WorkLog

There is a project from Esteban called WorkLog. It is written in Seaside.

If you would like to see it in action just visit: http://log.smallworks.eu/web/post/ and receive some infos how busy he is preparing Pharo for the future.

Pharo Spur 32 VM on Debian Stable

Want to run Spur virtual machine for Pharo on Debian. Then check out this one.

There is a CI build available.

Turing Machine simulator in Pharo

A Turing Machine simulator written in Pharo by Julien Delplanque.

• Article on Medium.com
• Code on GitHub

Tracing the Dynabook

A PhD Dissertation from 2006 about Dynabook and Smalltalk. Interesting nonetheless.

Shortcut learnability in Pharo

A small tool was introduced in recent Pharo 5 images. It is called Shortcut Reminder and reminds you n times about shortcuts that one can use as an alternative to clicking around.

One can enable the tool via Settings. Anytime you use a menu item that has a keyboard shortcut the shortcut is displayed on the screen in large letters. This happens n-times. Depending on your learning curve you can set the number of repetitions in the settings.

Pharo Mooc in preparation

The Pharo community is currently preparing a Pharo Mooc. It's not yet finished and therefore not yet officially announced - but some informations are already available and a lot is going on behind the scenes for it.

There is a GitHub Repo and a Roadmap for it if you already want to dig into the stuff.

The abbreviation Mooc means Massive Open Online Course. It will include tutorials and videos to learn about Smalltalk and Pharo in particular (70 lectures and videos).

The Mooc videos are currently in preparation. It is filmed with a professional setup as:

 - Picture 1
 - Picture 2
 - Picture 3
 - Picture 4

prove.

Science Smalltalk v0.39

The last stable version is Science Smalltalk: v0.39 (Pharo 4.0 and Pharo 5.0 with SpurVM) is out.

SqueakJS and Keyboard input on touch devices

There is work in progress to enable keyboard input on touch devices for SqueakJS. Nice!

Codemash presentation on Smalltalk

Larry Staton Jr gave a presentation on Smalltalk at CodeMash this week. Slides are here.

PharoJS in Toronto

Toronto Smalltalk User group meeting on Monday, Jan. 11 will be on PharoJS, with both NodeJS and browser examples. An interesting topic. Anyone able to record this and publish it as a video?

The next Pharo Sprints

Dates for 2016 in Lille are here. You are free to organize own sprints as well.

German article about Moose

Read it here.

Lessons learned - Custom ERP in Smalltalk

Interesting insights into a Seaside project.

ReadWriteLock for Pharo

is here. Read more.

OS Process Survey in Pharo

A Survey about Forking Operating System Processes in Pharo

Squeak/Smalltalk on Travis-CI

Squeak is now officially supported on Travis-CI. Read more.

Iliad 0.9.4 is out

The Iliad web framework was updated for Pharo 4.

Object Explorer for GemStone/S 64

A project still under development but already worth reading about: a (visual) Object Explorer for GemStone/S 64

Amber 0.14.18

A new release 0.14.18 of Amber is available.

NBSQLite3 on Dolphin Smalltalk 7

The SQLite wrapper is now also available for Dolphin 7.