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Pharo 3.0 Released!
by Esteban Lorenzano April 30, 2014

April 30, 2014

Dear World, Pharo 3.0 (http://www.pharo.org) is here. The past year seemed short as we got busy building more than usual. Many things have changed in Pharo. Here are the highlights: - The new modular Opal compiler is now the default compiler used in the system. - The Athens vector graphics canvas is now integrated and it supports Cairo rendering on all platforms. - Many tools have been rewritten using Spec, a new framework for building user interfaces. - Versionner and Kommiter are two of the new development tools. - RPackage, a new package mechanism got enhanced with tags and is fully integrated in the system. - The debugger model was rewritten to become modular, the inspector received a bump to support multiple views, and the Nautilus code browser supports tags, search and lot more improvements. - Morphic has seen many cleanings and improvements and the visual theme has been revamped. These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just as important. We have closed 2364 issues in Pharo 3 (compared with 1727 issues in Pharo 2). Take a moment to go through a more detailed recount of the progress: https://github.com/pharo-project/ChangeLogs/blob/master/Pharo30ChangeLogs.md Pharo is improving on many fronts. Just take a look at the code city of Pharo (built with Pharo for Pharo). Every building is a class, and the red bricks represent the modified methods in Pharo 3. Many things are changing but the system gets more stable. Moving from Pharo 2 to Pharo 3 is almost a matter of just loading the code. Remember that Pharo is your platform. We thank all the contributors of this release: Jean-Baptiste Arnaud, Simon Allier, Philippe Back, Clément Bera, Alexandre Bergel, Torsten Bergmann, Usman Bhatti, Vincent Blondeau, Noury Bouraqadi, Johan Brichau, Camillo Bruni, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Damien Cassou, Nicolas Cellier, Guido Chari, Dimitris Chloupis, Bernardo Contreras, Ben Coman, Gabriel Omar Cotelli, Jordi Delgado, Tommaso Del Sasso, Gisela Decuzzi, Christophe Demarey, Sean DeNigris, Marcus Denker, Martin Dias, Erwan Douaille, Stephane Ducasse, Stephan Eggermont, Pablo Estefo, Luc Fabresse, Johan Fabry, Hilaire Fernandes, Nahuel Garbezza, Leo Gassman, Lucas Giudice, Tudor Girba, Thierry Goubier, Norbert Hartl, Dale Henrichs, Pablo Herrero, Nicolai Hess, Andre Hora, Alejandro Infante, Ricardo Jacas, Henrik Sperre Johansen, Denis Kudryashov, Pavel Krivanek, Juraj Kubelka, Laurent Laffont, Jannik Laval, Max Leske, David Lewis, Diego Lont, Esteban Lorenzano, Stefan Marr, Mariano Martinez Peck, Roberto Minelli, Hernan Morales Durand, Eliot Miranda, Fernando Olivero, Nicolas Papagna Maldonado, Nick Papoylias, Nicolas Passerini, Vanessa Peña, Nicolas Petton, Alain Plantec, Guillermo Polito, Damien Pollet, Jochen Rick, Benjamin Van Ryseghem, Ronie Salgado, Camille Teruel, Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer, Samir Saleh, Frank Shearar, Igor Stasenko, Aliaksei Syrel, Sebastian Tleye, Yuriy Tymchuk, Andres Valloud, Martin Walk, Hernan Wilkinson. And many many more who contributed indirectly, by reporting bugs, participating in discussion threads, providing feedback... Pharo 3.0 is the largest step we took since we started. Yet, it’s just a step. Expect more. Much more. Enjoy! The Pharo Team

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Arnaud Jean-Baptiste search for a Job position.
by Jean Baptiste Arnaud April 19, 2014

April 19, 2014

Hello, I am Arnaud Jean-Baptiste, I am in Post-doc in Rmod team, my post-doc finishes in December. And I am looking for a job position. My Experience: Since 5 years, I am in the Rmod team working on Pharo language: First I conducted a PhD focused on how to integrate new language features (I reified references), to enforce security policy. During my PhD, I acquired a deep knowledge of the Pharo virtual machine, language design and understanding complexe legacy software (when I began a PhD there are no correct documentation to rebuild the VM in a clean way). My PhD can be found on my website: http://jeanbaptiste-arnaud.eu/phd/ During my Post-doc, I parsed python language using moose for extract security information rely to static analysis. In addition, I worked 6 months with Synectique (software quality company focus on legacy langage), my job was to parse and extract data from Cobol language to provide visualisation (more detail can be found: http://jeanbaptiste-arnaud.eu/cobol/) In parallele I cultivate interrest on low level features, I am the maintainer the NBOpenGL implementation and provide some tutorial and simple tool (texture importer, mpeg renderer, etc.). I am the actual developer and maintainer of the RaspberryPi PharoVM project: (https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/view/ARM/) I began to introduce FFI for ARM. I am beginning to revive the project of golubovsky, to generate android version based on the last interpreter. Other projects or more fun projects: - Opal compiler, at beginning of my PhD I was developer on the Opal project: - Storm, a binding of a 2D physical engine (focus for game), I am contributor on the project of Esteban Lorenzano, - Gameboy, I began to do from scratch a gameboy emulator (try to be closest possible of the hardware), on Pharo based on the documentation found on: http://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Main_Page, It is fun and I made great advance (graphic/engine/memory/processor ok, need to finish material binding interrupt and debug), but sadly I do not have time anymore. Obviously, I am a Pharo contributor. Eventually If your are interested on my academic skill my academic CV: Here some peoples that can recommend me: Pharo community contacts: - Stephane Ducasse, my actual boss lead the Pharo community: stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr - Igor Stasenko, a Senior developer involve in Pharo community: siguctua(a)gmail.com - Esteban Lorenzano, a Senior developer involve in Pharo community: estebanlm(a)gmail.com Synectique contacts: - Nicolas Anquetil, researche and lead member of Synectique: Nicolas.Anquetil(a)inria.fr - Usman Bhatti, developer and project lead. usman.bhatti(a)gmail.com Best Regards Jean Baptiste Arnaud jbaptiste.arnaud(a)gmail.com

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James Robertson
by Fortman, Suzanne April 19, 2014

April 19, 2014

For those who haven't heard, James Robertson passed away suddenly on Thursday April 14, 2014. James was a power house of information for Smalltalk and worked furiously through the years to promote it through his blog and podcasts. James was an employee of ParcPlace through the ParcPlace/Digitalk merger and through the move to Cincom. When he left CIncom in 2010, he became an independent contractor. He was always an early adopter of technology. He jumped into the blog scene when it wasn't yet a scene and started recording podcasts when podcasts were still new. Over the years, he recorded thousands of podcasts, screencasts, videos of conference talks and interviews making them accessible to everyone by podcast channels, youtube and through his blog. Funeral information can be found at the following link. http://sollevinson.com/notice.php?lr=loc&id=25422 Suzanne M. Fortman Cincom Systems, Inc. Smalltalk Program Director Manager, Cincom Smalltalk Engineering office: 949-722-8928 mobile: 949-933-0055 [CincomLogo05Blue-lg (2)] This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, please be advised that it has been sent in error and therefore any use is strictly prohibited.

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Francisco's work on Concrete Type Inference for Squeak
by Jan Vrany April 12, 2014

April 12, 2014

Hi, does anybody happen to have a copy of English translation of Francisco Garau's thesis on Concrete Type Inference for Squeak and is wiling to share this pearl with me? If so, please write me back, I would really appreciate that! Best, Jan

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Congratulation Doru, Tudor Gîrba
by Alexandre Bergel April 11, 2014

April 11, 2014

Dear colleges and friends, It is a great pleasure for me to send this email. A couple of days ago AITO officially announced that the junior prize of the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners is given to Doru, Tudor Gîrba. The award will be given at the ECOOP conference, this year, in Uppsala, Sweden. AITO is the non-profit organization who is behind ECOOP. The prestigious Dahl-Nygaard award is given to "individuals that have made significant technical contributions to the field of Object-Orientation”. ECOOP is the high-caliber European conference on object-orientation. The European version of OOPSLA. I have known Doru for year, when we were doing our PhD in Bern under the supervision of Stéphane Ducasse and Oscar Nierstrasz. Doru’s work and ideas have had a great impact on the Pharo and Smalltalk community. Doru is member of the Pharo board. Doru authored Glamour, GTToolKit and many more applications. Doru is not only a great researcher, a great engineer or a great speaker. He is also a great leader. Doru is the main architect of the Moose effort, and a great coordinator in the Moose and Pharo communities. Doru authored Humane Assessment, "the method for making software engineering decisions". Doru’s work has had a great impact on my personal work. Roassal is an extension of the ideas first presented in Mondrian, which was first authored by Doru and his student around 2005. Without Doru, Moose would not be as it is now. Doru, we are happy to have you with us! This international recognition will drag up all of us. Links: http://www.tudorgirba.com http://www.humane-assessment.com http://www.aito.org/Dahl-Nygaard/2014.html Big big clap! Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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[ANN] Amber 0.12.4 released
by Nicolas Petton April 11, 2014

April 11, 2014

Deal Smalltalkers, After 3 months of development, we are happy to announce the release of Amber 0.12.4. Highlights: * Several improvements in Helios, including UI-related and debugger improvements * Loading Amber without cloning the repository has been simplified * A new documentation (in progress) can be found at http://docs.amber-lang.net/ Commits: https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/compare/0.12.3...0.12.4 Issues: https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/issues?milestone=12&state=closed API Changes: * Package Canvas renamed to Web * Object >> try:catch: deprecated in favour of BlockClosure >> tryCatch: + Announcer >> + on:do:for: + Node >> + navigationNodeAt:ifAbsent: + BlockClosure >> + tryCatch: + Environment >> + evaluate:for: + AmberCli >> + version: + Object >> + deprecatedAPI: - Environment >> - eval:on: - evaluateString:on: Cheers, Nico -- Nicolas Petton http://nicolas-petton.fr

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ESUG 2014 call for presentations
by Stéphane Ducasse April 10, 2014

April 10, 2014

Please distribute widely 22st International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions Cambridge, France from 18 to 22 September 2014 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/ This call includes: Developer Forum Smalltalk Technology Award International Workshop http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2014/IWST14 Student Volunteer http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers Camp Smalltalk 8 September 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the past 22 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 10th 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/2014/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 enroll 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 and Show us Your Business ----------------------------------------- New from last 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. How to submit? -------------- Submissions deadline is 15st June 2014 Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly. More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2014 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 at inria.fr AND USE THE following header [ESUG 2014 Developers]. Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Subject: [ESUG 2014 Developers] + your name First Name: Last Name: Email where you can always be reached: Title: Type: Tutorial/Talk/Teaching Pearl Abstract: Bio: Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Read the page: http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop 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/2014/ 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/2014 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/StudentVolunteers We hope to see you there and have fun together.

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2nd Visualization Contest with Roassal
by Alexandre Bergel April 10, 2014

April 10, 2014

Dear colleagues and friends, We are happy to announce the Second Visualization Contest with Roassal. What can I win? - 150 euros, sponsored by ObjectProfile - a über-cool ObjectProfile T-shirt and some wonderful stickers - maximum publicity of your work - a nice award certificate, delivered during ESUG How can I win? - you have to produce a visualization with Roassal. You can use the Pharo, VisualWorks or VAST version of Roassal. Here is an example of what we expect http://bit.ly/sunburstDemo or http://bit.ly/GraphET - making a video is mandatory. The video will weight the most in our decision. The video could be of any length and has to include your name and say that is was made (partly or completely) with Roassal. No need to talk, just show off! - making your code available and easy to install will help you get more points How can I submit? - send the links of your video and other material (if needed) to info(a)objectprofile.com Every email you will send to this email will be acknowledged. If you do not receive a 'Ok' from us, it means we haven't read it, in that case send your email again after a few days. - the deadline for submitting is August 11, 2014 Mini FAQ? - Is the object-profile team allowed to participate? No - Should my visualization or code be open source? No need for this, whatever license is fine. However your video has to be public. - How can I get more information? Just comment on the facebook https://www.facebook.com/ObjectProfile or using Twitter @ObjectProfile or send email to info(a)objectprofile.com or the pharo or moose mailing list - What I submit two different videos? Yes, no problem with that - How will judge the videos? both the esug community and the object profile team. The Esug community will have 30% of the final grade, object profile the remaining 70% Cheers, The profilers -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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Contacting Jun's father: Aoki San
by Stéphane Ducasse April 10, 2014

April 10, 2014

Hi guys I’m trying to contact Aoki the father of Jun. I sent him some mails but I suspect that I do not have his correct email. If one of you is in contact with him I would really like to get in touch with him. Stef

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