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Need help to help newbies on discord mooc channel
by ducasse May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019

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GSoC 2019: Extending DataFrame library
by Atharva Khare May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019

Hey Pharo-users! I am Atharva, a final-year undergraduate studying Computer Engineering in India. I have been selected in GSoC 2019 for the DataFrame library, and over the summer, additional functionality to the library will be added. You can go over the summary of my proposal over at https://khare.dev/posts/2019/05/gsoc-2019-extending-dataframe-library-for-p…, or you can view the detailed proposal at https://khare.dev/misc/Pharo_GSOC_2019_Dataframe.pdf. I am interested in knowing your feedback over the proposal, specifically on functionalities that are planned, and the ones that you would like to be added. Documentation will also be a major part of this project, including examples - let me know if you have a specific use-case, in which you would like to see how DataFrames can be used. :) You can track this project at this link: https://khare.dev/tags/gsoc-progress/, or see monthly progress here: https://khare.dev/tags/gsoc-summary/. Feel free to reach out! Atharva Khare

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ESUG 2019 - Call for IWST
by ducasse May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019

Here is the announce for the IWST19 â International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Cologne, Germany; August 27-29th, 2019 More information at: https://esug.github.io/2019-Conference/cfpIWST2019.html On behalf of the pc chairs

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ESUG 2019 - Call for presentations
by ducasse May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019

Please distribute. The ESUG board is pleased to announce that the 27th ESUG conference/summer-school will be held in Cologne, Germany 26-30 August 2019; with Camp Smalltalk 24-25 August 2019. The conference is co-organized by ZWEIDENKER. More information at: https://esug.github.io/2019-Conference/call2019.html

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Where does Pharo run?
by Steve Zara May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019

I have some projects that I am thinking of using Pharo for - going back to Smalltalk after decades away!Â However, I need to know that Pharo is available on the platforms I am writing for: Is Pharo available for Linux on 32-bit and 64-bit ARM ? Thanks.

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GSoC 2019 Introduction myself
by EVELYN CUSI LOPEZ May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019

Hello, everybody. My name is Evelyn, I'm 24 years old. I'm a last year student at the Mayor de San Simon University in Bolivia, I'm currently doing my degree project to get my professional degree. My proposal for "Better and more refactorings for Pharo" was selected in this year's GsOC :D. Just few months ago I got to know the world of Smalltalk and I really liked it, I made a page for ESUG in Seaside and I made some extensions to use Magritte with Material Design Lite, for now I'm doing a tutorial of Parasol still missing some details but soon will be ready. As for my proposal is to improve the current refactoring tools that Pharo currently has, I plan to add some shortcuts to the most important refactoring options, add some previews before refactoring similar to IntelliJ IDEA, add three new refactoring options (Inline method, variable inline, and find and replace) and finally improve the option to extract method by adding a duplicate code search of the method that will be extracted. Now I am learning everything necessary for the realization of this project, so any suggestion to improve the proposal or suggest the best way to start is welcome, and do not hesitate to ask any questions you have about this project :D. I'm very excited to start working with you. Sincerely, Evelyn. *P.d.* You can access my proposal in the attached file: https://storage.googleapis.com/summerofcode-prod.appspot.com/gsoc/core_proj…

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Fwd: introducing my GSoC project - Improving Code Completion
by Myroslava Romaniuk May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019

[I guess the majority of people don't use the dev mailing list, so i'm resending this here.] Hi everyone, My name is Myroslava, I'm a 3rd year CS student in Ukraine, and my project Improving Code Completion has been selected for this year's GSoC. Some of you might know me from the 2 ESUGs I was at or maybe remember me previously doing GSoC in 2017, in any case I'm very happy to have been given this opportunity and I look forward to working with you! I started working on code completion last year during my internship at RMoD with Marcus and Stef, and I really want to make even more progress with code completion this summer and properly implement it inside Pharo as one of the options to use. You can read more about what has been done last summer and what is yet to be done this summer in my proposal (see attached). If you have any feedback or questions, don't hesitate to email me. Help and suggestions throughout my work on the project will be incredibly welcome too, as there's a lot to figure out how to do best. If you are interested in updates or want to keep in touch, I'm also on twitter <https://twitter.com/myroslavarm>, and I have a blog <https://medium.com/@myroslavarm> where I used to post about my progress in the last GSoC and about my internship at RMoD, and I will be writing there this summer, too. I'll also try to be more active in the mailing list and on discord :) Cheers, Myroslava

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Pharo 7 minimal or headless
by BrunoBB May 12, 2019

May 12, 2019

Hi, How i can get a Pharo minimal or without IDE ? Pharo Launcher has Pharo Minimal for Pharo 6 but there is none minimal for Pharo 7. regards, bruno PS: right now checking: https://github.com/svenvc/pharo-server-tools -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

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GSoC 2019 introducing my project: Next Generation of Unit Testing
by Dayne Lorena Guerra Calle May 11, 2019

May 11, 2019

Hello Everyone, My name is Dayne, I'm a final-year computer science student in Bolivia and I have been selected with my project as one of the students for this GSOC. First I will work in DrTests: DrTests project aims to provide a plugin-based UI to deal with tests in Pharo. It will provide the same features as the actual SUnit UI (i.e., running tests, profiling tests and computing code-coverage) but will allow to plug additional analysis on unit tests. If you want to try the first version of DrTests in Pharo 7.0: https://github.com/juliendelplanque/DrTests Feedback and suggestions are always welcome. Now I am migrating the UI from spec to spec2 for DrTest to be available in Pharo 8.0 Then the plan is enhancing the SUnit implementation by introducing a common Pharo's Sunit layer instead of different layer doing the same (for example, the SUnit UI, Jenkins tools and the system browser define 3 different ways to collect tests defined in a package). And If you want to know more details bout this project I will attach my proposal. I will write posts about the work done in my blog <http://medium.com/@daynestorm> and you can contact me If you have new ideas for plugins or suggestions :) Cheers, Dayne

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Smalltalk tutorial is broken
by Richard Kenneth Eng May 11, 2019

May 11, 2019

So say many visitors to https://amber-lang.net/learn.html. The problem is this: visitors are failing to read and comprehend the last instruction on the first page of the tutorial. The one that reads: *Select the text below and click on the 'DoIt' button*. They're not selecting the text. They do not understand what is meant by "select the text below." So they immediately encounter a parse error and conclude that the tutorial is broken. This is a horrible, horrible first impression for Smalltalk. It's not a rare occurrence, either. I've received this complaint numerous times on Quora and Medium. So the question is: How to fix this? How to avoid this PR nightmare?

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