[Pharo-users] UKSTUG Meeting: Esteban Lorenzano - Pharo-CIG: C++ Interface Generator - 23 April 2025

2025-04-14 Thread UK Smalltalk via Pharo-users
For our April meeting, we'll be hosting Pharo's Esteban Lorenzano to talk about Pharo-CIG - a C++ Interface Generator. The Pharo FFI (Foreign Function Interface) system is an excellent tool that enables Pharo users to create bindings with external C libraries. However, there's a significant drawba

[Pharo-users] Craig Latta - Livecoding Language Models: AI Context in Live Environments - 26 March 2025

2025-03-17 Thread UK Smalltalk
For our March meeting, Craig Latta will show how to leverage AI language models in a livecoding environment. Using a tool creates context for complimentary tools. For example, selecting an object in a Smalltalk inspector creates useful context for browsing the class of that object. This is a poten

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group meeting: Richard Ronteltap - SmallJS - 26 February 2025

2025-02-26 Thread UK Smalltalk
For our February 2025 presentation, Richard Ronteltap will present his SmallJS project. SmallJS ( https://small-js.org/Home/Home.html ) is a free and open source implementation of the elegant and powerful Smalltalk-80 (ST) language. It compiles to JavaScript (JS) that runs in modern browsers or in

[Pharo-users] UK Smalltalk User Group meeting: 2024 retrospective and what to expect in 2025 - 29 January 2025

2025-01-27 Thread UK Smalltalk
For our first meeting of the year, we'll hold a retrospective on what has happened in the Smalltalk world in 2024, and discuss what we can expect in 2025. Join us to share what you learned, and what you are looking forward to! This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, p

[Pharo-users] All UKSTUG presentations are now available on YouTube

2025-01-08 Thread UK Smalltalk
Hello, We have recently moved the recordings of the UKSTUG online presentations from Vimeo to YouTube. The recordings are now available at https://www.youtube.com/@UKSTUG . We are also looking for presenters for our 2025 online meetings. If you anything worth sharing, please let us know! Giovann

[Pharo-users] Re: UKSTUG meeting - Christoph Thiede / Guille Amaral - Wed 27 Nov @ 7pm GMT

2024-11-24 Thread UK Smalltalk
Join us by signing into the meetup or zoom: https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/302453224/?slug=ukstug&eventId=302453224 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89598196284?pwd=b1a0AflB3TjhoQBBeIYYrDVpj2clbW.1 [:kind | 'Regards from ', kind ] value: 'The UK Smalltalk User Group'. O

[Pharo-users] UKSTUG meeting - Christoph Thiede / Guille Amaral - Wed 27 Nov @ 7pm GMT

2024-11-24 Thread UK Smalltalk
rds from ', kind ] value: 'The UK Smalltalk User Group'. PS: the videos from last month presentation are now available https://vimeo.com/ukstug/marianollm (Mariano Guerra on LLMs) https://vimeo.com/ukstug/tudorllm (Tudor Girba on LLMs)

[Pharo-users] UKSTUG meeting - Mariano Guerra / Tudor Gîrba: - 30 October 2024 @ 7pm GMT

2024-10-27 Thread UK Smalltalk
Join us for an engaging session on the latest in Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), featuring two insightful presentations. *Introduction to Large Language Models and Gloodata* *Speaker: Mariano Guerra* Mariano will walk us through the fundamentals of LLMs and provide a behind-the-sce

[Pharo-users] UKSTUG meeting (*with corrected links*) - Christian Haider: How values make systems simpler - 25 Sep 2024 @ 7pm BST

2024-09-23 Thread UK Smalltalk
Distinguishing between stateful Objects and Values has long been recognized as fruitful. Values are universal context-free abstractions that prevent side effects and allow for a functional programming style. Though programming languages provide simple Values like Integer and String, more complex Va

[Pharo-users] DATE CORRECTION - UKSTUG Meeting - Javier Pimas -- Live Metacircular Runtimes: The case of Egg Smalltalk - 29 May 2024

2024-05-22 Thread UK Smalltalk
Egg is a new Smalltalk dialect that was designed from scratch to incorporate some interesting features: A module system with namespaces that replaces the old-good Smalltalk global. Dynamic identifiers, which are bound lazily similarly to how methods are lazily bound. A multi-VM archite

[Pharo-users] UKSTUG Meeting - Javier Pimas -- Live Metacircular Runtimes: The case of Egg Smalltalk - 29 June 2024

2024-05-22 Thread UK Smalltalk
Egg is a new Smalltalk dialect that was designed from scratch to incorporate some interesting features: A module system with namespaces that replaces the old-good Smalltalk global. Dynamic identifiers, which are bound lazily similarly to how methods are lazily bound. A multi-VM archite

[Pharo-users] UKSTUG meeting - Tudor Gîrba: What exactly is Glamorous Toolkit? - 24 April 2024

2024-04-22 Thread UK Smalltalk
To some people Glamorous Toolkit is a Pharo environment. To others it’s a knowledge management system. Others might see a code analysis platform, a data visualization or an API browsing tool. Yet others see the graphical stack with its interactive editors. Glamorous Toolkit is all of these. But it’