Smalltalk with James Robertson

Pharo is starting to get noticed:

Pharo is a fork from the Squeak open-source Smalltalk and provides an incredibly rich development environment. As a consultant people pay me to design and write code in Ruby, Clojure, Common Lisp, and Java. That said, for non-work related experiments, Pharo is a lot of fun to use: a modern and free Smalltalk environment. I just wanted to say thanks to the Pharo team: great work! I recently downloaded the 2.0 development build - exciting to see new features. One thing in particular that strikes me as awesome about Pharo is that it is very light weight, using little memory and CPU resources. I wrote a blog 5 years ago about deploying Squeak to Linux servers. I am a little surprised that Pharo is not more widely used for rich web applications

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The latest PharoCast shows you how to get access to your Picasa photo stream using Pharo:

Display Picasa photos from Laurent Laffont on Vimeo.

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Dale is asking for some feedback on his latest Metacello work:

I've got draft documentation written for the primary scripting API commands and would appreciate some feedback.

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Torsten Bergmann:

If you grab the latest Pharo 2.0 version from the CI server you will see that it has some countless new features

Follow the link to see all of the features Torsten is talking about. I've covered some of these in my screencast series.

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Scratch is now shipping with Debian:

Scratch has finally reached Debian repositories. Scratch is a programming learning environment created by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab designed to be accessible by young learners (over 8 years old). Scratch makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art through a visual interface based on blocks. Thus, beginners can get results without having to learn to write syntactically correct code first. It is powerful enough to have even been adopted as an entry-level computer language in computer science programs at different universities.

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Pharo News:

m in charge of the administrative aspect of the consoritum here is the setup we finally want for the consortium.

They have a setup for individual and group (corporate) membership; check it out.

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Congratulations to Georg and his company on reaching their Silver Anniversary:

7/7/1987 I founded my company, thus we will celebrate our silver anniversary 7/7/2012. Hereby I invite you and your friends and colleagues to celebrate with us. Saturday, 7/7/2012, an open day will take place from 10 am to 4 pm in our house in Wallstr. 22 in Köthen under the motto "Actually what does the company Heeg do?".

I'd love to be there with them to celebrate, but it's a bit of a walk for me :)

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The web isn't just for Javascript anymore :)

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There are new reader/writer frameworks for CSV and JSON in Pharo

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Guillermo Polito has been making some progress on his bootstrapping efforts in Pharo. Lots of details at the link, with more specific ones outlned in these three posts:

• Chapter 1: Preparing the Soil
• Chapter 2: Do not mess with the VM
• Chapter 3: It's Alive!

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