Smalltalk with James Robertson

Spotted in Planet Squeak

We are proud to announce Fuel 1.8 with a lot of new features and documentation. Of course, we don't stop working but it was time to freeze a stable version. Fuel is an open-source general-purpose object serialization framework developed in Pharo Smalltalk environment.

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Spotted in The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...

Exotic but possible: Squeak virtual machine now also runs on JSLinux using the mini.image. JSLinux is a x86 PC emulator written in JavaScript and running in a web browser. Here is the video and announcement from Pavel. I expect more and more emulators running on top of JavaScript. Maybe one day it is fast enough to load and run Windows or Ubuntu on top of the JS engine right within your pc/tablet/phones web browser. Interesting times...

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Mariano has some Pharo tips:

Hi guys. It is going to be 4 years since I have started to develop with Squeak/Pharo. In the last months, talking with people or by reading the mailing list, I noticed that I may know some tricks and tips of Pharo that not everybody know. If you are an advanced Pharaoer, you probably won't learn anything new but, if you are a beginner or so, this post may help you.

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I saw this on the ESUG mailing list:

I am pleased to announce that registration for the 20th ESUG Conference in Ghent, Belgium is now open!

To register, please proceed to the website or go directly to the accomodations page.

Important: do not forget to book your accomodation directly at one of the hotels in Ghent before June30th!

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Craig Latta would like to hear from you about Spoon.

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One thing about Smalltalk - it will definitely make you think.

Travis talks sorting n VisualWorks:

The core default sort algorithm in VisualWorks is hybridization of quicksort and a insertion sort. The implications for this, is that this somewhat expensive toolListDisplayString method may be called repeatedly for some objects. That means redundant CPU cycles. A common solution to this kind of problem is memoization. Memoization basically is a fancy word which means "cache the results of your computation function, so you only evaluate the function once for each unique input and just look up the cached result for subsequent calls."

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There's another logging framework available for Smalltalk, but this one isn't standalone - it's an interface to Fluentd:

Nagare is designed to be simple and scalable. Contrary to other logging frameworks which provide rich set of log output methods (file, socket, DB, etc.), Nagare just connects to fluentd (http://fluentd.org). And Fluentd does the various log processing jobs.

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Need to load a bunch of stuff into a new Pharo image before you get to work? Mariano has some tools for that.

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Torsten spots some Android progress for Smalltalk:

Hilaire Fernandes made DrGeo for Android available. DrGeo is built using Pharo Smalltalk.

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