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Fwd: [Pharo-project] DrGeo release 11.08
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 31, 2011

Aug. 31, 2011

Begin forwarded message: > From: Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire.fernandes(a)edu.ge.ch> > Date: August 31, 2011 5:54:32 PM GMT+02:00 > To: pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > Subject: [Pharo-project] DrGeo release 11.08 > Reply-To: Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > > I am pleased to announce release 11.08 of DrGeo for > GNU-Linux/Windows/Mac OSX. > As always the application is distributed under the form of an unique > universal portable bundle for the three systems. > > http://www.ofset.org/drgeo > > ChangeLog > > * Release 11.08 - Thanks to the Pharo Smalltalk community for its > continuous support - Special greeting to Henrik. > > * #2929 Simplify the way to load a sketch: now the user selects the > sketch to open from a preview list > > * User can open sketch from an examples repository or from its own > 'MySketches' repository. Change accordingly the load and save file > operation. > > * In the toolbar, new icon button to create a blank sketch, keep or open > an existing sketch > > * DrGeo is now touchpad friendly for a better user experience on tablet PC > > * #13010 Secure the edited free value > > * #12785 undo/redo angle: lost arc > > * #12782 Use smaller font to print 3 points angle > > * #12786 label should be selectable first > > * #12784 Assist to name object > > * Rendering speed improvements > > * Properly save sketch as UTF-8 file > > > >

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Re: [Esug-list] Deep into Smalltalk School video
by Marcus Denker Aug. 31, 2011

Aug. 31, 2011

On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:55 AM, James Robertson wrote: > I'd like to extract some of the audio-only to post as podcast materials through the year - would that be acceptable? > Yes! We will see how usable the audio is... Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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Re: [Esug-list] Deep into Smalltalk School video
by Marcus Denker Aug. 31, 2011

Aug. 31, 2011

On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: > I heard at ESUG that the "Deep into Smalltalk School" course was recorded. It > sounded very interesting. Will that be made available publicly? Yes, I will make sure we do that with the videos/slides of ESUG. -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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Deep into Smalltalk School video
by Sean P. DeNigris Aug. 30, 2011

Aug. 30, 2011

I heard at ESUG that the "Deep into Smalltalk School" course was recorded. It sounded very interesting. Will that be made available publicly? Thanks. Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Deep-into-Smalltalk-School-video-tp3778561p3778561.ht… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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ESUG Conference Report?
by James Robertson Aug. 29, 2011

Aug. 29, 2011

I'd be interested in interviewing one or more people about ESUG 2011 for the "Independent Misinterpretations" podcast. If anyone who attended would be interested in that, please let me know James Robertson http://www.jarober.com jarober(a)gmail.com

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Announcement: Smalltalk Industry Conference 2012 will be in Biloxi, MS, March 18 to 21
by stephane ducasse Aug. 29, 2011

Aug. 29, 2011

I just made this announcement at ESUG in Edinburgh: 1. Smalltalk Solutions has been renamed to Smalltalk Industry Conference (STIC) 2. STIC 2012 will be in Biloxi, Mississippi 3. STIC 2012 will open Sunday March 18th, 2012 in the evening 4. STIC 2012 conference days will be Monday to Wednesday March 19th to 21st, 2012 5. STIC 2012 will be followed by a Camp Smalltalk on Thursday and Friday 6. There will be program for Student Volunteers 7. Call for papers is open 8. STIC will continue to collaborate with ESUG Please stay tuned for further announcements on www.stic.st Georg Heeg STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council Executive Director Phone +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712 >

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[ANN] soek.goodies.st discontinued
by Ernest Micklei Aug. 28, 2011

Aug. 28, 2011

Hi, http://soek.goodies.st was launched at November 13, 2009 to fill in the need from Smalltalk developers to have online , searchable documentation for various open source Smalltalk projects in a similar style. At least for a few months, the site was being updated with interesting projects to explore. Having Seaside docs and code easy accessible from a browser helped me while developing applications in the past. The XStreams project even lead to a new feature, the separation of public and private classes and methods. However, the process of updating or extending the site with new versions and other projects was limited by my own effort, time and interest. Currently, it is not possible for others to submit or even update their project (Monticello or VW Store based). Having access to outdated docs and source code kind of invalidates the site as it is now. Perhaps a better approach is to have developers produce, update and even host their own documentation. Something like that should be community driven to make it work. The source code for the generator is written in VisualWorks Smalltalk, is open-source MIT licensed and is available in the Cincom Public Store (Soek-All) including the CodeHtmlHighlighting package. Drop me an email if you need assistance to get started and feel free to improve or extend it. The site will be accessible for a limited time on http://soek.goodies.st.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html Happy Smalltalking, ^ Ernest

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photos of a brilliant conference
by Francisco Garau Aug. 27, 2011

Aug. 27, 2011

Some photos from the social event: https://picasaweb.google.com/108954597407516986388/Esug2011# It was a brilliant conference - thanks all who organized it! - Francisco

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Seaside Sprint - Mariano, Tobias, D. Simmons or C. Cunnington please read
by Sean P. DeNigris Aug. 26, 2011

Aug. 26, 2011

One of the above people please be at the Pollack Hall breakfast room Saturday 8:30 am or call Dale H. after 7:30 at his room JBG018 so the Seaside sprint can get into the room. Thanks. Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Seaside-Sprint-Mariano-Tobias-D-Simmons-or-C-Cunningt… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[ANN] LatAm Squeaksource Mirror online again
by Johan Fabry Aug. 25, 2011

Aug. 25, 2011

Hi all, I'm happy to announce that the Latin American public, read-only Squeaksource mirror is again up and running. (We are bringing the contents up to date right now, it should be competely up-to-date in about 5 hours ...) The URL is: http://www.dsal.cl/squeaksource/ Note that you can use this mirror *in a completely transparent fashion*. We have worked out a solution to the privacy issues raised by the first iteration of our mirror. I would like to emphasize that private data has never been present on the mirror, only the name of private projects was accessible. TECHNICAL DETAILS BELOW. Please redistribute this announcement! (below is mainly a repeat of the body of my previous mail) MOTIVATION: For us, Switzerland is a long way and the connection to Squeaksource has always been painfully slow. We've set up this mirror to help to address this, and I imagine that it will be of use not only for the Chileans but also other countries in latin america, which is why I am announcing it here. ITS TRANSPARENT: I've worked out a way to make the use of this mirror transparent when using Pharo 1.3: you just use monticello as always, and have a setting to redirect loads from Squeaksource to wherever you want. I have successfully loaded Moose and Seaside from the mirror using this package, so it should work for you. And I can tell you, it was blazingly fast: Seaside loaded in 5m45, and most of the time was spent compiling ... ;-) So try the mirror and the package out, send me your comments, we want to work on this to make Squeaksource a better experience for everybody. HOW TO USE from Pharo 1.3: - Get the redirection package from http://www.squeaksource.com/MonticelloRedirect - To load from the mirror instead of from Squeaksource, do-it of the following: MRManager redirectFrom: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/' to: 'http://www.dsal.cl/squeaksource/'. - To remove this redirection: MRManager removeFrom: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/'. - See comments of MRManager for more info. MRManager list can be useful at some times. - Only 2 classes, < 10 methods, not counting accessors. The trick is the use of MethodWrappers. - I did not test this in Squeak or other versions of Pharo. Feel free to try it out in your environment and send me patches if needed. - There is no UI, contributions are welcome!! DETAILS ON THE MIRROR - It's a full copy of Squeaksource, updated daily. - The mirror is read-only: if you want to make a commit you still have to do it in Squeaksource. This is to avoid all the complications of distributed writes. - Updates happen once a day, before midnight Chilean time. Updates take typically (up till now) 200 minutes (!), average download speed here is 200KB/s :-( - Lukas Renggli pointed out that the Squeaksource sitemap file provides a list of projects. We pass this to wget (with some massaging of the data inbetween). - The software that does the mirror is available here: https://github.com/vramiro/easy-wget-mirror MANY THANKS TO: - Daniel Galdames for doing the original mirroring tests - Victor Ramiro for taking Daniels' work and putting it in production - The Squeaksource team for helping us, especially Fabrizio Perin and Mircea Lungu - Lukas Renggli for pointing out the issues with the previous version and providing an alternative. - You for trying it out and telling us about it! ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- 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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