Pharo Newsletter January 2019

glamorous toolkit:  v0.4.0

•  Documenter received support for dynamic markup edit. This is an almost magic ability that makes the markup appear when the cursor nears the markup. With this we have reached a seamless experience that supports both viewing without markup and editing on demand. Tweet

• Playground uses Coder and snippets are now collapsable. tweet
• The Inspector updates when the code changes. tweet1, tweet2
• The Meta view from Inspector was enhanced to show the super classes and method categories, each of these act list filters. On top of that, we can also filter methods by name. tweet

[ANN] Camp Smalltalk 2019 in Charlotte, NC at the end of March

For those that haven't heard, Instantiations is sponsoring a Camp Smalltalk on March 29th – March 31st 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Please register for the event soon as spots will be limited.

Event details and registration info are available at the following link: Camp Smalltalk Charlotte 2019

[ANN] Pharo Sprints first half 2019

We organise one Pharo “Sprint” per month were we meet to work on boring issue tracker entries together.

Goals of the next sprints:

•  Fix issues for Pharo8
• Backport important fixes to Pharo7

Remotely, you can join us on Discord. During the sprint, we will try to synchronize local and remote Pharo sprinters. In the past people, organised local sprints at the same time (e.g. Santiago/Chile). 

See here for more info: http://pharo.org/contribute-events

There will be an event on the association website for each sprint. The next dates are:

•  22 Feb https://association.pharo.org/event-325381
•  29 Mar https://association.pharo.org/event-3253842
• 26 Apr https://association.pharo.org/event-3253846    
• 31 May https://association.pharo.org/event-3253848
• 28 Jun https://association.pharo.org/event-3253850

For more Pharo Event, have a look at the Events Page: https://association.pharo.org/events

Blog posts, Lecture and Documentation

• Tutorial de Pharo (Portuguese) Link
• Dispatching tasks to multiple Pharo VMs using SystemProcess Link
• List of projects, books, booklets, papers, and applications related to machine learning, AI, data science in Pharo Link
• Exploring Pharo Link

New and Updated Libraries and Frameworks

• Spawning Posix compatible system process and Dispatching tasks to multiple VMs GitHub
• Jun: 3D graphics/geometry library with OpenGL rendering and chemoinformatics utilities GitHub
• Event-Driven Architectures in Pharo GitHub
• Pharo Smaltalk kernel for Jupyter Blog
• Pharo AWS Toolbox: Support library for using AWS from Pharo Smalltalk and for creating Lambda functions written in Pharo Smalltalk GitHub
• ViennaTalk, a LIVE IDE for VDM-SL based on Pharo Smalltalk GitHub
• GeoSphere Compute distances, parse coordinates, etc. for Pharo GitHub