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ESUG 2015 Early registration is 1st of June

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi Smalltalkers pay attention ESUG 2015 Early registration is 1st of June http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Conference-Registration Stef -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas 03 59 57 78 50 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

April 24, 2015

Fwd: The April Edition of the Cincom Smalltalk™ Digest

by Stéphane Ducasse

See you at Brescia :) Begin forwarded message: > From: Cincom Smalltalk Product Team <jjordan(a)cincom.com> > Subject: The April Edition of the Cincom Smalltalk™ Digest > Date: 23 Apr 2015 22:04:07 GMT+3 > To: stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr > Reply-To: jjordan(a)cincom.com > > Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here. > > > Cincom Smalltalk™ Digest April 2015 Edition > > Product News > Product Upgrade — Cincom® ObjectStudio® 8.6.1 and Cincom® VisualWorks® 8.0.1 Now Available to Cincom Smalltalk Customers and Partners! > Product Availability — The Current Personal Use License Versions are Cincom ObjectStudio 8.6 and Cincom VisualWorks 8.0 > Meeting the Demand Challenge — Cincom Smalltalk's Answer to the Web App Development Demand > A Shared Cornerstone — The Cincom Smalltalk Foundation > New and Improved Capabilities — Cincom Smalltalk Foundation Series: Text 2 > Helpful Technical Information — Map/Reduce, Hadoop and Cincom Smalltalk > Simple, Convenient Text Creation — A Transcript Alternative > Performance Considerations — Concurrency and Leveraging Multi-Core PCs: The Solution? MatriX > Task Simplification — Are You Looking to Boost Application Performance? > Common Tools Tutorials — "Common Tools" Tutorial Videos Available > Product Information Tutorials — Product Information Tutorials Available > Product Update — Major Update of Roassal > Smalltalk Achievements > Smalltalk the Winner! — Smalltalk Comes Out on Top in Recent Language Productivity Paper > News and Upcoming Event > April 25-26, 2015 —CampSmalltalk Spring Edition(Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada) > June 12-14, 2015 — Camp Smalltalk Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada) > July 15, 2015 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST15) (Brescia, Italy) > July 13-17, 2015 — The 23rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference (Brescia, Italy) > Also, please note that registration for the conference is now open, and it's the last call for those who would like to be a student volunteer. > The 2016 Canadian Smalltalk Competition > Update on Smalltalk Events > Smalltalk News Repositories > News from the Team > Smalltalk Reflections Podcast > Cincom Smalltalk Community Blogs > Resources > Partner Program > Event Promotion > Contributed Components > User Portal > Social Media Channels > Online Product Information > Academic Program > > > Cherniak Software > > “What had attracted the Cherniak team to Smalltalk were the promised 'huge productivity gains,'" said founder Bob Cherniak. “So our main reasons were what it could do to help us develop quality, robust applications quickly.” > > — Bob Cherniak, > Founder, Cherniak Software > > To see more stories, click here. > Smalltalk Job Opportunities > Cincom Smalltalk Team Seeks VisualWorks Software Engineers > Visit the Smalltalk Jobs Blog > > > > > > Cincom Systems 55 Merchant Street Cincinnati, OH 45246 USA > Cincom, the Quadrant Logo, Cincom Smalltalk, ObjectStudio and VisualWorks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cincom Systems, Inc. > All other trademarks belong to their respective companies. > ©2015 Cincom Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved > > You received this email because you are subscribed to Marketing Information from Cincom Systems. > > Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive. > > Unsubscribe from all future emails > -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas 03 59 57 78 50 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

April 24, 2015

Internship around Smalltalk

by Stéphane Ducasse

Proposition de stage en informatique – Conception d’un éditeur de diagramme de classes UML pour l’implémentation de modèles multi-agents - Dans le cadre du développement de sa plateforme de modélisation et simulation multi-agent, Cormas (http://cormas.cirad.fr) l’Unité de Recherche GREEN du Cirad (http://ur-green.cirad.fr) propose un stage indemnisé de 6 mois pour un étudiant en informatique pour développer un module de Cormas . Ce développement informatique consiste à mettre au point un éditeur graphique permettant de dessiner un diagramme de classes UML et de générer du code SmallTalk (à la fois en VisualWorks de Cincom et en Pharo, open-source) de la structure du modèle en se référant au standard "Executable UML" (xUML) proposé par Mellor & Balcer (2002) and adopté par l’OMG (2003). Pour ce travail, nous ne cherchons pas un éditeur exhaustif intégrant tous les éléments décrits par UML2. Pour cet éditeur, les éléments du méta-modèle proposés seront limités à : la classe, ses attributs et ses méthodes, la spécialisation de classes et les associations. Les associations sont simples (uniquement binaires) et sont définies par leur nom et par leurs extrémités qui comportent chacune un nom de rôle, une valeur de multiplicité et la navigabilité. Cormas étant un framework, le modèle créé par un utilisateur doit s’ancrer sur des classes prédéfinies disponibles dans Cormas. A la fin de la conception de son modèle, l’utilisateur devra être invité à rattacher les classes qu’il a créées aux classes prédéfinies. Dans ce cas, les propriétés héritées (méthodes, associations, attributs, ...) devront être spécifiées dans le diagramme conceptuel de l’utilisateur qui pourra être affiché de façon indépendante du framework. Outre la création dynamique du squelette des classes, le stagiaire devra porter une attention particulière aux associations entre classes uni ou bi-directionnelles qui seront traduites en attributs nommés selon le rôle de l’extrémité de l’association (on parle parfois de d’association dégénérée pour laquelle le rôle de l’extrémité opposée est traduit en attribut). Ne seront pas prises en compte les classes-associations, ni les associations n-aires, ni les associations qualifiées. Cet éditeur permettra également de ré-afficher un modèle déjà sauvegarder mais aussi de proposer de générer un nouveau diagramme à partir d’un modèle déjà implémenté (rétro-ingénierie). Par ailleurs, un éditeur de diagramme d’activité xUML est déjà disponible dans Cormas. En sélectionnant une méthode de son diagramme de classes, l’utilisateur pourra alors dessiner le comportement de cette méthode en décrivant la succession des activités et des conditions booléennes. Bien que la distribution de VisualWorks s’accompagne de quelques outils permettant des aller-retours entre du code Smalltalk et des diagrammes UML (ADvance, Gipa, BOOST, MetaEdit+, DoME, UMLForSmalltalk ou Umbrello,...), le développement de l’éditeur UML devra se faire sous Roassal. En effet, avec la sortie récente de Roassal2, un moteur puissant de visualisation (http://objectprofile.com/Roassal.html) disponible à la fois pour VisualWorks et pour Pharo, la mise au point de ce module UML permettra d’accélérer la migration de Cormas sous Pharo. En option, il sera intéressant de pouvoir générer le code XML (XMI) d’un modèle pour pouvoir le lire dans un autre éditeur. ______ Durée : 6 mois (ou moins si nécessaire) Gratification : 485,10 € par mois. Lieu : pas d’accueil prévu au Cirad. L’étudiant travaillera dans son laboratoire mais des contacts réguliers seront proposés. Contacts : Pierre Bommel (bommel(a)cirad.fr) et Grégoire Leclerc (Leclerc(a)cirad.fr) [PB1] Profil de candidature : Etudiant en Informatique, License ou Master, ayant un goût pour la modélisation et la simulation. L’étudiant doit avoir de bonnes connaissances des concepts de la modélisation objet et d’UML. Des compétences en programmation Smalltalk devront être acquises. Bommel, P., Dieguez, F., Bartaburu, D., Duarte, E., Montes, E., Pereira, M., Corral, J., Lucena, C. de and Morales Grosskopf, H. (2014). A Further Step Towards Participatory Modelling. Fostering Stakeholder Involvement in Designing Models by Using Executable UML. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 17 (1) 6 <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/17/1/6.html>. Mellor, S. J., & Balcer, M. J. (2002). Executable UML : a foundation for model-driven architecture. Boston; San Francisco; New York: Addison-Wesley. -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas 03 59 57 78 50 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

April 23, 2015

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo 4.0 is released!

by volkert

Coooool! Yes, spread the Word. Is there a cool promotion flyer / booklet for Pharo? I found this here: http://files.pharo.org/media/flyer-cheat-sheet.pdf. Not really attractive ... Is there something better? BW, Volkert Am 16.04.2015 um 11:29 schrieb Esteban Lorenzano: > Please spread widely. > Sorry for multiple posts. >

April 18, 2015

[ESUG'15] Last call for student volunteers

by Damien Cassou

Hi, you are a student? You want to attend a nice conference but don't have money to afford it? Please apply to the student volunteer program: http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2015/Student-volunteers This is the last call. Best, -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

April 17, 2015

[ANN] ESUG'15 registration is open

by Luc Fabresse

Dear Smalltalkers, I am pleased to announce that registration for the 23rd ESUG Conference in Brescia, Italy is now open! To register, please proceed to the website http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015 or go directly to http://registration.esug.org Note: Fill carefully your registration because you will receive an automatically generated invoice by email. Important: do not forget to book your accommodation directly at one of the hotels in Brescia. See: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Hotels See you all @ Brescia, Best, Luc Fabresse On behalf of the ESUG board and ESUG'15 local organizers PS: Please forward widely

April 17, 2015

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] Pharo 4.0 is released!

by stephane ducasse

Thanks. We have so much ideas of where we want to go :) Stay tuned. Stef On 16 Apr 2015, at 23:07, Graham McLeod <mcleod(a)iafrica.com> wrote: > Hi Esteban, Stef, Marcus... and ALL contributors > > Just a note from those who for various reasons cannot be part of the great core team.. > > Great work and we really do appreciate both the direction in which the product is moving and the > hard work and passion which you all put into it. > > Thanks! > > Graham > >> Esteban Lorenzano 16 April 2015 at 11:29 >> Please spread widely. >> Sorry for multiple posts. >> >> (this post can be see >> here: http://pharo.org/news/pharo-4.0-released) >> >> Dear World, >> >> Pharo 4.0 (http://www.pharo.org) >> is here. >> >> Pharo is a pure >> object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused >> on simplicity and immediate feedback. >> >> >> Many things have changed in Pharo. >> Here are some highlights: >> - Inspector/Playground/Spotter are new moldable >> development tools for inspecting, coding and searching objects. >> - Slots model instance >> variables as first class entities and enable meta-programming on this >> level. >> - >> ShoreLine reporter introduces a way to report system errors and collect >> statistics, that we will use for future improvements >> - Dark theme. >> >> These are just the >> more prominent highlights, but the details are just as important. We >> have closed 1697 issues in Pharo 4. Take a moment to go through a more >> detailed recount of the progress: >> >> https://github.com/pharo-project/ChangeLogs/blob/master/Pharo40ChangeLogs.md >> >> Pharo is >> improving on many fronts, but one of the most prominent changes is the >> addition of moldable tools for inspection and search. These tools >> provide extension mechanisms that allow every object to define ways in >> which it can be understood effectively. To provide an idea of the impact >> of the already existing extensions, the map below shows the Pharo >> classes grouped in packages, highlighting in red those parts of the >> system that have at least one such custom view coming with the main >> distribution. The spread of these extensions shows that moldability is >> powerful mechanism that can be used in many contexts. >> >> >> >> Remember that Pharo is your platform. >> We thank all the contributors of this release: >> >> Clara Allende, >> Jean-Baptiste Arnaud, Jean-Christophe Bach, Philippe Back, Clement Bera, >> Alexandre Bergel, Torsten Bergmann, Vincent Blondeau, Noury Bouraqadi, >> Santiago Bragagnolo, Johan Brichau, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Damien >> Cassou, Nicolas Cellier, Guido Chari, Dimitris Chloupis, Andrei Chis, >> Ben Coman, Bernardo Contreras, Tommaso Dal Sasso, Jan Van De Sandt, >> Christophe Demarey, Sean DeNigris, Marcus Denker, Martin Dias, Stephane >> Ducasse, Stephan Eggermont, Luc Fabresse, Johan Fabry, Hilaire >> Fernandes, Jerome Garcia, Tudor Girba, Thierry Goubier, Jigyasa Grover, >> Kris Gybels, Norbert Hartl, Dale Henrichs, Pablo Herrero, Nicolai Hess, >> Pavel Krivanek, Juraj Kubelka, Jan Kurs, Laurent Laffont, Jannik Laval, >> Kevin Lanvin, Max Leske, David Lewis, Diego Lont, Esteban Lorenzano, Tim >> Mackinnon, Attila Magyar, Esteban Maringolo, Stefan Marr, Max Mattone, >> Martin Mc Clure, Eliot Miranda, Alain Plantec, Guillermo Polito, Damien >> Pollet, Stefan Reichhart, Mark Rizun, Udo Schneider, Ignacio >> Sniechowski, Henrik Sperre Johansen, Igor Stasenko, Aliaksei Syrel, >> Ciprian Teodorov, Camille Teruel, Sebastian Tleye, Yuriy Tymchuk, Peter >> Uhnak, Andres Valloud, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Thomas Vincent, Jan Vrany, >> Martin Walk, Richard Wettel, Dmitri Zagidulin >> >> And all those who >> contributed indirectly, by reporting bugs, participating in discussion >> threads, providing feedback... >> >> Pharo 4.0 is another big step. And, >> the best is yet to come. >> >> Enjoy! >> The Pharo Team >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list >> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > <mcleod.vcf>_______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

April 17, 2015

Re: [Esug-list] ESUG Registration?

by Luc Fabresse

Hi James, It will be open very soon. Best, #Luc 2015-04-16 23:23 GMT+02:00 James Foster <Smalltalk(a)jgfoster.net>: > Any word on when we will be able to register for ESUG? > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >

April 17, 2015

ESUG Registration?

by James Foster

Any word on when we will be able to register for ESUG?

April 16, 2015

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] Pharo 4.0 is released!

by Graham McLeod

Hi Esteban, Stef, Marcus... and ALL contributors Just a note from those who for various reasons cannot be part of the great core team.. Great work and we really do appreciate both the direction in which the product is moving and the hard work and passion which you all put into it. Thanks! Graham > Esteban Lorenzano <mailto:estebanlm@gmail.com> > 16 April 2015 at 11:29 > Please spread widely. > Sorry for multiple posts. > > (this post can be see here: http://pharo.org/news/pharo-4.0-released) > > Dear World, > > Pharo 4.0 (http://www.pharo.org) is here. > > Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful > environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. > > Many things have changed in Pharo. Here are some highlights: > - Inspector/Playground/Spotter are new moldable development tools for > inspecting, coding and searching objects. > - Slots model instance variables as first class entities and enable > meta-programming on this level. > - ShoreLine reporter introduces a way to report system errors and > collect statistics, that we will use for future improvements > - Dark theme. > > These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just > as important. We have closed 1697 issues in Pharo 4. Take a moment to > go through a more detailed recount of the progress: > > https://github.com/pharo-project/ChangeLogs/blob/master/Pharo40ChangeLogs.md > > Pharo is improving on many fronts, but one of the most prominent > changes is the addition of moldable tools for inspection and search. > These tools provide extension mechanisms that allow every object to > define ways in which it can be understood effectively. To provide an > idea of the impact of the already existing extensions, the map below > shows the Pharo classes grouped in packages, highlighting in red those > parts of the system that have at least one such custom view coming > with the main distribution. The spread of these extensions shows that > moldability is powerful mechanism that can be used in many contexts. > > > Remember that Pharo is your platform. We thank all the contributors of > this release: > > Clara Allende, Jean-Baptiste Arnaud, Jean-Christophe Bach, Philippe > Back, Clement Bera, Alexandre Bergel, Torsten Bergmann, Vincent > Blondeau, Noury Bouraqadi, Santiago Bragagnolo, Johan Brichau, Sven > Van Caekenberghe, Damien Cassou, Nicolas Cellier, Guido Chari, > Dimitris Chloupis, Andrei Chis, Ben Coman, Bernardo Contreras, Tommaso > Dal Sasso, Jan Van De Sandt, Christophe Demarey, Sean DeNigris, Marcus > Denker, Martin Dias, Stephane Ducasse, Stephan Eggermont, Luc > Fabresse, Johan Fabry, Hilaire Fernandes, Jerome Garcia, Tudor Girba, > Thierry Goubier, Jigyasa Grover, Kris Gybels, Norbert Hartl, Dale > Henrichs, Pablo Herrero, Nicolai Hess, Pavel Krivanek, Juraj Kubelka, > Jan Kurs, Laurent Laffont, Jannik Laval, Kevin Lanvin, Max Leske, > David Lewis, Diego Lont, Esteban Lorenzano, Tim Mackinnon, Attila > Magyar, Esteban Maringolo, Stefan Marr, Max Mattone, Martin Mc Clure, > Eliot Miranda, Alain Plantec, Guillermo Polito, Damien Pollet, Stefan > Reichhart, Mark Rizun, Udo Schneider, Ignacio Sniechowski, Henrik > Sperre Johansen, Igor Stasenko, Aliaksei Syrel, Ciprian Teodorov, > Camille Teruel, Sebastian Tleye, Yuriy Tymchuk, Peter Uhnak, Andres > Valloud, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Thomas Vincent, Jan Vrany, Martin > Walk, Richard Wettel, Dmitri Zagidulin > > And all those who contributed indirectly, by reporting bugs, > participating in discussion threads, providing feedback... > > Pharo 4.0 is another big step. And, the best is yet to come. > > Enjoy! > The Pharo Team > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

April 16, 2015