BioSmalltalk

BioSmalltalk: Bioinformatics in a pure objects environment. Based ob Pharo.

Aida 6.6 runs on newest Squeak 5

Red more here.

Large file uploads in Seaside

Nice article on how to use Seaside and Nginx to handle large file uploads

Pharo MOOC available

The registration for Pharo Massive Open Online Course (Pharo MOOC) is available

IPFS

SmallIPFS - Smalltalk Interplanetare Filesystem API. Read more and have a look at the project page

Numerical Methods Book (January 2016 snapshot)

The Numerical Methods Book was updated - have a look at the January 2016 snapshot

Seaside / .Net Job

If you like to apply read here.

Is Ruby really close to Smalltalk

And you learn that everything is an object in Smalltalk but not in Ruby.

Bounties for Pharo

A Bountysource Team for Pharo was setup by Marcus. This means that everyone can suggest bounties or contribute money to existing bounties.

GitHub API Bindings for Pharo

This project provides bindings to the GitHub API for Pharo. Nice !!!

Pharo Sprint 29 Jan

Read more.

Hidden Gems Screencast Series

Hidden Gems Screencast by Arden Thomas demoing useful Smalltalk use.

Specific domain visualizations

in Pharo. Read more.

Kendrick 0.29

Kendrick the platform for epidemiological modeling and analysis is out in version 0.29 beta

Pharo bootstrap

Currently in Pharo the image is maintained step by step by adjusting and changing it. It is like a database of objects that you maintain over time.

But since the beginning of Pharo there was this also the dream to be able to bootstrap the image cleanly right from the ground up. It is a lot of work to prepare such a bootstrapping process - but now the efforts bring the first fruits: there is a minimal Pharo kernel that is bootstrapped.

I can only say: amazing work!

Spotting senders and references

Spotting senders and references using Spotter in Pharo is explained here. You can also use the MessageFlowBrowser.

Smooth scrolling with Smalltalk 78

"At one point (Steve) Jobs, watching some text scroll up the screen line by line in its normal fashion, remarked, 'It would be nice if it moved smoothly, pixel by pixel, like paper.' With (Dan) Ingalls at the keyboard, that was like asking a New Orleans jazz band to play 'Limehouse Blues.' He clicked the mouse on a window displaying several lines of Smalltalk code, made a minor edit, and returned to the text. Presto! The scrolling was now continuous." -- Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik

OSSubprocess first milestone

So far there was an OSProcess project for executing OS commands from Pharo. Mariano is working on a new project called "OSSubprocess" that works with the new unified FFI.

He reached a first milestone now - you can read about the details here.

The Pharo Consortium is the sponsor of this development.

Snowglobe for SqueakJS

Snowglobe is a SqueakJS remote display surface written by Craig Latta for Squeak Smalltalk. So Squeak is running in a browser (Chrome here), acting as the display for a native Squeak app running somewhere else on the internet.

A first demo can be seen in this video:

PharoLauncher with Spur and Non-Spur

Up to image build #50496 (where 50000 range means Pharo 5.0) the Pharo images were non-spur. In December the image was migrated to Spur to get more speed and profit from the new virtual machine architecture. So for any newer Pharo 5.0 image you need the new Pharo Spur VM.

PharoLauncher is now able to find out if an image reguires the new Spur VM or the old one. You can set the location of old non-spur VM and new spur VM in the PharoLauncher settings.

This way you can work with old images Pharo 3, Pharo 4, Pharo 5 up to build 50496 as well as with the newer ones.

Read this post for more details or grab PharoLauncher from CI server.