Planet Squeak

Pharo News Blog: ST 4U 386: Code Critic in Pharo

2013-05-25T09:09:15+00:00

Pharo 2.0 includes the code critic tool, which lets you take a look at possible defects in your code

The Weekly Squeak: Smalltalk under the Pi: an Interview with tim Rowledge

2013-05-24T18:43:26+00:00

Don’t miss Tim’s interview with SmalltalkInspect! You can find it here: Smalltalk under the Pi: an Interview with tim Rowledge

In this episode we talk to tim Rowledge about his work on Smalltalk VMs over the years, especially for the RISC OS Platform and ARM machines.. The latest and probably hottest thing in this arena is his port of Squeak to the Raspberry Pi. This is not only cool in itself, but more importantly enables Raspberry Pi users to use Scratch and EToys on this little machine on RISC OS (the Raspbian Linux version existed before). You can probably imagine how much fun we had in recording this session.

Pharo News Blog: ST 4U 385: Pharo Browser Tools

2013-05-24T11:12:18+00:00

In Pharo 2.0, a few useful browsing tools are easily accessible on the right hand side of the code pane - today we'll explore them

Torsten Bergmann: STIC 2013

2013-05-24T07:44:15+00:00

Only a few days until STIC 2013 starts.

Torsten Bergmann: HPI Seaside Tutorial updated

2013-05-24T07:41:36+00:00

The Seaside tutorial from HPI Potsdam is updated and there are two new chapters about testing and web feeds.

Torsten Bergmann: Interview about Amber

2013-05-23T21:48:50+00:00

Phillipe Back interviewed Nicholas Petton, creator of Amber Smalltalk.

Torsten Bergmann: SOMETHINGit

2013-05-23T21:47:04+00:00

A project to write sound programs using Haskell and Smalltalk.

Torsten Bergmann: Avocado

2013-05-23T21:36:00+00:00

A "Self programming" like environment within the browser is here.

Torsten Bergmann: Experimental White Space theme for Pharo

2013-05-23T21:31:53+00:00

Pharo supports UI theming and there is now a new experimental "White space theme" from Tudor.

Torsten Bergmann: Web with Pharo

2013-05-23T21:29:55+00:00

Inria is organizing a conference around the web and pharo the 6 June 2013 at Euratechnologies, Lille. Read more.

Torsten Bergmann: peer.js and Amber Smalltalk

2013-05-23T21:25:35+00:00

There is a new binding to peer.js for Amber. You can find the project here.

The Weekly Squeak: Squeakfest 2013 in Uruguay

2013-05-23T15:14:28+00:00

It’s that time again. Time to pack up the kids and join us at SqueakFest 2013. Don’t forget to bring your XO computer!

If you can’t make it please consider a donation to help cover travel costs: Donate

For more information see: Squeakfest 2013

From Rita:

There will be a Squeakfest again in Uruguay at June, 7th – 9th, this time in Atlantida. Etoys will cover the major part of the event, but there will also be workshops in Python, turtle art and robotics. After all, Uruguay is the country with XO-laptops in every elementary school and teachers are using the software which comes with Sugar.

http://squeakfest2013.weebly.com/

From our education team, Randall Caton and myself are going to present Etoys workshops. This year, I’ll introduce Kedama. I’m looking forward to an inspiring event!

If you want to help or know someone who would like to, I created a crowdfunding page to collect money to help to cover our travel cost. Please share as you like!

http://crowdfundedu.com/fundraiser/educators-to-squeakfest

Greetings,

Rita

Pharo News Blog: Pharo by Example Spanish

2013-05-21T11:42:55+00:00

A Spanish translation of the Pharo by Example book is available.

- PDF: here
- http://pharobyexample.org

Torsten Bergmann: To trap a better mouse

2013-05-21T09:45:47+00:00

Ian Piumarta (Squeak Unix VM maintainer, long time Squeaker and Smalltalker) who is working for Viewpoints Research Institute will speak Wednesday May 29, 2013, 3:30 pm at Room W1008, West Building 8W, Ookayama campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology about "To trap a better mouse".

Pharo News Blog: Malinglist Move

2013-05-19T13:04:11+00:00

The Pharo users and development lists have been moved to a new (and hopefully more stable) server.

pharo-dev: this is the development list discussing the development of Pharo itself.

pharo-users: This is for everyone who uses Pharo to develop Software and for those who want to learn Pharo.

The most comprehensive archive can be found on Nabble (users, dev).

Pharo News Blog: Pharo Mailinglist Move

2013-05-19T12:54:44+00:00

Pharo Mailinglist Move

Pharo News Blog: Mailinglists Moved

2013-05-19T12:52:03+00:00

The pharo development and user mailinglists moved to a new server last week.

Pharo News Blog: Web with Pharo Conference 6 June 2013 @ Lille

2013-05-17T09:07:32+00:00

Inria is organizing a conference around the web and pharo the 6 June 2013 at Euratechnologies, Lille.

https://www.inria.fr/centre/lille/agenda/web-3.0-avec-pharo

Great speakers (J. Brichau from Yesplan, N. Petton from Amber and objectfusion, N Hartl from 2Denker,...) will present their business and products as well as some of the technology they use.
Do not miss this key event!

https://www.facebook.com/events/534073843317751/

Register at: http://bit.ly/16ahf7f

Stephan Wessels: Part of my Squeak Tutorial was translated to Serbo-Croatian

2013-05-16T02:58:56+00:00

Here’s the link to the translated page: Squeak Tutorial page translated to Serbo-Croatian.

I added a note to the page explaining what happened and why. Pretty neat.

Pharo News Blog: Pharo3: The Power of the AST

2013-05-14T09:53:16+00:00

Pharo3 development is rapidly progressing. One of the plans for Pharo3 is to use a high level code model based on the the AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) of the Refactoring Engine.

We will use it in many contexts, here are two examples.

Navigation. When selecting code or navigating expressions, the editor can do better then just using word boundaries:

Suggestions. When we want to do an actions on a selection, why not just show those that make sense? Why do I need to carefully highlight a selector to browser implementors? The AST model can do much better!

This work is done by Gisela Decuzzi and available in the last Pharo3 builds. More to come! e.g. better shortcuts, AST based syntax highlighting, and much more.

Pharo News Blog: ST 4U 383: Pharo Command Shell

2013-05-14T07:19:45+00:00

Using Pharo 2.0, you can get a unix style command shell within the environment.

Torsten Bergmann: Amber Smalltalk progressing

2013-05-13T15:22:57+00:00

The Helios IDE of Amber Smalltalk is progressing. Read more.

Torsten Bergmann: Suggestions in Pharo 3.0

2013-05-13T15:02:35+00:00

The upcoming Pharo 3.0 provides "suggestions" in the code editor. Here is a demo video.

Torsten Bergmann: High-Level Musical Concepts in µO

2013-05-13T14:59:30+00:00

There is a new paper available about Musical concepts represented in Smalltalk code.

Pharo News Blog: Videos of PharoConf 2013

2013-05-08T10:07:13+00:00

The Videos of PharoConf 2013 (held in Bern, Switzerland) are now available.

- Youtube Playlist

Torsten Bergmann: Bootstrap

2013-05-06T22:10:27+00:00

Using ObjectSpaces one can bootstrap a Smalltalk system ... read more.

Torsten Bergmann: Kinematic Templates in Smalltalk

2013-05-06T06:47:50+00:00

The Kinematic Templates interaction technique suggests adjusting the user's mouse input to it tends to match a drawing template. That allows the user to draw in free-hand mode and obtain a "beautified" version of it's hand drawing.

There is an implementation for Pharo. Read more or watch the video or read the paper.

Pharo News Blog: Video: Fuel and Tanker demo session

2013-05-06T06:35:28+00:00

Demo of the object serializer "Fuel" and the experimental package loader "Tanker" which uses Fuel.

Torsten Bergmann: Redline ST IntelliJ plugin

2013-05-06T00:26:40+00:00

There is now a preview video for the IntelliJ IDEA Redline Smalltalk plugin available.

Torsten Bergmann: Gnome2 look for VW

2013-05-06T00:22:57+00:00

A look redesign for VisualWorks matching Gnome2 is now available.