Hi Laura,

2015-01-13 0:58 GMT-03:00 Laura Risani <laura.risani@gmail.com>:

Hi all,

What are some tools / plug-ins/ projects / packages / frameworks��
you find very useful or you use very frequently for development?
(please for each name it and state it's purpose)

Well, it depends really what's your domain.

Mine is bioinformatics applied to phylogenetics in research, this includes :

Visualization (choropleths, charts, histograms, etc): Roassal, GraphViz.
XML parsing: XML Parser, XMLPullParser, XPath.
Parsing: PetitParser.
UI development: Spec (requires knowledge of Morphic and event frameworks like Announcements)
Application Security: http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~hernan/ApplicationSecurity
Iliad (Web Framework): http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~hernan/Iliad
Komanche (Web Server): http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~hernan/KomHttpServer

NumericalMethods (Math package)
GIS: There is still no really a package for this, but I wrote one named "Territorial" for my needs. And using Shapes for ESRI files.
OS access: ProcessWrapper, OSWindows, OSProcess.
Testing: SUnit.
BioSmalltalk: My package for doing bioinformatics with Smalltalk.

and surely others which I forgot now

Most of them are accessible from the Configuration Browser in Pharo 3, or by searching in http://www.smalltalkhub.com/
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I'm a��newcomer to��Pharo , so it hasn't to be something rare.��

Welcome :)

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On the side...
I feel curious about how one gets to know about the existence of such resources. Is there any sort of "resources index" (like a wiki page with categories)? Besides books which can't be comprehensive because of their nature. Such an index would be extremely handy in many ways.��
Do you agree? Is it plausible, if it doesn't exist, to built it collaboratively?

There is a package named "Catalog", I don't know how many people is putting effort on it right now. I think it needs some love.

The URL I have is

https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoProjectCatalog/HTML_Report/

and you can get it running by evaluating (have not checked now)

Gofer it 
	smalltalkhubUser: 'DamienCassou' project: 'Pier-Gutemberg';
	configurationOf: 'Catalog';
	loadStable

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It is a sad thing that useful tools go unnoticed when they could have solved a problem you faced or eased your work if only you've known about their existence. For what i've read on spread posts i feel like there are many such tools.

There are many tools in Smalltalk! For application development sometimes you just find them browsing Google, there are old packages with lot of features you may apply. But check carefully because many of them were written for a particular domain or use case.
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I had this experience of useful resource existence ignorance with TilingWindowManager (LaurentLaffont��) and with��RBConfigurableFormatter (by the way i can't figure out how to turn it on).

Have you tried to use System -> Settings browser -> Formatter?

Cheers,

Hern��n

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Now i feel like having a multiclipboard would be useful (i have one on my OS but anyway...)

Best,
Laura