March 2012 - Esug-list - lists.esug.org

20th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions

by Damien Cassou

20th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions Gent, Belgium August 27-31, 2012; Camp Smalltalk August 25-26 http://esug.org/Conferences/2012 This call includes: 1) Developers forum 2) Innovation Technology Award 3) International Workshop 4) Student Volunteer program 5) Free ESUG tickets program ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the past 20 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has organised the International Smalltalk Conference, a lively forum on cutting edge software technologies that attract people from both academia and industry for a whole week. The attendees are both engineers using Smalltalk in business and students and teachers using Smalltalk both for research and didactic purposes. This year's edition of the largest European Smalltalk event will include: - The regular Smalltalk developers conference with renowned invited speakers - a Smalltalk camp that proved fruitful for interactions and discussions (August 25-26) - 9th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will be awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects - IWST: an international workshop on Smalltalk and dynamic languages You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: - Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/About/SupportESUG - Submit a talk, a software or a paper to one of the events. See below. - Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of attendance (170 people at Amsterdam)! - Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll into the the Student Volunteers program. See below. 1) Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This year we are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. In addition, we are looking for tutorials. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to the following: - XP practices - Development tools - Experience reports - Model driven development - Web development - Team management - Meta-Modeling - Security - New libraries & frameworks - Educational material - Embedded systems and robotics - SOA and Web services - Interaction with other programming languages Submissions due on 15 June 2012 Notification of acceptance on 25 June 2012 How to submit? Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to board(a)esug.org AND damien.cassou(a)gmail.com AND stephane.ducasse(a)free.fr following the template below. Please use this template since the emails will be automatically processed! Subject: [ESUG 2012 Developers] + your name First Name: Last Name: Email where you can always be reached: Title: Abstract: (max 1400 characters) Bio: (max 1400 characters) Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically 2) Innovation Technology Award ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We are proud to announce the 9th Innovation Technology Awards. The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awards ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based software are welcome to compete. This year we will request 3-5min videos. More information at: http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2012/Innovation-Technology-Awards 3) International Workshop - IWST 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies, August 28 The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas. Participants are invited to submit research articles. We will not enforce any length restriction. Nevertheless, we expect papers of two kinds: - Short position papers describing emerging ideas. - Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results. We welcome research papers on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics. All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL, and the authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a journal special issue (to be confirmed). Submissions deadline: June 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2012 More information at: http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2012/International-Workshop---IWST-2012 4) Student Volunteer Program ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you considered being a student volunteer? Student volunteers help keep the conference running smoothly; in return, they have free accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the conference. More information at: http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2012/StudentVolunteers 5) Free ESUG tickets program ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ESUG will offer 10 free entrance tickets. To get a free ticket you should send a mail to board(a)esug.org Subject: [ESUG 2012 Free entrance] + your name And you should write a small motivation. We hope to see you there and have fun together. -- The ESUG board Board mailing list: board(a)lists.esug.org

March 29, 2012

[GSoC] Call for students

by Janko Mivšek

Dear Students, Now it is your turn! You will have to register in our website first [1], put there some information, show interest for the projects and contact the project mentors. After the registration step you will get all the mentors information in order to contact them. By pressing the button on the project, you will show your interest. This is not something formal yet. Of course you can propose your own project too. In this case write a proposal in a format other projects have and send it to admins (see the email on the bottom). Our mentors will vote for the most interesting projects and in the middle of the voting Google will tell us, how many projects will actually be funded. Voting will happen in April, with final results expected at the end of April. At that time you will finally know if you are accepted or not. Of course, there can be many students interested per project. This means that interest for this project is high, but on the other side a chance that you will be chosen is lower. It is up to you to convince a mentor that you are the best! Note also that the Ideas page is deprecated. On ideas page just the project ideas were collected. Now, we are preparing the real projects. So, please from now on always refer to this link for the projects: http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects So, the initial steps are: 1. Register on our special Smalltalk GSoC website (with your Google account!): http://gsoc2012.esug.org/admin?view=loginGoogle 2. Edit your profile to get some more contact information for mentors to let you know, 3. Fulfill your brief Biography page (see Biography tab on profile), 4. Go to Projects page, choose up to three projects and click there 'I'm interested' button, 5. Contact and discuss with project mentors about your interest. Subscribe also to a special mailing list [2] where we will help you with further steps. Deadline: as soon as possible, because the deadline to register on official GSoC website [3] is 6.April, which is, well, soon! But about that later... Finally, we will really appreciate if you can help us to distribute this call for students. One of our goals is to increase the Smalltalk community. Those who have access to universities can distribute this among the students. [1] http://gsoc2012.esug.org [2] Students mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-students [3] Official GSoC website http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 Good luck! Janko & Carla --- GSoC Admin Team smalltalk.gsoc(a)gmail.com http://gsoc2012.esug.org

March 28, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Next step

by Carla F. Griggio

Hi Saurav! Now Yuriy Mironenko is the main mentor of the project, though I'm still involved as co-mentor. You're very welcome to join the students mailing list that you can find at: http://gsoc2012.esug.org/ and let's talk about it there :) . There are other students also interested in that project and some pointers have already been discussed, you can find that here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/smalltalk-gsoc-students/… Cheers! Carla On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Saurav <online.saurav(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all! > > I have been reading the PBE e-book and running the examples and playing > away in the Pharo environment. I now have a decent overview of the Pharo > environment, the process of developing and writing Smalltalk code for the > Pharo implementation (Using the System Browser, classification of classes > and methods into packages and protocols respectively, and use of the > Debugger). > > I now want to take the next step for Pharo contribution, and this is > something which will really get me into gears. I want to work on the *"**Export > Excel files and other spreadsheet related goodies" *project for GSoC 2012 > for ESUG. > > I request for some description of the project from *Carla Griggio *for > some pointers, and I will start making my applucation ready to submit. > > Thank you very much, > > Best regards, > Saurav > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > >

March 28, 2012

Next step

by Saurav

Hi all! I have been reading the PBE e-book and running the examples and playing away in the Pharo environment. I now have a decent overview of the Pharo environment, the process of developing and writing Smalltalk code for the Pharo implementation (Using the System Browser, classification of classes and methods into packages and protocols respectively, and use of the Debugger). I now want to take the next step for Pharo contribution, and this is something which will really get me into gears. I want to work on the *"**Export Excel files and other spreadsheet related goodies" *project for GSoC 2012 for ESUG. I request for some description of the project from *Carla Griggio *for some pointers, and I will start making my applucation ready to submit. Thank you very much, Best regards, Saurav

March 28, 2012

Smalltalk job - Dublin

by stan shepherd

Hi, we are looking for another Smalltalker for our Dublin office, working on Misys's syndicated loans software Loan-IQ. http://www.misys.com/tcm/markets/syndicated_lending_solutions-loan_iq.html If you know anyone who may be interested, please ask them to contact me at stan.shepherd(a)misys.com Thanks, ...Stan

March 27, 2012

Fwd: [Pharo-project] Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? | Hacker News

by Noury Bouraqadi

Begin forwarded message: > From: Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven(a)beta9.be> > Date: 24 mars 2012 09:22:36 HNEC > To: "Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr Development" <Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr> > Subject: [Pharo-project] Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? | Hacker News > Reply-To: Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > > Vote for Smalltalk! > > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692 > > Registration is non-agressive. Noury -- http://twitter.com/#!/NouryBouraqadi http://www.kroobe.com/profile/noury

March 24, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Smalltalk Industry Conference - STIC 2013 with Smalltalk Directions 2013

by James Robertson

If you just want the posts from (or about) the conference, use this url: http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?searchCategory=stic12 The next two podcasts I'll be releasing are from the conference - Dave Buck and I had a conversation about the talks on day 2, and Bob Nemec and I spoke about the talks at the end of day 3. As Georg said, it was a great show, and I want to thank all of the organizers for their efforts. On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Georg Heeg wrote: > Dear ESUG Members, > > First of all thank you for sponsoring STIC 2012. We have used some of the ESUG sponsorship to make our first Smalltalk directions happen. Thus we could print the proceedings and we will mail a copy to all those authors who could not make it for various reasons. And we had s student volunteer Fabian who did a great job. Overall it has been a great conference. I personally liked the keynote by Sam Adams about Big POOP most. We have recorded all presentations. And after we will be back we will make slides and videos available. Please have a look at www.stic.st. > > At the end of the conference we announced Smalltalk Industry Conference 2013 which we will organize in Arizona in June 2013. You will find detailed information on www.stic.st. > > In June 2013 we will also have Smalltalk Directions 2013 organized by Smalltalk Academic Advisory Board STAAC. The formal call for papers will go out soon. But you can start planning to submit your research results today. The topics will probably be along the lines of this year’s call for papers in http://www.stic.st/2011/11/smalltalk-directions-call-for-participation/. The papers will get reviewed and published and in the presentation you will get into contact with co-researchers and industrial Smalltalk users from all over the world. > > Overall it has been a great conference, thanks to all the authors and the participants to come. > > Georg Heeg > > PS: As for many conferences before James Robertson has blogged a lot onhttp://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView. Thanks to James for the publicity. > > STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council > Executive Director > Phone +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712 > > _______________________________________________ > 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

March 23, 2012

Smalltalk Industry Conference - STIC 2013 with Smalltalk Directions 2013

by Georg Heeg

Dear ESUG Members, First of all thank you for sponsoring STIC 2012. We have used some of the ESUG sponsorship to make our first Smalltalk directions happen. Thus we could print the proceedings and we will mail a copy to all those authors who could not make it for various reasons. And we had s student volunteer Fabian who did a great job. Overall it has been a great conference. I personally liked the keynote by Sam Adams about Big POOP most. We have recorded all presentations. And after we will be back we will make slides and videos available. Please have a look at www.stic.st. At the end of the conference we announced Smalltalk Industry Conference 2013 which we will organize in Arizona in June 2013. You will find detailed information on www.stic.st. In June 2013 we will also have Smalltalk Directions 2013 organized by Smalltalk Academic Advisory Board STAAC. The formal call for papers will go out soon. But you can start planning to submit your research results today. The topics will probably be along the lines of this year's call for papers in <http://www.stic.st/2011/11/smalltalk-directions-call-for-participation/> http://www.stic.st/2011/11/smalltalk-directions-call-for-participation/. The papers will get reviewed and published and in the presentation you will get into contact with co-researchers and industrial Smalltalk users from all over the world. Overall it has been a great conference, thanks to all the authors and the participants to come. Georg Heeg PS: As for many conferences before James Robertson has blogged a lot on <http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView> http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView. Thanks to James for the publicity. STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council Executive Director Phone +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712

March 22, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Contributing to Smalltalk

by Damien Cassou

Dear Saurav, On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Saurav <online.saurav(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I am keen to start contributing to the Smalltalk Community. Where can I find > bug reports/submit patches? > Also, I am a beginner at Smalltalk but am willing to learn. How can I start > contributing? welcome in the community, Which version of Smalltalk are you using? Pharo, Squeak, Visual Works, GNU Smalltalk...? Depending on the answer, contributing will be very different. If you want to learn Smalltalk, I advise you to have a look at http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html Best -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." James Iry

March 22, 2012

Contributing to Smalltalk

by Saurav

Hi all! I am keen to start contributing to the Smalltalk Community. Where can I find bug reports/submit patches? Also, I am a beginner at Smalltalk but am willing to learn. How can I start contributing? Thank you very much.

March 22, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Pharo Consortium Important Documents and Request for

by Damien Cassou

2012/3/21 Юрий Мироненко <tallman(a)inbox.ru>: > I'm sorry, maybe I misunderstood something...but where is this "following powerpoint presentation"? It is a pdf file : https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/30436/PHARO-ENG-V4.2.pdf -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." James Iry

March 21, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Pharo Consortium Important Documents and Request for

by Юрий Мироненко

I'm sorry, maybe I misunderstood something...but where is this "following powerpoint presentation"? Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:19:12 +0100 от Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr>: > Dear Pharo Friends and Supporters > > We worked a lot with INRIA lawyers and tried a lot of different scenarios. We > arrived to a setup that make sense > now we would like to get your input. Please have a look at the following > powerpoint presentation and feel free to comment! > > We provide some sketches for the consortium fees and benefits for you. But we > need your input! > If you are not in the mailing-list: send us a mail to board(a)pharo-project.org. > > Remember that what we want to achieve is to be able to pay one (or more) full > time engineer to help us improving > our system and making that our future is bright. > > Since it may be difficult to follow closely our vision, dreams and current > development efforts you can read the Pharo vision document. > > > https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/30436/PHARO-ENG-V4.2.pdf > > https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/30434/PharoVision.pdf > > The Pharo Team > > Remember: The best way to predict the future is to invent it. A. Kay > And we want to do it :) > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

March 21, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2011

by Serge Stinckwich

Thank you Loic. On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Loïc Lagadec <loic.lagadec(a)univ-brest.fr> wrote: > Dear smalltakers, > > > We are now pleased to inform you that the IWST 2011 proceedings are > currently on-line. > > > here is the IWST link: > http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166929&picked=prox&cfid=71182337&cftoken… > > From this page, you will be able to acces all papers. > > Regards, > > > Loïc Lagadec & Alain Plantec > IWST 2011 co-chairs > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/

March 20, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2011

by Stéphane Ducasse

Excellent! On Mar 19, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Loïc Lagadec wrote: > Dear smalltakers, > > > We are now pleased to inform you that the IWST 2011 proceedings are currently on-line. > > > here is the IWST link: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166929&picked=prox&cfid=71182337&cftoken… > > From this page, you will be able to acces all papers. > > Regards, > > > Loïc Lagadec & Alain Plantec > IWST 2011 co-chairs > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

March 19, 2012

Pharo Consortium Important Documents and Request for Feedback

by Stéphane Ducasse

Dear Pharo Friends and Supporters We worked a lot with INRIA lawyers and tried a lot of different scenarios. We arrived to a setup that make sense now we would like to get your input. Please have a look at the following powerpoint presentation and feel free to comment! We provide some sketches for the consortium fees and benefits for you. But we need your input! If you are not in the mailing-list: send us a mail to board(a)pharo-project.org. Remember that what we want to achieve is to be able to pay one (or more) full time engineer to help us improving our system and making that our future is bright. Since it may be difficult to follow closely our vision, dreams and current development efforts you can read the Pharo vision document. https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/30436/PHARO-ENG-V4.2.pdf https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/30434/PharoVision.pdf The Pharo Team Remember: The best way to predict the future is to invent it. A. Kay And we want to do it :)

March 19, 2012

Fwd: [vwnc] [ANN] Code profiler and test coverage for VisualWorks

by stephane ducasse

Begin forwarded message: > From: Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel(a)me.com> > Subject: [vwnc] [ANN] Code profiler and test coverage for VisualWorks > Date: March 19, 2012 3:54:52 PM GMT+01:00 > To: VWNC <vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu> > Cc: Vanessa Peña Araya <vpena(a)dcc.uchile.cl>, Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer <juampiboy(a)gmail.com> > > Dear All, > > The Smalltalk way of programming is really cool. However, we believe things can be significantly improved when talking about code profiling and testing. > > Over the last few months, we have worked hard on producing: > > - the Kai CPU profiling tool. It outputs some nice graphical report on where the CPU time is being spent on. It also indicates where you could introduce a memoization cache > > - the Hapao test coverage tool. It employs an effective and intuitive graphical representation to visually assess the quality of the coverage. > > Screenshots and descriptions may be found on http://objectprofile.com > Everything is available on the Cincom public store, under the MIT license. > There is a number of sophisticated technologies involved into this. So if you find a bug, we will do our best in a timely fashion to fix it. We pushed it hard before flying to STIC. Feedbacks are welcomed. > > Cheers, > Alexandre, Vanessa, Juan Pablo -- The Object Profile team > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vwnc mailing list > vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc

March 19, 2012

International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2011

by Loïc Lagadec

Dear smalltakers, We are now pleased to inform you that the IWST 2011 proceedings are currently on-line. here is the IWST link: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166929&picked=prox&cfid=71182337&cftoken… From this page, you will be able to acces all papers. Regards, Loïc Lagadec & Alain Plantec IWST 2011 co-chairs

March 19, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] GSoC 2012: we're in!

by Geert Claes

Good stuff!! -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/GSoC-2012-we-re-in-tp4480622p4481856.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

March 18, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] GSoC 2012: we're in!

by Stéphane Ducasse

excellent news! On Mar 17, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Carla Griggio wrote: > > Hi everybody!! > I'm glad to announce that ESUG has been accepted as an organization this year :) So Google will be funding some Smalltalk projects of our choice. > > Soon you'll be able to find the next steps into the program at http://gsoc2012.esug.org/. > > Cheers! > > Carla Griggio & Janko Mivšek > GSoC Admins > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

March 17, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] GSoC 2012: we're in!

by Serge Stinckwich

Great job !!! On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Carla Griggio <carla.griggio(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everybody!! > I'm glad to announce that ESUG has been accepted as an organization this year :) So Google will be funding some Smalltalk projects of our choice. > > Soon you'll be able to find the next steps into the program at http://gsoc2012.esug.org/. > > Cheers! > > Carla Griggio & Janko Mivšek > GSoC Admins > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/

March 17, 2012

GSoC 2012: we're in!

by Carla Griggio

Hi everybody!! I'm glad to announce that ESUG has been accepted as an organization this year :) So Google will be funding some Smalltalk projects of our choice. Soon you'll be able to find the next steps into the program at http://gsoc2012.esug.org/. Cheers! Carla Griggio & Janko Mivšek GSoC Admins

March 17, 2012

Fwd: [Pharo-project] Three presentations at Dyncon 2012 in Stockholm

by Marcus Denker

Begin forwarded message: > From: Göran Krampe <goran(a)krampe.se> > Subject: [Pharo-project] Three presentations at Dyncon 2012 in Stockholm > Date: March 15, 2012 2:39:17 PM GMT+01:00 > To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> > Cc: pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > Reply-To: Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > > Hey fellas! > > Just wanted to mention that Smalltalk and Amber in particular has a fairly strong presence this year at Dyncon 2012 (http://swdc.se/dyncon2012/) > > - I am presenting "Brave new world" (the architecture of SmalltalkHub, which includes Amber, Phriak, Pharo, Seaside-REST etc) (see http://swdc.se/dyncon2012/sessions/) > > - Nicolas is presenting Amber. > > - Jason Ayers is probably presenting something Smalltalk related :) > > regards, Göran > -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

March 15, 2012

Fwd: [squeak-dev] [ANN] BioSmalltalk

by stephane ducasse

Begin forwarded message: > From: Hernán Morales Durand <hernan.morales(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [squeak-dev] [ANN] BioSmalltalk > Date: March 15, 2012 1:32:55 PM GMT+01:00 > To: A friendly place where any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr>, beta(a)seaside.gemstone.com, vwnc mailing list <vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu>, The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> > Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> > > Dear all, > > It's been two years since I've started to work in bioinformatics with > Smalltalk. It has been a difficult decision because the quality and > amount of bioinformatics libraries is absolutely amazing, but I've > received a lot of support from the main researchers at the Institute > of Genetics where I'm working in Argentina. > > Now the initial step for a BioSmalltalk release is done. I hope the > FOSS community receive this pre-release as the basis for future > enhacements for bioinformatics with any Smalltalk flavor. Although in > the short-term it is unlikely for a BioSmalltalk to reach the users, > maturity and competitive level of major Bio* toolkits (BioPerl, > BioPython, BioRuby or BioJava), it could take too many years more if I > continue this work alone. However, BioSmalltalk was not conceived to > replace or defeat any other similar packages, but to provide to the > bioinformatics community the features of a pure object system. So feel > free to spread the word for all bioinformaticians, newcomers, > developers, or life scientists, for helping in any way and discovering > why Smalltalk is such a special environment. > > This release was implemented in Pharo 1.3 custom Core, but cross > Smalltalk portability was a priority. I'm working now to release > versions for GemStone, Squeak and VisualWorks is there is enough > interest. Everybody is welcome to contribute. > > You may download a pre-compiled release from the project page: > http://code.google.com/p/biosmalltalk/ > > Best regards, > > Hernán > > > -- > Hernán Morales > Institute of Veterinary Genetics (IGEVET). > National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). > La Plata (1900), Buenos Aires, Argentina. > Telephone: +54 (0221) 421-1799. > Internal: 422 > Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799. >

March 15, 2012