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Why you should follow the Pharo mooc :)
by Stéphane Ducasse March 7, 2016

March 7, 2016

Dear ESUGers and others I really encourage you to register and follow the Pharo Mooc. https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41010/session01/about?platform=hootsu… I do not imagine that you will learn something about our lovely language but the idea behind the mooc is to offer for free all the mooc resources - videos (around 80 videos including lectures) - slides (61 lectures) - exercises - quiz - miniprojects to the community to push people to give lectures. So following the mooc can you you arguments to push people to teach Smalltalk. For your information, the building of this mooc has been estimated to 180 K Euros. In addition, the number of participants to the mooc is a criteria of success and there too we are watched. There is a python mooc of course. 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

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smart Smalltalker and more available :)
by Stéphane Ducasse March 5, 2016

March 5, 2016

Hi smalltalker friends Anthony is looking for a job in a non english speaking country with nice cultural events. Contact him directly. > Greetings vwnc-ers and, by extension, vw-deviants > > I am leaving the Cincom VisualWorks dev team. It's been a pleasure interacting with you all, and in some cases, chatting, even when it has been a bit spiky :) > > I will be somewhat footloose and fancy-free. If anyone has a need for an experienced Smalltalker (the architect and implementor of UISkinning and UILayout), especially one with additional extensive frontend/JS/Java/Swift/ObjC/Haskell/React/Reactive/Clojure/Erlang/Ruby, startup, and design experience, I'd love to hear from you. I'm especially keen on moving, either to the east coast of Australia (BNE/SYD/MEL), Europe/UK, or north-east US (NY/MA/VT et al). > > Cheers, > > Antony Blakey > -------------------------- > Ph: +61 438 840 787 > > Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. > -- Flower A. Newhouse > 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

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PDF4Smalltalk 1.4 release
by Stéphane Ducasse March 2, 2016

March 2, 2016

Dear all, Version 1.4 of the PDF library PDF4Smalltalk has been released to the public store (with MIT licence). The library now supports Smalltalk images (pictures) to be inserted into PDFs. There is some documentation: http://christianhaider.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=pdf:images <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__christianhaider.de_doku…> . Any Smalltalk image can be added to a PDF (with masks and alpha transparency). The attachment is a demo page as a teaser. The implementation is supposed to be complete in the sense that ALL Smalltalk images should be convertible to PDF. With a drawback: due to missing image compression algorithms (JPEG, JBIG2 and others), not the most space saving representation is used (only Zip compression). Also, not all images found in PDFs can be converted to Smalltalk images. This is again due to missing image compression filters and, for PDF images with other color spaces than /DeviceRGB and /DeviceGray, due to missing color conversion methods. The feature is well tested and reasonable efficient. But, of course, there will be bugs I don’t know about. Please, if you see something fishy, tell me and I’ll fix it. The library works in all VisualWorks versions from 7.10 up (Jenkins tested). Is there anyone who uses the library with previous versions of VisualWorks? Happy hacking, Christian christian.haider(a)smalltalked-visuals.com <mailto:christian.haider@smalltalked-visuals.com> P.S. This overdue feature was realized thanks to the encouragement of Bob Nemec, author of Report4PDF, and funding from his employer, the Canadian engineering company HTS. P.P.S. I am going to move my business more towards PDF and I will try to develop tools and services around PDF. If anybody knows projects interested in PDF related work, I would be glad to hear about it J . -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr <http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/> http://www.synectique.eu <http://www.synectique.eu/> / http://www.pharo.org <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

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