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ESUG Experience Day
by Janko Mivšek Feb. 1, 2012

Feb. 1, 2012

Hi guys, To attract more business oriented people back to Smalltalk, let we organize one day of ESUG conference for business oriented content. For start let we name it simply as an ESUG Experience day. So that its intention is clear and attractive for those people. And let we do some marketing in this direction too. And all in one day, those people cannot afford a whole week for a mostly technical conference. I know from my experience that presentations of real Smalltalk systems convinced me to Smalltalk back in 1995, when I visited my first ESUG in Utrecht/NL. It was at the IBM building and much more business people around. This gave me an impression of seriousness of Smalltalk. Also content was half technical half experiences/business oriented. Also from talks with those people you actually get a feeling what tool is considered professional and accepted for more business oriented development, which is a stated goal of Pharo, for instance. Getting those people together with Pharo development team can really help. For presenters is also a plus because they come in contact with potential customers, even some long standing business partnership can start at such an opportunity. What do you think? Best regards Janko -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

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**Important** Pharo Conference Call for Date Feedback
by Stéphane Ducasse Feb. 1, 2012

Feb. 1, 2012

Hi guys We want to organize a Pharo Conference @ lille around business and companies in May/June 2012. Now we need you to understand what is the best to organize because we have some constraints (like not good access to rooms on saturday). Could you reply to the following questions: Are you planning to attend: Yes No Would you attend two days: Yes No Would you like to present something: Yes No Would you prefer to have (remove the one you do not like) - one friday and one saturday or - two days during the week would be not a problem. Would you like to have Handons: Yes No Business/Experience returns: Yes No What are the following dates that are ok for you? Frid 11- Satur 12 May 2012: Yes No Thur 10- Frid 11 May 2012: Yes No Mond 14- Tuesd 15 May 2012: Yes No Tuesd 15- Wedn 16 May 2012: Yes No Thur 24 - Frid 25 May 2012: Yes No Frid 25- Satur 26 May 2012: Yes No Stef

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Re: [Esug-list] FOSDEM2012 smalltalk devroom 5 feb, sprint 4 feb
by Marcus Denker Jan. 29, 2012

Jan. 29, 2012

> 09:30 Norbert Hartl, Take a small REST. Simple approaches for REST in smalltalk > 10:00 Stephane Ducasse, Marcus Denker, The next steps for the Pharo Vision > I checked for trains... the *first* train from Lille arrives 9:45 in Bruessels Midi Sundays. I don't feel like booking a Hotel in Bruessels, I have to admit. -- Marcus Denker -- denker(a)acm.org http://www.marcusdenker.de

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[JOB] Professor Position at Lille
by Marcus Denker Jan. 26, 2012

Jan. 26, 2012

Permanent Professor (Maître de conférence) position. ========================================= The University of Lille-1 has 3 professor positions for September 2012 one of which (MCF-1170) is in software engineering. - Duration: permanent (tenured) - Starting date: September 2012 - Where: University of Lille-1 - Topic: Software Engineering About Lille and the University and RMOD: -------------------------------------------------------- - Lille is located in the north of france. -- one hour from Paris, 1h20 from London, 35 min from Brussels, by train. - RMoD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr - Université Lille 1: --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Université_Lille_1 --http://www.univ-lille1.fr - Lille: --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille --http://wikitravel.org/en/Lille For more information enter in contact with Stéphane Ducasse or Nicolas Anquetil (see in http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/team) Permanent link: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/blog/2012-01-20 -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[JOB] 18 months PostDoc Position INRIA Lille
by Marcus Denker Jan. 26, 2012

Jan. 26, 2012

18 months PostDoc Position INRIA Lille =============================== - Duration: 18 months - Starting date: Begining 2012 - Where: RMOD team at INRIA Lille Nord Europe - 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 About Lille and INRIA: ====================== Lille is located in the north of france. (one hour from Paris, 1h20 from London, 35 min from Brussels, by train) -> French food, combined with good Belgium beer. -> RMoD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr -> INRIA Lille: http://www.inria.fr/lille/ -> INRIA in General: http://www.inria.fr -> Lille: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille - http://wikitravel.org/en/Lille Please contact Stephane Ducasse (Stephane.Ducasse(a)inria.fr) for more information. -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[JOB] Researcher Positions at INRIA
by Marcus Denker Jan. 26, 2012

Jan. 26, 2012

Researcher Positions at INRIA ======================== The yearly competition for INRIA research positions started. (Deadline: Feb 17th) RMOD is looking for researchers to apply for joining our team at Lille/France with permanent (tenured) positions: CR2 "Young graduate scientist" http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/young-graduate-scientis… - need PhD - formally no other research experience required, in practice the competition is very hard and a strong academic CV is needed on a level that requires, besides a very good PhD, at least 1-2 years of post-doctoral research. CR1 "Young experienced scientist" http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/young-experienced-scien… - need PhD and 4 years of research experience. - very strong academic CV. Both positions are tenured after a probation period of 12 Months. Research directions are = Software Engineering / Software Evolution = Dynamic Reflective Programing Languages = Security and Dynamic Languages Duties -> Research (No teaching) -> Help manage the Research group. -> Be involved with the self-governance of the INRIA Lab and INRIA as a whole. -> Guide PhD Students (And therefore get a french habilitation to be able to formally supervise PhD students) -> Help acquiring additional funds for PhD Students, Postdocs and Engineers -> Transfer of research results to the real world. (this means: making things real is valued. Not just paper writing) About Lille and INRIA: -> Lille is located in the north of france. (one hour from Paris, 1h20 from London, 35 min from Brussels, by train) -> French food, combined with good Belgium beer. -> RMoD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr -> INRIA Lille: http://www.inria.fr/lille/ -> INRIA in General: http://www.inria.fr -> Lille: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille - http://wikitravel.org/en/Lille Interested? Please contact Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> and Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> (permanent Link to this text: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/blog/2012-01-26) -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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FOSDEM2012 smalltalk devroom 5 feb, sprint 4 feb
by Stephan Eggermont Jan. 24, 2012

Jan. 24, 2012

Feb 4-5 2012 Brussels hosts FOSDEM2012, the free and open software developers european meeting. Sunday there will be a smalltalk devroom (AW 1.126) with a number of interesting presentations. 09:30 Norbert Hartl, Take a small REST. Simple approaches for REST in smalltalk 10:00 Stephane Ducasse, Marcus Denker, The next steps for the Pharo Vision 11:00 Laurent Laffont, John Thornton, Amber, the Smalltalk for web developers 12:00 Nick Ager, An introduction to jQuery Mobile 12:30 Stefan Marr, RoarVM, Sly 13:00 David Chisnall, Compiling Smalltalk to fast native Code 13:30 Craig Latta, Spoon 14:00 Stephan Eggermont, Willem van den Ende, Diego Lont, Back to the future, (re)learn smalltalk (till 16:30). http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/smalltalk_devroom As there is no devroom on saturday, the VUB has kindly offered to organise a sprint. There will be a room available at walking distance from FOSDEM. Stephan

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[ANN] Amber Smalltalk 0.9.1 is out!
by Nicolas Petton Jan. 16, 2012

Jan. 16, 2012

About 4 moons have passed and Amber - the Smalltalk for the web - has during that time moved forward quite a lot. Since the 0.9 release back in september we have made about 250 commits and closed 52 issues of about 75 reported during these months. Now with over 43 forks on github and more than 230 followers the project: http://www.amber-lang.net ...is live and kicking! A lot of cool stuff is being done in those forks and not in the master repository, like for example the gaming framework called Ludus by Bernat Romagosa: https://github.com/bromagosa/amber/tree/ludus ...or Ambrhino by Stefan Krecher - Amber running in Rhino: https://github.com/StefanKrecher/Ambrhino So, why would you take a look at Amber? In our opinion Amber is perfectly positioned for the HTML5 onslaught and the explosion of all-things-javascript like for example Nodejs. Amber plays very well with others and can seamlessly use Javascript libraries! It's a *real* Smalltalk, the environment is all there including Workspace, Transcript, Browser, senders/implementors/references to class, TestRunner, Inspectors, code editing with syntax coloring and a Debugger. There is no image or interpreter, all compilation is incremental. JavaScript is quite a broken language with lots of traps and odd quirks. It is the assembler of the Internet and we love it for that, but we don't want to write applications in it. Smalltalk is immensely cleaner, both syntactically and semantically with a simple class model and a lightweight syntax for closures. It is in many ways a perfect match for the Good Parts of JavaScript. And having a true live interactive incremental development environment where you can build your application directly in the browser is unbeatable... Below follows a summary of the major changes since release 0.9. We hope you join us in developing Amber and having fun! Fork at github, join in #amber-lang on freenode and hop onto the mailing list. regards, Nicolas & Göran ...and a BIG thanks to everyone that are involved in the project! --------------------------------------------- Here's a summary of changes since the 0.9 release: - 80 new unit tests written - 52 issues fixed - All classes in Kernel-Objects, Kernel-Classes and Kernel-Methods has been documented - New documentation framework (see http://amber-lang.net/documentation.html) - Better class organisations, "Kernel" package split into several packages - First class packages have replaced class categories - Internet Explorer 7+ compatibility - New Announcement framework ported from Pharo - New console-based REPL written in Amber using node.js - Symbol class implemented together with object identity and #== - New OrderedCollection and Set implementation - Dictionary can now have any kind of object as keys. String-key dictionary has been renamed HashedCollection - New TwitterWall example - Improved HTML Canvas, now compatible with IE7 - Improved JSObjectProxy for seemless JavaScript objects access from Amber - No more jQuery binding. Amber is fully capable of sending messages to JavaScript objects

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Smalltalk Directions — Deadline Extended
by Andrew P. Black Jan. 12, 2012

Jan. 12, 2012

The deadline for submissions to Smalltalk Directions 2012 has been extended to 27the January. If you have a Smalltalk-related paper in progress that just missed the original deadline, please consider submitting it. The meeting will be 19–21 March in Biloxi, Mississippi. See http://www.stic.st/2011/11/smalltalk-directions-call-for-participation/ for more details.

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Fwd: Job offer: SW-developer (Smalltalk)
by Damien Cassou Jan. 12, 2012

Jan. 12, 2012

Here is a job offer for a German-speaking Smalltalk developer. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stefan Beuslein <beuslein(a)collogia.de> Date: 2012/1/12 Subject: Job offer: SW-developer (Smalltalk) To: "stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr" <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr>, Luc Fabresse <luc.fabresse(a)gmail.com>, "damien.cassou(a)gmail.com" <damien.cassou(a)gmail.com> Hello, we are looking for a Smalltalk SW-developer. Attached you'll find our current job offer (german version) which is also placed on our website http://www.collogia.de/unternehmen/karriere.html. Above the IT and Smalltalk skills you'll need fluent German and basic knowledge of the german legislation for pension schemes. Thanks for your support in advance. Kind regards Stefan Beuslein ________________________________ Collogia Unternehmensberatung AG Ubierring 11 D-50678 Köln Tel.: +49 221 33608-0 Fax: +49 221 33608-36 Mobil: +49 170 765 4825 E-Mail: beuslein(a)collogia.de -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." James Iry

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