Hernán Morales

Creating a Pharo application for MacOS

Packaging your code as an application is an important point. It is the last step that makes a difference between a bunch of packages and a complete application. Thanks to the beautiful work in the PharoApplicationGenerator package, developed by Pablo Tesone, it is now possible to quickly generate an application and an .dmg installer, specifyingContinue reading “Creating a Pharo application for MacOS”

Writing benchmarks with SMark

Introduction SMark is a benchmarking framework for Pharo written originally by Stefan Marr. It serves as an essential tool for Pharo developers, enabling them to benchmark their code, identify performance bottlenecks, and make informed decisions to enhance their software’s efficiency. It is composed of four main components: A Suite (which represents the benchmarks), a RunnerContinue reading “Writing benchmarks with SMark”

Sentiment Analysis in Pharo using a real data set

You are a movie reviewer, and a colleague has just sent to you a set of files with hundreds of reviews to determine their sentiments, for example classify them into positive or negative. You read that machine learning can help here processing massive amounts of data by using a classifier. But computers are not goodContinue reading “Sentiment Analysis in Pharo using a real data set”