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Fwd: Re: Proposal for Mock Objects at ESUG 2011
by Joseph Pelrine June 3, 2011

June 3, 2011

Hi all, I took the liberty of forwarding this mail to Tim Mackinnon and Steve Freeman, who invented the original Mock Objects. Here's Steve's answer. I'll forward further mails to this list. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Esug-list] Proposal for Mock Objects at ESUG 2011 Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 09:25:30 +0100 From: Steve Freeman <steve(a)m3p.co.uk> To: Joseph Pelrine <jpelrine(a)metaprog.com> You should talk to Tim, he wrote a mocks library in about 3 classes (which is what it should take). He also has some interesting experience from the Kapital project that doesn't have unit tests. I hadn't realised that the ST world was behind in this respect. S. On 27 May 2011, at 05:41, Joseph Pelrine wrote: > FYI > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Esug-list] Proposal for Mock Objects at ESUG 2011 > Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 08:36:27 +0400 > From: Dennis Schetinin <chaetal(a)gmail.com> > To: ESUG Mailing list <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org> > > > > Hello! > > I'd like to explore interest to Mock Object in Smalltalk society. I'm > currently working on the topic, preparing a paper and presentation > targeting at ESUG 2011. > > I plan to present Mock Objects technique itself and a framework named > Mocketry as a tool helping to apply it in practice. Of course I'll > provide a small example to illustrate some of the ideas. > > Apparently, Mocks technique is not popular tool among Smalltalkers. It > even seems (to me), TDD is not as widely used as it could and should be > (despite the fact it was born in Smalltalk). I have been using TDD and > Mocks for many years in different projects with Smalltalk and other > languages. Sometimes it was hard, sometimes I was even giving it up, but > by now I think I have sufficient experience to state that TDD in general > and Mock Objects specifically do deserve (at least) more attention by > smalltalkers. Yes, Smalltalk is great language and it has great tools. > This damps some aspects of the problems TDD and Mocks address, but for > sure does not remove them totally. More than that, I can say I was most > productive in Smalltalk when I used "classic TDD" and mocks in conjunction. > > > So, are other Smalltalkers interested in this topic? Do you think it > worth to be presented at the conference? What are the problems you'd > like to discuss there? > > TIA > > -- > Dennis Schetinin > <Attached Message Part.txt> Steve Freeman Winner of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask award 2006 Book: http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com +44 (0) 797 179 4105 M3P Limited. http://www.m3p.co.uk Registered office. 2 Church Street, Burnham, Bucks, SL1 7HZ. Company registered in England & Wales. Number 03689627

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Re: [Esug-list] ESUG SummerTalk - Fuel, binary object serializer
by Marcus Denker June 1, 2011

June 1, 2011

On May 25, 2011, at 7:35 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: > At Wed, 25 May 2011 15:28:00 +0200, > Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: >> >> One of the most important uses we want to do with Fuel (in a future) is to be able to use it for Monticello (to replace mzc). >> The idea in addition is to be able to boostrap a really small pharo image (hetzel) and be able to load stuff without needing a compiler. > > Sounds interesting! Can I learn about "hetzel" somewhere? > We are working on how to build minimal Pharo kernels (with the goal of a declarative bootstrap so you can build your own version of Smalltalk running in the normal Pharo image to experiment with new language features, as one example, or create a minimal image for deployment). There is some information from Nicolas Paez who worked on this when visiting RMOD last year: http://www.fast.org.ar/smalltalks2010/videos/Seed+project%3A+The+challenge+… http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/archives/talks/2010-Smalltalks-Paez-Seed.pdf The status is that we learned a lot and continue to work on it... more to come later ;-) Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

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Re: [Esug-list] Proposal for Mock Objects at ESUG 2011
by Colin Putney June 1, 2011

June 1, 2011

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > You miss the point of mocks. Mocks are there to allow you to test your > code quickly and cheaply against things that may not work in a quick > manner. Not likely. Hernán has been around the block and he speaks from long experience and deep thinking on software design. If you read his post a little more carefully, you'll see that he distinguishes between test doubles in general and mocks as a particular form of test double. He uses test doubles - you don't get 23,000 tests to run in 7 minutes without them. It's just *mocks* that are mostly unnecessary. Personally, I find that mocks are *very* useful in a few very specific situations, but they can cause problems it other situations. They're like a very specialized tool - invaluable when you need it, but kept in the bottom of the toolbox and not used very often. Where I find them useful is in testing communication. For example, I'll use a MockWritestream to throw an exception if the code under test writes something unexpected into the stream. It's handy when testing code that writes out files in a particular format, or communicates with remote systems over the network. It might also be useful to test communications across formal module boundaries, where it's particularly important that a specific protocol be used - eg, for something like Prevalayer. My favourite testing pattern is TrivialImplementation. Instead of using a test double or an expensive "real" object, I often create a cheap/trivial implementation of the objects that collaborate with the objects I'm testing. For example, Monticello2 has several repository classes. There are implementations that store code in a single file, in a directory of files, on a remote machine via sockets, on a web server via HTTP etc. There's also a trivial implementation that just uses an in-memory Dictionary for storage. It's a complete implementation of the repository protocol, and Monticello can use it "for real", but it's not as robust as the other kinds of repository. All the repository implementations, including MemoryRepository, have a suite of tests that ensure that they work correctly. But when I'm testing other parts of Monticello that interact with a repository, those tests use a MemoryRepository. I know that BDD folks like to talk about testing behaviour rather than state, but I don't find the distinction useful. Testing state breaks the encapsulation of the objects under test, and couples the test too closely to their internal implementation. Testing behaviour using mocks *does the same thing*; it just restricts the implementation in a different way. I find it's better to give the implementation a degree of freedom by testing "results". Figuring out what result you're looking for can be difficult - it requires thinking about what a passing test really tells you. Here's an example - let's say we we're testing an implementation of Set. Here's the version that tests state: | set | set := Set new. set add: 3. self assert: (set instVarNamed: 'array') = #(nil nil nil 3 nil) Here we test behaviour: | set | mock := MockArray new: 5 mock expect: (Message selector: #at:put: arguments: #(4 3)). set := Set withArray: mock. set add: 3. I prefer this approach. It gives the implementation a lot of freedom, while ensuring that it does what we really want: | set | set := Set new. set add: 3. self assert: (set includes: 3). In short, I agree with Hernán. Mocks can be useful, but they're often overused. In most cases, they're unnecessary. Colin

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Looking for a PhD position
by Stéphane Ducasse May 31, 2011

May 31, 2011

Hi guys Here is a student that is looking for a PhD grant.... I do not meet him but just forward to you his profile. Stef Dear smalltalkers, I am a student in computer sciences at the Henri Poincaré University of Nancy (France) and I am currently studying for a master's degree called "Software : theory, methods and engineering". I am looking for a Ph.D position in programming language design, component-based programming or more generally in software engineering. Please find enclosed my CV. I am at your disposal to provide any other relevant information. Cordially, Camille Teruel

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Re: [Esug-list] Recherche de thèse
by Stéphane Ducasse May 31, 2011

May 31, 2011

au lieu que cela soit moi qui envoie un mail peut etre que cela serait mieux que tu le fasses. il y a esug-list ESUG Mailing list <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org> si tu ne peux pas publier alors ecrit un petit mail et je ferais un forward. sinon tu peux contacter oscar nierstrasz (universite de berne), michele lanza (universite de lugano - plus sur la visualization), theo d'hont (belgique), noury bouraqadi, Stef On May 31, 2011, at 9:52 AM, camille teruel wrote: > Bonjour M.Ducasse, > > En effet j'ai oublié de remettre la partie stage, voici le CV corrigé. > L'article, en tant que "position paper", n'a pas été publié dans les actes de la conférence, mais je l'ai quand même mentionné étant donné que c'est ma seule publication à l'heure actuelle... > > Cordialement, > Camille Teruel > > PS: J'ai regardé un peu plus en profondeur Smalltalk hier soir, du coup, je retire ce que j'ai dit, c'est un langage objet dynamique presque comme les autres. Beaucoup de monde parle de Ruby comme d'un mini-Smalltalk et de l'objet dynamique reste de l'objet dynamique alors dans ma tête c'était Ruby=Smalltalk=Groovy=..., mais au final c'est assez différent. > <cv_teruel.pdf>

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Don't forget: Your talks at ESUG
by stephane ducasse May 30, 2011

May 30, 2011

19th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions Edinburgh, England August 20-26 2011; Camp Smalltalk September 20-21 http://esug.org/Conferences/2011/ This call includes: Developer program Free ESUG tickets International Workshop http://esug.org/Conferences/2011/International-Workshop-on-Smalltalk-Techno… Student Volunteer http://esug.org/Conferences/2011/Student+Volunteers+program Camp Smalltalk: Saturday 20th - Sunday 21st August 2011. ESUG conference: Monday 22nd - Friday 26th August 2011. This year will be held the - 7th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will be awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects - an international workshop on Smalltalk and dynamic languages http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2011/International-Workshop-on-Sm… - ESUG will offer 10 free entrance tickets. To get a free ticket you should send a mail to the esug board (board(a)esug.org) Subject: [ESUG 2011 Free entrance] + your name And you should write a small motivation. You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: * Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/ * Submit a talk, a software or a paper to one of the events. See below. * Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of attendance (156 participants at Brest and 170 people at Amsterdam, 150 at Barcelona)! * Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll into the the Student Volunteers program. See below. Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This year we are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. In addition, we are looking for tutorials. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to the following: * XP practices * Development tools * Experience reports * Model driven development * Web development * Team management * Meta-Modeling * Security * New libraries & frameworks * Educational material * Embedded systems and robotics * SOA and Web services * Interaction with other programming languages Submissions due on 1 July 2010 Notification of acceptance on 5 of July 2010 More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2011 How to submit? ------------------ Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to board(a)esug.org AND stephane.ducasse(a)free.fr following the template below. Please use this template since the emails will be automatically processed! Subject: [ESUG 2011 Developers] + your name First Name: Last Name: Email where you can always be reached: Title: Abstract: Bio: Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically Innovation Technology Award ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are proud to announce the 6th Innovation Technology Awards. The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awards ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based software are welcome to compete. This year we will request 3-5min videos. More information at http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2011/Innovation+Technology+Awards Student Volunteer Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you considered being a student volunteer? Student volunteers help keep the conference running smoothly; in return, they have free accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the conference. More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2011 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2011/Student+Volunteers+program We hope to see you there and have fun together. Ze ESUG board_______________________________________________

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Proposal for Mock Objects at ESUG 2011
by Dennis Schetinin May 28, 2011

May 28, 2011

Hello! I'd like to explore interest to Mock Object in Smalltalk society. I'm currently working on the topic, preparing a paper and presentation targeting at ESUG 2011. I plan to present Mock Objects technique itself and a framework named Mocketry as a tool helping to apply it in practice. Of course I'll provide a small example to illustrate some of the ideas. Apparently, Mocks technique is not popular tool among Smalltalkers. It even seems (to me), TDD is not as widely used as it could and should be (despite the fact it was born in Smalltalk). I have been using TDD and Mocks for many years in different projects with Smalltalk and other languages. Sometimes it was hard, sometimes I was even giving it up, but by now I think I have sufficient experience to state that TDD in general and Mock Objects specifically do deserve (at least) more attention by smalltalkers. Yes, Smalltalk is great language and it has great tools. This damps some aspects of the problems TDD and Mocks address, but for sure does not remove them totally. More than that, I can say I was most productive in Smalltalk when I used "classic TDD" and mocks in conjunction. So, are other Smalltalkers interested in this topic? Do you think it worth to be presented at the conference? What are the problems you'd like to discuss there? TIA -- Dennis Schetinin

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Re: [Esug-list] Proposal for Mock Objects at ESUG 2011
by simondenier May 28, 2011

May 28, 2011

That's interesting. I recently started to use Cucumber with Rails, which looks like another step in BDD with specs written in look-alike natural language. Hard to beat in terms of readibility, even with the Smalltalk syntax. But that's another topic. http://cukes.info/ On topic I started to read the GOOS book written by two pioneers of mocks, and I think it's a recommended reading on the topic of objects + TDD + mock. Just read the first chapters for now but it's in line with my own conception of objects yet offers some interesting insights about design. I think Tim McKinnon which has been a regular participant of Smalltalk events in the past years might have a word or two on the topic :) http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/ -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Proposal-for-Mock-Objects-at-ESUG-2011-tp3554367p3554… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Esug-list] Fwd: Re: Proposal for Mock Objects at ESUG 2011
by Frank Shearar May 28, 2011

May 28, 2011

On 27 May 2011 21:56, Colin Putney <colin(a)wiresong.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> You miss the point of mocks. Mocks are there to allow you to test your >> code quickly and cheaply against things that may not work in a quick >> manner. > > Not likely. Hernán has been around the block and he speaks from long > experience and deep thinking on software design. If you read his post > a little more carefully, you'll see that he distinguishes between test > doubles in general and mocks as a particular form of test double. He > uses test doubles - you don't get 23,000 tests to run in 7 minutes > without them. It's just *mocks* that are mostly unnecessary. Hernan, I didn't mean to bite your head off. Next time I'll pause a bit longer. > Personally, I find that mocks are *very* useful in a few very specific > situations, but they can cause problems it other situations. They're > like a very specialized tool - invaluable when you need it, but kept > in the bottom of the toolbox and not used very often. Where I find > them useful is in testing communication. For example, I'll use a > MockWritestream to throw an exception if the code under test writes > something unexpected into the stream. It's handy when testing code > that writes out files in a particular format, or communicates with > remote systems over the network. It might also be useful to test > communications across formal module boundaries, where it's > particularly important that a specific protocol be used - eg, for > something like Prevalayer. Indeed, and in these cases and the other appropriate use cases I'd like to see a nicely written, widely used, standardised framework precisely so we (I) don't have to write our (my) own. Anyhow, talk's cheap, and once I've finished my current chunk of work I'll try beat SSpec into shape. frank > My favourite testing pattern is TrivialImplementation. Instead of > using a test double or an expensive "real" object, I often create a > cheap/trivial implementation of the objects that collaborate with the > objects I'm testing. For example, Monticello2 has several repository > classes. There are implementations that store code in a single file, > in a directory of files, on a remote machine via sockets, on a web > server via HTTP etc. There's also a trivial implementation that just > uses an in-memory Dictionary for storage. It's a complete > implementation of the repository protocol, and Monticello can use it > "for real", but it's not as robust as the other kinds of repository. > All the repository implementations, including MemoryRepository, have a > suite of tests that ensure that they work correctly. But when I'm > testing other parts of Monticello that interact with a repository, > those tests use a MemoryRepository. > > I know that BDD folks like to talk about testing behaviour rather than > state, but I don't find the distinction useful. Testing state breaks > the encapsulation of the objects under test, and couples the test too > closely to their internal implementation. Testing behaviour using > mocks *does the same thing*; it just restricts the implementation in a > different way. I find it's better to give the implementation a degree > of freedom by testing "results". Figuring out what result you're > looking for can be difficult - it requires thinking about what a > passing test really tells you. > > Here's an example - let's say we we're testing an implementation of > Set. Here's the version that tests state: > > | set | > set := Set new. > set add: 3. > self assert: (set instVarNamed: 'array') = #(nil nil nil 3 nil) > > Here we test behaviour: > > | set | > mock := MockArray new: 5 > mock expect: (Message selector: #at:put: arguments: #(4 3)). > set := Set withArray: mock. > set add: 3. > > I prefer this approach. It gives the implementation a lot of freedom, > while ensuring that it does what we really want: > > | set | > set := Set new. > set add: 3. > self assert: (set includes: 3). > > In short, I agree with Hernán. Mocks can be useful, but they're often > overused. In most cases, they're unnecessary. > > Colin >

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Re: [Esug-list] ESUG SummerTalk - Fuel, binary object serializer
by Marcus Denker May 26, 2011

May 26, 2011

On May 26, 2011, at 9:41 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki(a)vpri.org> wrote: > BTW, the page (http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel) > says: > ... > Gofer new > squeaksource: 'Fuel'; > package: 'ConfigurationOfFuel'; > load. > ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfFuel) project latestVersion) load: #(Core Tests Benchmarks). > > And there is always an up-to-date build on Hudson: https://pharo-ic.lille.inria.fr/hudson/job/Fuel/ This is automatically rebuild when Pharo 1.3 gets updates (which means 1-2 times per day). (And on commits to the Fuel repository, but this trigger seems to not work right now...) Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

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ESUG SummerTalk - Fuel, binary object serializer
by Martin Dias May 26, 2011

May 26, 2011

Hi folks. I am really happy to announce that ESUG is sponsoring me for Fuel development through the ESUG SummerTalk. I am Martin Dias, a student at Buenos Aires, Argentina. The idea behind this SummerTalk is to implement Fuel, a binary, fast and general-purpose object graph serializer in Pharo<http://www.pharo-project.org/>. It is based on VisualWorks' Parcels ideas. Actually, the project has already started since several months. Tristan Bourgois and I started with the project while doing an internship with RMoD, INRIA <http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier>. Since a couple of months, Mariano Martinez Peck <http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/> joined the team, and now he is the official mentor in the SummerTalk. ESUG website for SummertTalk: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Promotion/SummerTalk/SummerTalk2011 The website with all the necessary information is here: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel It even includes slides explaining the algorithm. In addition, a paper is in progress. For the moment, Fuel already provides the following features: - Fast pickle format. It is much faster to materialize than to serialize. - Correctly support class reshape (when the class of serialized objects has changed). - Serialize ANY kind of object. For the moment there is no object to our knowledge that we cannot serialize and materialize. - Be able to completely serialize classes and traits (not just a global name). - Support cycles and avoid duplicates in the graph. - Integration to Moose <http://www.moosetechnology.org/> with an extension to export and import their models. - Detection of globals: for example if you serialize Transcript, it is not duplicated and instead managed as a global reference. - Solve common problems like Set rehash. - Buffered writing: we use a buffered write stream for the serialization part (thanks Sven!). - No need of special support from the VM. - Try to have a good object oriented design. - Well tested (about 120 tests, for the moment). - Large set of benchmarks (even benchmarks for Moose extension). And of course, there are a lot features for the future. You can see some of them in the website and some in the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/fuel/issues/list We really appreciate all kind of feedback and comments. If you want to try it, check in the website how to do it. It is extremely easy. Once again, I want to thank a lot to ESUG for sponsoring the project. I plan to create a "news" section in the website with some RSS. I will keep you informed. Best regards, Martin

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[[ UK Smalltalk User Group ]] UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Monday, May 23rd
by gcorriga May 21, 2011

May 21, 2011

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Monday, May 23rd. Tim Mackinnon has recently started looking at JTalk - and how it translates Smalltalk to JavaScript as well as providing the familiar Smalltalk browsers in your web page. It's still a new project, but how does this approach compare to staying native? Come and join us for some interesting smalltalk on this topic. In addition to this, Niall Ross will briefly update us on the upcoming ESUG conference 2011, in Edimburgh. Don't forget that the early registration is now open! We'll meet in our usual venue - the Counting House, close to Bank Station, from 18:30 onwards. -- Posted By gcorriga to [ UK Smalltalk User Group ] on 5/21/2011 10:06:00 AM

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Postdoc position in software engineering at University of Chile in cooperation with INRIA
by Alexandre Bergel May 20, 2011

May 20, 2011

Hi! Some of you may be interesting in the following call: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Postdoc position in software engineering at University of Chile in cooperation with INRIA A post-doctoral research position is available with the Pleiad Lab (University of Chile) and the RMoD Group (INRIA Lille Nord Europe). The position is scheduled to start in September 2011, but earlier dates are possible. The position is targeted for research on software maintenance and software visualization. Validation of research hypotheses will be carried out using the Pharo programming language. Experience with it, or any other Smalltalk dialect, is a plus (but not necessary). The postdoctoral researcher will be expected to develop independent research initiatives within the scope of the position, design and contribute to the research experiments conducted by Pleiad and RMoD. There is no teaching duty associated with this position. Both Pleiad and RMoD offer a creative, productive and multicultural staff and students, with many collaboration opportunities. Pleiad and RMoD have an extensive expertise and an advanced infrastructure related to software analysis, data mining, testing, meta-modeling and language semantics. The position is funded by INRIA for a period of 12 or 18 months. In order to foster the collaboration between France and Chili, the candidate will have to share his time between Lille, France and Santiago, Chile. The candidate must hold a PhD in computer science. Contact Persons: Alexandre Bergel and Stéphane Ducasse http://pleiad.dcc.uchile.cl http://rmod.lille.inria.fr http://www.pharo-project.org http://www.moosetechnology.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= See you in August! Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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ESUG 2011 registration is live !
by Niall Ross May 19, 2011

May 19, 2011

The title says it all. £315 buys you the all-included early-bird registration: all 5 conference days, 2 Camp Smalltalk days and the full social event. The link at the top of website main page http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2011 takes you to the registration app link (and the registration FAQ if needed - if anything is not made clear in app or FAQ, by all means let me know). Accommodation =========== The registration list and the conference accommodation room lists are separate, because those who live in Edinburgh, and a few others, will register but not need a room, while others will want to stay on for the festival. (However it makes sense for you to use the same email and password when you sign into both lists: the same email speeds our checking that everyone registered has somewhere to stay, and the same password is one less thing for you to remember.) Room reservations are confirmed if you - are registered, or reserve then register - enter specific arrival and departure dates in the room list (or, for those who are leaving later than the conference, if you specified a definite date in the text box). If you do not give specific dates for arrival and departure, your room reservation remains provisional after you register until you update your room-list entry. (If you don't do that reasonably soon after registering, expect a nagging email. :-) ) FYI, the website accommodation page (and some others) have been rewritten to have more pictures and info. See you in Edinburgh Niall Ross ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

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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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Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] SmallHarbour project
by Davorin Rusevljan May 18, 2011

May 18, 2011

Interesting! Have you maybe considered to base it on the cloud foundry? Davorin Rusevljan http://www.cloud208.com/ On May 17, 2011 6:26 PM, "laurent laffont" <laurent.laffont(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Bernat Romagosa < tibabenfortlapalanca(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Just a ... Yes, that's why we haven't called it SeasideSomething. We want the project to be open and support several web frameworks. We will start with Seaside though. Laurent. > > > 2011/5/17 Romain Verduci <contact(a)romain-verduci.com> >> >> We actually have www.seasideho... _______________________________________________ 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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[ANN] SmallHarbour project
by Romain Verduci May 17, 2011

May 17, 2011

We actually have www.seasidehosting.st which can only be used for non-commercial applications. I am Romain Verduci, a french student in Information System (Master degree) who likes smalltalk since I have discovered it last year through Pharo. Today, I participate to weekly coding-dojos with other smalltalk fans (http://cara74.seasidehosting.st/) I am lucky to participate to ESUG SummerTalk this year with Laurent Laffont as mentor to develop SmallHarbour project. With the support of ESUG and under the ESUG SummerTalk 2011, we want to provide: - a simple platform to host commercial smalltalk web applications. - an easy way for everyone (and enterprise) to deploy their own hosting platform. - for the non-smalltalkers, provide ready Pier images to deploy basic blogs, event presentations and more. SmallHarbour has started from the actual Seaside Hosting code base. Our first objective is to port it to Pharo / Cog / Seaside 3 and document. For more informations about the project, you can follow us on www.smallharbour.org. If you have any needs or ideas in order to improve our project vision, we will be happy to collect them. We will setup community tools (issue tracker, public repositories, doc ....) when the exams period is over :) Best regards Romain Verduci Student in Information System (Master degree) - IMUS, IAE Savoie Mont-Blanc - Annecy Tel. : +33659892353 Mail : contact(a)romain-verduci.com

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[ANN] Moose Suite 4.4
by Tudor Girba May 17, 2011

May 17, 2011

We are happy to announce the Moose Suite version 4.4: http://moosetechnology.org/download What is new: • New EyeSee engine for scripting visual charts • New Kumpel importer for SVN repositories • New Metanool engine for supporting dynamic annotations of models • Simplified look and feel • Improved VerveineJ compatibility for Java parsing • Improved FAMIX support for Java systems • Improved support for complex shapes in Mondrian • Improved RPackage engine support for the Smalltalk importer A list of issues addressed in this release can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/moose-technology/issues/list?can=1&q=status=Fixed%… Have fun, The Moose Team http://moosetechnology.org

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moose = smalltalk ambassador
by Tudor Girba May 11, 2011

May 11, 2011

Hi, Moose (http://moosetechnology.org) is a Smalltalk ambassador. Actually, I think it's the best ambassador we have right now to persuade professional developers to look into Smalltalk. Let me tell you why. Moose is a platform for software and data analysis and includes components like: Glamour, Mondrian or PetitParser. Moose solves a real and important problem that developers (both Smalltalkers and non-Smalltalkers) have: how to improve the productivity of the effort spent on assessment. Moose is an innovation in this domain because it enables a completely different approach through which developers craft their own tools fast (http://humane-assessment.com) The cool thing is that they build these tools by programming Smalltalk in Pharo, and thus they get to learn the language and the platform first. Moose also comes with exposure. For example, this year I will be presenting Moose and humane assessment at some large industry oriented conferences: - Jazoon (http://jazoon.com) - GotoCon Aarhus (http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2011/) - GotoCon Amsterdam (http://gotocon.com/amsterdam-2011/) All in all, if you want to promote Smalltalk, and Pharo in particular, you might want to look into it. And you are always welcome to contribute, follow us and make noise: - http://www.moosetechnology.org - http://twitter.com/#!/moosetechnology - http://www.facebook.com/pages/moosetechnologyorg/152851281427491 Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com "No matter how many recipes we know, we still value a chef."

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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 ]] Notice: uksmalltalk.org domain migration
by gcorriga May 7, 2011

May 7, 2011

We're in the process of migrating uksmalltalk.org to a new domain registrar and DNS provider. As a side effect, you can experience some problems in accessing the website, the syndication feed, and/or the public event calendar. The migration will be completed in the next few days. We apologize for the disruption. -- Posted By gcorriga to [ UK Smalltalk User Group ] on 5/07/2011 01:25:00 PM

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Instantiations forum moved to forum.world.st!
by Geert Claes May 6, 2011

May 6, 2011

I am happy to announce that Instantions' forum has joined all the other forums on http://forum.world.st forum.world.st and is now available at http://forum.world.st/Instantiations-f3404935.html forum.world.st/Instantiations-f3404935.html -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Instantiations-forum-moved-to-forum-world-st-tp350289… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Fwd: [Pharo-users] [ANN] PHANtom: A modern Aspect Language for Pharo
by Johan Fabry May 4, 2011

May 4, 2011

I'm forwarding this here as there may be Pharo users that are not in pharo-users or pharo-devel. Apologies for multiple reception ... Begin forwarded message: > From: Lemuus <lemuus(a)gmail.com> > Date: 4 May 2011 11:32:16 GMT-04:00 > To: Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr, A friendly place where any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr> > Subject: [Pharo-users] [ANN] PHANtom: A modern Aspect Language for Pharo > Reply-To: A friendly place where any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr> > > Hello all, > > We are happy to announce the release of PHANtom: a modern aspect language for Pharo. > > PHANtom was built taking into account recent advances in aspect language features such as dynamic advice rescheduling, reentrancy management, and scoping strategies for deployment. The advanced features are not all implemented yet, but the 'normal' features work and are well-tested (about 130 unit tests) so we are relasing it to the world for you to try out. We hope PHANtom can help you to solve some cross-cutting code problems. > > An overview of the language can be found at http://pleiad.cl/PHANtom Please try it out, see if it works for you, all your comments are welcome! > > More details: > > I am doing this as my engineering thesis, under the guidance of Prof. Johan Fabry. > > PHANtom works in Pharo 1.2.1 and in 1.3, and also in PharoCore. > > Right now, PHANtom uses Method Wrappers in its' implementation, just like the AspectS language did. But the plan is once we have all features implemented, that we will start compiling using the Opal compiler of Pharo, to make everything go faster. > > I just put one example from the website here so you can see what it looks like: > > asp := PhAspect new > add: (PhAdvice new > pointcut: (PhPointcut new > receivers: 'SystemWindow+'; > selectors: 'position:'; > context: #(#receiver #arguments)); > advice: [:context | > Transcript show: context receiver. > Transcript show: ' moved to: '. > Transcript show: context arguments; cr.]; > type: #after). > asp install. > > Note: the unit tests of pointcuts take a large amount of time to execute, as some of them match on everything in the image. > > For more info and how to download PHANtom see http://pleiad.cl/PHANtom -- Johan Fabry jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

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Fwd: [smalltalkindia] Smalltalk Trainer Required
by Serge Stinckwich May 4, 2011

May 4, 2011

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Schools, Colleges, Universities ...
by Geert Claes May 3, 2011

May 3, 2011

Hi all, I am trying to put together an up-to-date list of schools, colleges or universities that are currently teaching Smalltalk. The statistics from world.st (topped by Montevideo, Uruguay) and forum.world.st (Ankara, Turkey being the one leading the list) did reveal some interesting information which could help ESUG to target their promotion efforts. Looking forwards seeing replies of any academic organisations promoting Smalltalk (contact persons?) -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Schools-Colleges-Universities-tp3489490p3489490.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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