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ANN: Mercurial integration for Smalltalk/X IDE
by Jan Vrany July 19, 2013

July 19, 2013

Hello, after 9 month of development and almost that many of use, I'm pleased to announce a first version of stx:libscm, a Mercurial integration into Smalltalk/X IDE. Available at: https://bitbucket.org/janvrany/stx-libscm Summary: - class browser integration: classes and packages can be committed right from the browser via menu. - file browser integration: provides convenient menus for performing common repository tasks like commit, update, push, pull, merge. - uses specialized smalltalk merge tool to merge .st source files which uses semantic diff/merge instead of text diff/merge. - provides "Smalltalkish", object-oriented API to Mercurial repositories using hg command line or command server internally. Best, Jan

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Re: [Esug-list] About Sport licenses
by Dale K. Henrichs July 18, 2013

July 18, 2013

I have ported SPORT to GemStone and I am in favor of an MIT license... Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stéphane Ducasse" <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> To: "esug-list(a)lists.esug.org Members" <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 3:19:36 AM Subject: [Esug-list] About Sport licenses Hi Sport contributors Today while browsing the seaside repository I saw that there is a Seaside30LGPL and I was puzzled. I looked and I saw that this is because it uses Sport and Sport is licensed under LGPL (probably the only packages in mainstream Smalltalk). I asked Bruce if Sport could be relicensed or have a dual license MIT/LGPL here is his answer: <blockquote> Steph, We've had this discussion before, and as before I'm fine with this in principle but it's not me alone to say. Sport for different dialects was written by different people. Sent from my phone. Please forgive brevity. So if you participated to Sport can you reply to this mail so that we can get a dual license LGPL/MIT. And yes I'm nervous about mixing licenses in an image-based system that a infinite minority of programmers understand or even know. Stef _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org </blockquote>

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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

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Ph.D. Student Position on Dynamic Reflective Language Integration with FPGAs for Robotic Applications
by jannik.laval July 11, 2013

July 11, 2013

Dear Smalltalkers, We are searching for a PhD Student. Following you will find the proposal. Best regards, ====== Location: Mines de Douai and ENSTA Brest (France) Advisor and contacts: Noury Bouraqadi, Luc Fabresse, Jannik Laval (car(a)mines-douai.fr, website: http://car.mines-douai.fr/) Loïc Lagadec (loic.lagadec(a)ensta-bretagne.fr) Profile: the candidate must hold a recent Master of Science degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering and must have solid skills in dynamic reflective language and OOP. Description of the work: The goal of this PhD is to study Smalltalk integration with FPGAs for robotic applications. This integration will enable us get the best from both worlds. Developers are provided with a high-level dynamic reflective language (Smalltalk) for building and debugging their applications. Still, we can have high performances by projecting part of the programs into FPGAs. These reconfigurable hardware chips can achieve performance faster than C programs, while consuming much less energy. The work to do can decompose into the following tasks: -Build reference robotic applications fully in Pharo Smalltalk using actual robots (see http://car.mines-douai.fr/robots/) -Analyze these applications to identify critical parts to project on FPGAs to significantly increase performances (speed, energy) -Do the actual projection to FPGA and evaluate performances of the transformed applications -Generalize the approach and define a methodology for turning Smalltalk code into FPGA -Propose a solution to automate the methodology The Ph.D student will receive a grant which net amount is approximately 1420 euros per month for 3 years (36 months). He will be co-supervised by Loïc Lagadec from the ENSTA-Bretagne (Lab-STICC, Brest) and Jannik Laval, Luc Fabresse and Noury Bouraqadi from Ecole des Mines de Douai (CAR, http://car.mines-douai.fr/) The first 18th month will be spent in Douai (Lille area), while the last half of the PhD will be spent in Brest. However, during the full 3 years, there will be a strong interaction with co-supervisers from both labs. Bibliography: -A Robust Layered Control System For A Mobile Robot. R. Brooks. IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation. Vol. 2. Num 1. March, 1985. -RCS: A Cognitive Architecture for Intelligent MultiAgent Systems. J.S. Albus and A. J. Barbera. Proceedings of the 5th IFAC/EURON Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV 2004). Lisbon, Portugal, 2004. -Handbook of Robotics. Bruno Siciliano and Oussama Khatib editors. Springer. 2008. -Multi-Level Simulation of Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Platforms. D. Picard and L. Lagadec. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing. 2012. -High-level synthesis for FPGAs: From Prototyping to Deployment. Jason cong and stephen neuendorffer and juanjo noguera and kees vissers and zhiru zhang. IEEE Transactions on Computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems. Vol. 30. Num 4. April, 2011. -The MOLEN Polymorphic Processor. S. Vassiliadis and S. Wong and G. Gaydadjiev and K. Bertels and G. Kuzmanov and E. Moscu Panainte. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 2004. _______________________________________________________ Jannik LAVAL Enseignant-Chercheur Tél. : 03 27 71 26 32 Mines Douai 941 rue Charles Bourseul BP 10838 59508 Douai Cedex _______________________________________________________

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[ANN] Amber 0.11.0 released!
by Nicolas Petton July 9, 2013

July 9, 2013

Amber 0.11.0 released! * About the release Three months have passed and we are happy to announce the release of Amber 0.11.0! Some numbers about this release: 433 commits by 13 committers, increasing the number of core committers to 25. 50 unit tests were added to the kernel, bringing us to 313 unit tests in total. Since the last release 60 issues were closed, bringing us to 499 issues closed. This release includes a lot of bug fixes, improvements to the CLI, as well as a preview of the next IDE, named Helios. Amber now also uses a CI server [1]. To try the Helios, the new IDE, open the helios.html page, or evaluate in any other amber page `amber.loadHelios()`. The compiler also received some improvements, especially regarding message send optimisations and super sends. Here's the list of commits and closed issues: https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/commits/master https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/issues?direction=desc&sort=updated… There is a lot more to come with Helios, a stepping debugger based on the AST is in progress and currently in the 'debugger' branch on GitHub. * Installing Amber from NPM To install amber from NPM, run npm install amber * Migration from Amber 0.10.0 Amber compiled code should be compatible with Amber 0.10.0, but recompiling is needed in order to get contexts working: Compiler new recompile: (Package named: 'MyPackage') classes. (Package named: 'MyPackage') commit * API changes 0.11.0: * AnnouncementSubscription use #valuable: instead of #block: (deprecated) * AbstractCodeGenerator inherits from Object, not NodeVisitor * Object>>printString * replace >>printString with >>printOn: * replace >>storeString with >>printString * PackageLoader is now PackageHandler (>>commit: >>setupPackagenamed:prefix: >>ajaxPutAt:data: * Package>>fetch: is now Package>>load: * Package>>fetch:prefix: is now Package>>load:prefix: * Queue>>front replaced by Queue>>next * Queue>>frontIfAbsent: replaced by Queue>>nextIfAbsent: * Queue>>back: replaced by Queue>>nextPut: * smalltalk.addMethod() does not use explicit JS selector * JSObjectProxy>>canForwardMessage: replaced by use of JSObjectProxy>>lookupProperty: with asJavaScriptSelector * JSObjectProxy>>forwardMessage: replaced by explicit JSObjectProxy>>forwardMessage:withArguments: * String>>asJavaScriptSelector moved to Kernel-Objects package + Object>>asString + Object>>putOn: + String>>isVowel + Collection>>putOn: + CharacterArray>>putOn: + Stream>><< + Stream>>write + SequenceableCollection>>newStream + SequenceableCollection>>readStream + SequenceableCollection>>stream + SequenceableCollection>>streamClass + SequenceableCollection>>writeStream + Collection>>isImmutable + Stream>>nextPutString: + StringStream>>nextPutString: + JSStream>>nextPutClassRefFunction: + String>>crlfSanitized + inlined Block now also responds to >>value: + Parser: split literal into runtimeLiteral and parseTimeLiteral + Parser: write #(4 #(5 6 #()) 7) as #(4 (5 6 ()) 7) + Parser: write #(#on:do: #Object) as #(on:do: Object) + Parser: Symbols for binarie selectores + Package>>commit + AIContext>>initializeLocals + ASTInterpreter>>withBlockContext: + smalltalk.allSelectors() + Object>>isCompiledMethod + Object>>isPackage + Object>>isBehavior + ClassMoved Announcemen class + Behavior>>includesBehavior: + Environment>>classes + Environment>>allSelectors + Environment>>removeProtocol: + Environment>>renameProtocol:to:in: + CompiledMethod>>protocol: + Smalltalk>>globalJsVariables + Smalltalk>>addGlobalJsVariable: + Smalltalk>>deleteGlobalJsVariable: - Object>>storeOn: - Object>>log:block: - Object>>printNl - Compiler-IR.st >>javascriptSelector - Compiler-IR.st >>nextPutVar: - Kernel-Collections.st >>asSuperSelector - Collection>>readStream - Collection>>stream - Collection>>streamClass - Collection>>writeStream - Symbol class (replaced with String) - IRInlinedNonLocalReturn class - IRInlinedSend>>nonLocalReturnInliner - IRNonLocalReturnInliner class - Package>>dependencies - Package>>dependencies: - Package>>properties - Package>>jsProperties - Package>>jsProperties: - Package>>propertiesAsJSON - Package>>propertyAt: - Package>>propertyAt:ifAbsent: - Package>>propertyAt:put: - Browser>>ajaxPutAt:data: 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. The Amber crew [1] https://travis-ci.org/amber-smalltalk/amber

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Smalltalkers wanted for Cincom ChannelStream! One of two jobs still open
by Schickel, Yvonne July 9, 2013

July 9, 2013

The position of Lead Software Engineer with the Cincom ChannelStream team has been filled. However, we're still looking for a dynamic colleague to join us as *** Software Engineer***... · English: http://documentoutput.cincom.com/2013-06-software-engineers/ · French: http://documentoutput.cincom.fr/2013/06/developpeurs/ If you're interested, get in touch with us quickly! 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) ******************************************** From: Esug-list [mailto:esug-list-bounces@lists.esug.org] On Behalf Of Schickel, Yvonne Sent: 19 June 2013 11:36 To: esug-list(a)lists.esug.org list Subject: [Esug-list] Smalltalkers wanted ! Two job openings for Cincom ChannelStream 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) ********************************************

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Fwd: [Pharo-users] Pharo Opportunity
by Stéphane Ducasse July 2, 2013

July 2, 2013

Begin forwarded message: > From: Chris <cpmbailey(a)btinternet.com> > Subject: [Pharo-users] Pharo Opportunity > Date: July 2, 2013 7:50:39 PM GMT+02:00 > To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> > Reply-To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> > > Hi all, > > Apologies if this is not the best place for this type of post but I'm not sure where else would be appropriate. > > I work for a company in the Midlands UK who are using Linux, Apache, Pharo, Postgres and also Python and C# and are looking to recruit. If anyone is interested then please drop me a private email. We are looking primarily for Smalltalk because the skills are obviously harder to come by. The main web application is built with Seaside. C# is also desirable but I expect most developers have worked with C# type languages before. We also use Python for signal processing algorithm development so any experience in that area is useful > > Thanks > Chris > > cpmbailey(a)btinternet.com

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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

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