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

ESUG Conference Report?

by James Robertson

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

Aug. 27, 2011

photos of a brilliant conference

by Francisco Garau

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

Aug. 27, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] Seaside Sprint - Mariano, Tobias, D. Simmons or C. Cunnington please read

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Hi. I have just come to the residence and I didn't know in which building I was going to be. I am finally at Chancellors Court. So, I will at breakfast tomorrow (Saturday) at 8:30. On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <sean(a)clipperadams.com>wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

Aug. 26, 2011

Seaside Sprint - Mariano, Tobias, D. Simmons or C. Cunnington please read

by Sean P. DeNigris

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.

Aug. 26, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [ANN] LatAm Squeaksource Mirror online again

by Stéphane Ducasse

Thanks for your effort. I'm sure that it will help a lot of people. Stef On Aug 25, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Johan Fabry wrote: > 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 > > > > > > >

Aug. 25, 2011

[ANN] LatAm Squeaksource Mirror online again

by Johan Fabry

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

Aug. 25, 2011

Slowly uploading ESUG Slides

by Marcus Denker

Hi, We are starting to upload the Slides of ESUG 2011: SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/esug/ Archive (PDF): http://esug.org/data/ESUG2011/Slides/ I will tweet every uploaded slide here: http://twitter.com/#!/esugsmalltalk Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

Aug. 24, 2011

Research Engineer Position at INRIA

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi guys We have a position for an engineer position around dynamic language (javascript, smalltalk) and security. Engineer position • Duration: 1-2 years • Starting date: end 2011/beginning 2012 • Where: RMOD team at INRIA Lille Nord Europe http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/ • Salary: 55 Keuros net (before taxes) Keywords: dynamic languages, security, information flow, Smalltalk, Javascript The position will take place in the context of the Systematic Resilience project. Three main tasks will be our focus: • Develop a component model named JIO to manage I/O user interface in Javascript for cloud applications • Identification of security problems in Javascript • Study and analyze approaches towards securing Javascript and dynamic languages (Caja, isolate...) • Prototype of a safe architecture for Resilience Please contact Stephane Ducasse (Stephane.Ducasse(a)inria.fr) for more information. ------------------------ Dr. Stéphane Ducasse -- Directeur de Recherche (Senior Researcher) INRIA - USTL - CNRS UMR 8022 stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/ **NEW ***Tel 00 33 (0)3 20 43 42 56 - Fax 33 3 59 57 78 50 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza, Villeneuve d'Ascq, FR-59650, France.

Aug. 23, 2011

Announcement: Smalltalk Industry Conference 2012 will be in Biloxi, MS, March 18 to 21

by Georg Heeg

Dear ESUG Members, I just made this announcement 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

Aug. 23, 2011

3 years postdoc position on dynamic language and security

by Stéphane Ducasse

We have a 3 year postdoc position on dynamic languages and security: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/blog/2011-08-19-2 Do not hesitate to apply Postdoc Position • Duration: 3 years • Starting date: end 2011 • Where: RMOD team at INRIA Lille Nord Europe http://rmod.lille.inria.fr • Salary: 55 Keuros net (before taxes) Keywords: dynamic languages, security, information flow, Smalltalk, Javascript The position will take place in the context of the Systematic Resilience project. We will focus on the following main tasks: • Identification and understanding of security problems in Javascript and other dynamic languages • Study and analyze existing approaches towards securing Javascript (Caja, isolates...) • Comparison of different approaches to secure dynamic applications (Zope model, ZTK), Ruby • Study of Mirrors/Capabilities as a basis for security in Javascript • Proposition of an safe architecture for Resilience Please contact Stephane Ducasse (Stephane.Ducasse(a)inria.fr) for more information. Stef ------------------------ Dr. Stéphane Ducasse -- Directeur de Recherche (Senior Researcher) INRIA - USTL - CNRS UMR 8022 stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/ **NEW ***Tel 00 33 (0)3 20 43 42 56 - Fax 33 3 59 57 78 50 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza, Villeneuve d'Ascq, FR-59650, France.

Aug. 23, 2011