Planet Smalltalk

case 14723 Make StrikeFonts working in Athens (font size related)
case 14710 AthensCairoCanvas setAA not implemented
case 14799 AthensCairoCanvas draws in empty rectangles

40496
14935 Load new configuratoin of TxText 2.8.2

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14935

with the following fixes
case 14778 TxAthensLayoutView should not impose a x offset minimal value
case 14774 TxHighlightRenderer shapes badly computed when scrolling horizontally
case 14719 TxTextLayout startPosition and TxTexLayoutView scrolling management
case 14715 TxTextEditorMorph modifies dragged morph position
case 14687 TxTextPosition moveDown: can only move one line down

40494
14940 timeToRunWithoutGC broken

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14940

14946 Replace senders of String>>#subStrings: in Tool-Finder

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14946

14937 better comments and test for Matrix

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14937

14060 MNU: receiver of “stepToCallee” is nil

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14060

40493
14943 really deprecated #leap

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14943

14897 Date isLeapYear equally defined in Dates superclass

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14897

14483 Extract the PragmaCollector into its own package

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14483

40492
14064 Improvements to checking termination of processes

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14064

40491
2649 dont let an empty Rectangle #intersects:

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/2649

14938 missing addModelItemsToWindowMenu: in WindowModel

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14938

14939 example for SearchableList does not work (MNU)

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14939

40490
4795 Horizontal wheel events

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/4795

14905 Missing test and clean code for SmalltalkImage>>#extractMinusParameters

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14905

40488
14852 TTLCache should allow for custom TTLAssociation that can compute their own expiration

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14852

14869 Repeated methods in Trait Composition

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14869

40486
14904 Slot: hand the correct class to slot in #buildNewClass

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14904

14899 add addSlot in testClassRespectsPolymorphismWithTrait

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14899

14874 WorldState>>#interCyclePause: failed

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14874

14895 Class Variable Refactoring -> Add produce error when pressing escape on dialog

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14895

40485
14892 Slots: when class is created, #installingIn: is not called

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14892

14893 Slots: allSlots should filter hidden slots

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14893

14888 Matrix>>rows:columns arguments are unclear

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14888

40484
14894 SimpleSwitchMorph lost onColor: aColor

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14894

14891 Slots: add #addSlot and #hasSlots

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14891

by Stéphane Ducasse at February 26, 2015 01:26 PM

Pharo Weekly - How Far We’ve Come!

Sean De Nigris (an early pharo adopter) wrote the following:

It was so much fun watching the Pharo Days videos! Thanks for recording them
and I hope to be there next time :)

(note videos are here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp3mNigANqkesFzdm058bvw/videos)

Somewhere halfway through the playlist, it hit me how easily I was
downloading all the projects and images being talked about. I was
copy/pasting one-line Metacello scripts out of github READMEs, clicking in
the Configuration Browser, or downloading the latest code from CI – and it
all “just worked”!!!

Remember not too long ago when we were passing around custom scripts to load
multiple dependent packages, and explaining to outsiders that “we don’t need
github because Smalltalk invented SCM” (or whatever) while we created the
future invisibly, hidden away from the rest of the world?

After laying down so many building blocks (like FileSystem) that take the
system out of the way of creative expression, it is exciting to finally be
tackling some of the high-impact things… you know the ones we’ve been
avoiding… like Morphic, development tools, and the text editors.

And the steady streams of new talent and funding seem likely to keep the
successes coming.

So CONGRATULATIONS, Pharo Community!!!! We deserve it.

Now get back to work – we’ve got a future to create ;)

by Stéphane Ducasse at February 26, 2015 10:32 AM

Pharo Weekly - GADM package for Pharo

I am pleased to announce the release of the GADM package for Pharo. GADM is a high-resolution spatial database of the location of the world’s administrative areas for use in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and similar software.

The following post contains details about the release:

If anyone wish to extend it with the polygon data included in GADM, please feel free to request repository permission to upload changes.

Cheers,

Hernán

by Stéphane Ducasse at February 26, 2015 10:24 AM

Pharo Weekly - Pharo interface to the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer

Hello,

I am announcing the release of StNER. StNER provides a Pharo interface to the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER). (http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.shtml)

Installation and usage details are described in the following post:

http://80738163270632.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/stner-interface-to-stanford-named.html

Cheers,

Hernán

PS: Only tested in Windows 8.1

by Stéphane Ducasse at February 26, 2015 10:22 AM

February 25, 2015

Hernán Morales Durand - StNER: Interface to the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer

Introduction

StNER provides a Pharo Smalltalk interface to the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER). The Stanford NER recognizer is an implementation of a Named Entity Recognizer, used for tagging raw text which is a central task in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. The input is a sequence of words in a text, and the NER classifier - using already trained data - try to recognize typically three types of "Named Entities" (NEs) : NAME, LOCATION and ORGANIZATION (more classes exists). The output is the tagged text in some common tagging format for tagging tokens. This recognizer works better on input more similar to the already trained labeled data sets (muc6, muc7, conll2003), however there are reports to use it with tweets, and you can retrain to recognize entities for your particular needs.

To recognize text in other languages, for example, Chinese, German, or Spanish, a different classifier (in this context a .tgz file) can be used (see NLP Stanford Demo).

Installation

Java is required to run the server locally.
Download the Stanford NER packages.

Inside Pharo, open the Configuration Browser and select StNER, then Install. Or evaluate


Gofer it
 smalltalkhubUser: 'hernan' project: 'StNER';
 configurationOf: 'StNER';
 loadStable

Launch the server

Start (from Smalltalk) the (Java) server using the StNER Smalltalk server interface. For example, to start the server with default parameters in Windows:
```
StSocketNERServer new
    stanfordNERPath: 'c:\stanford-ner-2015-01-30\';
    startServer.
```
Query an input text using the StNER Smalltalk client interface.

Server Settings

Providing path location is mandatory. If no host or port is supplied, defaults to:

localhost (127.0.0.1),
port 8080
JVM memory 1000m.
output format: inlineXML

You can configure the server with the following taggers:

3 class NER tagger that can label: PERSON, ORGANIZATION, and LOCATION entities. (#setEnglish3ClassTagger)
4 class NER tagger trained on the CoNLL 2003 Shared Task training data that labels for PERSON, ORGANIZATION, LOCATION, and MISC. (#setEnglish4ClassTagger)
7 class NER tagger trained only on data from MUC (#setEnglish7ClassTagger): TIME, LOCATION, ORGANIZATION, PERSON, MONEY, PERCENT, DATE.

Client Usage

To tag text you can use the #tagText: method as follows:


StSocketNERClient new 
  tagText: 'University of California is located in California, United States'

and the output will be:


'University of California 
is located in California, 
United States' "

Another example including PERSON tagging:


StSocketNERClient new 
 tagText: 'Argentina President Kirchner has been asked to testify in court on the death of Alberto Nisman the crusading prosecutor who had accused her of conspiring to cover up involvement of Iran'

which results in:


'Argentina President Kirchner has been asked to testify in court on the death of Alberto Nisman the crusading prosecutor who had accused her of conspiring to cover up involvement of Iran'

Parse text to in-line XML


StSocketNERClient new 
  parseText: 'University of California is located in California, United States'

results in a Dictionary of Bag's with occurrences of tagged classes.

by Hernán at February 25, 2015 09:46 PM

Francois Stephany - Android Google Study Jams Brussels

audience at the Study Jam

The Google Developer Study Jams Android Fundamentals is a worldwide study group organised by Google and Udacity. The principle is quite simple: people follows an online course on Udacity to become Android developers. Events are locally organized weekly so participants can share their problems, ideas and solutions.

The official website describes it perfectly:

Study Jams are an opportunity for students to receive free, in-person guidance and tutoring on the Udacity course in a fun classroom environment. Study Jam sessions are designed around the Udacity course structure, with a weekly session following each lesson (6 lessons), plus two additional weeks for completing and sharing course final projects. Students are expected to come to the Study Jam sessions having completed that week’s Udacity lesson online, so that the Study Jam time may be used to review key concepts, address questions, and work on individual projects. The live community atmosphere and tutoring is designed to help students achieve deeper learning around the concepts taught in the course.

The Google Developer Group of Brussels is organising the local event in Belgium in the beautiful working space Co.Station, next to the central station.

Friedger Müffke and I are the two tutors for the Brussels local group. We try to expand the content of the online course with some of our experiences. We also try to give the student a feeling of the Android ecosystem.

audience at the Study Jam

The Android fondamental course does not use any external libraries. Even for HTTP calls. Instead they ask the students to copy/paste a huge gist containing the code doing the call. I thought that it would have been nice to show the students how to include an external library.

We started to follow that path and we talked quite a lot about libraries that I find useful. Here are some of them:

OkHTTP, HTTP calls should be easy.
GSON, JSON manipulation.
Retrofit, Ideal if you want to interact with a REST+JSON webservice. Beware that it can feel a little bit magic, it's hard to know what's going on. It relies on OkHTTP and GSON to do its job.
EventBus, an EventBus for your application. It lets you send event throughout your application. *Otto, basically the same as EventBus. Try both and keep the one you prefer.
Timber, small librarie that makes it easier to deal with logs.

You can find all those library in the jcenter maven repository.

Many of those libraries are edited by Square. Check their open source listing for more goodness.

Another small tool that we covered (but that I haven't tested in real life yet) is Retrolambda. You integrate it into your build chain and it lets you write lambda expressions with java 7. Nobody knows when (or even if) Java 8 will be available on android, so this tool can come handy if you really want to use those lambdas.

We also mentioned Genymotion, a fast android emulator based on VirtualBox.

Someone has a question about Context last week. This article is quite good to grasp the differences between the different available contexts.

Last but not least, we talked about Android Weekly, a very nice newsletter that collects all the news from the Android ecosytem. It is a great way to discover new libraries and tools.

Thanks a lot to Anne Collet from Le Wagon Brussels to host us in Co.Station.

If you're interested and want to participate, join the Google Developer Group Brussels on Meetup!

by Francois Stephany at February 25, 2015 11:00 AM

Benoit St-Jean - GADM

GADM est une base de donnés spatiales de grande précision renfermant des informations spatiales, géographiques et de géolocalisation. Au plus grand plaisir de tous, GADM est maintenant accessible à partir de Pharo!

Sur un tout autre sujet, savez-vous ce que représente le nombre 80738163270632 dans l’adresse du blogue de Hernan (80738163270632.blogspot.ca) ? La réponse dans quelques articles!

Classé dans:bases de données, Pharo, Smalltalk Tagged: base de données, GADM, géographie, géographique, géolocalisation, GIS, Pharo, Smalltalk, spatial, spatiales

by endormitoire at February 25, 2015 09:14 AM

Torsten Bergmann - GADM: Access to Global Administrative Areas in Pharo

Hernán Morales Durand announced the release of the GADM package for Pharo Smalltalk. GADM is a high-resolution spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas for use in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and similar software. Read more and try out here.

by Torsten at February 25, 2015 08:41 AM

Hernán Morales Durand - GADM: Access to Global Administrative Areas in Smalltalk

Introduction

GADM is a high-resolution spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas for use in GIS and similar software. GADM is freely available for academic and other non-commercial use. The data contained in GADM was collected from spatial databases provided by NGO, National Governments, and/or maps and list of names available on the Internet (e.g. from Wikipedia).

Administrative areas include: countries, provinces, counties, departments, etc. up to five sublevels, which cover most boundaries in the world. For each level it provides some attributes, foremost being the name and in some cases variant names. GADM can also be used to extract polygon shapes for visualization, for example to build choropleth maps for regions. The GADM package includes the raw data in CSV format, which I parsed to build a browseable GADM world tree, allowing off-line access to the GADM database in a hierarchical fashion with objects, without need to perform on-line queries for basic requests. A hierarchical tree can be used to build a toponym browser for example.

Installation

From within Pharo 3, or Pharo 4 you can use the Configuration Browser, or evaluate the following expression:


Gofer it
 smalltalkhubUser: 'hernan' project: 'GADM';
 configurationOf: 'GADM';
 loadStable.

Usage Examples


" To access to the whole World (as seen by GADM), evaluate "
GADMWorldTree root.

" Access country Lithuania "
GADMWorldTree @ 'Lithuania'.

" To acces the Part (Partido: spanish) where I am living:"
GADMWorldTree @ 'Argentina' @ 'Buenos Aires' @ 'La Plata'.

" You want to know which type of region is Los Angeles "
(GADMWorldTree @ 'United States' @ 'California' @ 'Los Angeles') typeName " 'County' "

" You wish to list all subregions in San Marino "
(GADMWorldTree @ 'San Marino') nodeNames
 " a SortedCollection('Acquaviva' 
'Borgo Maggiore' 
'Chiesanuova' 
'Domagnano' 
'Faetano' 
'Fiorentino' 
'Montegiardino' 
'San Marino' 
'Serravalle') "

Enjoy

by Hernán at February 25, 2015 03:03 AM

February 24, 2015

Torsten Bergmann - PharoCloud now with new appliance Pharo + MongoDB

PharoCloud added another starter appliance that is easy to use: "Pharo + MongoDB".

Basically an embedded MongoDB runs locally in this appliance and you can use Mongo or other packages in Pharo to access it. Maybe you already know that when loading the Voyage project is very easy to do persistence in Pharo with MongoDB. To get started with Voyage use this or this.

You can read more details on this new PharoCloud offer here.

by Torsten at February 24, 2015 01:20 PM

Torsten Bergmann - PhyloclassTalk video

A video on PhyloclassTalk (GenBank Browser & PhyloclassTalk Classifier demo) (which is written in Pharo) is on Vimeo. Read more about the PhyloclassTalk project here and here.

PhyloclassTalk is a phylogenetics analysis platform which includes several modules to perform different workflows related with bioinformatics analysis.

Another video on the Blast Query Builder is on Youtube:

by Torsten at February 24, 2015 11:49 AM

Benoit St-Jean - Smalltalk en vrac (11)

Pharo

PharoCloud offre maintenant une solution Pharo+MongoDB.

PhyloclassTalk est un outil d’analyse phylogénétique et bioinformatique. Un vidéo montrant le GenBank Browser et le PhyloclassTalk Classifier et un autre montrant le Blast Query Builder. Pour plus d’informations sur la biogénétique, il y a BioSmalltalk.

Présentation sur les slots dans Pharo 4.0.

Comment arrêter une image à partir d’une notification du système d’exploitation.

Présentation du Prague Lambda Meetup de janvier 2015.

MathsOntologie est un outil aidant à la résolution de problèmes en mathématiques. Le manuel de référence est ici.

PlagueDoctor gère vos fenêtres inutilisées automatiquement! Une description de l’utilitaire ici.

Squeak

Kyma est un langage de programmation avancé pour les sons et la musique. Développé par Symbolic Sound, la version 7 est maintenant disponible et en vedette dans ce court vidéo. Vous trouverez facilement sur Youtube ou sur le site de Symbolic Sound plus de vidéos, plus d’exemples, de tutoriels ou de pièces de musique composées avec Kyma.

Classé dans:Pharo, Smalltalk, Squeak Tagged: analyse phylogénétique, bioinformatique, BioSmalltalk, BLAST, Classifier, GenBank, Kyma, mathématiques, MathsOntologie, MongoDB, musique langage, OS, Pharo, PharoCloud, PhyloclassTalk, PlagueDoctor, Prague Lambda, programmtion, shutdown, slots, Smalltalk, sons, Squeak, Symbolic Sound, système d'exploitation

by endormitoire at February 24, 2015 10:41 AM

Torsten Bergmann - Gittingers Kosmos

German lectures from Claus Gittinger (author of Smalltalk/X and VM expert) on LISP (and also Smalltalk).

by Torsten at February 24, 2015 08:34 AM

Pharo Weekly - phylogenetics analysis platform in Pharo

Hello,

Here I have new videos to show some of the features of PhyloclassTalk, developed in Pharo 3.0.

PhyloclassTalk is a phylogenetics analysis platform which includes several modules to perform different workflows related with bioinformatics analysis.

Video 1: GenBank Browser & PhyloclassTalk Classifier

https://vimeo.com/120312074

Video 2: Blast Query Builder

Greetings,

Hernán

by Stéphane Ducasse at February 24, 2015 07:21 AM

February 23, 2015

Torsten Bergmann - Kyma and Smalltalk

Kyma is a visual programming language for sound design used by musicians, researchers, and sound designers. From the wikipedia article:

The first version of Kyma, which computed digital audio samples on a Macintosh 512K was written in the Smalltalk programming language in 1986 by Carla Scaletti in Champaign, Illinois. In May 1987, Scaletti had partitioned Kyma into graphics and sound generation engines and ported the sound generation code to a digital signal processor called the Platypus. When the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign eliminated the funding for the PLATO laboratory in 1989, Scaletti and Hebel formed Symbolic Sound Corporation in order to continue developing Kyma and digital audio signal processing hardware.

Now Kyma 7 is out as this video demonstrates and you can look at it for some included Smalltalk scripting. This is also explained in this PDF.
There is also an intro video on Youtube.
Nice!

by Torsten at February 23, 2015 10:42 PM

Torsten Bergmann - Slots in Pharo 4

One of the nice additions in upcoming Pharo 4.0 is the introduction/better handling of Slots. Here is a presentation on Slots from Marcus.

Here is a nice example from Jan how you can use them.

by Torsten at February 23, 2015 10:04 PM

Torsten Bergmann - MathOntologie in Pharo

MathOntologie, is a french environment for doing Math in Pharo. Read more here and here.

by Torsten at February 23, 2015 06:50 PM

Torsten Bergmann - Plague Doctor

Plague Doctor is a project that monitors the usage of windows in the Pharo IDE and closes the ones that are likely not to be used. It uses (optional) visual clues the "importance" of a windows (heat scale from blue to red) and fades away not used windows.

It now also supports the Atomic Dark Theme. The project is hosted on SmalltalkHub.

by Torsten at February 23, 2015 04:27 PM

Torsten Bergmann - Tomáš Kukol: Smalltalk

Tomáš Kukol: Smalltalk presentation. The talk was recorded on Prague Lambda Meetup in Locus Workspace, Jan 14th, 2015

by Torsten at February 23, 2015 04:21 PM

Benoit St-Jean - Rosetta

Vous avez du temps à tuer et vous désirez vous amuser en Smalltalk? Ou bien vous voulez simplement apprendre le langage mais vous vous demandez ce sur quoi vous pourriez vous faire les dents?

N’attendez plus! Il y a une foule d’items qui n’attendent que vous ici!

Classé dans:Smalltalk Tagged: code, Rosetta, Smalltalk

by endormitoire at February 23, 2015 08:49 AM

Benoit St-Jean - GTSpotter : une intro

Vous désirez en savoir plus sur GTSpotter? Il y a un petit vidéo justement fait pour ça!

Classé dans:Pharo, Smalltalk Tagged: GTSpotter, Pharo, Smalltalk

by endormitoire at February 23, 2015 08:20 AM

February 22, 2015

Smalltalk Jobs - Smalltalk Jobs – 2/22/15

Minneapolis, MN and Concord, CA – SmallTalk Programmer through Collabera
- Required Skills:
  - 10 + years’ experience of Smalltalk programming.
  - Must have 5+ years with SQL, preferably SQL server
  - Must be a team-player with demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative environment
  - Ability and experience multi-tasking and working effectively under pressure
  - Outstanding written and verbal communications skills
  - Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements
- Additional listings: Collabera, Collabera, Collabera

Good luck with your job hunting,
James T. Savidge

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Filed under: Employment Tagged: jobs, Smalltalk, Smalltalk jobs

by James T. Savidge at February 22, 2015 05:39 PM

February 21, 2015

Benoit St-Jean - Association Slots

Un exemple de Association Slots dans Pharo.

Classé dans:Pharo, Smalltalk Tagged: association, association slots, Pharo, slots, Smalltalk

by endormitoire at February 21, 2015 10:39 PM

Pharo Weekly - Example implementation of associations with Slots in Pharo 4.0

With it you can link two slots together so an update on one side will also update the other side of the association/relationship.

I used these Movie and Person classes for testing:

Object subclass: #SlotExampleMovie
slots: {
#name.
#year.
ToOneAssociationSlot named: #director target: #SlotExamplePerson inverse: #directedMovies.
ToManyAssociationSlot named: #actors target: #SlotExamplePerson inverse: #actedInMovies }
classVariables: { }
category: ‘SlotAssociations-Tests-Example’

Object subclass: #SlotExamplePerson
slots: {
#name.
ToManyAssociationSlot named: #directedMovies target: #SlotExampleMovie inverse: #director.
ToManyAssociationSlot named: #actedInMovies target: #SlotExampleMovie inverse: #actors }
classVariables: { }
category: ‘SlotAssociations-Tests-Example’

With this definition the director of a Movie must be a Persion instance. When you set the director of a movie this movie is automatically added to the directedMovies collection of that person. Off course it also works the other way around.

It took very little code to add these association slots. I think Slots are a really nice addition to Pharo! If anyone wants to have a look at the code:

MCHttpRepository
location: ‘http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/JanVanDeSandt/Stuff/main’
user: ”
password: ”

Jan.