September 2013 - Esug-list

ESUG Smalltalk Archives
by Marcus Denker Sept. 29, 2013

Sept. 29, 2013

Hi, The ESUG archives where not really accessible from the website. I have now added them as a sub page of http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Smaltalk The url itself is http://esug.org/data/ TODO: -> add a subdomain archive.esug.org -> install hSai on the server, like we have on http://files.pharo.org Marcus

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New Mars examples: Package Browser and Test Runner
by Carla F. Griggio Sept. 24, 2013

Sept. 24, 2013

Hi everyone! I want to let you know that I've just posted a screencast in my blog about the new Mars Package Browser and Test Runner<http://marsonpharo.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/marspackagebrowser-and-marstest…> . These examples are not really intended as being the definitive package browser or test runner, but to start experiencing how is it to build a real application using Mars and to showcase some widgets. Anyway, it's cool :) The Package browser is not so different to the system browser example I showed before, but the Test Runner is definitely my favorite example so far. I give more details in the screencast<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlBr42uaqxE>and the blog post<http://marsonpharo.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/marspackagebrowser-and-marstest…>. Any feedback is appreciated! Cheers, Carla.

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Smalltalk PhD offer
by Loïc Lagadec Sept. 23, 2013

Sept. 23, 2013

We have an open PhD position for which we are looking for candidates with strong smalltalk skills. This PhD opens in the scope of the ERATO european project, This project aims at developping a new space-oriented system-on-chip, with reconfigurable capabilities. The project gathers many industrial partners (ASTRIUM, THALES, ...) and three academic partners. Our institute is in charge of developping the programming environment. We benefit from a large legacy, written in visualworks. The thesis will focus on industrial research perspectives (agile tools development, configuration compaction, target modeling, code generation, ...). One important contribution will be to expose a manipulation API to application Designers while protecting the hardware intellectual property. Also some compression schemes, used for video coding, will be stressed against practical experimentation when downsizing the bitstream (binary representation of the application). The PhD will be located in Brest (http://www.brest-metropole-tourisme.fr/en) in the ENSTA engineering institute (http://www.ensta-bretagne.eu) Duration: 36 months Starts: January 2014 Contact info: Loic Lagadec (+33 298 348 908) --

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STUK meeting -- Monday 30/9 - Counting House Pub
by Francisco Garau Sept. 23, 2013

Sept. 23, 2013

UK Smalltalk User Group Is Simpler better? The balancing act between simplicity and power.. http://meetu.ps/1WgykM Cincom will sponsor some food (yay!) Andy Bower of Dolphin fame will join us on this occasion (bravo!) - Francisco

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fabulous ESUG
by Hayatou Oumarou Sept. 23, 2013

Sept. 23, 2013

Thank all of you;l for this triumphal conference. As a student volunteer, it was a first and memorable experience. I hope that the next year I will present something. Thank a lots. ------------------------------------ Hayatou

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Great ESUG13 - Thanks!
by Sabine Knöfel Sept. 23, 2013

Sept. 23, 2013

Thank you, Stephane and all for a great week with a lot of positive experiences. I learned a lot and feel very connected now. Great to meet personally so many from this mailinglist. I am looking forward to the next Esug :-) :-) :-) Sabine -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Great-ESUG13-Thanks-tp4708437.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Book your agendas for open pharo coding sprints
by Stéphane Ducasse Sept. 21, 2013

Sept. 21, 2013

Hi guys To help you come to discuss/meet/pair program with us. We fixed the dates of our next public sprint here in Lille (other sprints will be organized elsewhere, we will do mini-sprints more spontaneously in addition here, too). The dates: 18/10 29/11 20/12 This is always a Friday. If some of you would like to have some follow up a saturday let us know. The RMOD crew

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Postdoc with RMOD, PLEIAD and Pharo
by Stéphane Ducasse Sept. 20, 2013

Sept. 20, 2013

http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/blog/2013-02-22 The objectives will be to reconsider and develop a new infrastructure to build new and modern IDEs.The goal of this postdoc is to help the RMOD team rethinking the infrastructure of Pharo from the point of view of its user interface and interaction foundation as well as code navigation. One of the constraints is that part of the postdoc should be held at santiago in Chile. The following topics will be analysed and rethought : Alternate models of event handling Decomposing responsibilities of event handler and dispatchers. Alternative ways to navigate code Queries to access code elements Smart handling of coding contexts Management of window plague Support for contextual refactorings and automated code transformation. Skills and profile English Pharo http://www.pharo.org User interface design Vector graphics IDE design and user interactions Benefits Possibility of French courses Help for housing Participation for transportation Scientific Resident card and help for husband/wife visa Additional information Duration : 16 months Salary: 2 620,84 € gross/month Monthly salary after taxes : around 2 138 € (medical insurance included) Online Application: you have to got your PhD since at max 2 years Before applying, please contact the scientist advisor: stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr

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Pharo Sprint pre-planning until end of year
by Stéphane Ducasse Sept. 19, 2013

Sept. 19, 2013

> From: Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> > Subject: [Pharo-dev] Pharo Sprint pre-planning until end of year > Date: September 19, 2013 1:02:46 PM GMT+02:00 > To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org> > Reply-To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org> > > Hi, > > On the way back from ESUG we where checking the Calendar for possible Sprint dates. > > The idea is to have one each months that is a public sprint here in Lille (other sprints will > be organized elsewhere, we will do mini-sprints more spontaneously in addition here, too). > > The dates: > > 18/10 > 29/11 > 20/12 > > This is always a Friday. > > Marcus

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Ideas for graduate works for russian students
by mikefilonov Sept. 18, 2013

Sept. 18, 2013

Hi everyone, I work at Tomsk State University on a computer science department (http://csd.tsu.ru) As a part of my job I'm participating in management of a science work of students. I'm very interested in having them working on smalltalk-related themes. May be you can suggest an idea or two that they can help to develop? Thanks, Mikhail -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Ideas-for-graduate-works-for-russian-students-tp47089… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Slides ESUG13 are online
by Marcus Denker Sept. 18, 2013

Sept. 18, 2013

Hi, All the slides we got are online: SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/esug/tag/esug2013 PDF: http://esug.org/data/ESUG2013/ If something is missing --> send me a mail. Marcus

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[esug 2013] Videos: were the Show us your project sessions recorded?
by jtuchel＠objektfabrik.de Sept. 17, 2013

Sept. 17, 2013

Hi, the title says it all: were the Show us your business/teaching pearls/project session recorded and will the videos be added to the youtube channel? (http://www.youtube.com/user/esugboard/) Joachim -- --  -----------------------------------------------------------------------  Objektfabrik Joachim Tuchel mailto:jtuchel@objektfabrik.de  Fliederweg 1 http://www.objektfabrik.de D-71640 Ludwigsburg http://joachimtuchel.wordpress.com Telefon: +49 7141 56 10 86 0 Fax: +49 7141 56 10 86 1

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News from Mars
by Carla F. Griggio Sept. 17, 2013

Sept. 17, 2013

Hey! I wanted to let you know that I've been updating my blog on Mars with the latest news, I've just posted some videos showing how different kinds of layouts and widgets are working together on both Cocoa and GTK. The blog: http://marsonpharo.wordpress.com/. For the ones that are interested in some implementation challenges that I had while building layouts that could work for both Cocoa and GTK, I recommend reading this post: http://marsonpharo.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/the-challenges-behind-building-… Cheers! Carla.

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taxi overpayment
by Sean P. DeNigris Sept. 14, 2013

Sept. 14, 2013

One of our Russian Canadian (according to the taxi driver) friends apparently is due money back. Whoever it is, contact me and I will put you in touch. Some of us are still in annecy if that helps in any way... ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/taxi-overpayment-tp4708186.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Slides ESUG: remember to hand them in
by Marcus Denker Sept. 13, 2013

Sept. 13, 2013

Hi, If you have not yet given your slides to the Student Volunteers, please do so *or* send them to me. http://esug.org/data/ESUG2013/ Marcus

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Esug to Paris Anyone?
by Sean P. DeNigris Sept. 13, 2013

Sept. 13, 2013

If anyone is leaving from annecy to Paris today or tomorrow, email or call me... ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Esug-to-Paris-Anyone-tp4708026.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[ann] moose 4.8
by Tudor Girba Sept. 13, 2013

Sept. 13, 2013

We are happy to announce version 4.8 of the Moose Suite: http://moosetechnology.org/download/4.8 Description -- This was supposed to be a minor release, but in the end it turned out to be a major release with significant improvements. The key highlights are: - Based on Pharo 2.0. - All built-in visualizations use Roassal. - Roassal received a significant performance boost and new smart graph layouts like TreeMapLayout or ForceBasedLayout. - Roassal uses Athens for nice looking vectorial graphics. - New charting engine based on Roassal: Graph-ET. - Glamour changed to enable dynamic scripts, while still remaining backward compatible. - Glamour received a RubricTextPresentation for using the new Rubric text morph. - Glamour, Roassal, EyeSee, Graph-ET editors are more robust when dealing with errors in scripts.- New GTDebugger with dedicated workflows for Announcements, PetitParser and Glamour itself. - Extended GTInspector for several object types. - Usable version of GTMetaceller for handling Metacello configurations. - FAMIX was strengthen to handle functions better in various programming languages. - New free type fonts and simpler whitespace-loving theme. - Lower memory footprint for large models. - Faster MSE import. A list of issues addressed in this release can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/moose-technology/issues/list?can=1&q=status=Fixed%… Installation -- The Moose Suite 4.8 comes for each platform as a separate bundle: - Mac: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18323746/Moose/moose_suite_4_8-mac.zip - Windows: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18323746/Moose/moose_suite_4_8-win.zip - Linux: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18323746/Moose/moose_suite_4_8-linux.zip The Moose Suite 4.8 can also be loaded in a Pharo 2.0 image either from the Configuration Browser, or by executing the following script: Gofer new smalltalkhubUser: 'Moose' project: 'Moose'; package: 'ConfigurationOfMoose'; load. ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfMoose) project version: '4.8-snapshot') load Enjoy, The Moose Team -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"

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Hope you're all having lots of fun ;-)
by Jean Marshall and Andy Berry Sept. 12, 2013

Sept. 12, 2013

Hi! As the subject says, I hope that things are going really well. I'm sorry I've not been for 'several years' but, who knows, maybe next year! Enjoy using the universe's best computer language ;-) Regards, Andy

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ESUG 2013 Started!
by Marcus Denker Sept. 11, 2013

Sept. 11, 2013

ESUG 2013 in Annecey started with great success! After a productive and fun Camp Smalltalk (with great food), the main conference started Monday. Videos ======= This year we again record all taks. The talks are uploaded to Youtube as fast as possible. https://www.youtube.com/user/esugboard Slides ===== Slides are collected as pdfs and uploaded to SlideShare. - PDF: http://esug.org/data/ESUG2013/ - SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/esug/ (later) Pictures ======== - Stephan Eggermont: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35787002@N03/sets/72157635427445171/ - Adriaan van Os http://www.a3aan.st/esug2013/index.php/list/ Twitter ====== The twitter hash tag is #esug2013. ESUG has an account https://twitter.com/esugsmalltalk

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Camp Smalltalk Roadtrip!
by DeNigris Sean Sept. 8, 2013

Sept. 8, 2013

(cross-posted to pharo dev and esug lists) Countdown to ESUG!!! My plane lands in Geneva at 1020 on 8 September. I was planning on taking the bus to Annecy, but apparently there is only one bus that Sunday, which arrives at 2200. Is anyone traveling that morning from the direction of Geneva who would like to team up e.g. share a taxi, meet somewhere along the way, etc? Thanks! Sean

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Cab together from Geneva to Annecy on saturday?
by Göran Krampe Sept. 4, 2013

Sept. 4, 2013

Hey! I will arrive at GVA 10.45 on saturday. I know there should be buses etc, but if anyone else is arriving around that time - perhaps we could share a cab to Annecy? I will stay at the little cozy place in walking distance from the Venue: http://www.hotel-arcenciel.net regards, Göran

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Prepaid Room in Annecy available
by Georg Heeg Sept. 3, 2013

Sept. 3, 2013

Dear ESUG 2013 participants, Due to the illness of one of my team members, we have a spare prepaid room which we have reserved for him. 8 September to 13 September (Sunday to Friday) Hotel Novotel Atria, 1 Place Marie Curie, 74000 Annecy We have paid a total price of 748 € incl. Breakfast In case of interest, please contact me. Georg Heeg Georg Heeg eK, Dortmund und Köthen, HR Dortmund A 12812 Wallstraße 22, 06366 Köthen Tel. +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712

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Fwd: [Pharo-dev] Pharo Sprint in Buenos Aires
by Stéphane Ducasse Sept. 3, 2013

Sept. 3, 2013

Begin forwarded message: > From: Camillo Bruni <camillobruni(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Pharo-dev] Pharo Sprint in Buenos Aires > Date: September 3, 2013 1:48:09 AM GMT+02:00 > To: "pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org" <pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org>, "pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org" <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> > Reply-To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org> > > I spend a month in Buenos Aires working together with Guido Chari @ the UBA, > we take this opportunity to organize a Pharo sprint outside France ;) > > We are in early preparation phase and the date nor location isn't fixed yet, > so if you are motivated to join, can mark possible dates on this doodle: > > http://doodle.com/qey7iieqm5yr4wwy > > cheers, > camillo

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Deadline for esug 13 registration?
by Sabine Knöfel Sept. 2, 2013

Sept. 2, 2013

Hi, Is there a deadline for the esug 13 registration? Sabine -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Deadline-for-esug-13-registration-tp4706017.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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5 days to the deadline!! ESUG 2013, 10th Innovation Technology Awards
by Jordi Delgado Sept. 2, 2013

Sept. 2, 2013

Have you written innovative Smalltalk? The developers of any Smalltalk-based software can enter by submitting a 3-5min video of their software. Entrants demo their systems in a session at the end of Monday September 9th 2013, after which the conference attendees vote. (A vote consists in providing a sorted list of 3 preferred pieces of software.) The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros. The results are announced in the Awards ceremony that is held during the social event. Applicants should provide the following information on the conference registration server. Once you have registered your personal info, an 'Awards' menu allows submitting your software. You can provide this information when you first register, or login again later and update your details. Info to provide: Name of the software Licence information (free, shareware, or commercial) Name of the Smalltalk dialect used Name, Affiliation and Country of developers Besides, it would be great if the submission could include: URL for a video (3-5 min) showing a screencast / demo of the software URL for downloading the software or at least a runnable demo Deadline: September 7th Any Smalltalker can apply (students, companies, ...). The presented piece of code/software should be written in Smalltalk or directly support Smalltalk (e.g. Smalltalk VM). All Smalltalk dialects are accepted. The applicant should be "strongly related" to the presented code, be it as an author, as owner of the copyright/copyleft, or as an official representative of the copyright/copyleft owner. Bests, Jordi

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ESUG'13 Travel
by Hayatou Oumarou Sept. 1, 2013

Sept. 1, 2013

Hello, Please, Where and how to leave from paris Roissy Charles de gaulles airport to Annecy? i plan to travel on saturday 7 september. best regards. ------------------------------------ Hayatou

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