November 2024 - Pharo-users

Re: UKSTUG meeting - Christoph Thiede / Guille Amaral - Wed 27 Nov @ 7pm GMT

by UK Smalltalk

Join us by signing into the meetup or zoom: https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/302453224/?slug=ukstug&eventId=3024532… https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89598196284?pwd=b1a0AflB3TjhoQBBeIYYrDVpj2clbW.1 [:kind | 'Regards from ', kind ] value: 'The UK Smalltalk User Group'. On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 at 23:31, UK Smalltalk <info(a)uksmalltalk.org> wrote: > 1. *SemanticText: Improving Exploratory Programming in Squeak with > Generative AI* > > Presenter: *Christoph Thiede *(starts at 7.15pm) > > > From autocomplete to conversational agents, AI is transforming how we > interact with code. Christoph will introduce SemanticText, a framework that > integrates large language models (LLMs) into Squeak/Smalltalk, enabling > conversational agents, semantic search tools, and retrieval-augmented > generation workflows. He will showcase experimental integrations with > Squeakâs tools and present the concept of a semantic exploratory > programming system for debugging and exploring systems using natural > language. > > > Bio: Christoph Thiede is a member of *HPI*âs Software Architecture Group > and a core developer of Squeak/Smalltalk, with a focus on enhancing > developer productivity and tools. > > > 2. *Webside*: A Unified HTTP API for Smalltalk > > Presenter: *Guillermo Amaral* (starts at 8.30pm) > > > Guillermo will discuss Webside, an API that standardizes communication > with Smalltalk systems via HTTP and introduces its application as a fully > operational IDE. He will highlight recent improvements in its extensibility > and functionality. > > > Bio: Guillermo Amaral is the creator of Webside and has been a passionate > Smalltalk user and advocate for over 20 years, leveraging it throughout his > academic and professional journey. > > > Donât miss this opportunity to explore groundbreaking ideas and engage in > discussions on the future of Smalltalk development! > > [:kind | 'Regards from ', kind ] value: 'The UK Smalltalk User Group'. > > PS: the videos from last month presentation are now available > https://vimeo.com/ukstug/marianollm (Mariano Guerra on LLMs) > https://vimeo.com/ukstug/tudorllm (Tudor Girba on LLMs) > >

Nov. 24, 2024

UKSTUG meeting - Christoph Thiede / Guille Amaral - Wed 27 Nov @ 7pm GMT

by UK Smalltalk

1. *SemanticText: Improving Exploratory Programming in Squeak with Generative AI* Presenter: *Christoph Thiede *(starts at 7.15pm) >From autocomplete to conversational agents, AI is transforming how we interact with code. Christoph will introduce SemanticText, a framework that integrates large language models (LLMs) into Squeak/Smalltalk, enabling conversational agents, semantic search tools, and retrieval-augmented generation workflows. He will showcase experimental integrations with Squeakâs tools and present the concept of a semantic exploratory programming system for debugging and exploring systems using natural language. Bio: Christoph Thiede is a member of *HPI*âs Software Architecture Group and a core developer of Squeak/Smalltalk, with a focus on enhancing developer productivity and tools. 2. *Webside*: A Unified HTTP API for Smalltalk Presenter: *Guillermo Amaral* (starts at 8.30pm) Guillermo will discuss Webside, an API that standardizes communication with Smalltalk systems via HTTP and introduces its application as a fully operational IDE. He will highlight recent improvements in its extensibility and functionality. Bio: Guillermo Amaral is the creator of Webside and has been a passionate Smalltalk user and advocate for over 20 years, leveraging it throughout his academic and professional journey. Donât miss this opportunity to explore groundbreaking ideas and engage in discussions on the future of Smalltalk development! [:kind | 'Regards from ', kind ] value: 'The UK Smalltalk User Group'. PS: the videos from last month presentation are now available https://vimeo.com/ukstug/marianollm (Mariano Guerra on LLMs) https://vimeo.com/ukstug/tudorllm (Tudor Girba on LLMs)

Nov. 24, 2024

Re: [Pharo-dev] "Evaluation of SUnit" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime

by Yanni Chiu

The blog post has "Nobody thought about automating that process. Until Kent Beck did." That is not accurate, AFAIK. I believe it was in Kent Beck's original EXtreme Programming book where he says the practices were gathered from various Smalltalk shops he consulted at during the Smalltalk heyday in the early 90's. For what it's worth, here's the history I know. Around 1993, in Toronto, I was working at Footprint Software on VisualBanker (a suite of code to support banking that 4 of the 5 major Canadian banks bought). With my programming buddy (no "pair programming" at the time) our task was to build a persistence framework (supporting Relational, ObjectFiler, and in-memory). My task in a previous job was to convert (the AT&T Unix) C compiler to support the "new" ANSI C standard. Thankfully, I was provided with a test suite of C code, so that if it compiled without errors, then the compiler was standard compliant. So, looking for something similar to the ANSI C test suite I'd encountered, I set up test cases where all methods starting with "test" would be run, and ran the tests against all the backend data stores. The next day, my programming buddy (George), who started at 6am (to have a faster commute) tells me this test thing is great, and shows me the UI he built so we could just push a button. We can check the same behaviour for all backends, and we can coordinate our code changes through the tests (to mitigate our different schedule). A year later, the company's product was deemed slow, so they contracted Kent Beck to review our code base. He eventually comes around to us. We showed him what we did with tests, and then he just paused for about a minute staring out the window. We thought we were doing something really bad. A few months later, George said to me "did you see the SUnit thing posted on comp.lang.smalltalk". The basic "test"-prefixed test cases were there, but with the addition of the setUp and tearDown concept. Every once in a while I think to write this up. The "Nobody thought about automating..." words pushed me over this time. Maybe 15 years ago, I was able to find the original comp.lang.smalltalk SUnit posting, but could not locate it this time when I wanted to verify the dates. Yanni Chiu, Smalltalk oldtimer, Toronto On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 8:58â¯AM Koen De Hondt <koen(a)all-objects-all-the-time.st> wrote: > > Dear Pharo users and developers, > > I wrote a blog post in which I evaluate SUnit. > > Enjoy reading it! > > Ciao, > Koen >

Nov. 22, 2024

"Evaluation of SUnit" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime

by Koen De Hondt

Dear Pharo users and developers, I wrote a blog post in which I evaluate SUnit <https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/10>. Enjoy reading it! Ciao, Koen

Nov. 22, 2024

Pharo News of the Week 47/2024

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo News of the Week 47/2024 - The Soil Database has now an entry in HAL https://hal.science/hal-04726251 and is archived by https://www.softwareheritage.org/ # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Features - Introduce New Finder #17420 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17420 - Add Load/Export feature to the New Settings Browser #899 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/899 # Fixes - Multiple FileBrowser directory handling fixes for Windows #882 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/882 - UnixResolverTest should check for platform #17387 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17387 # Improvements - 17409-Improving-FFI-Marshalling-of-Constants #17410 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17410 - Use default instead of StartupPreferencesLoader new #17404 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17404 - Better API for tools unregistration. remove: was lame. #17390 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17390\ # VM - Enhancement(versionning): Extract full semantic version from git #870 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/870 # GIT / Iceberg - Branch: CommandRepoBrowser1841, Fixes # 1841 #1855 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1855 - Fixes #1851 Update RemoteChangingIssue #1859 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1859 # NewTools - Remove undefined file double-click action. #907 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/907 - Removing Smalltalk tools! #905 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/905 - New Finder integration #909 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/909 - Add a registration API for tool: for now delegate to ToolsRegistry #903 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/903 - Make playgrounds refresh styling after removing bindings #902 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/902 - Configure Setting Browser initialization properties #901 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/901 - Add package âNewTools-DebugPointsBrowser-Testsâ with a subclass of SpSmokeTest for DebugPointBrowserPresenter #900 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/900 - fix pharo issue 17323 #893 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/893 # Spec - Adapt whenNumberChangedDo: to use two argument block #1662 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1662 - Fix the 17373 issue on Pharo (initial focus on text in refactor rename protocol) #1660 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1660 - less extension. #1656 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1656 - Factor out #refreshStyling from #evaluate:onCompileError:onError: on SpCodePresenter #1655 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1655 - Add tests in SpSliderAdapterTest #1652 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1652 - fixes https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/issues/879 #1643 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1643 # Cleanups - Cleaning spurious reference to Smalltalk #17407 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17407 - Simplify Calypso environment #17412 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17412 - Remove ClyClassChange #17411 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17411

Nov. 22, 2024

Pharo News of the Week 46

by Marcus Denker

# News of the Week 46 - [Ann] v10.4.0 pillar https://pharo.org/news/2024-11-15-Pillar.html - ESUG2024 day 4 Videos (and thus all talks of the main track) are now in the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5nSnWzQXi-uyYOZIVgXg1up_bclQc7e - Phausto (https://github.com/lucretiomsp/phausto) Presentation at the Audio Developer Conference 2024 (3 daily poster sessions in the virtual venue, and at the open-mic session (https://youtu.be/fVw80P_8RMs) # This week (46/2024) on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Fixes - Fixes CI to have it green again on unix #17377 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17377 - Super call missing in initialization #17353 #17354 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17354 - Add ~/.local/share/fonts/ to the unix font directories #17326 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17326 - Changing "add method" to "create method" in the debugger method creator #892 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/892 - fix: #884 Renamed TStPresenter into StTPresener #887 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/887 - Fixed linux terminal command, unified method for Windows #876' https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/876 - Fix MetaBrowserPresenter filtering #868 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/868 - fix pharo issue 17323 (spec side) #1651 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1651 - Fix RegexSyntaxError: no terminating "]" in SpSearchInputFieldOptionsâ¦ #1635 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1635 # Settings - Use StPharoApplication instead of custom settings application #877 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/877 - Restore Settings Browser missing custom styles #897 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/897 - Prevent settings reset to their defaults upon new Setting Browser tab selection #895 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/895 # VM - Improving Forwarders in the PermSpace #861 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/861 - use pharo file server @ inria #868 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/868 - use pharo file server @ inria #867 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/867 - compatible with FreeBSD mmap() #863 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/863 # Improvements - Add helper method to setup the filtering list header title #1639 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1639 - Register new File Browser in tools registry #885 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/885 - Add a new SettingUpdated event for Epicea Monitor. #17350 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17350 - Use a setting declaration's typeClass to get default values #17342 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17342 - Deprecate explicitRequirement #17276 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17276 # files.pharo.org - use file server @ inria #17375 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17375 - use pharo file server @ inria #17336 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17336 - use files.pharo.org for upload #17371 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17371 # Refactoring Engine - Refactoring of rename temp and extract method while mutation testing #17340 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17340 # Documentation - Better class comments for refactorings #17357 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17357 - add news server #81 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/81 # Cleanup - Make sure that StFinder uses application for inform: #883 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/883 - A little clean #889 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/889 - Repackage #asFileName #17351 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17351 - Clean tools registration #17365 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17365 - Adding some helpers in BaselineOf so that we can clean baselines #17363 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17363 - Cleaning initialize protocol #17359 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17359 - Fedup to have around this initialize-release? Let us get rid of it! #17358 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17358

Nov. 18, 2024

Re: [Ann] v10.4.0 pillar

by stephane ducasse

> On 12 Nov 2024, at 14:56, Samuel Teixeira Santos <arcanosam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all > > Very interesting your project StÃ©phane, congratulations for it > > Is there any tutorial or video showing the entire process from creation to publishing (detailing things like margins, layouts, colors RGB to CMYK, typography etc)? We have a documentation about the syntax Now there is no documentation about the template but the templates are just LaTeX For HTML Iâm thinking to have a look at Phynx to emit the Phynx tags. S > > Is there only documentation inside the template? > > Thanks for share it > StÃ©phane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr 06 30 93 66 73 "If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.â Calvin & Hobbes

Nov. 15, 2024

News of the Week 45

by Marcus Denker

# News of the Week 45 With some delay, the news of Week 45 (last week) - ESUG2024 day 2/3 Videos are now in the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5nSnWzQXi-uyYOZIVgXg1up_bclQc7e - [ANN] Book release: Application Building with Spec 2.0 https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/9 - [ANN] Server update: Next Wednesday, November, 13th, from 8am to 11am UTC: https://files.pharo.org/ will not be available! https://pharo.org/news/2024-11-08-FilesPharo.html # This week (45/2024) on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Features - Introduce SystemBuildInfo #17345 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17345 - Replay of Open Shortcuts Editor from Settings Browser #17344 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17344 - Add search feature Settings Browser #873 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/873 # Iceberg (Git) - Forward port Pharo12 changes to Pharo13 #1843 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1843 # Fixes - missing methods from last fix: re-add code presenter missing actions #1642 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1642 - re-add code presenter missing actions. #1641 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1641 # Cleanup - move towards removing morphic dependencies #1640 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1640 - Replay of Remove FreeType2 dialog morphic usage #17346 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17346 - Cleaning up BaselineOfIDE. Just factoring logic! #17343 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17343 - Try to load the document browser only once #17339 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17339

Nov. 15, 2024

Re: "Book release: Application Building with Spec 2.0" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime

by Samuel Teixeira Santos

True, Thanks for reminding me

Nov. 13, 2024

Re: "Book release: Application Building with Spec 2.0" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime

by stephane ducasse

The pdf is online check https://books.pharo.org > On 7 Nov 2024, at 12:30, Samuel Teixeira Santos <arcanosam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone > > Congratulations for the effort. Definitely a welcome project to all that enjoy Pharo. > > Is it possible to list the table of contents? > > Regards > > > Samuel > > Em qui., 7 de nov. de 2024, 02:32, Koen De Hondt <koen(a)all-objects-all-the-time.st <mailto:koen@all-objects-all-the-time.st>> escreveu: >> Dear Pharo users and developers, >> >> It required an enormous effort to review, rewrite, and extend it, but I am happy to announce that it is finally here: the book on application building in Pharo with Spec 2.0. >> >> I wrote a blog post about it <https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/9>. Happy reading! >> >> Ciao, >> Koen StÃ©phane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr 06 30 93 66 73 "If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.â Calvin & Hobbes

Nov. 13, 2024