November 2010 - Esug-list - lists.esug.org

application phase for Plat_Forms ends!!

by Nowak, Helge

Dear Smalltalkers, unfortunately I became aware of the Plat_Forms competition only now: http://www.plat-forms.org/ I hope you were better than myself and have already submitted your proposals. If not, I hope some of you can organize and submit even on this short-notice a team! Good luck! Helge ************************************************************** Helge Nowak Technical Account Manager Cincom Smalltalk Cincom Systems GmbH & Co. oHG Am Kronberger Hang 4 D-65824 Schwalbach/Ts. Tel.: +49-(0)89-89664494 Mobil: +49-(0)172-7400402 Fax: +49-(0)89-89664495 Email: mailto:hnowak@cincom.com Web: http://www.cincom.com <http://smalltalk.cincom.com> All about Cincom Smalltalk: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com <http://smalltalk.cincom.com> A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero. -- Albert Einstein Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Thomas M. Nies, Gerald L. Shawhan oHG mit Sitz/based in Schwalbach/Ts. (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRA 2653) Pers. haftender Gesellschafter/Partner liable to unlimited extent: Cincom Systems Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRB 5069) **************************************************************

Nov. 29, 2010

Reminder: Call for Prosposals - Smalltalk Solutions Las Vegas 2011 - The Business Conference

by Georg Heeg

Today there are just ten days left to the deadline of your proposals.. Georg Heeg STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council Executive Director Phone +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712 Von: Georg Heeg [mailto:georg@heeg.de] Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. Oktober 2010 22:40 An: 'VSWE-L(a)LISTSERV.DFN.DE'; vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu; VWDEV list (vw-dev(a)parcplace.net) ESUG Members (esug-list(a)lists.esug.org) gsug(a)gsug.org; 'scona-list(a)scona.us'; 'ecoop-info(a)ecoop.org' Betreff: Call for Prosposals - Smalltalk Solutions Las Vegas 2011 - The Business Conference 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

Nov. 20, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] Slides of 2005, Bruessels?

by stephane ducasse

excellent! > Thanks to Kris Gybels, we have now the slides online at > > http://www.slideshare.net/esug/tag/esug2005 > > http://esug.org/data/ESUG2005/

Nov. 17, 2010

Two events in London next week

by Julian Fitzell

There are two interesting Smalltalk events in London next week. The monthly meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Monday, November 22. Michael Lucas-Smith will be visiting us from the US and will be speaking about Xtreams. Martin Kobetic's presentation at ESUG only scratched the surface, apparently, and Michael intends to delve even deeper. He's also happy to answer questions about Cairo, WebVelocity and so on. Helge Nowak and Niall Ross are also going to be visiting us from out of town this month so it should be a great meeting. We'll be at the Counting House starting at 6:30pm. Details are here: http://www.uksmalltalk.org/2010/11/nov-22-michael-lucas-smith-on-xtreams.ht… The day after that, on Tuesday, November 23, Cincom is running another Wolf Pack Programming event in conjunction with SPA and XTC. The workshop will run from 6:15pm to 9:30pm at the London offices of the BCS. We've been having a lot of fun testing the boundaries of Agile development with wolf packs all over Europe. If you're interested in attending, you can find out more and register here: http://wolfpack-london2010.eventbrite.com/ I'll be at both events and hopefully I'll see some of you there! Julian

Nov. 17, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] Slides of 2005, Bruessels?

by Luc Fabresse

Thanks Marcus! #Luc 2010/11/17 Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> > > Thanks to Kris Gybels, we have now the slides online at > > http://www.slideshare.net/esug/tag/esug2005 > > http://esug.org/data/ESUG2005/ > > > On Nov 9, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Marcus Denker wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone have slides of the talks of ESUG 2005 (Bruessels)? I am sure > they where > > collected... > > > > Marcus > > > > > > -- > > Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de > > INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. > > > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de > INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >

Nov. 17, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] Slides of 2005, Bruessels?

by Marcus Denker

Thanks to Kris Gybels, we have now the slides online at http://www.slideshare.net/esug/tag/esug2005 http://esug.org/data/ESUG2005/ On Nov 9, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Marcus Denker wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have slides of the talks of ESUG 2005 (Bruessels)? I am sure they where > collected... > > Marcus > > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de > INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. > -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

Nov. 17, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] Plat_Forms 2011

by stephane ducasse

I imagine well esug supporting people willing to play the game. build a budget and ask. Stef On Nov 15, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Joachim Tuchel wrote: > Just in case you haven't heard or read about this: > > --- begin citation from http://www.plat-forms.org/platforms-announcement > "Plat_Forms" is a competition in which top-class teams of three programmers compete to implement the same requirements for a web-based system within two days, each team using a different technology platform (say, Java EE, .NET, PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby). The results will provide new insights into the real (rather than purported) pros, cons, and emergent properties of each platform. The evaluation will analyze many aspects of each solution, both external (usability, functionality, reliability, performance, etc.) and internal (structure, understandability, flexibility, etc.). > > In just 2 days, the teams will implement as much of the requested functionality as they can and at the same time optimize the usefulness of the resulting system (functionality, usability, reliability, etc.), the understandability of the code, the modifiability of the system design, the efficiency and scalability. > > The contest will be conducted on January, 18-19, 2011. At the end of the 2 days, the teams hand over their source code and a turnkey-runnable VMware configuration of their system. > > --- end citation from http://www.plat-forms.org/platforms-announcement > > Wouldn't such a contest be a nice place to show what Smalltalk and Seaside or AIDA can accomplish? > What if a study of Freie Universitaet Berlin officially stated that Smalltalk is very suitable for use in Web Applications? > > All that's needed to participate is a team of 3 skilled Smalltalkers to show off what's possible in our language, who have time on January 18th and 19th to come to Nuernberg, Germany and do a great job. Another requirement would be that they can work 30 hrs in a row without sleep ;-) > > For more details on the plat_forms competition and study visit: http://www.plat-forms.org/ > > If I was asked if I think ESUG should be able to sponsor participants for the event (travel to Nuernberg, Hotel cost, etc., well, no hotel, because no time for sleep ;-) ), I'd answer YES. But I guess we are not in disagreement on this... ;-) > > What does the rest of ESUG think? Any volunteers? > > Joachim > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Objektfabrik Joachim Tuchel mailto:jtuchel@objektfabrik.de > Fliederweg 1 http://www.objektfabrik.de > D-71640 Ludwigsburg > Telefon: +49 7141 56 10 86 0 Fax: +49 7141 56 10 86 1 > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Nov. 15, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] Plat_Forms 2011

by Joachim Tuchel

Nov. 15, 2010

Plat_Forms 2011

by Joachim Tuchel

Nov. 15, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] Is he kidding?

by 달룟오화종

Interesting idea. that can remove pain in the ass! In dolphin, i've invented this expression. [self foo: bar] --> [:it| it baz: 1] --> [:it| jump] It was kind of collect: on non-collection object. But, it is very clear your idea is better. Best Regards HwaJong Oh 2010. 11. 1., 아침 10:11, Igor Stasenko 작성: > Its not a joke. > I would really like to have a full smalltalk support in browser, up to > placing smalltalk in > <script language="smalltalk"> .... > > It is great that JavaScript is prototype-based. And it is shame that > its having such poor C-like syntax. > What is interesting, that people exploiting a message passing with > continuation and blocks-like programming style in javascript, which > closely mimics smalltalk semantics. > > For instance, this is an example from JQuery library: > > $("div.title", wizard).each(function(index) { > $(this) > .next() > .children(":button") > .filter(".next, .previous") > .click(function() { > wizard.changeAccordion("activate", index + > ($(this).is(".next") ? 1 : -1)) > }); > }); > > Looks familiar to us, isnt? And totally alien for C world :) > > This could be easily translated to smalltalk, to something like: > > (JQuery select: 'div.title') do: [:each :index | > ((each next children: ':button') filter: '.next, .previous') click: > [ wizard changeAccordion: ... ] > > > yeah.. keyword selectors require wrapping with (), to do continuation, > but still, its much more clean than js code. > I remember discusison about introducing a special syntax which would > allow to use continuations for keyword selectors, > without need of wrapping then into parethesis. So, code like: > > ((self foo: bar) baz: 1) jump > > could be written as: > > self foo: bar | baz: 1 | jump > > which makes it even more clean and convenient to type, since you don't > have to get back into beginning of message to put > opening paren. > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko AKA sig. > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Nov. 11, 2010