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Re: [Esug-list] ESUG Archive: Updated HistoricalDocuments

by Janko Mivšek

Thanks Marcus a lot for all care about preserving Smalltalk history, both past and near present, which will once become history as well. Best regards Janko On 30. 05. 2012 08:46, Marcus Denker wrote: > Hi, > > We did a pass over the HistoricalDocuments folder of the ESUG Archive: > > http://esug.org/data/HistoricalDocuments/ > > > Marcus, > for The ESUG Board > > -- > 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 > -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

May 30, 2012

ESUG Archive: Updated HistoricalDocuments

by Marcus Denker

Hi, We did a pass over the HistoricalDocuments folder of the ESUG Archive: http://esug.org/data/HistoricalDocuments/ Marcus, for The ESUG Board -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

May 30, 2012

Fwd: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Fuel Release Version 1.8

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Since Martin's work was sponsored by ESUG (although this release is far after SummerTalk was finished) I think it makes sense to visualize his work. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Dias <tinchodias(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:04 AM Subject: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Fuel Release Version 1.8 To: A friendly place where any question about pharo is welcome < pharo-users(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr>, pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr Hi all, We are proud to announce Fuel 1.8 with a lot of new features and documentation. Of course, we don't stop working but it was time to freeze a stable version. Fuel is an open-source general-purpose object serialization framework developed in Pharo Smalltalk environment. More information on our website [1]. Fuel works out of the box in Pharo from 1.1 up to 2.0 (checked at #20094). Please check our documentation [2] for complete installation and use guides. Below, there are some remarkable changes. - Much more complete user guides. - Improved API for customizing how graph is traced. - FuelMetalevel: serialization of stuff like classes and compiled methods moved to an optional package. - Customize objects to be treated as globals. - Migrations: declare at materialization time class and variables renames. - Weak references properly managed. Thanks to Juan Vuletich and Levente. - Thanks Pavel for helping us improving FuelPackageLoader with wonderful ideas and bug reports. - Serialization speed up on large graphs by using specialized collections. Thanks Levente. - Encoder and Decoder: new reifications that clarify the design. Thanks Colin Putney. - Optimized serialization of "clean" BlockClosures, which don't need the whole stack of contexts. Thanks Juan Vuletich and Eliot Miranda. - Added a clear error hierarchy. - Debug facilities, including graph visualization using Roassal. Thanks Alexandre and Doru. - Many more new tests. Including those from extension packages, we have almost 600 tests. - Repository moved from 'http://www.squeaksource.com/Fuel' to 'http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/Fuel'. If you are a Fuel user we are not aware of, please let us know! Best regards, Martin and Mariano [1]: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel [2]: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel/Version1.8/Documentation -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

May 27, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] ESUG 2012: hotel reservation code

by Stéphane Ducasse

Thanks a lot johan for your effort. Stef On May 25, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Johan Brichau wrote: > Dear all, > > Several people have notified me that the 'ESUG' reservation code does not work when trying to book via de website reservation forms that are available for the IBIS & Novotel hotels. > > After verification, the hotel told me that this is indeed the case. You need to send your reservation via email. Therefore, I have now added 3 different email addresses to the webpage that you should use to book your accomodation at those particular 3 hotels. For other hotels, booking can proceed as mentioned on their respective websites. > > See everything at http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2012/Accomodation > > All the best and let me know if there are any issues! > > Johan > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

May 25, 2012

ESUG 2012: hotel reservation code

by Johan Brichau

Dear all, Several people have notified me that the 'ESUG' reservation code does not work when trying to book via de website reservation forms that are available for the IBIS & Novotel hotels. After verification, the hotel told me that this is indeed the case. You need to send your reservation via email. Therefore, I have now added 3 different email addresses to the webpage that you should use to book your accomodation at those particular 3 hotels. For other hotels, booking can proceed as mentioned on their respective websites. See everything at http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2012/Accomodation All the best and let me know if there are any issues! Johan

May 25, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] First Vancouver Smalltalk developer group meetup

by Francois Stephany

Hi, The first meetup went fine, nine people attended (which I guess is not too bad!). There was no real subject so we talked about a bit about everything. Many of us were happy to talk with other smalltalkers anyway. I've made a Doodle for the next meetup, if you are in the area and want to attend, please tell which day is best for you. http://www.doodle.com/bycw6xw9xtggt5ru Some of the attendees mentioned that they can provide a place. If nobody shows up with something, we can do at the coworking place where I work: http://www.meetup.com/theofficevancouver/ If you have a subject or something you want to talk about, let me know ! Cheers, Francois -- http://tulipemoutarde.be CA: +1 778 558 3225 BE: +32 65 709 131 On 02/05/12 15:31, Francois Stephany wrote: > Hi there, > > The recently created Vancouver Smalltalk developer group organises its > first meetup on 16th May. > > This first edition is the occasion to have a cup of coffee together. We > will decide what format we will adopt for the future (coffee shop?, > bar?, meeting room?, talk?, subject?) > > http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Smalltalk-Developers-Group/ > > The current group currently has 11 members. If you're in the Vancouver > area do not hesitate to join. If you don't want to register on > Meetup.com, no worries, announcements will be made in the scona and esug > lists. > > In a nutshell: > * Wed May 16 > * 6.00pm > * Waves Coffee shop on Howe and Smithe > * newbie Smalltalkers more than welcome (I'm one!) > > > Cheers, > Francois >

May 23, 2012

Reminder: register for ESUG 2012

by Johan Brichau

Hi Smalltalkers, Please register as soon as possible for the 20th ESUG Conference in Gent Belgium. -> https://registration.esug.org More importantly, make your reservations for accomodation as soon as possible. Remember our hotel options expire on June 30th! -> http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2012 Hope to see you all in Gent! Johan Brichau

May 23, 2012

57 registered people for the pharo conf

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi guys We are happy to say that there are 57 participants to the pharo conf starting thursday. http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/Events Stef

May 21, 2012

CFP IWST'2012

by Loïc Lagadec

Dear colleagues & Friends, We apologize for multiple reception of this announcement. The International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies, is a European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) Conference joint event, that focuses on research activities - namely academic creative work undertaken on smalltalk use, and more generally on object technologies. IWST was launched in 2009, in Brest, during the 17th ESUG Conference. The second edition took place in Barcelona, and the third edition was held in 2011 at the heart of historic Edinburgh. Next edition will be in Gent, Begium this summer (28th of august). ESUG gathers groups of professionals and hobbyists who share an interest in the Smalltalk programming languages and related technologies. The goal of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk. IWST contributes to triggering discussions and exchanges of ideas. As always, we make a point to have a very constructive paper review process that aims to provide in-depth comments and suggestions to all of them (no one-liners!) This makes it ideal to disseminate new research directions, and is a good venue for early stage PhD students to receive feedback on their work. In addition, we intent to invite best papers to a journal special issue as we did last year. Looking forward to your submissions, and to meeting you in Gent! Best regards, Loïc Lagadec & Alain Plantec Co-chairs of IWST * International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2012* August 28th, 2012 Gent, Belgium. ESUG 2012 Smalltalk joint event *Important dates* Submission deadline: June 15, 2012 Notification deadline: July 15, 2012 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). *Goals and scopes* 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. However we expect papers of two kinds: Short position papers describing emerging ideas. Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Topics We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as: * Aspect-oriented programming, * Design patterns, * Experience reports, * Frameworks, * Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, * Interaction with other languages, * Meta-programming and Meta-modeling, * Tools *Links* _home page:_ http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2012/International-Workshop---IWS… _submission:_ http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst2012 *Publication* Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm. This site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions. *Program chairs* Loïc Lagadec and Alain Plantec (LabSticc CACS/CNRS, University of Brest, France) * Program committee* Gabriela Arevalo Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina Alexandre Bergel University of Chile Andrew P. Black Portland State University, US Marcus Denker Rmod, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France Luc Fabresse Ecole des Mines de Douai, France, Tudor Girba CompuGroup Medical Schweiz, Switzerland Andy Kellens Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Mickaël Kerboeuf LabSticc, University of Brest, France Jannik Laval LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France Mariano Martinez Peck Ecole des Mines de Douai, France, Lukas Renggli Google, Switzerland Jorge Ressia Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland Bastian Steinert HPI, Software Architecture Group, Germany Hernan Wilkinson 10Pines, IT consultancy, Buenos Aires, Argentina Roel Wuyts IMEC Leuven, Belgium

May 21, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] The Roassal Visualization Engine

by Alexandre Bergel

> Is there a page with more detailed examples and features? From what I can see on the screenshots, it looks like an extension of Mondrian, so what's the diff? Roassal offers two way to build a visualization: a domain specific language, which is indeed the same than Mondrian, and a low level API (useful when the DSL is not enough). The examples you have seen on the screenshots indeed illustrates the DSL. Roassal features a wide range of interactions, including scrolling à la iPhone, zooming, and dynamic update. Have a look at the class ROExample. Another important point, Roassal is portable. It runs on Pharo and VW. We plan to have it run on VASmalltalk and Amber. Cheers, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

May 20, 2012