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Pharo Newsletter March 2020

GitHub Digest

Weekly Digest (24 February 2020 - 2 March 2020) Link
Weekly Digest (17 February 2020 - 24 February 2020) Link
Weekly Digest (10 February 2020 - 17 February 2020) Link
Weekly Digest (3 February 2020 - 10 February 2020) Link

Mediaclue: Web based media assets management

I'm a Pharo lover for many years. A huge thanks to all of you, making Pharo possible! As a giving back I would like to open source some of my business projects (Thanks to my supporting customers, too). The first is a web based media assets management called "mediaclue" (Think of it as a image/audio/video/document sharing platform, e.g. for teachers inside a school):

https://github.com/talk-small-be-open/mediaclue
https://www.mediaclue.ch/site/

(Everything is ready for simple install into a fresh Linux server with included Ansible provisioning scripts to create the whole appliance)

Cheers!

Andreas Brodbeck

P.S. The UI language is still german at the moment, but that should turn multilanguage eventually

Tutorials and Blog Posts

Concurrent Programming in Pharo: This book presents the basic elements of concurrency in Pharo. Link
Building Webapps Like it's 1972 Link
99 bottles of beer, auf Smalltalk (The Beginning of Extreme Programming) Link
DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in Pharo Link
Tutorial for Roassal3 Link
Presentation about Grafiscopio at FOSDEM Link

Research with Pharo

The Kendrick modelling platform: language abstractions and tools for epidemiology Paper
Sub-method, partial behavioral reflection with Reflectivity: Looking back on 10 years of use Paper

uFFI Booklet v1.0

We have been working a lot in the last months in the documentation of uFFI, and we are happy to announce a first stable version of it that you’ll find in a link below :)
The booklet talks about uFFI, how to use it, how marshalling works, how to use structures, unions, etc.
And it is aimed for the version present on Pharo8.0.

https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/Booklet-uFFI/releases/tag/v1.0.1

Of course, a v1 does not mean it’s perfect. Future versions will include new chapters/features that are on the pipeline such as callbacks and how to specify string encodings in your bindings.

Cheers, Guille on behalf of everybody that helped and contributed to this

New Libraries

Territorial: Package for Geographic Information Retrieval GitHub
StringUtilities: StringSlice. GitHub
ImageForm: Small Lib for basic Image processing GitHub
PragmaCompatibility: Project to manage the `keyword` -> `selector` compatibility of Pragma before and after Pharo 6.1 GitHub
ReStoreForPharo: Relational database persistence for Pharo objects GitHub
RSSTools-Pharo: Objects to work with RSS feeds and the Fever API GitHub
Casino: A Pharo Smalltalk project that migrates web projects from Java to Angular GitHub
mediaclue: Web based media assets management GitHub
NeoDNS: Experimental in-image DNS implementation for Pharo GitHub
Dawn Theme - A Warm Dark theme for coding in Pharo Link
COVID-2019 - Analysis of Coronavirus outbreak data with Pharo GitHub
Pharo-YUML: Simple YUML Link generator to document classes in Pharo GitHub
Pharo-Teachable: A teachable object for Pharo GitHub

Dawn Theme - A Warm Dark theme for coding in Pharo Link

Errata

In the February newsletter, a wrong link slipped through:

Smallbook, Tool for creating presentations with basic slides GitHub

Updates

ViennaTalk (a LIVE IDE for VDM-SL): New Release Codename Porto GitHub
PolyMath 1.0.2, the computational framework for Pharo GitHub
Pharo-VistaCursors: Changes the Pharo cursor on Windows GitHub
Pharo-Harbour: A simple file browser experiment for Pharo GitHub
PharoJS: Develop in Pharo, Run on JavaScript http://pharojs.org, GitHub

Jobs

ZWEIDENKER is looking for Pharo developers (Cologne, Germany). Contact <mail@zweidenker.de> for more information.
PhD Position Inria: Advanced and extendable tools and virtual machines for debugging Link