Pharo image mirror

There is now a mirror for the pharo images. Read more

ESUG 2012 slides

James Foster reports that the ESUG 2012 slides are available.

Metacello port for Smalltalk/X

There is a Metacello port for Smalltalk/X.

VASmalltalk 8.5.2.

A new version 8.5.2. of VASmalltalk is out.

Squeak Windows VM 4.10.2

Ian updated the standard Squeak VM (non-cog) also for Windows. Feel free to help testing.

Smalltalk Programming with Spoon

Craig organizes a Guru session on "Smalltalk Programming with Spoon" in Amsterdam.

"I love Smalltalk" ribbon

Want to add an "I love Smalltalk" ribbon to your webpage. Here it is.

Zinc Websockets project

from Sven is available as a first official release

Source Code Tour Guide

There is a small tool called "SourceCodeTourGuide" which may help you digging into Pharos code. Here is how to use it. Worked for me in Pharo 1.4. Here is a demo video.

Squeak Unix VM 4.10.2-2593

Ian released the Squeak Unix VM (non-Cog version) 4.10.2

New World

The World of Smalltalk (www.world.st) website has been changed. Nice - it includes more infos now.

Aida 6.5 Summer release

Janko has Aida 6.5 ready. The webframework now also includes support for OpenID authentication and OAuth authorization. By default it includes support for JQuery, Twitter bootstrap and Amber.

Run Seaside 3.1 on Pharo 2.0

You want to run Seaside 3.1 already on Pharo 2.0 (both not yet released) to work on the bleeding edge versions. Here is how.

Gesture Recognizer

Need a $1 Unistroke Recognizer? There is an implementation in JavaScript that is ported to Smalltalk as well.

JITting on ARM

Lars has some news on his GSoC project on JITting on ARM. With his VM Plugin for the Cog VM it should be possible to enable debugging and simulation of the ARM-JIT.

WebSockets for Pharo (Zinc)

The "Zinc HTTP Components" framework for Pharo will support WebSockets in the near future. An initial implementation is already available as Sven (the author of Zinc) announced today.

Thanks to a financial incentive (from Andy Bernett from Knowinnovation) Sven is now sponsored to implement it in an open source way and release the code with MIT license.

Bootstrap 2.1

Ahh ... Bootstrap 2.1. is out! Nice!

SourceCity for Pharo

There is CodeCity written in VisualWorks. Looks like there were some issues with licensing for commercial use.

Now there is a similar tool called "SourceCity" for Pharo.

Have a look at the demo video. Unfortunately it will not be open source - according to Stef:

 "Now we are developing since more than six months a replacement from scratch but it will not be open-source. Interested people will be able to contact us and we will license them the software."

Sad - it would have been a nice example for using NativeBoost. But meanwhile Igor wrote some documentation for NativeBoost using the HelpSystem.

Object Centric Debugging

Read about "Object Centric Debugging" here or watch the teaser video for ICSE2012 here.

Roassal video

There is a new video about the Roassal visualization engine available. It also includes a preview of the port to Amber (to run client side in the browser).