The Bootstrap Chronicles Chapter 4 – Pump up with Fuel
Last time we were generating a new image with useful information. This post tells the story after that first bootstrap: How we ensure that little monster is healthy, and how we ensure that our process...
View ArticleThe Bootstrap Chronicles – The end of a phase
As some of you already know, the GSOC project edition 2012 is coming to an end. And along with it, the bootstrap project reaches a checkpoint. This post covers is the news since the last chapter, and...
View ArticlePharo 2.0 Released
Aaaand, a new version of the Pharo project cames out. It ressembles the version 2.0 of this dynamically typed object-oriented programming language and environment. This release includes many cool...
View ArticleKeymappings 101 – for Pharo 2.0
Pharo 2.0 release includes the Keymappings library. Keymappings is a library for configuring shortcuts for the current UI library (Morphic). It models concepts like: shortcuts, key combinations, event...
View ArticleWhen optimal matters
This last week I’ve been involved somehow in several discussions which, although not explicitly, talked about optimizations. In particular, premature optimizations. Of course, we all know they are...
View ArticleBootstrap revival – the basics
In the last time I was working on the system bootstrap again, trying to enhance the process, lower the imposed limitations… And I have a pretty new version. I’ll present here a summary of what I’ve...
View ArticleInstalling Pharo in many flavors
In the recent times, there appeared many many ways to leverage the installation and deploy of Pharo applications. These installation approaches enhance significantly the experience of using Pharo, by...
View ArticleCustomizing ZeroConf scripts
As you may already know, ZeroConf scripts are bash scripts that ease the installation of a Pharo environment. A funny thing about these ZeroConf scripts is that they are seen as bash scripts by a bash...
View ArticleRecover a broken image with Oz
While hacking the VM the other day, I went into a very special situation: I got an image that crashed on startup. And I had stuff without commit!! So I started the crusade to recover it. I know that...
View ArticleOz object spaces in Esug 2013
Hi! This little post is to add a summary of what I’ll be showing in the upcoming ESUG conference. I’ll present a paper about my work in the workshop and present the recovery tools of Oz in the...
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