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[ANN] glamorous inspector

by Tudor Girba

Hi, I am happy to announce the first release of the Glamorous Inspector, a new browser for inspecting objects based on Glamour. More information, including a demo and screenshots, can be found here: http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/glamorous-inspector-for-smalltalk To download it follow the instructions from: http://www.moosetechnology.org/tools/glamoroustoolkit You can use it by: 1. "GTInspector openOn: someObject", or 2. "GTInspector registerToolsOn: Smalltalk tools" and then use CMD+I (explore) Please let your opinion be heard :) Cheers, Doru p.s. Have fun at ESUG :) -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every successful trip needs a suitable vehicle."

Aug. 23, 2011

[UPDATE] Call for Papers: Smalltalks 2011

by Andy Kellens

UPDATE: We received numerous requests to postpone the submission deadline. Therefore, you can still submit a paper to Smalltalks 2011 until Monday, September 5th! CALL FOR PAPERS SMALLTALKS 2011 5th International Conference on Smalltalk Technologies Research Track: Call for Papers November 3th - 5th, 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 ---

Aug. 22, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] PDF 4 Smalltalk

by Leandro Caniglia

Good news! Thank you! /Leandro leandro caniglia ph.d. | chief technologist | *caesar** systems *| *see clearly. decide smarter**.* lcaniglia(a)caesarsystems.com | t: +1.281.598.8810 +1.281.617.2972 +54.11.4389.0126 | petrovr.blogspot.com | www.caesarsystems.com This message and any attached documents contain information from Caesar Systems LLC that may be confidential/trade secret and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not read, copy, distribute or use this information. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or by reply e-mail and then delete this message. On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Christian Haider < Christian.Haider(a)smalltalked-visuals.com> wrote: > I am proud to announce an open source PDF implementation.**** > > ** ** > > I will give a talk about this at ESUG (on Wednesday, 10:30, according to > current schedule).**** > > The presentation will be available at Origo (see below) after the talk.*** > * > > ** ** > > I just published the bundles to the Cincom public store:**** > > **- **Fonts Development**** > > **- **PDF Development**** > > ** ** > > It is developed in VisualWorks 7.8 and should work with older versions. If > not, please give me a note.**** > > ** ** > > The bundle comment of {PDF Development}:**** > > 8<------------------------**** > > Read and write PDF files.**** > > ** ** > > Support for PDF as defined by the ISO standard PDF 32000-1:2008 (see > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html) **** > > ** ** > > Look at Document class in Package [PDF Development] to find simple demos to > get you started.**** > > ** ** > > Best load order for development:**** > > 1. bundle {Values Development}**** > > 2. bundle {Fonts Development}**** > > 3. bundle {PDF Development}**** > > ** ** > > See also the project site at Origo: http://pdf4smalltalk.origo.ethz.ch/*** > * > > ---------------->8**** > > ** ** > > Happy hacking,**** > > Christian**** > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > >

Aug. 21, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] PDF 4 Smalltalk

by stephane ducasse

Excellent! Stef > Christian Haider wrote: >> >> I am proud to announce an open source PDF implementation. >> > > Wow, very cool - and MIT! I'm eager to port this to Pharo. > > Sean > > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/ANN-PDF-4-Smalltalk-tp3757605p3757791.html > 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

Aug. 21, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] PDF 4 Smalltalk

by Sean P. DeNigris

Christian Haider wrote: > > I am proud to announce an open source PDF implementation. > Wow, very cool - and MIT! I'm eager to port this to Pharo. Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/ANN-PDF-4-Smalltalk-tp3757605p3757791.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Aug. 20, 2011

[ANN] PDF 4 Smalltalk

by Christian Haider

I am proud to announce an open source PDF implementation. I will give a talk about this at ESUG (on Wednesday, 10:30, according to current schedule). The presentation will be available at Origo (see below) after the talk. I just published the bundles to the Cincom public store: - Fonts Development - PDF Development It is developed in VisualWorks 7.8 and should work with older versions. If not, please give me a note. The bundle comment of {PDF Development}: 8<------------------------ Read and write PDF files. Support for PDF as defined by the ISO standard PDF 32000-1:2008 (see http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html) Look at Document class in Package [PDF Development] to find simple demos to get you started. Best load order for development: 1. bundle {Values Development} 2. bundle {Fonts Development} 3. bundle {PDF Development} See also the project site at Origo: http://pdf4smalltalk.origo.ethz.ch/ ---------------->8 Happy hacking, Christian

Aug. 20, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] Fuel release version 1.6

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Ahh and thanks to Claire Barroca we now have a wonderful logo: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Martin Dias <tinchodias(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I want to announce the new release version number 1.6 of Fuel, a > binary serialization framework for Pharo that provides extremely fast > deserialization. More information on our home page<http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel>. Again, > I thank ESUG for sponsoring me through the SummerTalk<http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Promotion/SummerTalk/SummerTalk2011>program. > > You can download this version in Pharo 1.2.1 with: > > Gofer new > squeaksource: 'Fuel'; > package: 'ConfigurationOfFuel'; > load. > ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfFuel) project version: '1.6') load. > > This version does not add any new concrete functionality but has two main > achievements: a performance improvement and a design clean up. > > Many changes included in this release are part of a design clean up. They > are a necessary step forward to new functionalities that are coming soon. > They make code more understandable. They enable simpler extension. Happily > they also helped to improve serialization performance by reducing > unnecessary interactions. And it is specially important a bottleneck in > graph analysis stage we have successfully attacked, obtaining great results. > > Details: > - Removed explicit references to cluster classes scattered around the > system. For example, in previous versions Float>>fuelCluster has an explicit > reference to FLFloatCluster. This version replaces this by a double dispatch > interaction. > - Clusters: Better reification. Removed annoying IDs. Removed Singleton > instance creation mechanism, now mappers manage uniqueness in a better way. > - Mappers: They were simplified. New mapping machanism inspired on Chain of > Responsibility pattern. The global objects detection has been optimized > considerably. > - Analyzer: Part of its behavior and state has been moved to a new > abstraction called 'clusterization'. > > Best regards, > Martín Dias > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

Aug. 19, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] Fuel release version 1.6

by Mariano Martinez Peck

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Martin Dias <tinchodias(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I want to announce the new release version number 1.6 of Fuel, a > binary serialization framework for Pharo that provides extremely fast > deserialization. More information on our home page<http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel>. Again, > I thank ESUG for sponsoring me through the SummerTalk<http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Promotion/SummerTalk/SummerTalk2011>program. > > You can download this version in Pharo 1.2.1 with: > > Or Pharo 1.1 or 1.1.1 or 1.3 or 1.4 :) > Gofer new > squeaksource: 'Fuel'; > package: 'ConfigurationOfFuel'; > load. > ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfFuel) project version: '1.6') load. > > Notice that as always, since Fuel is being developed, this version is NOT compatible with older versions. That means, you cannot materialize with this version a stream which was serialized with an older version. What you have to do is: 1) materialize your graph. 2) update Fuel. 3) serialize again. > This version does not add any new concrete functionality but has two main > achievements: a performance improvement and a design clean up. > > Many changes included in this release are part of a design clean up. They > are a necessary step forward to new functionalities that are coming soon. > They make code more understandable. They enable simpler extension. Happily > they also helped to improve serialization performance by reducing > unnecessary interactions. And it is specially important a bottleneck in > graph analysis stage we have successfully attacked, obtaining great results. > > Details: > - Removed explicit references to cluster classes scattered around the > system. For example, in previous versions Float>>fuelCluster has an explicit > reference to FLFloatCluster. This version replaces this by a double dispatch > interaction. > - Clusters: Better reification. Removed annoying IDs. Removed Singleton > instance creation mechanism, now mappers manage uniqueness in a better way. > - Mappers: They were simplified. New mapping machanism inspired on Chain of > Responsibility pattern. The global objects detection has been optimized > considerably. > - Analyzer: Part of its behavior and state has been moved to a new > abstraction called 'clusterization'. > > Best regards, > Martín Dias > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

Aug. 19, 2011

[ANN] Fuel release version 1.6

by Martin Dias

Hello! I want to announce the new release version number 1.6 of Fuel, a binary serialization framework for Pharo that provides extremely fast deserialization. More information on our home page<http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel>. Again, I thank ESUG for sponsoring me through the SummerTalk<http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Promotion/SummerTalk/SummerTalk2011>program. You can download this version in Pharo 1.2.1 with: Gofer new squeaksource: 'Fuel'; package: 'ConfigurationOfFuel'; load. ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfFuel) project version: '1.6') load. This version does not add any new concrete functionality but has two main achievements: a performance improvement and a design clean up. Many changes included in this release are part of a design clean up. They are a necessary step forward to new functionalities that are coming soon. They make code more understandable. They enable simpler extension. Happily they also helped to improve serialization performance by reducing unnecessary interactions. And it is specially important a bottleneck in graph analysis stage we have successfully attacked, obtaining great results. Details: - Removed explicit references to cluster classes scattered around the system. For example, in previous versions Float>>fuelCluster has an explicit reference to FLFloatCluster. This version replaces this by a double dispatch interaction. - Clusters: Better reification. Removed annoying IDs. Removed Singleton instance creation mechanism, now mappers manage uniqueness in a better way. - Mappers: They were simplified. New mapping machanism inspired on Chain of Responsibility pattern. The global objects detection has been optimized considerably. - Analyzer: Part of its behavior and state has been moved to a new abstraction called 'clusterization'. Best regards, Martín Dias

Aug. 19, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] Smalltalk lecture Saturday 20th of August at ESUG

by Stephan Eggermont

And it requires the presentation material to be available before, so the camera can zoom onto the presenter. Unless the presentation has been rehearsed with the cameraperson, switching between presenter and presentation is to be avoided. Stephan On 16 aug 2011, at 13:44, James Robertson wrote: > I'll note this: unless you have a good audio pickup, that can be pretty rough :) > > On Aug 16, 2011, at 6:22 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > >> >> On 16.08.2011, at 09:21, Marcus Denker wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Juraj Kubelka <juraj.kubelka(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi Smalltalkers, >>>> If it is worth to do it and someone give me an introduction to management of >>>> live-streaming, I can be in charge of that. >>>> >>> Live streaming needs serious internet infrastructure... (just imagine >>> 100 people watching at the same time). >>> Than there is the software side... >>> >>> I am sure that last year, citilab didn't set this up in a week :-) >> >> If you want to host the streaming yourself, that's true. >> >> However, there are free broadcast services where all you need is a webcam, somewhat decent upload speed, and a web browser with Flash. It's really easy to use, and the streaming to users happens off someone else's web server. >> >> E.g. at Squeakfest in L.A. they used justin.tv, and there was almost no setup at all: >> >> http://www.justin.tv/squeakland >> >> - Bert - >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list >> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > > James Robertson > http://www.jarober.com > jarober(a)gmail.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Aug. 16, 2011