Pharo News Blog

The main goal of the sprint is to reduce the number of open issues for Milestone 1.1. The sprint is hosted by the Software Composition Group of the University of Bern. For details and registration please see the sprint wiki page.

End of last month the release candidate 2 was announced. As feedback for RC2 has shown, there are still a few open todos and one unresolved problem (IPv4 vs. v6 network implementation).

As announced in another blog post, www.seasidehosting.st now supports Pharo.

There's also a Screencast that demonstrates how to deploy a Seaside/Pharo application on Seasidehosting.

The PDF version of the new book “Dynamic Web Development with Seaside” is available for download now.

The links to the Nabble sites can be found on the Community page. Also many other related mailing lists, such as Seaside, GemStone/S, and Metacello, are on Nabble now.

Adrian Lienhard, February 20, 2010

Mariano Martinez Peck announced Metacello configurations for Pharo. The goal is to define a catalog of packages that are stable and known to work in Pharo. The Pharo 1.0 and forthcoming versions can be built automatically from these configurations, which are stored in a dedicated repository on SqueakSource.

Laurent Laffont created a blog to publish Pharo screencasts. Contact Laurent if you want to share a screencast or if you have an idea for a new screencast that Laurent can produce.

Romain Robbes announced WorkingSet, a small tool that helps you navigate your code in Pharo. It tracks the entities you've changed recently, and lets you access them quickly.

We started collecting companies that are using Pharo. 20 are already on the list – certainly more to come soon! If your company is missing or if you have an interesting project to share, let us know!

Since the traffic on the pharo-project mailing list is quite high and often related to the development of the Pharo core system, we created a new mailing list, pharo-users, targeted to users of Pharo.

Adrian Lienhard, January 16, 2010