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Seaside 3.5.0

https://github.com/SeasideSt/Seaside/releases/tag/v3.5.0

New version of Pillar

We are happy to announce a new release of pillar that supports the use of microdown as format. Check http://github.com/pillar-markup/pillar

Iconography

Import, manage, get and store/cache icons into Pharo from standard icons libraries. https://github.com/OpenSmock/Iconography

DiscOrDance

DiscOrDance and Vizor are now publicly available under MIT License! They support the analysis of discord forum.

You can find them on GitHub under USIREVEAL

• https://github.com/USIREVEAL/DiscOrDance and
• https://github.com/USIREVEAL/Vizor.

Nova Stelo

NovaStelo is a block-style programming environment for multi agent system https://github.com/EiichiroIto/NovaStelo

Gratch

Block-style programming environment for tackling graph structure and algorithm https://github.com/EiichiroIto/Gratch

Cormas:

A simple Telegram bot that allows users to control Cormas simulation with their phones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRIRMZyDGSE

Pharo from Emacs

https://revival.sh/shampoo/

Bell: An observability library written in Smalltalk

https://t.co/0lt1lwRUod

Bindings for raylib

https://github.com/Zenchess/pharoRaylib

Gameye for Pharo

GAMEYE.app collection mobile App model and tools for Pharo. https://github.com/labordep/PharoGameye

Pharo Netatmo API implementation for Legrand Netatmo products.

Supported products : Weather station products / Healthy HomeCoach / Aircare product https://github.com/labordep/PharoNetatmoAPI

- Bytepair encoding

Just to announce a first implementation of BytePairEncoding (a king of subword identification and text compression for Pharo). More precisely: it is a Subword-based tokenization algorithm. https://github.com/Ducasse/BytePairEncoder/

Memory Profiler

https://github.com/jordanmontt/illimani-memory-profiler

Neo Networking

This package contains a small framework to set up TCP or UDP network servers/services. By subclassing and overwriting just a couple of methods you get a working server for a specific protocol. https://github.com/svenvc/NeoNetworking

Accent transformers

https://github.com/JanBliznicenko/accent-transformer

SnapDump

is a software for pharo to create and manage runtime snapshots. https://github.com/zweidenker/SnapDump

Pharo tiny images

I added a ‘dynamic’ image to the TinyBootstrap repo. It is a tiny image containing a pre-installed code loader. This code loader allows you to load additional classes and methods and (optionally) save this in the image. Code (in the form of a class method) can be executed from the command line. Once the image has the required content and functions as expected, it can be ‘fused’ in which case the code loader is removed from the image and only the defined functionality remains. To allow code to be installed from a regular Pharo 10 image, a small TinyTools repo is available which allows generation of code files. It also contains a small ‘Inspector’ class which simply prints out all classes (and optionally methods) which are present in the image. Installing this class is explained in the TinyTools readme.

The encoder/decoder combi used is an adapted version of the encoder/decoder in CodeParadise which are used to send code and objects between browser and application server.

Have fun Smalltalking to tiny images!

• https://github.com/ErikOnBike/TinyTools
• https://github.com/ErikOnBike/TinyBootstrap/blob/main/README.md#dynamic-image

CODEPARADISE ON PHARO11

Hi all. A small holiday present for anyone interested: https://github.com/ErikOnBike/CodeParadise now runs on P10 (and P11 with some care)! If you are using it on P8, please unload the CP-ClientEnvironment and reload it using the “pharo8” branch:

Metacello new repository: 'github://ErikOnBike/CP-ClientEnvironment:pharo8'; baseline: 'CodeParadise'; load. P11 seems to have some issues sometimes with restarting the image. Have not found the exact cause. Will look into this.

Ethnologue access from Pharo

• https://github.com/hernanmd/ethnologue

Molecule is a component oriented framework developed by Thalese https://t.co/U9fBKhnlaV

Shield io from Pharo

I’d like to share a new Spec app for building badges made with Pharo 10. It is based on the Shields.io badge service provider. Select the badges you want, complete the required variables, and get your badge(s). You can also save and load commonly used variables, so it may help a bit to automate presenting your project’s README.

https://github.com/hernanmd/shield-badges

PHARORAYLIB A BINDING FOR RAYLIB GAME LIBRARY

- https://github.com/Zenchess/pharoRaylib

FIRMATA EXTENSION FOR PHARO

Adding support for i2c-enabled LCD panels.

• https://github.com/joao-pedro-braz/Firmata-LiquidCrystalI2C

P3 P3 is a modern, lean and mean PostgreSQL client for Pharo.

Release Version 1.4 · svenvc/P3

https://github.com/svenvc/P3

https://github.com/svenvc/P3/releases/tag/v1.4

Add SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication method (sponsored by Schmidt GmbH) Improve parsing speed for DateAndTime and Date based on the ISO PSQL 8601 format (as suggested by Esteban Maringolo) Extend P3Con…

Tx sven and your sponsor!

FFI analysis

• FFICallBrowser - a tool to query FFI calls https://t.co/Zd3jshlJKA

PatternBuffer is a @pharoproject@twitter.com client for querying RDF databases: https://t.co/TBoybnuNqY

Bloc updates

- https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/info/lse-openbloc
add youtube ESUG presentation
- https://pharoweekly.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/bloc-update/
https://pharoweekly.wordpress.com/2022/10/25/bloc-update-harfbuzz/

Blog Posts

• https://medium.com/@dkgoutham1806/graph-algorithms-in-pharo-7d12af0be060
• https://chinmaya.hashnode.dev/my-pharo-journey-making-a-simple-to-do-list-with-spec2
• [https://blog.sebastiansastre.co/article/how-to-create-a-pharo-smalltalk-plugin}()
• Roassal show: https://pharoweekly.wordpress.com/2022/08/25/building-analyses-with-roassal-a-football-example/

Pharo

Social

• https://mastodon.social/@pharoproject
• Google summer of code selected Pharo https://gsoc.pharo.org

Pharo improvements

• Phep https://github.com/pharo-project/pheps/pull/9

Released

Pharo VM 10.0.0 release logs https://pharoweekly.wordpress.com/2023/03/01/ann-pharo-vm-release-v10-0-0/

Documentation

Open Documentation in Japanese

https://pharo-open-documentation-jp.github.io

Mooc

• http://advanced-design-mooc.pharo.org

Blog post

• thepharo.dev/2023/04/03/undeclared-variable-reparation-an-epic-journey-in-a-compiler-partiii/
• thepharo.dev/2023/03/20/undeclared-variable-reparation-an-epic-journey-in-a-compiler/
• thepharo.dev/2023/03/27/undeclared-variable-reparation-an-epic-journey-in-a-compiler-part-ii/
• https://thepharo.dev/2021/04/28/advanced-stepping-and-custom-debugging-actions-in-the-new-pharo-debugger/
• https://thepharo.dev/2021/04/02/debugger-extensions-in-pharo-9-0/

Pharo by example 9

The new version of Pharo by Example is now available for print.

• https://www.bod.fr/librairie/pharo-9-by-example-stephane-ducasse-9782322394104
• https://www.decitre.fr/livre-pod/pharo-9-by-example-9782322394104.html

Pharo with Style (new version) is now available as physical book.

For example

• https://www.decitre.fr/livre-pod/pharo-with-style-9782322182015.html
• https://www.bod.fr/librairie/pharo-with-style-stephane-ducasse-9782322182015

Exercism promoting Pharo

• Introducing Pharo: https://t.co/kkWZ6dKnqD
• Unique features of Pharo: https://t.co/D1mmJxEDDo

New release for Exercism Pharo track, details here: https://github.com/exercism/pharo-smalltalk/releases/tag/v0.23.5 GitHub

• Release Pharo 11 support, Test Runner for Pharo track · exercism/ph...
• added support for Pharo versions 9 to 11
• added Test Runner support for Pharo track
• several bug fixes and smaller enhancements (Github workflow, test result information, exercise fixes,..)