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Final Reminder: Mentor Summit Reservations and POs
by Dennis Schetinin Dec. 24, 2010

Dec. 24, 2010

In connection with http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list/browse_th…: I'd like to ask if ESUG submited a "request for payment POs"? -- Dennis Schetinin

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Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code
by Dennis Schetinin Nov. 1, 2010

Nov. 1, 2010

… and observations …and questions … mostly inspired by GSoC Mentor Summit 1. Mentor Summit was a great event! I didn't expect it to be THIS :) Very pleasant …and very hard for me: so many people, language and culture shock :) Great experience for me personally. Thank ESUG for choosing and sending me there. 2. Bad news: Smalltalk is not popular. Well, it's not that new actually, we know it. But I didn't manage to fix it :) Seriously: actually, it looks like everybody knows Smalltalk (they know it existed I mean; few knows it still exists), but it is treated like a black and white movie. People say "wow! it's cool" and go to see Avatar. :( So developers don't take Smalltalk seriously. We (Smalltalkers) know it's a mistake. But we have to show that for others. And I found myself unable to do that there. I found language and, more likely, culture barrier is too big to overcome. I didn't manage to set up a two-way communication with others. So I listened mostly. 3. And I've heard many interesting ideas… apparently, organizational ideas mostly. I need some time to process them. So, for now I'll just outline some directions… 4. Did we summarize our GSoC results? I thought I've missed them, but apparently we didn't do it. At least I found only this page http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2010-esug/downloads/list. I didn't care much before, but now I think it is very important to look closer at the projects we did within GSoC, understand where we succeeded; where we failed; did we benefit and could we get more; make some plans for the future... etc. 5. I think we should pay more attention to GSoC. It is very important for our small society. Of course, we can't be sure smalltalkers will be invited again next year. (One of the things I tried to understand at summit but still I don't: how does Google select mentor organizations?) But this work will be very helpful, useful, advantageous… what ever. 6. We should be more serious about monitoring and controlling our projects. Since money are involved here, we have a right to. That's money from Google, but still. I think it should be a bit different from the way free projects are evolved within Smalltalk society. Since we have such opportunity we have to benefit as much as we can. 7. Smalltalk gives me competitive advantages. For that matter I don't want to :) but now I understand even better: we have to promote Smalltalk. I know everybody knows that, but I still want to state it once again. And promoting is not only about advertising and praising. We should be more open. We should find a way to start some cooperative projects with other societies/languages. I don't know how to do it. And it's extremely hard for me as I believe in Smalltalk superiority :) But still we have if we don't want Smalltalk to die. In general, it looks like making Smalltalk more open should be our priority, and this is one of the few ways to enhance prestige of Smalltalk among developers. -- Dennis Schetinin

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Re: [Esug-list] How to query Amazon information via a web service?
by Mirko Kiefer Oct. 31, 2010

Oct. 31, 2010

Stephane, I haven't looked at the cloudfork code in detail but I'm sure you can reuse the generic part of setting up the communication. All Amazon Web Services communicate in the same way - its basically about signing your requests with an HMAC signature using your secret access-token. Each API then defines certain query parameters. To do your ISBN queries you can have a look here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/index.html?… You will just need to supply the parameters IdType=ISBN and ItemId for the actual ISBN. Depending of the amount or kind of information you want to get you can specifiy certain "ResponseGroups" in the request e.g. "Large" or "Medium". Hope that helps. Mirko On 10/31/10 6:27 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > Thanks mirko > I will read that ;) > Like that I can learn something. Did you check cloudfork? do you know if there are some services communication I could reuse? > > Stef > > On Oct 31, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Mirko Kiefer wrote: > >> Hi Stephane, >> >> I wrote a simple client for the Amazon Web Services in Node.js that allows you to do this kind of queries. >> The implementation is quite straightforward - porting it to Smalltalk shouldn't be much work. >> http://github.com/mirkok/Node-AWS >> >> Mirko >> >> On 10/31/10 5:51 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >>> Hi guys >>> >>> I would like to get book information from an ISBN and I would like to query amazon. >>> Does any of you an experience with that and some pointers? >>> >>> Stef >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Esug-list mailing list >>> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >>> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

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Re: [Esug-list] How to query Amazon information via a web service?
by Stéphane Ducasse Oct. 31, 2010

Oct. 31, 2010

Thanks! I will have a look now. On Oct 31, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Georg Heeg wrote: > Stef, > > One of the initial seaBreeze examples we showed at ESUg in Amsterdam. The > demo still is part of seaBreeze one-click image. Just download seaBreeze > from seaBreeze.heeg.de and have a look. > > Georg > > Georg Heeg eK, Dortmund und Köthen, HR Dortmund A 12812 > Tel. +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712 > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: esug-list-bounces(a)lists.esug.org > [mailto:esug-list-bounces@lists.esug.org] Im Auftrag von Stéphane Ducasse > Gesendet: Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2010 17:52 > An: ESUG Mailing list > Betreff: [Esug-list] How to query Amazon information via a web service? > > Hi guys > > I would like to get book information from an ISBN and I would like to query > amazon. > Does any of you an experience with that and some pointers? > > Stef > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > >

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How to query Amazon information via a web service?
by Stéphane Ducasse Oct. 31, 2010

Oct. 31, 2010

Hi guys I would like to get book information from an ISBN and I would like to query amazon. Does any of you an experience with that and some pointers? Stef

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Re: [Esug-list] Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code
by mkobetic＠cincom.com Oct. 29, 2010

Oct. 29, 2010

"Paolo Bonzini"<bonzini(a)gnu.org> wrote: > It's definitely a step towards that, though. Does your experience with > CVST suggest that it's better to do both steps at the same time? Fair enough, but I would hope that whatever solution is chosen, it is open towards eventually being able to support cross-dialect projects. > I would be worried that including in an "initial battle plan" an > editor-friendly syntax would lead to endless discussions and no code > produced. Yes, but I'm more worried about "real" vs "fake" integration, than I am about particulars of a syntax. With fake integration all you'll get with git is push, pull and commit, leaving all the rest of the capabilities behind. That will not make us a good team player.

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Re: [Esug-list] Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code
by mkobetic＠cincom.com Oct. 29, 2010

Oct. 29, 2010

"Paolo Bonzini"<bonzini(a)gnu.org> wrote: > Ability to work seamlessly with people that use the tools outside > Smalltalk is already a big step forward. It will often do even if the > integration with the tool is kind of fake. Sure, but that just helps you to do part of a project in smalltalk, it doesn't help much with attracting new people to Smalltalk.

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Re: [Esug-list] Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code
by mkobetic＠cincom.com Oct. 29, 2010

Oct. 29, 2010

"Paolo Bonzini"<bonzini(a)gnu.org> wrote: > On 10/29/2010 04:15 PM, mkobetic(a)cincom.com wrote: > > Another significant hurdle was that each dialect has it's own fileout > > format. CVST allowed using SIF as well for that reason, but that's > > foreign to every dialect. Would you be happy to commit your sources > > to git in SIF? > > I don't think inter-dialect communication is a problem. Any dialect > should be able to use whatever it prefers, like XML for VW or chunks for > Squeak or its own syntax for GST. Did CVST actually rely on SIF or did > it just "allow" using it? No, it had configurable "source codec" for that reason, so you could use native chunks or SIF (when I started, VW 5i wasn't out yet, so no XML). But SIF was critical when we had our our cross-dialect workshop with Steve Wart (Dolphin) and Brian Hogan (VA) at Camp Smalltalk in Colorado Springs. And we did get it going between the three dialects there. Anyway, yes, for dialect specific project, SIF wouldn't be necessary, but I feel we'd be missing an opportunity here. If you commit your project into something like github in a portable format, the chances of the project taking off in another dialect as well are greatly increased IMO. It may actually help our community to stop diverging so much and promote more collaboration. Look how adopting monticello in Gemstone helped the portability of Seaside between the two dialects. Why raise arbitrary barriers ? Another point I'd like to emphasize, if we want to attract people from other languages claiming integration with these VCS, it's not enough to merely use them as just a back-end store for our source. We have to step outside of our comfort zone and adopt the development model that comes with it (and it might actually do us good, this new crop of VCS has some neat stuff). We need to learn the tool and use the tool for version-control, not just hide it away and only push it from time to time with a ten foot pole. Otherwise people will see right away that we're just faking the integration. So in VW I wouldn't try to swap git in as a just a different "database back end" behind Store. I think it needs to be full on file based VC integration (ala CVST or whatever) that can run side by side with Store if you wanted.

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Re: [Esug-list] Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code
by mkobetic＠cincom.com Oct. 29, 2010

Oct. 29, 2010

"Paolo Bonzini"<bonzini(a)gnu.org> wrote: > For the VCS, I've always been surprised there's no git or svn backend > for Monticello. It wouldn't seem _too_ hard to have a directory per > package and replace each .mcz file with a commit in that directory. > > Alternatively, there's actually very little GST-specific code in > http://github.com/timfel/gitocello (a Squeak+Monticello <-> GST+git > bridge), so if someone wants to play with it... I played with this back in 2000, when VW didn't have it's own VCS yet. Some might remember a project called CVST (http://cvstproj.sourceforge.net/) Ultimately I stopped working on it, because VW got Store, and Squeak got Monticello shortly after, and each of the dialect specific VCSs had some interesting features that CVS (back then) couldn't provide (not easily at least). The communities clearly valued the additional capabilities that their solutions provided. I tried to push CVST as a cross-dialect solution, but there seemed to be little interest in that. Another significant hurdle was that each dialect has it's own fileout format. CVST allowed using SIF as well for that reason, but that's foreign to every dialect. Would you be happy to commit your sources to git in SIF? Anyway, one aspect that I liked about CVST was that the image could be treated as a sort of "fancy editor" for the working copy of your code in the working directory, which might appeal to newcomers from other languages too. It's not tied to CVS in any way, you could use svn or git with it just as well (Here are slides that talk a bit more about how it worked http://www.slideshare.net/mkobetic/01-stscvst) It would require some update to plug into current packaging structures (e.g. packages in VW, it was integrated with parcels back then), but that wouldn't be difficult. Some level of dialect specific tool integration would be needed (I wrote some for VW, but those would mostly be replaced by rather simple RB extensions), overall I would expect it to be much work. What I wonder about though, if we did bring it up to date (or came up with something completely new), would people actually use it ? Because if most would still stick to their Store, Monticello X, Envy, etc, presumably because of some cool feature that they'd miss, the "yet another VCS" would be just a waste of time. But maybe times have changed and we, Smalltalkers, are more likely to accept something like svn or git even if we have to give up some of the niceties of our home-brew solutions.

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Re: [Esug-list] Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code
by Damien Pollet Oct. 29, 2010

Oct. 29, 2010

On Oct 29, 2010, at 12:19, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > But comparing to Ruby, there is no standard UI in Ruby and this not > really annoying for the people, because they deploy their application > on the web. Yes, but Ruby has really nice bindings to at least GTK and Cocoa. Applications developed using that look just like their C / ObjC counterparts, they do not pop an image window, etc -- Damien Pollet type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet

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Re: [Esug-list] Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code
by Damien Pollet Oct. 29, 2010

Oct. 29, 2010

On Oct 29, 2010, at 14:29, Davorin Rusevljan wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini(a)gnu.org> wrote: >> On 10/29/2010 02:12 PM, Geert Claes wrote: >>> Sounds very interesting, what would the main advantages be of using a GIT >>> backend? >> >> It is what you use for other assets. So the Monticello git-backed repo >> could be simply a subtree of the project-wide repo. > > There would be also one trivial, but possibly important social aspect. > Some Smalltalk projects might be hosted on GitHub, and become visible > to larger audience. ...and benefit from github's issue tracker, from a VCS that handles branches in a way that actually makes sense, from any continuous integration tool that you can trigger on post-commit hooks, and so on. The hard point is how to fit in the file-based crowd, without imposing too many idiosyncrasies, but without loosing the power of smalltalk-specific tools. -- Damien Pollet type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet

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Re: [Esug-list] Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code
by Steven Kelly Oct. 29, 2010

Oct. 29, 2010

Davorin Rusevljan wrote: > Steven Kelly <stevek(a)metacase.com> wrote: > > People choose a programming environment based on (most important > > first): > > > > 1) what everybody else is using > > 2) what seems familiar to them > > 3) what is cool > > 4) what is good > > IMHO there is one criteria that comes in front of those. First > environment needs to be able to produce cool results. If environment > can do some others can not, people will be using it even if it > requires use of line editor. So being able to produce cool aps is our > priority zero. To some extent that intersects with 3), and I'd include it in 4) too: what you can produce, and how productive you are in doing it. I stand by my claim that 1) and 2) are more important in achieving mass success. 4) just helps guarantee a long life. Mind you, 1) should be rephrased to "what everybody else seems to be using", and a big score on 3) can outweigh a smaller difference on 1) and 2) over time: your message will get media coverage and some evaluators, helping to address 2) and 1) bit by bit. Steve

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Re: [Esug-list] Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code
by Steven Kelly Oct. 29, 2010

Oct. 29, 2010

> On 10/29/2010 12:48 PM, Geert Claes wrote: > >> It sure cares! If the VCS doesn't allow easy integration of code > >> with other kinds of assets (pictures, CSS, schemas expressed as > >> DDL, etc.) and with other people on the team who work on those > >> assets, developers _are_ going to complain. VCS and source code organization is something that has now become standard across all mainstream languages (i.e. Java and C# :->). Your source code should be saved in class files, in a directory structure that mirrors the package/namespace structure. Other assets are stored and versioned in a similar way. You can use any VCSs with any programming language; indeed, you may be more attached to a VCS than a language. You will use one VCS for a project, but you may use multiple languages. Similar things can be said for IDEs and VMs: you probably pick one and stick to it, although you use multiple languages. People choose a programming environment based on (most important first): 1) what everybody else is using 2) what seems familiar to them 3) what is cool 4) what is good Based on that, it's obvious Smalltalk is not going to succeed in a big way in the foreseeable future. What we need to look at are what areas we lose out on in 2), and could be changed to fit what everybody else is doing, without losing much in 4). To my mind, source code in class files and normal VCS would be doable in Smalltalk, without losing anything major. In contrast, image-based development is a major factor in our competitive advantage, allowing debugging, experimentation etc. It's hard to imagine image-based development with Eclipse or VisualStudio, and implementing Smalltalk on another existing VM is currently too hard, so I'll skip those and focus on the low-hanging fruit. Which Smalltalks (+/- add-on projects) have code in class files, interface with standard VCS, and yet still have an image-based, GUI IDE? And for those that don't, how hard would it be to get there? Steve

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Re: [Esug-list] Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code
by 'Markus Rips' Oct. 29, 2010

Oct. 29, 2010

>Squeak uses ToolBuilder to describe UI elements - lists, buttons, code >panes, menus, and the like. Has anyone considered writing a >SeasideToolBuilder to generate HTML/CSS? > >frank Hi Frank seaBreeze is such a tool for seaside. If someone is interested, have a look at: http://seabreeze.heeg.de/ Markus ________________________________ Markus Rips * Senior Consultant / certified Scrum Master * markus.rips(a)heeg.de phone: +49 231 9 75 99 24 * fax: +49 231 9 75 99 20 Georg Heeg eK Dortmund Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Dortmund A 12812

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Re: [Esug-list] Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code
by Steven Kelly Oct. 29, 2010

Oct. 29, 2010

Jan Vrany wrote: > > On 10/29/2010 01:36 PM, Steven Kelly wrote: > > > Which Smalltalks (+/- add-on projects) have code in class files, > > > interface with standard VCS > > Smalltalk/X supports CVS and SubVersion. > > > > and yet still have an image-based, GUI IDE? > > Smalltalk/X for instance :-) Thanks! But to return to my criteria: 1) what everybody else is using 2) what seems familiar to them 3) what is cool 4) what is good Even in the Smalltalk community, Smalltalk/X isn't 1). And looking at the web pages, with not even a single picture of the IDE or Smalltalk/X applications on the Products > Smalltalk/X pages, it may find itself in pretty big trouble on 3). That's a real shame, in an era when even one-person companies and research projects have smart videos showing off their products. Particularly since from what I hear, Smalltalk/X does pretty well on 4). Sorry if that sounds harsh - I do understand the other side of the coin, i.e. that there's hardly any money to be made by selling software development environments these days. Good luck to eXept with expecco, which I guess is what they focus on now. Steve

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Re: [Esug-list] Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code
by Steven Kelly Oct. 29, 2010

Oct. 29, 2010

James Robertson wrote: > -- the not quite "standard" widgets in VisualWorks make him think > -- the "all in one windows" thing in Pharo and Squeak make him think I don't think these are the major issues these days. VW's widgets are close to standard widgets these days, and most other apps' widgets diverge from the standards anyway. Squeak will suffer far more, as its look is further from the standard (last time I looked). Most IDEs are very much "all in one window", so I think VW suffers more there. The single window of Pharo and Squeak feels odd to a VW user, not to a normal person :-). Of course Pharo and Squeak could do more to have a single big IDE window with fixed panes, rather than the multiple floating windows-within-a-window that they had last time I looked. Then again, the CodeBubbles demo has got people excited, and that's pretty close to a Smalltalk "multiple browser windows" model. http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm Steve

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Few thoughts about Google Summer of Code
by Dennis Schetinin Oct. 29, 2010

Oct. 29, 2010

… and observations …and questions … mostly inspired by GSoC Mentor Summit 1. Mentor Summit was a great event! I didn't expect it to be THIS :) Very pleasant …and very hard for me: so many people, language and culture shock :) Great experience for me personally. Thank ESUG for choosing and sending me there. 2. Bad news: Smalltalk is not popular. Well, it's not that new actually, we know it. But I didn't manage to fix it :) Seriously: actually, it looks like everybody knows Smalltalk (they know it existed I mean; few knows it still exists), but it is treated like a black and white movie. People say "wow! it's cool" and go to see Avatar. :( So developers don't take Smalltalk seriously. We (Smalltalkers) know it's a mistake. But we have to show that for others. And I found myself unable to do that there. I found language and, more likely, culture barrier is too big to overcome. I didn't manage to set up a two-way communication with others. So I listened mostly. 3. And I've heard many interesting ideas… apparently, organizational ideas mostly. I need some time to process them. So, for now I'll just outline some directions… 4. Did we summarize our GSoC results? I thought I've missed them, but apparently we didn't do it. At least I found only this page http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2010-esug/downloads/list. I didn't care much before, but now I think it is very important to look closer at the projects we did within GSoC, understand where we succeeded; where we failed; did we benefit and could we get more; make some plans for the future... etc. 5. I think we should pay more attention to GSoC. It is very important for our small society. Of course, we can't be sure smalltalkers will be invited again next year. (One of the things I tried to understand at summit but still I don't: how does Google select mentor organizations?) But this work will be very helpful, useful, advantageous… what ever. 6. We should be more serious about monitoring and controlling our projects. Since money are involved here, we have a right to. That's money from Google, but still. I think it should be a bit different from the way free projects are evolved within Smalltalk society. Since we have such opportunity we have to benefit as much as we can. 7. Smalltalk gives me competitive advantages. For that matter I don't want to :) but now I understand even better: we have to promote Smalltalk. I know everybody knows that, but I still want to state it once again. And promoting is not only about advertising and praising. We should be more open. We should find a way to start some cooperative projects with other societies/languages. I don't know how to do it. And it's extremely hard for me as I believe in Smalltalk superiority :) But still we have if we don't want Smalltalk to die. In general, it looks like making Smalltalk more open should be our priority, and this is one of the few ways to enhance prestige of Smalltalk among developers. -- Dennis Schetinin

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Smalltalk is cool on Nabble :)
by Geert Claes Oct. 28, 2010

Oct. 28, 2010

http://forum.world.st/file/n3015547/SmalltalkIsCoolOnNabble.png -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Smalltalk-is-cool-on-Nabble-tp3015547p3015547.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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All known ESUG Slides on Slideshare
by Marcus Denker Oct. 28, 2010

Oct. 28, 2010

Hello, All known ESUG Slides (all 254) are now on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/esug/slideshows or as pdf in the ESUG Archive: http://esug.org/data/ Up to 2000, we do not have many slides... so if somone has slides especially from early years, please send them. Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

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Looking for real-world Magma application
by Igor Stasenko Oct. 21, 2010

Oct. 21, 2010

Hello all, sorry for cross-posting. :) I'd like to ask you, if anyone could share either an image or installation with application, which using Magma OODB. I'd like to use it & test how changing different aspects of Magma internals could affect the performance. There's many tricks, which is known by Chris how to speed it up by cleverly fine-tuning various Magma options, like read strategy etc. But what i'd like is to see, is some setup, used by people, and by taking it, see how it could make run faster, without changing an application code. I remember, someone gave a talk @ ESUG, that they were using Magma for their application, but then forced to switch to another DB layer, because they had bad performance issues. It would be good, if you could give me the code, so i can run it and see if things could be improved. Its not a problem, if code is not open-source, we could sign an NDA, if this is necessary. I need something real, simply because benchmarks sometimes not representative. :) -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

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Call for Prosposals - Smalltalk Solutions Las Vegas 2011 - The Business Conference
by Georg Heeg Oct. 19, 2010

Oct. 19, 2010

Smalltalk Solutions is back! The last two years have seen many new developments in Smalltalk and in the software world in general. Interest in Smalltalk is growing, and it remains the best software technology for the innovations that will shape the future. Smalltalk Solutions is a forum where Smalltalk professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts can meet and share ideas and experiences. We are currently accepting proposals for talks involving Smalltalk technology and other areas of innovation in the software industry. We're looking forward to an excellent conference, and need your participation to maintain the high technical level of the conference! The conference will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 13 - 16, 2011. Presentations may be in the form of * Technical Presentations * Experience Reports * Technology Demonstrations * Panel Discussions * Half-day Tutorials * Other interesting ideas ... Proposals should be submitted by email to <mailto:STS_Speakers@stic.st> STS_Speakers(a)stic.st and should include the following information: * Name * Contact Information * Type of Presentation * Title of Presentation * Brief Abstract * Short Biography of the Presenter(s) * Desired Length (45 minutes, 1.5 hrs, half-day) * Any constraints on date/time * Any other information of importance in evaluating the proposal Submissions should be received by November 30, 2010. Note that submissions with incomplete information may be rejected - particularly if bio or abstract information is missing. Presenters will qualify for a significantly discounted registration. This year that will be $200 US, or $160 US for STIC members. For announcements of the conference see www.stic.st and http://www.smalltalksolutions.com/. Georg Heeg STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council Executive Director Phone +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712

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Video: Smalltalk For You
by Geert Claes Oct. 18, 2010

Oct. 18, 2010

I just added James Robertson's "Smalltalk For You" Vimeo Smalltalk tutorial video's on: http://www.world.st/video

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Re: [Esug-list] different smalltalk groups
by Geert Claes Oct. 18, 2010

Oct. 18, 2010

Yep, I did go through that list (and others) when I setup the Local User Groups at http://www.world.st/usergroups and I retained those that seemed to be still active. *From: *Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck(a)gmail.com> > *Date: *October 16, 2010 12:17:15 AM GMT+02:00 > *To: *ESUG Members <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org> > *Subject: **[Esug-list] different smalltalk groups* > > Hi...just surfing internet I found this link: > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1288 > > maybe it is worth it trying to contact the groups still alive ? > > cheers > > mariano > >

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Independent Misinterpretations Episode 1
by Stéphane Ducasse Oct. 18, 2010

Oct. 18, 2010

Michael and I have launched a new podcast - "Independent Misinterpretations": http://www.jarober.com/blog/im.ssp The first episode is a conversation with Ernest Micklei about his soek.goodies.st site. MP3 Edition: http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?entry=3464803015 AAC Edition: http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?entry=3464803797 If you follow either link, you can also get the podcast in ogg vorbis format. To subscribe: MP3 - http://www.jarober.com/rss/blog_podcast.xml AAC - http://www.jarober.com/rss/blog_podcastAAC.xml Join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_154069891295159 and vote us up on Podcast Alley - http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=105737 James Robertson http://www.jarober.com jarober(a)gmail.com

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different smalltalk groups
by Mariano Martinez Peck Oct. 18, 2010

Oct. 18, 2010

Hi...just surfing internet I found this link: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1288 maybe it is worth it trying to contact the groups still alive ? cheers mariano

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James Robertson is looking for a job
by Stéphane Ducasse Oct. 17, 2010

Oct. 17, 2010

Hi guys James did an excellent job over the year to push smalltalk. He is now looking for a job and we are sure that he will find one. http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Need_a_Sm… Thanks james for your podcasts promoting Smalltalk. Stef

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Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods" under the MIT license
by Stéphane Ducasse Oct. 14, 2010

Oct. 14, 2010

I want to thanks didier for releasing the code of his book under MIT. Thanks! Begin forwarded message: > From: Didier Besset <didier(a)ieee.org> > Date: October 14, 2010 8:06:52 PM GMT+02:00 > To: Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> > Subject: Disclaimer > > I hereby release the code of my book "Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods" under the MIT license. > > Didier Besset

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Raw Videos ESUG 2010 available
by Marcus Denker Oct. 6, 2010

Oct. 6, 2010

Hello, The videos of all the talks of ESUG 2010 are now available in the orginal raw form: http://esug2010.objectfusion.fr Thanks to objectfusion.fr for hosting the 15GB of movies. James will continue to post cleaned-up version for easy linking (and mp4 versions for the phone) step by step every week. More infos: http://bit.ly/ch8Sxe Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

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Re: [Esug-list] Raw Videos ESUG 2010 available
by Stéphane Ducasse Oct. 5, 2010

Oct. 5, 2010

Yes! On Oct 5, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Jordi Delgado wrote: > Thanks a lot James for your work with the videos. We could not edit them at ESUG 2010 > because we were really busy with a million other things. However, it is clear that the > videos need to be edited. The result is much better after your editing process. > > Thus, I guess now we have the best of both worlds, isn't it? There is an ongoing process > of edition and publication, but the impatient ones can get them at once in its raw form. > > Bests, > > Jordi > >

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Some ESUG Photos, particularly the Friday evening Cellar party
by Graham McLeod Oct. 4, 2010

Oct. 4, 2010

Hi All Please find these at: http://gallery.me.com/graham.mcleod#100008 Enjoy. Best to all and thanks again to our great hosts in Barcelona for your hospitality. Graham

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Subscribed Attendees esug 2010 to esug mailinglist
by Marcus Denker Oct. 4, 2010

Oct. 4, 2010

Hello, We have subscribed the people that attended ESUG 2010 to the esug mailinglist. http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org The email adresses are only visible to other list members, not globally. If you do *not* want to be subscribed to this list, please send a mail to board(a)esug.org (or reply) and we remove the adress ASAP. The esug list is normally very low traffic, just before the conference there is a little bit more (e.g. announcements). for the esug board, Marcus

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