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Re: [Esug-list] ESUG Experience Day

by Stéphane Ducasse

On Jan 31, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Joachim Tuchel wrote: > HI Stef, Janko and list, > > I think thuis brings us back to the old discussion of the ESUG date. It is in the summer holidays, and that is somewhat a problem for a corprate public IMO. Another problem might be that it's often hard to get an allowance and budget to travel out of your home country. You often have to uzse the education budget for such trips. > > We've had great resonance on the VA Smalltalk Forum for users of VA Smalltalk. > But people mostly came from Germany (where it took place), Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland. So I see quite some interest in an industry oriented event. But IMO an indsutry oriented event needs to meet a few criteria: > > * It should be during normal working season, not in the summer or winter holidays > * It must take place in a country where many businesses use Smalltalk. There may be people from other countries, but few of them. If we want to meet people from several countries, we need a little road show that travels to two or three countries in Europe. > * It must take place on a weekday between tuesday and thursday. Only Geeks stay until like to travel home on friday evening or even stay until saturday morning. > * Speakers have to provide relevant (from the point of view of a Smalltalk legacy project) content. It doesn't necessarily have to be new / exciting content, but relevant to today's Smalltalk projects. In big corporations, these often need to catch up with technologies that were considered bleeding edge 10 years ago. But still they are relevant for these projects. This is not to say that newer topics should be kept out of an industry conference, but they should be introduced in a way that put them in perspective of such a project. I agree. > ESUG is a great, interesting and exciting conference, and I really would advice everybody to go there if they are interested in Smalltalk. But it does not meet many of the above-mentioned criteria. ESUG is something else. > > Smalltalk projects in the industry are legacy projects in most cases. Those that aren't are mostly unknown. It would be great if we could change that at such an event. > But, please, ESUG, don't take that as a criticism of the ESUG conference! It's a great place to be and meet people and learn what's hot in the Smalltalk world! I would miss it if it wasn't there any more! We don't. Now we do not have the manpower to organize two conferences. But it would be good to have such event. May be in november. BTW we have solutions for building tools for large legacy and we are building a company around that topic. So we would love to be in contact with people have legacy problems and not only in Smalltalk. We are learning so strange language right now :)> Stef > > > > Just my 2c > > Joachim > > > > "Stéphane Ducasse" <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> hat am 29. Januar 2012 um 12:38 geschrieben: > > > We are trying each year. Remember at Barcelona. > > Now if people do not send business talks we cannot invent them. > > > > Stef > > > > On Jan 29, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Janko Mivšek wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Esug-list mailing list > > > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > > > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Esug-list mailing list > > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Objektfabrik Joachim Tuchel mailto:jtuchel@objektfabrik.de > Fliederweg 1 http://www.objektfabrik.de > D-71640 Ludwigsburg > Telefon: +49 7141 56 10 86 0 Fax: +49 7141 56 10 86 1 > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Jan. 31, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] ESUG Experience Day

by Joachim Tuchel

Jan. 31, 2012

**Important** Pharo Conference Call for Date Feedback

by Stéphane Ducasse

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

Jan. 30, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] FOSDEM2012 smalltalk devroom 5 feb, sprint 4 feb

by Georg Heeg

Marcus, There is an earlier train: Lille Flandres Sa, 04.02.12 ab 07:08 <http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/traininfo.exe/dn/494988/296936/94900/11754 6/80?ld=96242&seqnr=2&ident=os.020395242.1327856370&date=04.02.12&station_ev aId=8700030&station_type=dep&currentReferrer=tp&rt=1&> RE 19703 <http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/traininfo.exe/dn/494988/296936/94900/11754 6/80?ld=96242&seqnr=2&ident=os.020395242.1327856370&date=04.02.12&station_ev aId=8700030&station_type=dep&currentReferrer=tp&rt=1&> IC 19703 <http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/traininfo.exe/dn/494988/296936/94900/11754 6/80?ld=96242&seqnr=2&ident=os.020395242.1327856370&date=04.02.12&station_ev aId=8700030&station_type=dep&currentReferrer=tp&rt=1&> IC 729 Regional-Express Verkehrt als RE 19703 bis Mouscron, danach als IC 19703 bis Kortrijk, danach als IC 729 Gent St Pieters Sa, 04.02.12 an 08:14 <http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query2.exe/dn?ld=96242&seqnr=2&ident=os.02 0395242.1327856370&rt=1&rememberSortType=minDeparture&partSearch=C0-0&partSe archSec=0> Beschreibung: http://www.img-bahn.de/v/860/img/transfer_grau_16x16.gif Umsteigezeit 10 Min. <http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query2.exe/dn?ld=96242&seqnr=2&ident=os.02 0395242.1327856370&rt=1&rememberSortType=minDeparture&partSearch=C0-0&partSe archSec=0> Umsteigezeit anpassen Gent St Pieters Sa, 04.02.12 ab 08:24 <http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/traininfo.exe/dn/539421/208901/77114/14125 2/80?ld=96242&seqnr=2&ident=os.020395242.1327856370&date=04.02.12&station_ev aId=8800031&station_type=dep&currentReferrer=tp&rt=1&> IC 507 Intercity Bruxelles-Midi Sa, 04.02.12 an 08:55 Georg Georg Heeg eK, Dortmund und Köthen, HR Dortmund A 12812 Wallstraße 22, 06366 Köthen Tel. +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: esug-list-bounces(a)lists.esug.org [mailto:esug-list-bounces@lists.esug.org] Im Auftrag von Marcus Denker Gesendet: Sonntag, 29. Januar 2012 17:17 An: Stephan Eggermont Cc: seaside(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org; ESUG Mailing list; Moose-related development; squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org; Pharo Development Betreff: Re: [Esug-list] FOSDEM2012 smalltalk devroom 5 feb, sprint 4 feb > 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 -- <mailto:denker@acm.org> denker(a)acm.org <http://www.marcusdenker.de> http://www.marcusdenker.de _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list <mailto:Esug-list@lists.esug.org> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org <http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Jan. 29, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] FOSDEM2012 smalltalk devroom 5 feb, sprint 4 feb

by Marcus Denker

> 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

Jan. 29, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] ESUG Experience Day

by Georg Heeg

Stéphane and Janko, I think this is an excellent opportunity of a collaboration between ESUG and STIC. This year we (STIC) have started to provide a special track for Academic named Smalltalk Direction. Two days ago the deadline has passed and from what I know we will start with a small academic program. Georg Heeg STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council Executive Director Phone +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: esug-list-bounces(a)lists.esug.org [mailto:esug-list-bounces@lists.esug.org] Im Auftrag von Stéphane Ducasse Gesendet: Sonntag, 29. Januar 2012 12:38 An: Janko Mivšek Cc: ESUG Mailing list Betreff: Re: [Esug-list] ESUG Experience Day We are trying each year. Remember at Barcelona. Now if people do not send business talks we cannot invent them. Stef On Jan 29, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Janko Mivšek wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Jan. 29, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] ESUG Experience Day

by Stéphane Ducasse

We are trying each year. Remember at Barcelona. Now if people do not send business talks we cannot invent them. Stef On Jan 29, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Janko Mivšek wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Jan. 29, 2012

ESUG Experience Day

by Janko Mivšek

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

Jan. 29, 2012

[JOB] Professor Position at Lille

by Marcus Denker

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

Jan. 26, 2012

[JOB] 18 months PostDoc Position INRIA Lille

by Marcus Denker

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

Jan. 26, 2012

[JOB] Researcher Positions at INRIA

by Marcus Denker

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

Jan. 26, 2012

FOSDEM2012 smalltalk devroom 5 feb, sprint 4 feb

by Stephan Eggermont

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

Jan. 24, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] Amber Smalltalk 0.9.1 is out!

by Stéphane Ducasse

Thanks for all this good energy nicolas! Keep pushing :) Stef On Jan 16, 2012, at 1:06 AM, Nicolas Petton wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Jan. 16, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] [Iliad] [ANN] Amber Smalltalk 0.9.1 is out!

by laurent laffont

Nice work guys ! Laurent On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Nicolas Petton <petton.nicolas(a)gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > >

Jan. 16, 2012

[ANN] Amber Smalltalk 0.9.1 is out!

by Nicolas Petton

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

Jan. 16, 2012

Smalltalk Directions — Deadline Extended

by Andrew P. Black

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.

Jan. 12, 2012

Fwd: Job offer: SW-developer (Smalltalk)

by Damien Cassou

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

Jan. 12, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] [Release] Neptuno, the DBXBrowser

by Tudor Girba

Excellent work! Doru On 11 Jan 2012, at 18:19, Guillermo Polito wrote: > Hi! > > We are glad to announce the first stable release of the DBXBrowser, named Neptuno, the last piece in the DBXTalk tools project sponsored by ESUG. > > What is this browser? It is a Glamour based browser which works as a GUI to work with OpenDBX connections. > > How does it look like? I attach a screenshot with a brief look :) > > Which databases does it work with? It is currently working with OpenDBX connectors for: > - mysql > - postgresql > - oracle > - sqlite > > How should I download it? I'd like to link to the site here, but it's currently down (and we are working for your happiness :D ), so: > > Gofer it > squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository'; > package: 'ConfigurationOfDBXBrowser'; > load. > > > (((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfDBXTools) > perform: #project) > perform: #version: with: #stable) > load: 'Neptuno' > > How should I contact the DBXTalk team for feedback, bug reports, questions, or whatever? > > The project's mailing list: dbxtalk(a)googlegroups.com > The project's issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/dbxtalk/issues > The (currently down) site, with docs and stuff: http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/ > > > Thanks! > The DBXTalk team > <completeBrowser.png>_______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org -- www.tudorgirba.com "Quality cannot be an afterthought."

Jan. 11, 2012

[ANN] [Release] Neptuno, the DBXBrowser

by Guillermo Polito

Hi! We are glad to announce the first stable release of the DBXBrowser, named Neptuno, the last piece in the DBXTalk tools project sponsored by ESUG. *What is this browser?* It is a Glamour based browser which works as a GUI to work with OpenDBX connections. * How does it look like?* I attach a screenshot with a brief look :) *Which databases does it work with?* It is currently working with OpenDBX connectors for: - mysql - postgresql - oracle - sqlite * How should I download it?* I'd like to link to the site here, but it's currently down (and we are working for your happiness :D ), so: Gofer it squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository'; package: 'ConfigurationOfDBXBrowser'; load. (((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfDBXTools) perform: #project) perform: #version: with: #stable) load: 'Neptuno' *How should I contact the DBXTalk team for feedback, bug reports, questions, or whatever?* The project's mailing list: dbxtalk(a)googlegroups.com The project's issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/dbxtalk/issues The (currently down) site, with docs and stuff: http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/ Thanks! The DBXTalk team

Jan. 11, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] ESUG 2011 Videos now complete

by Serge Stinckwich

Great work Marcus. You rocks ! On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > All existing ESUG 2011 videos are now on youtube: > > http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL813665D04A2E4C0A > > Or for download in the ESUG archive: > > http://esug.org/data/ESUG2011/Videos/ > > Quality is a bit mixed... some are quite good and easy to follow, > some have very bad sound quality or even parts missing. > > (The reason was that we could not use the local fixed video equipment > as originally planed... considering that its not too bad) > > > for the ESUG Board, > > Marcus > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Matsuno Laboratory, Kyoto University, Japan (until 12/2011) http://www.mechatronics.me.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/

Jan. 11, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] ESUG 2011 Videos now complete

by Sean P. DeNigris

Thank you, Marcus! -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/ESUG-2011-Videos-now-complete-tp4278382p4280661.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Jan. 10, 2012

ESUG 2011 Videos now complete

by Marcus Denker

Hi, All existing ESUG 2011 videos are now on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL813665D04A2E4C0A Or for download in the ESUG archive: http://esug.org/data/ESUG2011/Videos/ Quality is a bit mixed... some are quite good and easy to follow, some have very bad sound quality or even parts missing. (The reason was that we could not use the local fixed video equipment as originally planed... considering that its not too bad) for the ESUG Board, Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

Jan. 9, 2012

[ANN][DBX] Phoseydon Beta2

by Guillermo Polito

Hi! I'm willing to announce the second beta release of Phoseydon, part of the DBXTalk project, supported by ESUG :). It's main new feature is a simple internal dsl to generate entities, so you can create applications from something like: personEntity := application entityNamed: #Person. personEntity hasString: #nickname; hasInteger: #age; hasBoolean: #isProgrammer. petEntity := application entityNamed: #Pet. petEntity hasString: #nickname. personEntity hasMany: #Pet as: #pets. petEntity hasOne: #Person as: #owner. Also, a little manual is already written in: http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Documentation For download: http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Download Issues, mails, questions: http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Support Cheers, the DBXTalk Team

Jan. 5, 2012

Call for papers - Science of Computer Programming: Special Issue on "Advances in Dynamic Languages"

by jannik.laval

================================================ Special issue on "Advances in Dynamic Languages" ================================================ Special issue of Elsevier's Science of Computer Programming (SCICO) Context ------- Over recent years we have seen an increased interest in dynamic programming languages such as Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, PHP, JavaScript, Self, Python, Ruby, and so on. These languages have taken a prominent role in teaching, web development, scripting, rapid prototyping, tool building, language engineering, and many other domains. For this special issue we invite high-quality papers that focus on novel research related to dynamic programming languages and applications of these languages. We are interested in research that uses dynamic languages in the context of, but not restricted to: - Aspects, aspect Languages and applications. - Ambient intelligence, ubiquitous / pervasive computing and embedded systems. - Compilation technology, optimization, virtual machines. - 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). - Testing, eXtreme Programming / practices. - Web services, internet applications, event-driven programming. - Experience reports. The special issue is associated with the Smalltalks 2011 conference. 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. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Papers should be written in English, in PDF-format and should not exceed 25 pages (including references and figures), using the Elsevier journal format. The LaTeX template for this format can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/latex Papers must be submitted through the EES submission system located at http://ees.elsevier.com/scico/default.asp When reaching the "Article type" step in the submission process, it is important to select "Special issue: Advances in Dynamic Languages". Each paper will be reviewed by at least 3 experts within the domain. The accepted papers will be published in a special edition of Elsevier's Science of Computer Programming. Papers submitted must not have been previously published (at least 30% new material) 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 (jlaval(a)labri.fr) and Andy Kellens (akellens(a)vub.ac.be) Important dates (tentitavely) ----------------------------- - Submission round 1: March 16, 2012 - Feedback round 1: May 17, 2012 - Submission round 2: June 29, 2012 - Feedback round 2 (final notification): August 17, 2012 - Camera ready version: September 14, 2012 Guest editors ------------- Andy Kellens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Jannik Laval (LaBRI Bordeaux, France)

Jan. 3, 2012