TalkFFI

There is an initial release for TalkFFI - a new project to automatically generate the Smalltalk bindings for FFI (here NativeBoost in Pharo) right from the header files.

Jun for Smalltalk

The Jun for Smalltalk project (a library to handle 3D graphics and multimedia) has a new version "Jun794" released.

Pharo Finder Tricks

Ben shares some tricks about the Pharo Finder tool.

Oak - distributed persistence using Smalltalk

Göran writes about Oak - a project for Smalltalk to make use of Riak for distributed and easy object persistence.

Fuel 1.8.1

There is a new Fuel release now ready for many image versions: Pharo 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.0 Squeak 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 Read more here.

Magma 1.4 is out

The Squeak Magma Database 1.4 is out.

BioSmalltalk 0.4

A new release of BioSmalltalk is available.

Squeak on RISC OS Pi

Tim Rowledge may be known to you. He ported Squeak to the Acorn RISC processor and wrote "A Tour of the Squeak Object Engine" when working at Interval Research. He is now working on the Raspberry Pi (RISC OS Pi) and as of today he has a running Squeak on it.

Need chocolate

The company Object profile is hiring: "Object Profile is hiring: Yes! We are ready to share our happyness! We are looking for fulltime and partime engineers to share fine chocolate." So if you want to work with Pharo and VW contact them.

Pharo Google Plus Community

There is now also a Google+ community for Pharo.

Deprecation in the context of Smalltalk

There is a new paper and presentation online about "How Do Developers React to API Deprecation? The Case of a Smalltalk Ecosystem."

Ruby, Smalltalk and Class Variables

Nice comparision of class variables in Smalltalk and Ruby.

Cuis 4.1.

Cuis 4.1. is released.

A Second Look At The First OO Language

Interesting article: Today’s Smalltalk: A Second Look At The First OO Language

Slides from Pharo workshop

Here are the new slides from Pharo workshop at fOSSa: - Talk 1: Pharo : a Dynamic Reflective System. Slides - Talk 2: Pharo: Syntax in a Nutshell. Slides - Talk 3: Pharo in the Real World. Slides

Pharo 2.0 enters Beta

Pharo 2.0 is now beta.

Smalltalk Tutorial app

There is a Smalltalk tutorial app available on Heroku: http://smalltalktutorial.herokuapp.com

NativeBoost video

A new video where Igor explains NativeBoost for Pharo.

Redline Smalltalk article on jaxenter

There is a new online article on jaxenter (online page from Java's JAX magazine) about Redline Smalltalk.

Redline Smalltalk in Maven (Maven plugin)

Not only is Redline available in a Maven repo (the JAR's, I reported about it). Now there is also a Maven plugin for Redline. Haven tried yet - but the plugin's mojo has one simple goal: stic So adding it to maven pom.xml should be easy. Here is a sample.