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Moose at GotoCon Aarhus / registration discount
by Tudor Girba July 13, 2011

July 13, 2011

Hi, This fall I will give a talk at GotoCon Aarhus (Oct 9-14) on "Humane assessment with Moose": http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2011/speaker/Tudor+Girba GotoCon used to be named JAOO. It is a large industrial software development conference that might of interest to some of you. As part the speaker package I have the possibility to offer discounts to interested participants. So, if you want to go to GotoCon Aarhus and are interested in a discount of about 170 EUR, please send me an email and I will provide the promotion code. Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com "One cannot do more than one can do."

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[ANN] Fuel version 1.5 released
by Martin Dias July 11, 2011

July 11, 2011

I am happy to announce the new release version 1.5. Below is the list of changes. In next days we will update the home page with current state. For example, we have much more to show in benchmarks section. Of course, we have many ideas and new issues to keep working on Fuel. Again, I have to thank ESUG for sponsoring me for Fuel development through the SummerTalk program. Changes on 1.5: - Initialize instances after materialization implementing #fuelAfterMaterialization. - Ignore transient instance variables overriding #fuelIgnoredInstanceVariableNames. - Limit serialization progress bar to update at most once every 250 milliseconds. - Traits are serialized and materialized as a regular objects (http://code.google.com/p/fuel/issues/detail?id=59) - Removed mappers system cache (Eliot). - Many new tests. - Benchmarks: compare Fuel against StOMP, SRP, SIXX, Magma, EsAndEm and Fuel with progress bar. - Benchmarks: new samples, scripts, and CSV exporter. - Benchmarks: measure serialization stream size. - Removed some redundant #fuelAccept:. - Several aesthetic changes in protocols, categories and comments. - Now #materialize answers the materialized root. - Removed special cluster for HashedCollection.Now #rehash is sended via #fuelAfterMaterialization. - MethodContext serialization does not serialize temps (http://code.google.com/p/fuel/issues/detail?id=61) - Classes and Traits now serialize its environment (testCreateWithSmalltalkGlobalsEnvironment). - Fixed serialization of non-octet characters (testCharacter). - Fixed a bug serializing the system dictionary. FLWellKnownObjectsCluster handles it. (testSmalltalkGlobals). - Fixed a bug serializing class variables (testClassVariable). - Fixed a bug when serializing a collection with size greater than 1^16 with repeated elements inside. - Fixed testTwoCompiledMethodsReferencingSameClassVariable. - Optimization: instanceIndexes are directly created with the exact size (Henrik).

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Early-bird registration for the 19th International Smalltalk Conference in Edinburgh ends on July 18th
by Niall Ross July 11, 2011

July 11, 2011

You must register by July 18th to get the early-bird price for ESUG 2011 in Edinburgh: £315 for all 5 days, the social event, and the Camp Smalltalk weekend before if you can make that as well (and the Seaside sprint the weekend after if you are on that too). http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2011/RegisterForESUG2011 July 18th is also a good time by which to reserve your good-value 'conference accommodation' room (in Edinburgh, in festival time) to be sure of getting it. http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2011/Accommodation-in-Edinburgh Dates: Camp Smalltalk: Saturday 20th - Sunday 21st August 2011 The Conference: Monday 22nd - Friday 26th August 2011 Website: http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2011 Poster: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7726739/ESUG_Promo.pdf ______________________________________________________________________ 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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[UPDATED] Call for papers: SMALLTALKS 2011
by Stéphane Ducasse July 9, 2011

July 9, 2011

UPDATED: Special Issue Publication The best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work in a special issue of the International Journal SCP (Science of Computer Programming), http://ees.elsevier.com/scico/default.asp. > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > > SMALLTALKS 2011 > 5th International Conference on Smalltalk Technologies > Research Track: Call for Papers > November 3th - 5th, 2011 > > Important dates: > > Submission (Hard Deadline): August 22th, 2011 (Argentinian time: UTC/GMT -3 hours). > Notification of acceptance: September 23th, 2011. > Camera Ready Submission: October 7th, 2011. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Conference Location: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Argentina) > > The Smalltalks series of conferences (www.fast.org.ar) is a lively forum on Smalltalk-based software > technologies that brings together more than 200 people from both academia and industry for a period of three days. > > Past editions of Smalltalks have included many high-quality presentations from industry and research. > These contributions have shown interesting applications of Smalltalk, advances in the Smalltalk language, didactic uses of Smalltalk and so on. > > Similar to last year, Smalltalks 2011 will include a dedicated research track. > We welcome submissions to this research track presenting original scientific contributions to, or using, Smalltalk in general. > > Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: > > - Aspects, Aspect Languages and Applications. > - Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous / Pervasive Computing and Embedded Systems. > - Compilation Technology, Optimization, Virtual Machines. > - Educational Material. > - Language Engineering, Extensions. > - Model Driven Engineering / Development. > - Meta-Modeling, Reflection and Meta-programming. > - Programming in the Large, Design, Architectures and Components. > - Programming Environments, Browsers, User Interfaces, UI Frameworks. > - Source-code analysis and manipulation (Static analysis, refactoring, type inference, metrics). > - Team Management. > - Testing, Extreme Programming / Practices. > - Web Services, Internet Applications, Event-driven Programming. > - Experience Reports. > > Important dates: > > Submission (Hard Deadline): August 22th, 2011 (Argentinian time: UTC/GMT -3 hours). > Notification of acceptance: September 23th, 2011. > Camera Ready Submission: October 7th, 2011. > > Papers: > > Papers should be written in English, in PDF-format and should not exceed 15 > pages (including references and figures), using the Elsevier journal format. > > Templates for LaTeX formats can be found at > http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/elsart > > Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair submission web site at > https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smalltalks2011 > > The accepted papers will be digitally available on the conference > website. We are currently negotiating a special edition of a journal for which the best papers will get invited. > > Papers submitted must not have been previously published and must not be > under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must strictly adhere to > submission guidelines. If you have questions, please send an e-mail to > Jannik Laval and Andy Kellens to smalltalks2011-chair(a)fast.org.ar. Special Issue Publication -------------------------- The best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work in a special issue of the International Journal SCP (Science of Computer Programming), http://ees.elsevier.com/scico/default.asp. > > Program Committee > -------------------------- > - Gonzalo Zabala (Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Argentina) > - Hernan Wilkinson (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) > - Serge Stinckwich (Institut de recherche pour le developppement, France) > - Mircea Lungu (University of Bern, Switzerland) > - Tudor Girba (Sw-eng. Software Engineering GmbH, Switzerland) > - Johan Fabry (DCC, Universidad de Chile, Chile) > - Luc Fabresse (Ecole des Mines Douai, France) > - Marcus Denker (INRIA Lille, France) > - Coen De Roover (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) > - Damien Cassou (Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam, Germany) > - Gilad Bracha (SAP Labs, Palo Alto, USA) > - Noury Bouraqadi (Ecole des Mines Douai, France) > - Alexandre Bergel (DCC, Universidad de Chile, Chile) > - Gabriela Arevalo (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina) > > Program Chairs > -------------------- > Andy Kellens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) > Jannik Laval (INRIA Lille/LABRI Bordeaux, France)

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Call for papers: SMALLTALKS 2011
by jannik.laval July 9, 2011

July 9, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS SMALLTALKS 2011 5th International Conference on Smalltalk Technologies Research Track: Call for Papers November 3th - 5th, 2011 Important dates: Submission (Hard Deadline): August 22th, 2011 (Argentinian time: UTC/GMT -3 hours). Notification of acceptance: September 23th, 2011. Camera Ready Submission: October 7th, 2011. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Location: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Argentina) The Smalltalks series of conferences (www.fast.org.ar) is a lively forum on Smalltalk-based software technologies that brings together more than 200 people from both academia and industry for a period of three days. Past editions of Smalltalks have included many high-quality presentations from industry and research. These contributions have shown interesting applications of Smalltalk, advances in the Smalltalk language, didactic uses of Smalltalk and so on. Similar to last year, Smalltalks 2011 will include a dedicated research track. We welcome submissions to this research track presenting original scientific contributions to, or using, Smalltalk in general. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Aspects, Aspect Languages and Applications. - Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous / Pervasive Computing and Embedded Systems. - Compilation Technology, Optimization, Virtual Machines. - Educational Material. - Language Engineering, Extensions. - Model Driven Engineering / Development. - Meta-Modeling, Reflection and Meta-programming. - Programming in the Large, Design, Architectures and Components. - Programming Environments, Browsers, User Interfaces, UI Frameworks. - Source-code analysis and manipulation (Static analysis, refactoring, type inference, metrics). - Team Management. - Testing, Extreme Programming / Practices. - Web Services, Internet Applications, Event-driven Programming. - Experience Reports. Important dates: Submission (Hard Deadline): August 22th, 2011 (Argentinian time: UTC/GMT -3 hours). Notification of acceptance: September 23th, 2011. Camera Ready Submission: October 7th, 2011. Papers: Papers should be written in English, in PDF-format and should not exceed 15 pages (including references and figures), using the Elsevier journal format. Templates for LaTeX formats can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/elsart Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair submission web site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smalltalks2011 The accepted papers will be digitally available on the conference website. We are currently negotiating a special edition of a journal for which the best papers will get invited. Papers submitted must not have been previously published and must not be under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must strictly adhere to submission guidelines. If you have questions, please send an e-mail to Jannik Laval and Andy Kellens to smalltalks2011-chair(a)fast.org.ar. Program Committee -------------------------- - Gonzalo Zabala (Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Argentina) - Hernan Wilkinson (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Serge Stinckwich (Institut de recherche pour le developppement, France) - Mircea Lungu (University of Bern, Switzerland) - Tudor Girba (Sw-eng. Software Engineering GmbH, Switzerland) - Johan Fabry (DCC, Universidad de Chile, Chile) - Luc Fabresse (Ecole des Mines Douai, France) - Marcus Denker (INRIA Lille, France) - Coen De Roover (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) - Damien Cassou (Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam, Germany) - Gilad Bracha (SAP Labs, Palo Alto, USA) - Noury Bouraqadi (Ecole des Mines Douai, France) - Alexandre Bergel (DCC, Universidad de Chile, Chile) - Gabriela Arevalo (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina) Program Chairs -------------------- Andy Kellens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Jannik Laval (INRIA Lille/LABRI Bordeaux, France) --- Jannik Laval PhD Student - Rmod Team - INRIA Certified Project Management Associate (IPMA) http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://rmod.lille.inria.fr ---

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[ANN] Alan Kay to talk about "Next steps for qualitatively improving programming" at HPI in Potsdam
by Robert Hirschfeld July 7, 2011

July 7, 2011

It is my great pleasure to announce Alan Kay's talk here at HPI. Title: "Next steps for qualitatively improving programming" Venue: Lecture Hall 1, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany Date and time: July 21 (Thu) 2011, 16:00-17:00 Additional information: http://www.vpri.org/html/people/founders.htm http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hpi/anfahrt?L=1 http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/news/beitrag/computerpionier-alan-kay-wird-hp… (Alan's talk will be recorded and made available online.) Best, Robert -- Robert Hirschfeld Hasso-Plattner-Institut hirschfeld(a)hpi.uni-potsdam.de www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa

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[ANN] Fuel version 1.5 released (bis)
by Martin Dias July 6, 2011

July 6, 2011

Hi. I am happy to announce the new release version 1.5. At the end of this message is the list of changes. Fuel is a binary serialization system for Smalltalk that provides extremely fast deserialization. More information on our home page<http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel> . In next days we will update it. We have much more to show especially in benchmarks section. We have many ideas and new issues<http://code.google.com/p/fuel/issues/list>to keep working on Fuel. You can download this version in Pharo with: Gofer new squeaksource: 'Fuel'; package: 'ConfigurationOfFuel'; load. ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfFuel) project version: '1.5') load. Again, I have to thank ESUG for sponsoring me for Fuel development through the SummerTalk program. Changes: - Initialize instances after materialization implementing #fuelAfterMaterialization. - Ignore transient instance variables overriding #fuelIgnoredInstanceVariableNames. - Limit serialization progress bar to update at most once every 250 milliseconds. - Traits are serialized and materialized as a regular objects ( http://code.google.com/p/fuel/issues/detail?id=59) - Removed mappers system cache (Eliot). - Many new tests. - Benchmarks: compare Fuel against StOMP, SRP, SIXX, Magma, EsAndEm and Fuel with progress bar. - Benchmarks: new samples, scripts, and CSV exporter. - Benchmarks: measure serialization stream size. - Removed some redundant #fuelAccept:. - Several aesthetic changes in protocols, categories and comments. - Now #materialize answers the materialized root. - Removed special cluster for HashedCollection.Now #rehash is sended via #fuelAfterMaterialization. - MethodContext serialization does not serialize temps ( http://code.google.com/p/fuel/issues/detail?id=61) - Classes and Traits now serialize its environment (testCreateWithSmalltalkGlobalsEnvironment). - Fixed serialization of non-octet characters (testCharacter). - Fixed a bug serializing the system dictionary. FLWellKnownObjectsCluster handles it. (testSmalltalkGlobals). - Fixed a bug serializing class variables (testClassVariable). - Fixed a bug when serializing a collection with size greater than 1^16 with repeated elements inside. - Fixed testTwoCompiledMethodsReferencingSameClassVariable. - Optimization: instanceIndexes are directly created with the exact size (Henrik).

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Smalltalker looking for a job
by Stéphane Ducasse July 2, 2011

July 2, 2011

Hi guys One of my first Phd student in France, hani abdeen is looking for a Smalltalk job in France/Europe. He is a fast learner and hard worker. He participated to the moose reengineering platform. Feel free to contact him directly (and me if you want to get some information). Stef Hani Abdeen: hani.abdeen(a)gmail.com PhD Software Engineering -- INRIA Lille-Nord Europe -- 2009 -------------- A. Experiences -------------- 1) Apr.2010-Currently: Teacher of University - Lecture in Software Engineering -- IUST, Damas, Syrie > Courses: -Software Engineering - key words: UML; Object-Oriented; Development Process; Software Architecture; MagicDraw. -System Analysis and Design: UML; DFD; ERD; System Requirements; Requirements Analysis and Design; MagicDraw. -Web Programming: Web Technologies; Web Applications; Static and Dynamic; HTML; CSS; APS.Net. -Visual Programming: User Interfaces Design; Components-Events Oriented Programming; C#.Net. ............................................... 2) Feb.2008-Dec.2009: Junior Researcher at Rmod, INRIA Lille-Nord Europe -- Lille, France > Key words: Object-Oriented Software; Software Modularization; Software Quality. Software understanding; Visualizations; Metrics; Automatic Optimization of Software Structure. > Languages and Platforms: Smalltalk - Cincom Visualworks; Moose. ............................................... 3) Sep.2007-Jun.2008 ; Sep.2008-Jun.2009 ; Sep.2006-Jun.2007: Adjunct faculty teacher at University of Lille I -- USTL, Lille, France; and at University of Savoy -- Annecy, France > Courses: -Advanced Object-Oriented Design: Software Architecture; UML. -Web Technology: XML, HTML, CSS. -Object-Oriented Programming: Smalltalk; Tests. -Relational Data-Base: Sql. ............................................... ------------ B. Education ------------ Oct.2006-Nov.2009: PhD in Software Engineering -- Rmod, INRIA de Lille, USTL, France. The subject of my PhD thesis is mainly related to OO Software Understanding and Maintenance. Title: Analyzing, Assessing and re-Modularizing Architectural Elements of OO Applications. > Key words: Object-Oriented Software; Software Modularization; Software Quality. Software understanding; Visualizations; Metrics; Automatic Optimization of Software Structure. > Languages and Platforms: Smalltalk; Cincom Visualworks; Moose. ............................................... ------------------------- C. Recherche et Publications ------------------------- 1) Software Visualization: We have developed two visualizations, Package Blueprint et Package Fingerprint, that help in understanding and analyzing package structure, relationships and roles within a given OO software system. These visualizations have produced three papers published into two international conferences, ICSM'07 & CSMR'08, and into the IST-Elsevier journal. A fourth paper is currently submitted in the IEEE-TSE journal. 2) Optimization Algorithms: We developed an optimization algorithm based on Simulated Annealing approach that automatically optimize the package structure and relationships within a given OO software system. This work has produced a paper published in WCRE'09 conference. 3) Software Metrics: We have developed a set of metrics that assess the extent to which a given OO modularization follows the principles of good modularity. This work has produced a paper recently submitted to WCRE'2011 conference. -------------- B. References -------------- Prof. Stéphane Ducasse: RMod, INRIA Lille-Nord Europe -- stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr Prof. Houari Sahraoui: DIRO, Universit√© de Montr√©al -- sahraoui(a)iro.umontreal.ca

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