A bit on GemStone history When talking about Smalltalk, one of the advantages always mentioned is its “maturity”. In the previous post, I commented some GemStone features. If you read them carefully, it seems like if we were talking about a modern technology that couldn’t have been possible years ago. Wrong!!!! GemStone Systems was funded … More What is GemStone? Part 2
A few months ago, I was invited to give some talks at “Summer School on Languages and Applications” in Bolivia. I offered several topics I was able to talk about and 3 of them were chosen. The target of the presentations were mostly university students who haven’t seen Smalltalk never before. So my presentations tried to be as … More My presentations at “Summer School on Languages and Applications”, Bolivia 2014
Hi guys. As you may know, I finished my PhD in Computer Science in France and I am now back in my country, Argentina. I have started working as a freelancer/consultant/contractor/independent. If you are interested in discussing with me, please send me a private email. For a long time, Pharaoers and Squakers have been asking … More Headless support for Cog Cocoa VM
Hi guys. In the last days I wrote a Pharo binding for the LZ4 compressor (thanks to Camillo Bruni for pointing out), and so I wanted to share it. The main goal of LZ4 is to be really fast in compressing and uncompressing but not to obtain the biggest compression ratio possible. The main reason why I wrote this … More LZ4 binding for Pharo
Hi all. After 3 years of hard work, my “PhD journey” is arriving to an end (which means, among others, that it is now time to search a job again hahaha). The defense will take place on Monday, October 29, 2012 at Mines de Douai, site Lahure, room “Espace Somme”, Douai, France. After the defense there … More My PhD defense: “Application-Level Virtual Memory for Object-Oriented Systems”
Both ESUG 2012 and GSoC have finished. At ESUG I gave a presentation about Fuel/Tanker (sorry, no slides because it was all demo). I also presented Tanker in the ESUG Awards….we got the 4th place, and only 8 points of difference with the 3er place 🙂 Anyway…I wanted to make public what exactly we … More “New” Tanker – current status
Hi all. You may have noticed that Tanker is starting to appear in some mails or in the Pharo issue tracker. Tanker is a project that Martin and I have been developing for a while and we are going to submit it this year to ESUG Innovation Technology Award. Therefore, I thought it would be … More Tanker: transporting packages with Fuel
The problem These days, most serious software developments include a Continuous Integration server which runs tests. A problem appears when tests fail in the server but they do not fail locally. There can be differences in the used operating system, virtual machine, configuration, etc. Let’s take as an example the Jenkins server of Pharo. We … More Reviving CI test failures in local machine
Hi guys. It is going to be 4 years since I have started to develop with Squeak/Pharo. In the last months, talking with people or by reading the mailing list, I noticed that I may know some tricks and tips of Pharo that not everybody know. If you are an advanced Pharaoer, you probably won’t … More Pharo: Tips and Tricks
Hi. Some time ago, I wrote a post about how I build images for my projects. I am downloading new images all the time and because of that I used to have 2 problems: 1) I needed to load several external packages to the standard Pharo image; 2) I needed to set my own settings … More StartupLoader: running startUp scripts in Pharo