June 2013 - Esug-list - lists.esug.org

17 GSoC projects accepted
by Janko Mivšek July 15, 2013

July 15, 2013

Dear Smalltalkers, Here are the results of evaluation and ranking of student proposals. Those are 13 accepted projects with stipendiums from Google: - A new trait implementation by Sebastian Tleye, mentor Damien Cassou http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/new-traits - Animation Library based on Athens by Mariano Vicente, mentor Pablo Tesone http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/athens-animation - Athens implementation in Amber with HTML5 Canvas by Matthias Springer, mentor Nicolas Petton http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/athens-html5-canvas - Better rewriting rule tool by Gisela Decuzzi, mentor Stephane Ducasse http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/rewriting-rule-tool - DBXTalk on NativeBoost by Rocio Amaya, mentor Guillermo Polito http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/dbxtalk-on-nativeboost - Debugger Improvements by Clara Allende, mentor Andrei Chis http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/debugger-improvements - Graph-ET by Daniel Aviv, mentor Alexandre Bergel http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/graph-et - Improving Roassal Scalability by Mathieu Dehouck, mentor Vanessa Peña-Araya http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/roassal-scalability - Mars 1.0 by Carla Griggio, mentor Esteban Lorenzano http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/mars - SciSmalltalk - Solving Ordinary Differential Equations in Smalltalk by Natalia Moskovchuk, mentor Serge Stinckwich http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/scismalltalk - Spec platform/framework Independence by Benjamin Van Ryseghem, mentor Esteban Lorenzano http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/spec-independence - Tools for developing Amber web clients from Pharo by Rustem Khubbatov, mentor Dennis Schetinin http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/amber-tools - UIPainter by Erwan Douaille, mentor Esteban Lorenzano http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/uipainter And extra 4 projects stipended by us from money of last and this year GSoC (mentoring organization namely get 500 USD per accepted project from Google too): - FAST Java Model by Benjamin Arezki, mentor Nicolas Anquetil, http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/fast-java - Gadget profiler by Alejandro Infante, mentor Juan Pablo Sandoval, http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/gadget - Phratch, a port of Scratch to Pharo by Jean-Baptiste Beuzelin, http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/phratch mentor Jannik Laval, - Roassal in Amber by Pablo Estefó, mentor Alexandre Bergel http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/roassal-in-amber Students will now start working on their projects. There will be an mid-term evaluation of their work in July and final one at the end of August. Best regards Janko -- Janko Mivšek Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team http://gsoc2013.esug.org

9 9

Social Event
by laurent laffont July 2, 2013

July 2, 2013

Hello, je suis passé à l'Oasis ce matin pour aller plus loin sur la soirée: - mercredi 11 septembre bien réservé - il nous fait un devis "tout compris", open bar, ... + facture pour acompte dans les 15 jours. On affinera au plus tard 2 semaines avant la soirée quand on connaîtra le nombre exact de participants - apéro + buffet, les gens pourrons circuler et aller où ils veulent. Une personne de l'Oasis s'occupera d'un barbecue. - voulez-vous du champagne ? - abris en cas de pluie OK - on peut arriver à partir de 16h30 - on peut installer vidéo-projecteur (faut l'amener) si on veut montrer des choses pour la remise des awards - pas de soucis pour distribuer les bières ESUG + petite présentation d'Artmalté - une sono sera sur place si on veut diffuser de la musique. A nous d'amener la playlist (balladeur, ordi, ...) A ce propos, est-ce que ça vous intéresse de prendre un petit groupe de zic ? Je pense par exemple au trio Yolanda, c'est acoustique (chants, violon, accordéon, violoncelle), musique des balkans. A+ Laurent

6 6

Fwd: [rmod] SmalltalkHub upgrade!
by Stéphane Ducasse June 28, 2013

June 28, 2013

> SmalltalkHub upgrade! > > Hi, I'm pleased to announce a new SmalltalkHub upgrade. > This upgrade includes quite some bug fixes and speed improvements. > > - new buttons to delete mcz files and packages > - deleting projects will delete mcz files > - team can now also be deleted > - the MCZ cache is now correctly flushed when required > - Private projects are now hidden from all public timelines > - Speed improvements for some Mongo requests > > Issue fixes: > > - issue 16: Cannot delete project > - Issue 1: Monticello Registration snippet should not supply user name > - Issue 5: Some message should be shown when you try do delete the only member of a Team > - Issue 6: I just got to see an Amber debugger while trying to log out > - Issue 25: Remove packages does not work > - Issue 23: Encoding problem > > You can follow the bug tracker of SmalltalkHub and report issues there: https://code.google.com/p/smalltalk-hub/issues > > Cheers, > Nico

1 0

Pharo slides and lectures
by Stéphane Ducasse June 27, 2013

June 27, 2013

Hi guys we started an official pharo slide share stream. http://www.slideshare.net/pharoproject Stef

1 0

Deadline Extension : International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies - IWST
by Loïc Lagadec June 21, 2013

June 21, 2013

Dear all, *!!! Tomorrow is the last day for submitting to IWST !!!* *Due to numerous requests the deadline for submissions has been extended until june 22, 2013.* This is a kind reminder that the deadline for *International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies* (IWST 2013) is approaching (june 22). The call for paper is accessible online at: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop. As for past editions, accepted papers will appear in ACM Digital Libary. IWST 2009 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1735935 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1735935> IWST 2010 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1942790 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1942790> IWST 2011 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166929 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166929> IWST 2012 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2448963 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2448963> 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 Loïc Lagadec & Alain Plantec co-chairs of IWST 2013. --

1 0

STIC 2013 Videos
by James Robertson June 19, 2013

June 19, 2013

I'm posting the videos to my regular feed, and have set up a landing page here: http://www.jarober.com/blog/stic13.ssp Also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8aumV3VUz66Rs8-xcD8V57ZTBNYPlzmj James Robertson http://www.jarober.com jarober(a)gmail.com

1 0

WE HIRE : SENIOR SMALLTALK / JAVA SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
by Bertrand Wunderlich June 19, 2013

June 19, 2013

Hi everybody, Leading Banking Services in Luxembourg is seeking : Software Developer - SMALLTALK / JAVA Role/Area : developer to participate to technical design, coding, unit testing and bug fixing in the context of GVAS 2011. Qualifications/required skills : Software engineer with advanced SMALLTALK and JAVA development skills. Experience in smalltalk development is required. If possible, experience in financial industry and ability to coach people. English is the working language. Starting date : ASAP. Estimated duration of the mission : until December 2014 (minimum). Location : LUXEMBOURG. Salary : negociable. Please send me your resume if you're interested in that offer. Bertrand Wunderlich Recruitment officer NFS S.A. 4, Place de Strasbourg L-2562 LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG T : +352 20 40 80 42 P : +352 661 500 151 www.nfs.lu

1 0

Smalltalkers wanted ! Two job openings for Cincom ChannelStream
by Schickel, Yvonne June 19, 2013

June 19, 2013

We're hiring! Cincom is looking for two experienced Smalltalkers - a Lead Software Engineer and a Software Engineer - to strengthen the development team for our document output product Cincom ChannelStream (developed in Smalltalk). Applications are accepted until the positions are filled. · English: http://documentoutput.cincom.com/2013-06-software-engineers/ · French: http://documentoutput.cincom.fr/2013/06/developpeurs/ Regards Yvonne ******************************************** Yvonne Schickel Marketing Manager Cincom Systems GmbH & Co. oHG Tel.: +49 6196 9003-0 E-Mail: yschickel(a)cincom.com<mailto:yschickel@cincom.com> http://DocumentOutput.cincom.com<http://documentoutput.cincom.com/> http://DocumentOutput.cincom.fr Connect with us! RSS: http://documentoutput.cincom.com/feed/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChannelStream LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/cincom-systems Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CincomSystems Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Thomas M. Nies, Gerald L. Shawhan oHG mit Sitz/based in Schwalbach/Ts. (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRA 2653) Pers. haftender Gesellschafter/Partner liable to unlimited extent: Cincom Systems Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRB 5069) ********************************************

1 0

12 months engineer position
by Loïc Lagadec June 17, 2013

June 17, 2013

Dear all, (apologies if you receive multiple copies) We have a 12-months open position for a research engineer. The candidate will be in charge of refactoring of our legacy tools developed under Visualworks, in the scope of an ANR (french national research agency) project. The ardyt project aims at providing some low-cost reconfigurable system on chip, that addresses the avionics and space domains. Our contribution to the project mainly lies in providing a modeling framework of this chips, in order to support their efficient programming. Our candidate will have strong expertise in smalltalk, modeling, testing, versionning, and code profiling. Micro-electronics skills would be a plus, but are not necessary. Autonomy, responsibility, teamwork, planning, and the ability to achieve both academic and project objectives are important components of the application file. Salary depends on skills and experience. Probable extension for an additional 12-month period. start period: October 2013 Contact: Loic Lagadec - ENSTA Bretagne - France loic.lagadec(a)ensta-bretagne.fr --

1 0

ESUG 2013 - Call for presentations deadline extension.
by Stéphane Ducasse June 15, 2013

June 15, 2013

Dear Smalltalkers We received already many good proposals but we know that you are busy now. So we decided to grant an extension for the call for presentation up 7 of July 2013. We will notify current proposers by the end of the current week -ie: 22. Stef 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.

1 0