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Pharo Newsletter April 2019

GSoC: Call for Students

We are happy to announce that once again Pharo Consortium is looking for smart and enthusiastic students to work with us during Google Summer of Code 2019.

We explain the program requirements and provide a detailed description of the application process here: http://pharo.org/GSoC19CallForStudents

If you have any additional questions, feel free to send an email to olk.zaytsev@gmail.com.

ESUG 2019: Cologne Aug 26 to 30

ZWEIDENKER is co-hosting ESUG 2019 in Cologne/Germany. It will be the last week of August (26 to 30).

The address of the conference venue is:

Stadtgarten, Venloer Strasse 40, 50672 Köln / Germany
https://www.stadtgarten.de/en/stadtgarten/anfahrt

More information about Hotels and the reservation system will be posted as soon as possible. http://esug.org/

[ANN] Digital Innovation Workshop - Lavigny/Switzerland

April 30 to May 3 in Lavigny/Switzerland.

Digital Healthcare Innovation: Computer science workshops.
Interactive and efficient ways to build technology stacks for experienced developers

Event web site: kertyx.events
Eventbrite links for each session:
- Workshop 1 – Introduction to Pharo: register
- Workshop 2 – Web development using Seaside: register
- Workshop 3 – New Integrated Development Environment (IDE) – Glamorous Toolkit: register

For more information, see http://pharo.org/news/ANNWorkshopLavigny

[ANN] Pharo MOOC: Start May 6

If you are either a beginner or an expert in object-oriented programming, this MOOC will change the way you program with objects: come and learn or rediscover object-oriented programming with Pharo!

A new session starts on May 6th. More information here

[ANN] Lan.d.s Alpha: All Along the Language Tower

I am quite excited to announce the availability of an alpha version
of my latest work around Parsing and Programming Languages at:

https://npapoylias.gitlab.io/lands-project/

Accompanied by ~ 30 min of transcribed eye-candy

What is all about ??

Lan.d.s is a new solution for language design. From general purpose
languages like Lise (short for (list (embedding)) to Domain-Specific
Languages using the MOODs framework, and everything else in between.
Lan.d.s is build around the formalism of Multi-Ordered Grammars,
which are a possible alternative to CFGs and PEGs in wider use today.

Multi-ordered grammars (or simply MOGs) aim for a better exploration of ambiguity,
recursion, ordering and associativity during language design. They can be parsed using the
Gray Algorithm. After parsing in order to ease the production of executable code
Lan.d.s introduces the Abstract Syntax Language (ASL), which is an OO
solution for compile-time meta-programming. Finally in order to promote
language extension and re-use, Lan.d.s employs GrammarTraits, as units of
composition for both MOG rules and ASL actions.

Blog posts, Lecture and Documentation

LibC experiments in Pharo 7 Blog
Using the GitHub API in Pharo 7 Link
Reproducible Data Collection: Retrieving Methods from Pharo Projects Blog
GitHub Project Boards Link
Booklet-ManagingCode. This booklet explains how to manage your code with Pharo Link
GT Releaser: a case study exemplifying Moldable Development Link

New and Updated Libraries and Frameworks

SendGrid API Libraries for Smalltalk GitHub
an LDAP implementation GitHub
Modbus driver for Pharo Smalltalk GitHub
Hiedra is a small Pharo project to visually connect items in a history-like graph GitHub
Python3Generator v.1.2.0, A toolkit to generate Python 3 source code from Pharo. GitHub
paleo-dns: DNS for Pharo GitHub
Pharo client for CouchDB NoSQL Document Database GitHub

Real-time News?

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Twitter. Get all the news as they happen: https://twitter.com/pharoproject
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PharoProject/
Join our Discord server and chat in real time! You can join by following this link: http://discord.gg/Sj2rhxn

Job Corner

HRWorks is looking for Pharo Software Developers Link
Thesis: Transferring Visual Age Smalltalk into Pharo (HRWorks, Freiburg, Germany) Link
ZWEIDENKER GmbH is looking for Pharo developers (Cologne, Germany). Contact mail@zweidenker.de for more information.