Smalltalk and CI

Pharo already provides a CI server for daily builds:

http://ci.pharo-project.org

I personally use it to get the latest versions and you should do as
well if you are interested in up to date images.

Now some work is going on in the Squeak community to reuse the build
scripts from Lukas as well and I think we can soon expect

http://www.squeakci.org

to fill up with Squeak CI built images. Cool and a big thanks to the people providing that!

Pharo Smalltalk in use ...

Nice video from Pinesoft. The application is implemented in Pharo Smalltalk.

SmallCharts website

Hey, Christian announced that his company website has a new design. The company is offering a tool (built in VW Smalltalk) to easily build financial charts for newspapers. Nice!

Pharo Launcher

There is a new video available about Pharo Launcher.

S8/U8 Social Smalltalk development

There is a new social platform for Smalltalk development called "U8".

It is based on development with S8 - a Smalltalk running over javascript execution engines on all major browser flavors.

You can find some details here or visit the NYC Smalltalk user group on 6th of March (details on the meeting here).

Styling your (VisualWorks) Smalltalk app

There are Smalltalks with native UIs (native widgets painted by the underlying OS) and other Smalltalks who paint the windows and widgets themselves.

With the last ones you can even built an own "Cross-Platform UI Look" like this UI example from a VisualWorks based product from http://www.cognitone.com shows.

Play with Arduino and Pharo

In case you want to play with Arduino and Pharo Smalltalk then check out this blog post.

Also note that since the VM packaged with the 1.3 one click image from the pharo-project.org download has a bug when using FFI package you should use the latest Cog VM as it is also described here.

FOSDEM Report

There are photos, a short report and a presentation from the FOSDEM Smalltalk meeting available.

Kiwi for Smalltalk

Kiwi is a Behaviour-Driven development tool inspired by Cucumber based on Pharo. Read more.

A cave built in Smalltalk

Nice.

Smalltalk and Git

Want to use Git versioning system with Smalltalk code? Then read more here.

Pharo sprint in Brussels

There is a Pharo sprint in Brussels on Feb 4th. Read more.

SqueakSource down

SqueakSource is often down, this time due to a network error.
But there is help by using a mirror.

DrGeo running on Pharo running on iPad

And DrGeo is running on Pharo - and Pharo is running on iPad. The result is shown here.

Scratch running on Pharo running on Android

So Scratch is running on Pharo - and Pharo is running on Android. The result is shown here.

Amber Smalltalk 0.9.1 is out!

Read more here.

Significance of 1.1.1753

When working in IT you often have "magic" numbers or dates. Remember the year 2000 bug (Y2K)?

One interesting date is is 1.1.1753 - which is a limit in SQL-Server. Interesting to know.

Smalltalk/X tour

There is now a "Guided tour on Smalltalk/X (Part 2) video available.

Who needs the JVM - Tomcat on Smalltalk/X

The software engineering group from the czech university in Prague is running Tomcat on Smalltalk/X. So who needs the JVM? ;)

Impress.js

Somehow I like small JavaScripts for effects like these. code is here.