VoxelSpace

VoxelSpace - a simple Voxel raster graphics rendering engine written in Pharo:

https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/VoxelSpace

New Video on Quuve - a web application written in Pharo

A new video from http://www.debrispublishing.com about the highlights of Quuve - an application written in Pharo.

PharoTech Talk Nov. 21 - DiscordSt - accessing Discord from Pharo

The video from this weeks TechTalk on Pharo (in higher quality). The talk was about Discord access from Pharo. Code is on GitHub:

  https://github.com/JurajKubelka/DiscordSt

Grease for Squeak 6 and Pharo 7

The Grease portability library now loadable on Squeak-trunk (Squeak 6) and Pharo-alpha (Pharo 7)

Pharo deployments based on minimal image

A step to step tutorial for prepare the minimal image for deploy is here. More details are here.

YandexTranslator for Pharo

An implementation for the Yandex rest translation service for Smalltalk. Code is here: https://github.com/matias-pierobon/YandexTranslator

Lazaro - Screen reading for Pharo

A set of adapters for most of the famous and popular screen readers. This package allows you to use a screen reader with Pharo. Code is here: https://github.com/matiasmelendi/Lazaro

Winter - Develop games in Pharo

Project "Winter" from Alvaro Piorno is the new and updated version of "Storm" from Esteban Lorenzano. It is a 2D game development framework using FFI with Chipmunk2D Physics Engine. Code is on GitHub: https://github.com/apiorno/Winter

OpenSSL wrapper for Pharo

Pierce started with an initial OpenSSL wrapper for Pharo

Trapping Unix Signals in Pharo

A new library that allows you to trap Unix signals in Pharo. Basically it uses UFFI to register a callback on the C library function signal()

SeasideTesting recovered

Seasside testing brought to attention again.

Allen Wirfs-Brock - A Modular Journey To A World Spanning Virtual Image

Interesting video on the history of Smalltalk at Tectronix from Allen Wirfs-Brock



 and the slides are available here.

Libusb binding and HID for Pharo

There is a Libusb  binding (using UFFI) and support for the Human Interface Device - HID (that uses the binding but is written in pure Smalltalk) for Pharo. Code is on GitHub.

Read the announcement

Software exploration tool Moose2Model for developers (ABAP, SAP, Java, Smalltalk, …) – Roadmap

There is a Software exploration tool Moose2Model for developers (ABAP, SAP, Java, Smalltalk, …) written in Pharo. You can now read the Roadmap. You can see some of this in the ESUG 2017 presentation of Rainer Winkler

Pharo success story: Driving ATMs in Moscow streets (Videos)

As I already reported here Pharo 1.1 was used to build ATM-kind software in Russian Bank. Such devices could be found in Moscow streets. Now there are two videos available on that, one showing the system in action



 and one showing it in Pharo development environment:

Class annotations for Pharo

Experiments to provide Class Annotations for Pharo.

Creating Bloc Widgets in Pharo

Bloc is ready for experiments. In this video Stephan Eggermont is playing with Bloc widgets:

Kobald - Web Usability as a Service

Kobald - Web Usability as a Service. A tool to find usability issues on your Web App automatically. Developed at LIFIA - Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina using Pharo and Seaside.

See it live at http://autorefactoring.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar and check the code at https://github.com/juliangrigera/Kobold

Smalltalk ENVY

Nice - this blog post brings back some memories on ENVY - a Smalltalk source code management system. I used ENVY in the past too and still have a signed copy of the book "Mastering ENVY/Developer" in my bookshelf

And yes - after coding in VisualAge for Smalltalk I also used VisualAge for Java which was really a nice tool for that time - it lowered the Java pain. Because at that time most Java people coded in editors like Notepad while VisualAge for Java was a full IDE with Browser, Debugger and all. It was built on top of the Smalltalk version like most of the members of the VisualAge family

Tonel

Tonel is a file-per-class format for monticello repositories. It allows to store the class definition and methods in a single file. The idea is to use this for a more performant git support in Pharo (as currently a file per method is used). Code is in https://github.com/pharo-vcs/tonel