypercard and Microsoft office merge ;)
Read the VPRI report.

Smalltalks 2010 conference videos

Videos from Smalltalks 2010 conference are available now. Click on the video tab there.

Pharo and ODBC

You often have to access existing databases when you develop an application. One way is to use ODBC. I created a small small screencast to show you how:

http://www.pharocasts.com/2010/12/access-database-through-odbc.html

It uses SQLite3 (a tiny database implemented in a shared library) as example - but you can access any ODBC compatible database (Oracle, DB2, MySQL, MSSQL, ...) if you use the appropriate database driver.

Its my first contribution to Pharocasts and I hope to do more if time permits. Thanks to Laurent for all the support and postprocessing of the recorded video.

UI Builder for Squeak

Beside the Polymorph based UI Buidler for Pharo there is now also a Morphic based one for Squeak.

Smalltalk VM Beginners Mailinglist

There is now a new mailinglist for Smalltalk VM beginners. Read more.