JQuery widget box project

You ask why I started the jQuery widget box project for Seaside. Just read this mail conversation ;)

Feel free to help wrapping more interesting widgets to enhance your seaside app.

Shrinking tool for app deployment in Pharo

Gerard (known as "nullPointer" and author of the Pharo UI Buidler) made a video available on a shrink tool for Pharo. Nice!

It's part of his CLFramwork (which is available in an open source version as UIBuilder).

Microsoft Kinect sensor and Smalltalk

Nikolay Suslov has the Microsoft Kinect sensor connected to his Krestianstvo SDK (which is based on Squeak/Croquet. Read more.

This opens a whole new space of applications ... and it is interesting to see whats already possible these days.

Reading EXIF from pictures

Alexander Lazarević announced a new project to read Exchangeable image file format informations. This allows you to read EXIF information like the image description, camera model, ... from TIFF or JPEG images.

Code with MIT license is on SqueakSource.

VW UI

Found a screenshot of an app that is built using VisualWorks Smalltalk. Why? Look at the icon and the tabs ...

FSUG Meeting

... about "GLASS ~ GemStone - Linux - Apache - Seaside - Smalltalk" with Norbert Hartl today.

Scripting with Pharo Smalltalk

The "Coral" project (formerly known as "Saphir") is a way to use Pharo Smalltalk for scripting on the shell.

• Project page
  
• Installation (french)

The packages got updated with more support for displaying in a Unix console. Nice!

Seaside master scripts

Just a short reminder for myself: the master scripts for the Seaside 3.0 image and others can be found here.

Seaside 3.0.2 release

There is now a new Seaside bug fix release 3.0.2.

WebTester ported to Gemstone

The Seaside WebTester (a project that is able to test web applications using Selenium) is now also available for Gemstone. Read more here.

Code statistic for Smalltalk web framworks

Janko has some code stats on the three main Smalltalk web framworks
Aida, Iliad and Seaside

ThinkCode TV also provides videos on Smalltalk

Beside Laurents Pharocasts and the "Smalltalk 4 You" series from James (both free) there is now another site (ThinkCode TV) providing introduction videos on Smalltalk.

Davide Varvello (creator of the site) provides this as a commercial offer, but as he notes you can get them for free if you follow his twitter account.

Measure memory consumption

There is a project called Spy on Squeaksource including a profiler
to keep track of memory consumption for Pharo/Squeak.

Alexandre has more infos on this including a paper explaining the idea.

Seaside 3.0 is available for Dolphin too

Seaside 3.0 is now also ported to Dolphin Smalltalk. Read more and download it here.

The next milestone reached!

Pavel was able to load the the rest of PharoCore packages into the PharoKernel image. Yet another step regarding the modularization of Pharo. In the end the goal is to be able to build the current Pharo image on top of the (headless) Pharo kernel image.

Simple morphic

There is a redesign of Morphic called "SimpleMorphic" available. More details here.

Cuis 2.8

Juan has released Cuis 2.8. Details here.

More RUT-K infos

Interesting ... I've found a paper on RUT-K, a train scheduling system written in Smalltalk which I helped to develop as a Smalltalk consultant (I already wrote about it here). It is used by german railway for schedule planning.

The paper is in german and contains two screenshots of the application (page 6 and 7).

The web contains even more info like

• a presentation from Jochen on RUT-K
  
• infos from Martin on the Oracle part for the mobile version of RUT-K
  
• a paper on the theory behind all this and how the projects fit together
  

RoarVM - Pharo and Squeak on multicore

How cool is that, IBM made the RoarVM available as OpenSource on Github:

"RoarVM, formerly known as the Renaissance Virtual Machine (RVM) is developed as part of a IBM Research project to investigate programming paradigms and languages for manycore systems of the future. Specifically, this VM is meant to support manycore systems with more than 1000 cores in the future.

The RVM was open sourced by IBM Research under the Eclipse Public License. Please see the open source announcement for further information.

Today, the RoarVM supports the parallel execution of Smalltalk programs on x86 compatible multicore systems and Tilera TILE64-based manycore systems. It is tested with standard Squeak 4.1 closure-enabled images, and with a stripped down version of a MVC-based Squeak 3.9 image."

It is compatible with Squeak 4.1 and Pharo 1.2, has full closure support and was
tested with 8 cores, 16 hyperthreads on Intel systems/tested with 56 cores on Tilera TILE64/TILEPro64 processors.

Accessing Twitter from Pharo

It's easy to access and display Twitter messages using the Pharo Smalltalk system with the JSON package and my help system implementation.

Still I dont know how to get the correct channel hash for the Pharo project...

Comments appreciated!