Smalltalk with James Robertson

The summer release (mostly bugfixes) for Pharo 2.0 is available:

The Pharo Team is happy to announce the Pharo 2 Summer release, the regular half of the year bugfix edition.

For this version, we incorporated really few changes since 2.0 was a really successful release. Anyway, we managed to sneak in a couple of minor additions:

• Integrated ProfStef
• Updated Configurations Browser

Also, we integrated 42 bugfixes, 20 of them backported from 3. 0 alpha.

As always, Summer edition can be downloaded at:

http://www.pharo-project.org/pharo-download

Tags: pharo

You can get all the details from Juan Vuletich's posting in Squeak-Dev

Tags: cuis

The registration system for ESUG 2013 is available - the conference will be held Annecy France, between September 9-13.

Tags: esug13

VisualWorks has one of these - now Pharo does as well:

Erwan and I are proud to announce the first release of the Pharo Launcher, a cross-platform application that

• lets you manage your Pharo images (launch, rename, copy and delete)
• lets you download image templates (i.e., zip archives) from many different sources (Jenkins, files.pharo.org, and your local cache)
• lets you create new images from any template

Tags: pharo, launcher

Niall Ross' ESUG 2012 report is out

Tags: esug

Spotted in The Hitchhiker's Guide to Smalltalk:

The next Pharo version (Pharo 3.) which is in preparation now has Athens and Cairo integrated for better graphics.

Tags: pharo

Without leaving home - Dave Buck is offering virtual classes:

Simberon will be offering three Webcast Smalltalk courses over the summer.

Introduction to VisualWorks Smalltalk July 22-26, 2013

Introduction to VASmalltalk Aug 19-23, 2013

Improving Object Oriented Design Aug 13-16, 2013

You don't need to travel to attend these courses. They are all instructor-led over the Internet. All you need is a web browser. If you're interested in taking any of these courses, follow the links above for information and to register for the courses or email info@simberon.com.

Tags: training

I like the idea behind this GSOC project - we need a simpler rewrite system in Smalltalk :)

Tags: rewrite, gsoc

If you want to go "all in", using Smalltalk for your presentation itself, then have a look at Presenty for Pharo

Tags: pharo, presenty

From Stef:

We received already many good proposals but we know that you are busy now. So we decided to grant an extension for the call for presentation up 7 of July 2013. We will notify current proposers by the end of the current week -ie: 22.

For more details, just check out the ESUG conference site.

Tags: esug