Creating Time-based One-time Passwords with Pharo

Nice article about creating Time-based One-time Passwords with Pharo.

Elasticsearch with Smalltalk

Elasticsearch claims to be a "flexible and powerful open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud". There is now a Pharo binding available for it from Paul.

Sqnappy - a Squeak/Pharo binding of the snappy compressor library

Snappy is a compression/decompression library. Its does not provide best compression - but is very fast. Now there is a Squeak/Pharo binding to the compressor library available. Read more here.

ESUG 2013 Call for Participation

You can find more infos about this years ESUG on James blog or from Stefs initial post.

Scratch conference 2013

There is a scratch conference (Citilab Barcelona) running 25-27 July, 2013

Smart Suggestions for Pharo

The idea of "Smart Suggestions for Pharo" is to have suggestions based in the text selected or the cursor position in the code editor.

Read more about and see some screenshots here.

Pharo and Ubuntu

Easy installation of Pharo on Ubuntu progresses. Nice!

Processing MJPEG streams with Pharo Smalltalk

Nice samples of how to view and capture MJPEG streams with Pharo Smalltalk.

ObjC bridge for Pharo

Esteban is working on an ObjC bridge for Pharo. Here is a first demo video comparing graphics within the world canvas and outside of the usual Morphic World using the bridge.

Pharo 3.0 and Opal compiler

After Pharo 2.0 came out the development on 3.0 immediately started.

Pharo 3.0 already has many new updates and today it also integrates Opal (a new compiler).
If you want to know more about Opal then read here or look at this presentation from the Deep into Smalltalk summer school.

Still Opal is not the default compiler - but step by step...

The rationale behind Spec

the new way to define composable UI's in Pharo is summarized here and there is a tech report also available.

PharoConf Videos

Three videos from PharoConf

• Building UIs with Spec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P98-qpLUvQQ
• Data Migration with Moose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SGHV1lCry0
• Pharo Roadmap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xRVzzjgPu8
• FileSystem-Git: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qld2mDIbg4

More to come (like Taming MongoDB from Pharo) on the Pharo Days video channel.

Athens Tutorial

Want to use the new Athens graphics package? There is a new tutorial that you can run from within the image. This video from James shows how to use it.

Profiling using Spy framework

Alexandre Bergel is demonstrating some profiling and visualization of the Spy framework. He uses package "HelpSystem" - stuff that I wrote back in 2010. Interesting point of view on things I did myself in the past. Looks like I should apply these visualizations to the new Online Help system as well to get even better results. Thanks!

Interactive Smalltalk

A really nice video from Esteban that demonstrates the interactive nature of Smalltalk development and scripting facilities - here with Pharo. The demo is using Storm (a small game engine).

Pharo Resource page

James Robertson is offering a "Pharo Resource page" with links to his videos about Pharo. Nice!

Smalltalk and GSoC 2013

The Smalltalk projects were again accepted for the Google Summer of code!

Physical Etoys 2.1 released

Read more here.

First 13 minutes of PharoConf

First 13 minutes of Pharo conference are available as video. Others are in preparation.

Pharo package for Ubuntu

There is now also a special Pharo package for Ubuntu, so you can easily install it. Read more.