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PharoJS ESUG 2019 Update

PharoJS ESUG 2019 Update PharoJS Talk at ESUG Smalltalk Conference

I gave a short presentation at the ESUG 2019 Smalltalk conference that was held this year in Cologne, Germany. In this talk, I made a summary of main PharoJS changes and improvements done during the last 12 months. This includes a more robust test framework to run and test Javascript  code generated from Pharo code. […]

How Much Water Do We Waste Until the Shower is Hot Enough?

How Much Water Do We Waste Until the Shower is Hot Enough? stop wasting water

My friend Eric and I both noticed that on each shower, we have to wait few minutes until water is hot enough. During all this time water is pouring directly to the drain. We agreed that we need to do something about it. Before taking action, I thought that I need first to measure how […]

Polygon-Based 2D SLAM for Robotic Exploration

Polygon-Based 2D SLAM for Robotic Exploration polygon-based SLAM algorithm for robotic exploration

Johann Dichtl successfully defended his PhD, that I’ve co-supervised with Luc Fabresse and Guillaume Lozenguez. The defense took place this tuesday July 2nd, 2019 morning. The jury members were: Prof. Ouiddad Labbani from Université de Limoges, Dr. Mikal Ziane, HdR, from Université Paris Descartes, and Dr. Laetitia Matignon from Université Claude Bernard, Lyon 1. Title […]

Useful 3D Prints: Kitchen Sponge Holder Hook

Useful 3D Prints: Kitchen Sponge Holder Hook Useful 3D Print Kitchen Sponge Hook

One of my motivations to 3D printing is home repair and improvement. In this small project, I decided to use polypanels to make a flexible, yet robust hook for a sponge holder in my kitchen. Starting from polypanel snaps provided freely available online (Thanks Devin). STL design files are freely available on my thingiverse page.

Observer Pattern Made Easy with Pharo Lightweight Observer

Observer Pattern Made Easy with Pharo Lightweight Observer Observer Design Pattern implementation in Pharo

Lightweight Observer is an alternative to Announcement, the default Pharo  implementation of the Observer Design Pattern. I started developing Lightweight Observer because I needed a small framework, with an implementation that can be easily converted to Javascript using PharoJS. I also wanted to be straight forward to use. I had in mind beginners such as […]

Arduino-Based Toys for Playful Cats: 3 Week-End Projects

Arduino-Based Toys for Playful Cats: 3 Week-End Projects arduino projects for cats

In this selection of simple week-end projects, we target our furry friends. We provide a selection of three cool DIY projects using Arduino boards. Cats will love these electronic toys. They will cost you only few bucks, for hours of fun and laughter with your pet. Checkout the videos. They are hilarious! The first project […]

Farmers Market App: Find Fresh Locally Grown Food

Farmers Market App: Find Fresh Locally Grown Food farmers market pharojs mobile app

If you care both about the planet and your health, the Farmers Market app is for you! This app allows you to find nearby markets, where you can buy fresh food directly from farmers. Most of the produce are grown locally. This means less fuel for transportation. So, by buying locally grown food you contribute […]

Green Websites: Solutions for a CO2 Free Internet

Green Websites: Solutions for a CO2 Free Internet Green Web Server

Green websites is the way to go for a carbon free Internet. By going green, content providers will contribute to fight climate change. The impact will be significant since the Internet energy consumption is ever growing. The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025, hampering global attempts to meet climate […]