April 2011 - Esug-list - lists.esug.org

Sponsoring visit of ESUG 2011 for smalltalkers from Russia
by Dennis Schetinin May 19, 2011

May 19, 2011

Hello! Can ESUG help a couple of Russian smalltalkers to visit the conference this year? If this is possible I'll provide more information. TIA -- Dennis Schetinin

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[ANN] PharoCasts with Experts: Debug the Cog VM with Mariano Martinez Peck
by Stéphane Ducasse May 7, 2011

May 7, 2011

From: laurent laffont <laurent.laffont(a)gmail.com> Hi, First video of PharoCasts with Experts serie. Mariano explains in a 1h30 HD video: - what the VM is made of - what are the different VM built by the Pharo project continuous integration server - how to get the platform sources from Gitorious - how to generate the interpreter sources using ConfigurationOfCogVM - build the VM - run and debug it with gdb and XCode - what Slang is and how to change it for debugging purposes Enjoy it here: http://www.pharocasts.com/2011/04/debug-cog-vm.html -- Laurent Laffont - @lolgzs Pharo Smalltalk Screencasts: http://www.pharocasts.com/ Blog: http://magaloma.blogspot.com/ Developer group: http://cara74.seasidehosting.st

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[[ UK Smalltalk User Group ]] Just-in-time coding session - Monday May 2nd
by gcorriga April 30, 2011

April 30, 2011

With another long weekend upon us, why not meet up for an impromptu coding session on Monday May 2nd. We will meet at the Barbican Centre, which offers free wifi and ample seating space with tables and power sockets (sort of ideal for a coding session!). As Monday is a holiday, the Barbican Centre opens at noon. Let's aim at meeting up from 1pm onwards for some coding and coffee. If you have any questions, get in touch with Yann Monclair. Hope to see you there! -- Posted By gcorriga to [ UK Smalltalk User Group ] on 4/30/2011 11:51:00 AM

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Niall's report for 2010
by Alexandre Bergel April 19, 2011

April 19, 2011

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Once more, Niall did a tremendous job at reporting what happened at CampSmalltalk and ESUG'10. His report is now online on: http://www.esug.org/data/ReportsFromNiallRoss/NiallRossESUG2010Report.pdf Thanks Niall! See you all in August! Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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ESUG sponsors world.st .... forum.world.st OS stats
by Geert Claes April 14, 2011

April 14, 2011

I just wanted to share that ESUG has continued their sponsorship for the world.st domain name. As I was going through the Google Analytics (new Google Analytics UI is great by the way) I thought I'd share an interesting statistic: Visitors of forum.world.st: - 50% are Windows users - 25% use Macs - 20% Linux and interestingly enough in 4th spot is the iPad (2%) followed closely by the iPhone (with 1.75% more than double as many as Androids at 0.8%) http://forum.world.st/file/n3449309/forum_os_stats.png -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/ESUG-sponsors-world-st-forum-world-st-OS-stats-tp3449… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Success story: YesPlan.be
by Geert Claes April 12, 2011

April 12, 2011

Smalltalk-based event planning software: http://www.yesplan.be www.yesplan.be -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Success-story-YesPlan-be-tp3443937p3443937.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Esug'10 videos down?
by Bernat Romagosa April 10, 2011

April 10, 2011

Hi guys, http://esug2010.objectfusion.fr/ is 404'd, is there somewhere else one can find all videos from ESUG 2010? At James Robertson's site and vimeo there are some missing. Thanks! Bernat Romagosa.

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Fwd: [Seaside] Should I become a Seasider? (spreading smalltalk)
by Dale Henrichs April 10, 2011

April 10, 2011

For those who don't subscribe to the Seaside mailing list, read Pat's response at the bottom of the message ... Pat is a well-known and respected ruby on rails developer. He earns his living in ruby, but chooses Smalltalk to start his own business ... Pat isn't the first rubyist to find Smalltalk a better and more productive environment for doing development and he won't be the last... Dale Begin forwarded message: From: Pat Maddox <patmaddox(a)me.com<mailto:patmaddox@me.com>> Date: April 9, 2011 9:06:02 PM PDT To: Seaside - general discussion <seaside(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org<mailto:seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org>> Subject: Re: [Seaside] Should I become a Seasider? Reply-To: Seaside - general discussion <seaside(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org<mailto:seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org>> On Apr 8, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Ralph Boland wrote: This post is about making a living as a web developer using Seaside. I am an unemployed software developer in Calgary (1,000,000 people), Alberta, Canada. I have used Squeak for years but I have found no Smalltalk work in Calgary and in fact know of only one small company in Calgary that uses Smalltalk. I know very little about Seaside. My impression is that websites developed using Seaside are somewhat slower than with other web development tools and that Seaside uses more memory (I assume on the server side) than other web development tools. Nevertheless there are web developers using Seaside successfully. Are these impressions correct? What I am wondering is should I learn Seaside and then attempt to sell my web development services in Calgary? My impression is that: 1) No one in Calgary has ever heard of Seaside so selling my services would be difficult. 2) Since I should be able to develop web sites faster using Seaside I should be able to offer my services at a discount and hopefully be able to find business that way. But since no one but myself (at least locally) would be able to maintain the web sites, potential customers are going to be very shy. Are these impressions correct? Lets assume I decide to become a web developer (something I know almost nothing about) using Seaside as my competitive edge. To my knowledge I would be the only Seaside web developer in Calgary. 1) How long (starting basically from scratch) is it going to take before I am competent; or at least competent enough to seek clients? Assume I am a competent Squeak developer. 2) Which version(s) of Smalltalk should I use? I know Squeak and have used Visualworks in the distant past. 3) How screwed will my clients be if my ticker stops unexpectedly. Can Seaside developers from outside Calgary pick up the slack for my hypothetical clients? 4) Is there any areas within the web development would that I should concentrate on or avoid? 5) Is there any additional software/hardware that I would need other than my home computer (running Ubuntu) and Squeak/Seaside? My resources for investments is very limited. Are there other questions that I should have asked? Starting a business is generally a tough deal so please don't butter me up with glowing reviews of Seaside. My suggestion is to learn Seaside and use it to build side projects of your own. You've probably got some ideas, and Seaside is the way to go there. The IDE (Pharo) + components + continuations combine to blow everything else out of the water. I say this as a pretty sharp Rails developer - nothing even comes close to development speed in Seaside. That's a big advantage. It gives you free license to experiment with ideas. Also, because everything is smalltalk code and everything is an object, you have a much more flexible, understandable system. Right now I've got some beta users who can benefit from features that probably wouldn't be useful to anyone else...normally I'd say, "Sorry, I'm not building that," but considering that I can build a little component in less than an hour, and plug it in only for their account, it's worth it to me to do it. I haven't been doing this for long, but I'm comfortable customizing a lot more of my app for certain customers, because it's just so easy to do. I'm using Seaside to build my startup projects because it's a huge technical advantage. I earn money right now by doing contract work, and as much as I'd love to use Seaside in those gigs, I feel like that would be screwing over my clients. They're going to have a hell of a time finding someone to maintain it when I leave. Building a business of any sort is challenging enough, as you may already know and are definitely about to find out. Don't compound the headaches by throwing a niche technology like Seaside into the mix. Pat_______________________________________________ seaside mailing list seaside(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org<mailto:seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside

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Re: [Esug-list] Esug'10 videos down?
by Marcus Denker April 10, 2011

April 10, 2011

On Apr 10, 2011, at 8:25 PM, Bernat Romagosa wrote: > Hi guys, > > http://esug2010.objectfusion.fr/ is 404'd, is there somewhere else one can find all videos from ESUG 2010? At James Robertson's site and vimeo there are some missing. > > Everything is in the archive: http://esug.org/data/ESUG2010/ mostly .flv raw files, I copied James' vimeo files, too. I am sure the objectfusion.fr page was omited because of the updated website... they have now an english one: http://www.objectfusion.fr/en/index.html I am sure they will restore it when the dust settles. Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

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'spreading smalltalk'
by Jean Marshall and Andy Berry April 9, 2011

April 9, 2011

Hi! Here's an article I wrote 'a few weeks ago' :-) on why I chose Smalltalk: http://www.tof.co.uk/stories/page14.html Hope it's positive enough! Regards, Andy

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