August 2022 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

[ANN] Stargate v8.3.0 [v8.3.0] released!
by Buenos Aires Smalltalk Aug. 12, 2022

Aug. 12, 2022

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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - 31 August 2022
by Giovanni Corriga Aug. 10, 2022

Aug. 10, 2022

For this month, we'll be welcoming Instantiations' Mariano Martinez Peck and Seth Berman, who will be talking to us about asynchronous programming in Smalltalk. Whether youâre interested in starting a new project or enhancing an existing system, asynchronous programming offers a great way to optimize application speed and help ensure maintainability as complexity increases. Weâll discuss the asynchronous programming approach, why itâs important, and show live demos in the VAST Platform ( https://www.instantiations.com/vast-platform/ ) of how to get started with futures/promises, asynchronous streams/zones, and more! Mariano Martinez Peck ( https://twitter.com/martinezpeck ) is a senior systems engineer specializing in dynamic programming language software. In 2018, he joined Instantiations to further develop the VAST Platform through the addition of new frameworks, libraries and tools, as well as improving the existing code base of VAST. He is active in the Smalltalk development community, and has used his expertise to co-author numerous open source projects. Mariano has a PhD in Computer Science, and his academic research has been published across various international journals. Seth Berman ( https://twitter.com/sethloco78 ) is President & CEO of Instantiations ( https://www.instantiations.com/ ). He leads a dedicated team that tirelessly supports and enhances Instantiations' VAST Platform, while he guides expansion into new software/service areas like IoT, cloud, and edge computing solutions. Before leading Instantiations, Seth joined the company in 2011 as a software engineer working on projects ranging from advanced code editors and cryptography libraries to FFI enhancements and virtual machine implementations. Previously, he worked for the US government in a variety of domains including stochastic simulation, operations research, grid computing, and link analysis. Seth has a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Software Engineering. This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/cbklbrydclbgc/ ) to receive the meeting details. Donât forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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Using pharo in a cloud native environment
by Stefan Krecher Aug. 9, 2022

Aug. 9, 2022

Hi, every now and then I get back to smalltalk/ pharo to find out if there's a practical way to use pharo to manage cloud resources, e.g. by calling Azure- or AWS APIs. I know there have been efforts to implement a Smalltalk binding to use the AWS API at least for some of their services but it looks like there's support for only a few, eg S3. I'd love to use pharo to build a seaside app with a nice UI to make calls to Azure and/ or AWS to start/ stop ec2 instances etc. Of course I could create Azure functions that do the API calls and then just call those functions from pharo - but I ask myself if there's a nicer way do do this ... Any recommendations? Regards Stefan

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Re: Omnibase/Monibase repository removal
by vinref＠gmail.com Aug. 9, 2022

Aug. 9, 2022

Hi Norbert Posting this here in pharo-users as I am not a member of pharo-dev. I also emailed David Gorisek late last year regarding the license (for Dolphin Smalltalk) and this was his reply. He wrote that I needed only to mark the repo as a fork and attach the copyright notice: > David Gorisek <david.gorisek@....com> \ > \ > 12:35 AM (9 hours ago) \ > \ > to me \ > \ > Dear Vince, \ > \ > OmniBase is most definitely not abandonware because it is actively being used, improved and even supported for paying customers. We also have a version for D7 but since OmniBase is used as a DB repository for STS we don't use Github. In my company we use a central STS repository which is accessible over HTTPS and we keep all our code there so I haven't had time to try Github yet. \ > \ > There are many versions and forks of OmniBase circling around because many people have done re-porting on their own for whatever reasons but these ports were not approved and are not supported by us. So, if you want to place your fork on Github you just need to indicate that it is a fork and that the original code is Copyright (c) by David Gorisek and then write what changes you made in your fork. \ > \ > Thank yout and best regards, \ > \ > David Gorisek \ > E-RACUNI d.o.o. \ > Maribor, Slovenia Vince

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[PDFtalk] second fileOut for Squeak and Pharo
by christian.haider Aug. 9, 2022

Aug. 9, 2022

With help from the community some issues were fixed which improved the test statistics nicely. Check it out: https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=portingblog#second_pdftalk_fileout_for_… Thanks to everybody involved! Happy hacking, ChristianÂ

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