In my previous article, How to Create a Pharo Smalltalk Plugin, I outlined how to create a Pharo Smalltalk plugin. However, since then, I’ve discovered a more convenient way to produce these plugins using the PharoPluginBuilder and StarterPlugin. In this post, I wanted to inform and describe the idea of this simplified process of creating a Pharo Smalltalk plugin.
As businesses increasingly rely on software to deliver their products and services, ensuring that their production applications are running smoothly and efficiently becomes a must for maintaining what makes your app to be dependable on: application reliability, performance, and availability. One critical aspect of monitoring production apps is measuring resource usage, including CPU, memory, and network utilization and that’s very well covered by many solutions. As previously mentioned, I particularly like The TLIG Stack for that. These metrics can provide valuable insights into the application’s health, allowing teams to identify performance bottlenecks and detect potential issues before they escalate into larger problems. ...
I’m excited to announce that the Pharo Consortium has been approved as an organizer for Google Summer of Code 2023! As a mentor for the Pharo TensorFlow plugin project, I’m thrilled to be a part of this program and to help developers to work on a project for the Pharo community.
Pharo is a powerful open-source Smalltalk-based programming language and environment that has been widely used for research and development in various fields. Specially Pharo at Inria, France’s National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology. However, the lack of a native plugin for TensorFlow, a popular open-source machine learning framework, has been a major limitation for high efficiency AI development with Pharo. I’ve written this post to let you know that, I’ve proposed a Google Summer of Code 2023 project to create a TensorFlow plugin for Pharo, which will unlock the full potential of Pharo for production grade AI development. ...
When working with Smalltalk, you may wish to access functionality that exists in a specific library or technology that you do not want to recreate. In such cases, you have two options: creating an FFI bridge or extending the Smalltalk VM with new primitives. In this article, we’ll explore the less common method of extending the Pharo Virtual Machine with an external plugin by creating a HelloWorldPlugin. The goal is to provide insight and clarity into the process of extending the VM in this manner, and to explain the steps involved in Pharo 9 as of February 2023.
Today, I’m excited to announce a new release of PharoDawnTheme, this dark warm color theme for the Pharo Smalltalk IDE. This theme is available for Pharo 9 and 10
After quite some time not having updates on Mapless, I’ve started to invest some efforts in getting it working for latests Pharo versions and incorporating and maturing its API and main features.
Sometimes you need to control how a worker image starts and stops right from the operative system. You may do it from the terminal but the really important use for this comes with automation and orchestration. In airflowing, the Pharo worker images start and stop automatically and on command from the OS and in other to shutdown, the images use the technique I’m describing here. To do this you need 3 things: ...