Swiki in Squeak 4.5

Swiki was and still is one of the best (and most easy to use/maintain) implementations of a wiki. It is written in Squeak Smalltalk and I usually use the Winterlong release back from 2005. With it a Swiki server is easy to setup (just unzip and run) and as it stores the files in XML they are easy to backup, repair or query.

Now Chris got Swiki working in a recent Squeak 4.5. image also. Nice!

Smalltalks 2014 conference schedule

Smalltalks 2014's preliminary conference schedule is now available, check it here.

Smalltalk cheat sheet

Need a litte Smalltalk cheat sheet - then look here.

PharoDays 2015

Read all the details about the upcoming Pharo conference and check the doodle.

Chat on AmberSmalltalk

see here https://gitter.im/amber-smalltalk/amber

PharoDays pre check participation

There is a conference planned in Lille the 29 and 30 of January called "PharoDays". Read here to find the Doodle.

Some postings on the Iliad framework

Iliad is a web framework for Pharo, some posts on it can be found here:

http://leonardoce.github.io/

Substructure Random Fractal

in Pharo. See here.

Agile visulization

using Pharo. Read more at http://agilevisualization.com/

Pharo success stories

More and more Pharo success stories appear. Like this about the usage in a bank.

APL concepts in Pharo

Want to use APL (Array processing language) like concepts in Pharo. Then have a look here.

Amber 0.13 is released

Read more.

Phratch 4.0 release

Phratch 4.0 is available. Read more or grab it from http://www.phratch.com/.

Spur trunk image available

New Spur trunk image is available.

PharoNOS - Pharo No Operating System

Booting Pharo as OS with only 55MB ISO image. Read more and take care where you use it (best on a virtual platform to not to erase disks)

Pharo 4 progressing

Pharo 4.0 is not yet released but progressing. Beside many many other stuff some of the interesting things include:

• integration of GTTools allowing for quickly building nice tools like custom browsers and inspectors, (also see this video)
• Properties for classes
• a Compiled Method inspector

ESUG 2014 Photos

Photos from European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) 2014 conference can be found here.

Smalltalk news on all sides

While I often blog about news in the open source Smalltalk scene one additionally has to note that the commercial Smalltalk vendors are also playing well. Interesting news from Instantiations about upcoming VASmalltalk and similar news from Cincom about CincomSmalltalk appear regulary on the web. Nice!

VISSOFT 2014

2nd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization is currently held in Victoria, CA. From the twitter posts it looks like the Pharo based agile visualization tools are interesting for the participants.

Smalltalk block translator

Use blocks for parsing. Read more.