[Pharo-users] UKSTUG Meeting - Maximiliano Tabacman: Electronic Roleplaying Assistant - 27 March 2024

2024-03-19 Thread Giovanni Corriga
In this presentation, Maximiliano Tabacman will be presenting the main features, abstractions and design decisions behind ERA, the Electronic Roleplaying Assistant ( https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/137825/ERA-for-Rolemaster ). ERA is currently being used to create characters and manage

[Pharo-users] UKSTUG Meeting 28 February 2024: Juan Vuletich - Bootstrap & Dynamic Cuis Libraries

2024-02-23 Thread Giovanni Corriga
Juan Vuletich returns to the UKSTUG to discuss some recent enhancements to Cuis Smalltalk ( https://cuis.st/ ) : Bootstrap and Dynamic Cuis Libraries. Bootstrap: Creating Minimal Images from Scratch > * The last ancestor of Cuis Smalltalk that was bootstrapped from scratch was Smalltalk-76. Since

[Pharo-users] UKSTUG Meeting - Pierre Misse-Chanabier: Polyphemus Take 2 - 31 January 2024

2024-01-26 Thread Giovanni Corriga
Pierre Misse-Chanabier will talk to us about Polyphemus ( https://github.com/hogoww/Polyphemus ) for the Pharo Virtual Machine. The presentation will focus on how to create Tooling on the Pharo Virtual Machine. (This does not require Virtual machine level knowledge). We will start by taking a look

[Pharo-users] UKSTUG Meeting - 29 November 2023 - Pierre Misse-Chanabier: Polyphemus

2023-11-28 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For the November UKSTUG meeting, Pierre Misse-Chanabier will talk to us about Polyphemus for the Pharo Virtual Machine ( https://github.com/hogoww/Polyphemus ). The presentation will focus on how to create Tooling on the Pharo Virtual Machine. (This does not require Virtual machine level knowledge

[Pharo-users] UKSTUG meeting - Marten Feldtmann - GPAS: GemStone/PUM Application Stack - 25 October 2023

2023-10-24 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next UK Smalltalk User Group meeting will be on 25 October (tomorrow). Marten Feldtmann ( https://schrievkrom.wordpress.com/ ) will talk to us about his project GPAS: a GemStone/PUM Application Stack. This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advan

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - ESUG 2023 Recap - 27 September 2023

2023-09-26 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The ESUG conference returned once more this past summer when Smalltalkers from all over the world met in Lyon, France for a week of presentations, and socials ( https://esug.github.io/2023-Conference/conf2023.html ). For this month's meeting, we'll have an open discussion about what was presented a

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting: Show'n'Tell - 26 July 2023

2023-07-26 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For this month's UKSTUG meeting, we'll open the floor to the whole audience and let people show what they are working on. If you have an interesting project to show, or if you'd like to get some help with some hard problem, just show up and be ready to present! This will be an online meeting from

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting: David Buck - Beagle Smalltalk, 28 June 2023

2023-06-26 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For the UKSTUG June meeting, Simberon's David Buck will present Beagle Smalltalk. Over the past 8 years, David has been developing a Smalltalk virtual machine and image. He used it to release two Smalltalk games which ran on Android and iPhone devices. More recently, he's re-written the VM to use

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - 31 May 2023

2023-05-30 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For our May presentation, Stephane Ducasse will present the vision behind Pharo and how that is been implemented incrementally across multiple releases. In Stef's words: "The vision of Pharo is based on three pillars: - First we want to make sure that Pharo is used to develop complex and robust sy

[Pharo-users] Yoshiki Ohshima - Croquet Microverse - 26 April 2023

2023-04-20 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For this month's online presentation, Yoshiki Ohshima will demonstrate the Croquet Microverse ( https://croquet.io/ ), which is a 3D collaborative construction environment. It is an incarnation of Smalltalk-based Croquet but instead implemented in JavaScript. Microverse allows a group of users to c

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday 29th March

2023-03-21 Thread Giovanni Corriga
This month's online meeting introduces a new format whereby we'll give space to commercial companies to discuss how they make use of Smalltalk and contribute to the Smalltalk community. The first of this series will be Mercap Software ( https://www.mercapsoftware.com/en/ ), represented by Gabriel

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - 22 February 2023

2023-02-14 Thread Giovanni Corriga
WebAssembly (WASM - https://wikiwand.com/en/Webassembly ) is an instruction format for portable high-performance code, run by a stack-based virtual machine. To Smalltalkers, this sounds very familiar. WASM is supported by the three most popular web browsers, and by other host platforms as well. Per

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - 28 December 2022

2022-12-19 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For the UKSTUG 2023 holiday meeting, Simberon's David Buck will present Beagle Smalltalk. Over the past 8 years, David has been developing a Smalltalk virtual machine. He used it to release two Smalltalk Games written in VisualWorks to run on Andriod and iPhone devices. More recently, he's re-writ

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - 30 November 2022

2022-11-29 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For this month's UKSTUG meeting, Dave Mason will talk about Zag Smalltalk, a new Smalltalk VM written in Zig. Dave Mason ( http://sarg.ryerson.ca/dmason/ ) has been a professor of Computer Science at Toronto Metropolitan University (previously known as Ryerson) for 41 years. He has done research o

[Pharo-users] Looking for presenters for UK Smalltalk User Group online meetings

2022-11-21 Thread Giovanni Corriga
Hi, The UK Smalltalk User Group is looking for presenters for the online events that we have been running since April 2020. If you have anything you'd like to share with the community - no matter how small! - please contact us at i...@uksmalltalk.org or giova...@corriga.net to discuss what you ca

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - 26 October 2022

2022-10-25 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For this month's meeting, we'll take it easy and have an online social! Bring your favourite drinks - beer, coffee, or whatever you prefer! This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/e

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday, 28 September 2022

2022-09-26 Thread Giovanni Corriga
After a two year pause, the ESUG conference returned this past summer when Smalltalkers from all over the world met in Novi Sad, Serbia for a week of presentations, and socials ( https://esug.github.io/2022-Conference/conf2022.html ). For this month's UKSTUG meeting, we'll have an open discussion

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, May 27th

2020-05-20 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, May 27th. Alan Jackson will talk to us about Kyma ( https://kyma.symbolicsound.com/ ) an object-oriented sound design environment built with Smalltalk technology. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, this will be an onlin

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Monday, March 27th

2017-03-21 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting will be on Monday, March 27th. We'll meet at our usual venue The Counting House ( http://www.the-counting-house.com/) at 7pm. If you'd like to join us, you can just show up at the pub. You can also sign up in advance at the meeting's Meetup

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Monday, September 26th

2016-09-20 Thread Giovanni Corriga
Hi, The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting will be on Monday, September 26th. We'll meet at our usual venue The Counting House ( http://www.the-counting-house.com/) at 7pm. If you'd like to join us, you can just show up at the pub. You can also sign up in advance at the meeting'