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IWST 2013 Call for papers

by Alain Plantec

Dear smalltalkers, You will find below the CFP for the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2013. Please disseminate through your own mailing lists. We also hope you will be able to submit some of your contributions. Best regards, Program Co-chairs Loïc Lagadec, Alain Plantec Lab-STICC/CNRS, Université de Bretagne Occidentale ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2013 September 10, 2013 Annecy, France ESUG 2013 joint event -- Important dates -- Submission deadline: June 15, 2013 Notification deadline: July 15, 2013 Workshop : September 10, 2013 All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL (ACM In-Cooperation 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/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop 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)

April 27, 2013

Re: [Esug-list] GSoC Project Proposal: Morphic for Amber, Looking for mentor

by Janko Mivšek

Hi Matthias, Very good proposal indeed, specially combined with all proposed project over Spec - a declarative specification and builder for UI, both desktop and web. Also in Aida/Web we are looking for further enhancements on that field and if Morphic way of UI building happens to be the superior way, we will also adapt it. I therefore propose that you prepare a project proposal ASAP, following the template other projects are. Send it to me and I'll add it to our GSoC site. Other half of your proposal then put into a proposal page after you express an interest on your own project, being invited, etc. About mentorship, I can be a second mentor, dealing with all web stuff, while I don't know much about Morphic. But it seems you are quite knowledgeable of it already? Nico will certainly help too with Amber stuff. One recommendation: try to stay independent of any outside JS library as much as possible. For instance, you don't need jQuery nowadays for DOM and event management because recent browsers have quite decent support for that. Even that resulting code can be without jQuery a bit uglier, you are not dependent of jQuery fate. I know that from my own experience being trapped once into dependence to a Prototype, predecessor of jQuery, which is nowadays practically defunct... Best regards Janko Dne 26. 04. 2013 22:25, piše Matthias Springer: > Hi Smalltalkers, > > I'm a computer science student studying in Potsdam, Germany, in the 6th > semester (take a look at my profile on the ESUG GSoC website, > http://gsoc2013.esug.org/matthias-springer/biography) and want to > propose a GSoC project. I'm looking for a mentor. I know that it's > already late but I started working on this project just some weeks ago. > Regardless of whether you would be willing to participate as a mentor, > I'd like to know if this project is something you're interested in and > what features are most important for you. I'd like to hear about your > ideas. > > Amber is a Smalltalk implementation running in a web browser. It is > written in JavaScript. Amber provides some basic Smalltalk classes and > methods. It is also possible to render HTML code in a Seaside-like way. > But in contrast to Seaside, Amber has the advantage that the whole > Smalltalk VM runs inside the browser. Code written in Amber can be > automatically filed out to the hard disk (using a NodeJS server running > in the background). > > My proposal is to reimplement parts of the Morphic framework in Amber. > This would have several advantages. > - Existing Squeak/Pharo/... applications that use the Morphic framework > can be ported to Amber easily. > - GUI applications can be developed more easily. For complex GUI > applications running in a browser, people usually use JavaScript > libraries like ExtJS. But I think, when someone decides to use Amber, we > can assume that the this person is also fairly familiar with the Morphic > framework. This makes Amber even more interesting. Furthermore, more > people might decide to use Smalltalk. > - GUI applications can be written entirely in Smalltalk, without > JavaScript. > - We can easily provide advanced programming tools like multiple class > browser windows and OmniBrowser. > > My vision is to provide a fully-featured Smalltalk programming > environment running in the browser that provides all features that are > offered by Squeak/Pharo (class browsers, Monticello, ...). I think not > all of this can be done in the scope of a GSoC project but providing a > Morphic implementation would be the first step. Having multiple class > browsers and all the other components (inspect, debugger; this already > exists in Amber) in a seperate window (instead of tabs) would already be > great! > > I'm currently working on porting a very small part of the Morphic > framework to Amber, in order to get Dale Henrichs' tODE > (https://github.com/dalehenrich/tode) working in Amber. I already > implemented some basic Morph classes like "Morph", "SystemWindow", > "TextMorph" and "SimpleButtonMorph", but only very basic methods that > are needed by tODE (see > https://github.com/matthias-springer/tode-web-amber) > > Here's some technical stuff about how my current implementation works. > - All morphs need to be rendered as HTML DOM elements. > - Morphs are rendered using "HTMLCanvas" and "Widget", both classes are > provided by Amber. > - Morphs are rendered inside a div container, submorphs can be added by > adding the submorph's div container to the owner's div container and > setting its position and so on. > - Not all HTML tags can be reused. For instance, the HTML text box/text > area does not support text with different text formats (color, emphasis, > ...). I had to reimplement text areas for editable "TextMoprh"s with DOM > manipulation. > - I use JQuery and JQuery UI intensively for DOM manipulations and > events. JQuery is already integrated in Amber and can be used from > Smalltalk code (but I had to implement some additional helper functions). > > A proposal on how to get started and structure the project. > - 1st week: think about architecture (how to do the rendering, ...), > class structures (e.g. which Morph classes are needed) and choose some > existing Squeak/Pharo applications that use an important/representative > subset of Morphic. > - Next weeks: implement Morphic classes in order to get the Squeak/Pharo > applications running (start with an easy one). > - Half-time: basic Morphic functionality should be working. Begin > implementing more advanced Morphic classes for getting a class browser > running. We have to think about whether to port an existing class > browser or to reuse parts of the current Amber class browser (atm, I > don't know if it's even implemented in Smalltalk). When we decide to > port an existing class browser, we have to take into account that Amber > has a different way of manipulating and compiling classes (to JavaScript). > > Similar previous work: The Lively Kernel (http://www.lively-kernel.org/) > is an implementation of the Morphic framework in JavaScript (no > Smalltalk). I want to do this in Amber. > > I'm looking for a mentor for the GSoC 2013. Ideally, the mentor has a > good understanding of the Morphic framework and maybe even HTML, > JavaScript and CSS (but I'm already quite familiar with this). > > Best regards, > Matthias Springer -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

April 27, 2013

GSoC Project Proposal: Morphic for Amber, Looking for mentor

by Matthias Springer

Hi Smalltalkers, I'm a computer science student studying in Potsdam, Germany, in the 6th semester (take a look at my profile on the ESUG GSoC website, http://gsoc2013.esug.org/matthias-springer/biography) and want to propose a GSoC project. I'm looking for a mentor. I know that it's already late but I started working on this project just some weeks ago. Regardless of whether you would be willing to participate as a mentor, I'd like to know if this project is something you're interested in and what features are most important for you. I'd like to hear about your ideas. Amber is a Smalltalk implementation running in a web browser. It is written in JavaScript. Amber provides some basic Smalltalk classes and methods. It is also possible to render HTML code in a Seaside-like way. But in contrast to Seaside, Amber has the advantage that the whole Smalltalk VM runs inside the browser. Code written in Amber can be automatically filed out to the hard disk (using a NodeJS server running in the background). My proposal is to reimplement parts of the Morphic framework in Amber. This would have several advantages. - Existing Squeak/Pharo/... applications that use the Morphic framework can be ported to Amber easily. - GUI applications can be developed more easily. For complex GUI applications running in a browser, people usually use JavaScript libraries like ExtJS. But I think, when someone decides to use Amber, we can assume that the this person is also fairly familiar with the Morphic framework. This makes Amber even more interesting. Furthermore, more people might decide to use Smalltalk. - GUI applications can be written entirely in Smalltalk, without JavaScript. - We can easily provide advanced programming tools like multiple class browser windows and OmniBrowser. My vision is to provide a fully-featured Smalltalk programming environment running in the browser that provides all features that are offered by Squeak/Pharo (class browsers, Monticello, ...). I think not all of this can be done in the scope of a GSoC project but providing a Morphic implementation would be the first step. Having multiple class browsers and all the other components (inspect, debugger; this already exists in Amber) in a seperate window (instead of tabs) would already be great! I'm currently working on porting a very small part of the Morphic framework to Amber, in order to get Dale Henrichs' tODE (https://github.com/dalehenrich/tode) working in Amber. I already implemented some basic Morph classes like "Morph", "SystemWindow", "TextMorph" and "SimpleButtonMorph", but only very basic methods that are needed by tODE (see https://github.com/matthias-springer/tode-web-amber) Here's some technical stuff about how my current implementation works. - All morphs need to be rendered as HTML DOM elements. - Morphs are rendered using "HTMLCanvas" and "Widget", both classes are provided by Amber. - Morphs are rendered inside a div container, submorphs can be added by adding the submorph's div container to the owner's div container and setting its position and so on. - Not all HTML tags can be reused. For instance, the HTML text box/text area does not support text with different text formats (color, emphasis, ...). I had to reimplement text areas for editable "TextMoprh"s with DOM manipulation. - I use JQuery and JQuery UI intensively for DOM manipulations and events. JQuery is already integrated in Amber and can be used from Smalltalk code (but I had to implement some additional helper functions). A proposal on how to get started and structure the project. - 1st week: think about architecture (how to do the rendering, ...), class structures (e.g. which Morph classes are needed) and choose some existing Squeak/Pharo applications that use an important/representative subset of Morphic. - Next weeks: implement Morphic classes in order to get the Squeak/Pharo applications running (start with an easy one). - Half-time: basic Morphic functionality should be working. Begin implementing more advanced Morphic classes for getting a class browser running. We have to think about whether to port an existing class browser or to reuse parts of the current Amber class browser (atm, I don't know if it's even implemented in Smalltalk). When we decide to port an existing class browser, we have to take into account that Amber has a different way of manipulating and compiling classes (to JavaScript). Similar previous work: The Lively Kernel (http://www.lively-kernel.org/) is an implementation of the Morphic framework in JavaScript (no Smalltalk). I want to do this in Amber. I'm looking for a mentor for the GSoC 2013. Ideally, the mentor has a good understanding of the Morphic framework and maybe even HTML, JavaScript and CSS (but I'm already quite familiar with this). Best regards, Matthias Springer -- Matthias Springer * me(a)matthiasspringer.de * +49-1577-3814255 Student B.Sc. IT-Systems Engineering (Hasso-Plattner-Institut) Stahnsdorfer Straße 144c, 14482 Potsdam

April 26, 2013

Small(talk) opportunities

by DeNigris Sean

>From time to time, I lead small commercial Smalltalk projects, parts of which I'm able to delegate. If you're interested in more details / participating when these come up, email me and I'll keep you in mind. Cheers, Sean

April 26, 2013

Smalltalk Team

by mani kartha

Hi, We have a team of 8 smalltalkers with 8+ years experience in smalltalk. The areas of expertise include Visual works, Squeak, Seaside, Glorp,Store and also thorough with OOAD and have hands on experience in Agile methodologies. Do you think there are chances of getting smalltalk related work for the team (development,support or conversion)?, especially when we are not having any marketing team for ourselves. We are also ready to do man power supply of smalltalk resources but needs work permit outside India. Do you think it is better to search jobs individually or wait for projects as a team? Is it worth maintaining such a team? Can someone suggest some way to search smalltalk work for our team? If someone wants to know more about the team or what we can offer, please let me know Regards, Mani S Kartha maniskartha <At> gmail <dot> com

April 25, 2013

Re: [Esug-list] ESUG 2013 call for presentation

by Stéphane Ducasse

with corrected uppercased C for conferences :) 21st International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions Annecy, France from 9 to 13 September 2013 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/ This call includes: Developer Forum Smalltalk Technology Award International Workshop http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop Student Volunteer http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers Camp Smalltalk 8 September 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the past 21 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. As every year, 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 proves fruitful for interactions and discussions. This year will be held the 9th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will be awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects and an international workshop on Smalltalk and dynamic languages (http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop) You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: * Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/ * 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 2008)! * Students can get free registration and hosting if they enrol into the the Student Volunteers program. See below. Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have 30 min for presentations and 45 min for hand-ons tutorial. The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials 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 Teaching Pearls --------------- New this year!!! We want two news types of sessions in addition to default talk and show us your projects sessions. - Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!) - Teaching pearls : we want some session on how to teach some design aspects. We want your tip and tricks to teach Smalltalk or OOP. We expect to have several 10 to 15 min sessions aggregated. Open Forum: starting with Smalltalk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New this year!! The event will be held at IAE Savoie Mont-Blanc - University of Savoie. This is an opportunity for students and local professionals to discover Smalltalk. A room will be freely accessible and we would like to propose some talks and workshop for Smalltalk beginners. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to the following: - Why Smalltalk ? - Panorama of Smalltalk solutions - Getting started with Smalltalk - Success stories How to submit? -------------- Submissions due on 15st June 2013 Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly. More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2013 Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to Stephane.Ducasse(a)inria.fr AND USE THE following header [ESUG 2013 Developers]. Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Subject: [ESUG 2013 Developers] + your name First Name: Last Name: Email where you can always be reached: Title: Type: Tutorial/Talk/Teaching Pearl/OpenForum Abstract: Bio: Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop Smalltalk is considered as a design pearl and as a beacon in the realm of programming languages and programming environments. We are proud to invite submissions to the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies which is held as part of the ESUG 2013 joint event. The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk. We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as - aspect-oriented programming, meta-programming, - frameworks, interaction with other languages, - implementation, - new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, tools, - meta-modeling, design patterns, experience reports Technology Award Competition ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2013/ 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/2013 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers We hope to see you there and have fun together.

April 24, 2013

ESUG 2013 call for presentation

by Stéphane Ducasse

21st International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions Annecy, France from 9 to 13 September 2013 http://www.esug.org/conferences/2013/ This call includes: Developer Forum Smalltalk Technology Award International Workshop http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop Student Volunteer http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers Camp Smalltalk 8 September 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the past 21 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. As every year, 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 proves fruitful for interactions and discussions. This year will be held the 9th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will be awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects and an international workshop on Smalltalk and dynamic languages (http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop) You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: * Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/ * 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 2008)! * Students can get free registration and hosting if they enrol into the the Student Volunteers program. See below. Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have 30 min for presentations and 45 min for hand-ons tutorial. The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials 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 Teaching Pearls --------------- New this year!!! We want two news types of sessions in addition to default talk and show us your projects sessions. - Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!) - Teaching pearls : we want some session on how to teach some design aspects. We want your tip and tricks to teach Smalltalk or OOP. We expect to have several 10 to 15 min sessions aggregated. Open Forum: starting with Smalltalk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New this year!! The event will be held at IAE Savoie Mont-Blanc - University of Savoie. This is an opportunity for students and local professionals to discover Smalltalk. A room will be freely accessible and we would like to propose some talks and workshop for Smalltalk beginners. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to the following: - Why Smalltalk ? - Panorama of Smalltalk solutions - Getting started with Smalltalk - Success stories How to submit? -------------- Submissions due on 15st June 2013 Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly. More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2013 Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to Stephane.Ducasse(a)inria.fr AND USE THE following header [ESUG 2013 Developers]. Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Subject: [ESUG 2013 Developers] + your name First Name: Last Name: Email where you can always be reached: Title: Type: Tutorial/Talk/Teaching Pearl/OpenForum Abstract: Bio: Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop Smalltalk is considered as a design pearl and as a beacon in the realm of programming languages and programming environments. We are proud to invite submissions to the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies which is held as part of the ESUG 2013 joint event. The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk. We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as - aspect-oriented programming, meta-programming, - frameworks, interaction with other languages, - implementation, - new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, tools, - meta-modeling, design patterns, experience reports Technology Award Competition ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2013/ 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/2013 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers We hope to see you there and have fun together.

April 24, 2013

We need you for a survey on code integration

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi all, We are conducting an academic research to improve tools for software integration. If you maintain a project with multiple contributors, we will greatly appreciate your participation. Your answers will be used for research purposes and to support the development of new tools. You can later access the results of this study, make free use of our tools to support the integration of changes, and maybe receive a gift. https://sondages.inria.fr/index.php/667625/lang-en Best regards, Martin Dias, Nicolas Anquetil, Veronica Isabel Uquillas, Stéphane Ducasse and the RMOD Inria team

April 23, 2013

GSoC Mentoring Sign-ups

by Sean P. DeNigris

I saw that there were quite a few unfilled positions and others were signed up to mentor multiple projects, so I added myself to a handful of projects. I'm assuming it will probably not work to mentor all of them if they end up going forward. How is this handled? b.t.w. there are still spots open. Who's going to step up and help create the future of our community?! ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/GSoC-Mentoring-Sign-ups-tp4683016.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

April 22, 2013

Fwd: Senior Stk Dev

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi guys here are a job offer for Smalltalk at Zurich. > Pourriez-vous me suggérer une personne qui pourrait être disponible le 15 Mai 2013 au plus tard pour un tout journalier de 650 CHF. Nous octroyons des primes de cooptation (que vous reevez si la personne que vous avez cooptée commence le prpjet). > > Merci d’avance pour votre aide, > > Freundliche Grüsse / Kind Regards / Salutations distinguées > > Anyeko Armbruster > Recruitment Consultant > Human Capital AG - Bellariastrasse 7 - CH-8002 Zürich > Phone +41 43 344 30 54 - Fax +41 44 281 03 77 > anyeko.armbruster(a)humancapital.ch - www.humancapital.ch

April 20, 2013