chris 

would you mind to put the license MIT so that it is the same with Squeak and 
Pharo?

Stef

On Nov 14, 2010, at 3:09 AM, HaiColon wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I released the first public version of "Smalltalk Labs Browser for blogs"
> (or just SLBfb since that name is really long.. ^^), a JavaScript widget
> that you can put on your blog (or any other kind of website) to offer your
> readers a web based Smalltalk code browser for classes you mention or even
> describe in an article or tutorial so that people don't need to have a
> Smalltalk image at hand to understand what you're talking about. The widget
> pops up when someone clicks on a classname and can be moved freely around a
> website, but it tries to position itself automatically in the best position
> when you don't move it by yourself and keeps doing so even when the web
> browser is resized.
> 
> The widget downloads the source code of a class from a database over the
> net. At the moment the database has all 3093 classes of Pharo 1.1 in it and
> more Smalltalks (where code redistribution is allowed) are going to come
> soon, including some popular frameworks and libraries like Seaside. The only
> requirement to add this to a blog is that you can add custom JavaScript to
> your blog's template, you don't need a blog that runs on Smalltalk/Seaside
> for this, which means most free blog services work fine (including Tumblr
> and Blogger).
> 
> I hope this will be of help to the Smalltalk community. It's completely free
> and Open Source, licensed under the thoroughly permissive Apache License
> Version 2.0 (both the widget and the database/website). I'm running this on
> Google App Engine and the free quota (bandwidth, database space, CPU time,
> etc.) should be enough to serve the whole Smalltalk community, or at least
> that's the idea.
> 
> You can try it out directly on the SLBfb website:
> http://slbrowserfb.appspot.com or in my blog post about the release:
> http://smalltalklabs.tumblr.com/post/1557829586/smalltalk-labs-browser-for-blogs-released
> 
> If you scroll to the very bottom of the website, there's a link
> "configuration" which will bring you to the interactive installation
> documentation to install this on your own blog/website.
> 
> Keep in mind that this is the first release (apart from the pre-release on
> Pharocasts some time ago), so there could be some nasty bugs that only
> happen when there's a full moon and someone tries to sing a ballad on one
> leg with his arms tied behind his back. This only works in WebKit and
> Mozilla browsers at the moment, but for unsupported browsers or when you
> read a blog post that makes use of SLBfb in an RSS reader or on Planet
> Smalltalk/Squeak, a website is used to display the classes mentioned
> instead, so it still works but not as nicely.
> 
> If someone wants to hack on the code, I'll release a screencast about how to
> set up a local development environment some time next week, including a
> small introduction on using the git version control system since the code is
> hosted on Github.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
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