September 2020 - Esug-list

Smalltalk books for sale
by Steve Edwards Feb. 1, 2023

Feb. 1, 2023

Hi, I have old Smalltalk books for sale. Be good if they could go to a good home. Thinking of selling them as packages of related books to simplify buying and posting. Anybody interested? (Not sure if best means is to use eBay?) =================================================================== Package A - Smalltalk 80 Smalltalk-80 - Bits of History, Words of Advice Glenn Krasner Addison Wesley 1983 Smalltalk-80 - The Interactive Programming Environment Adele Goldberg Addison Wesley 1984 (HB) Smalltalk-80 (2 copies) - The Language Adele Goldberg, David Robson Addison Wesley 1989 An Introduction to OO Programming and Smalltalk Lewis Pinson, Richard Wiener Addison Wesley 1988 =================================================================== Package B - The Object People Inside Smalltalk - Vol 1 Wilf LaLonde, John Pugh Prentice Hall 1990 (HB) Inside Smalltalk - Vol 2 Wilf LaLonde, John Pugh Prentice Hall 1991 (HB) Discovering Smalltalk Wilf LaLonde Benjamin Cummings 1994 Smalltalk/V - Practice and Experience Wilf LalOnde, John Pugh Prentice Hall 1994 =================================================================== Package C - VisualWorks Smalltalk - An Introduction to Application Development using VisualWorks Trevor Hopkins, Bernard Horan Prentice Hall 1995 The Art and Science of Smalltalk (2 copies) - An Introduction to OO Programming using VisualWorks Simon Lewis Prentice Hall (HP) 1995 The Smalltalk Developer's Guide to VisualWorks Tim Howard SIGS Books 1995 =================================================================== Package D - Smalltalk/V, Windows, OS2 A Quick Trip to ObjectLand - OO Programming with Smalltalk/V Prentice Hall 1992 Smalltalk Programming for Windows Dan Shafer Prima Publishing 1993 IBM Smalltalk Programming for Windows and OS/2 Don Shafer, Scott Herndon Prima Publishing 1995 IBM Smalltalk - The Language David Smith Benjamin Cummings 1995 VisualAge for Smalltalk Distributed Walter Fang, Sven Guyet, Randy Haven, Matti Vilmi, Eduardo Eckmann Prentice Hall 1996 =================================================================== Package E - Practice, Patterns Rapid Software Development with Smalltalk Mark Lorenz SIGS Books 1995 Smalltalk with Style Suzanne Skublic, Edward Klimas, David Thomas Prentice Hall 1996 Smalltalk - Best Practice Patterns Kent Beck Prentice Hall 1997 Guide to Smalltalk - A Sorted Collection Kent Beck Cambridge University Press 1999 =================================================================== HB = Hard Back -- Steve Edwards Formerly of The Object People

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[ANN] Instantiations presenting VAST at IoT online conference
by Mariano Martinez Peck Oct. 2, 2020

Oct. 2, 2020

Greetings all, We are happy to announce that Instantiations will be presenting at the RIoT Developer Month online conference on Sept 23th. We will give two talks: 9:30-10:30am ET – Instantiations: Faster & More Efficient: JITs for IoT 10:30-11:30am ET – Instantiations: Improve Debugging for IoT For more info about this online event checkout: https://riot.org/riot-events/developer-month/ BTW, most of the information in both presentations could be applied to all VAST usage, not just for IoT, so we encourage you to attend even if you're not creating IoT or edge computing applications. Hope you can make it! Best regards, -- Mariano Martinez Peck Email: marianopeck(a)gmail.com Twitter: @MartinezPeck LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-martinez-peck <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mart%C3%ADnez-peck/> Blog: https://marianopeck.wordpress.com/

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beta testers for the new version of the Pharo mooc
by Stéphane Ducasse Sept. 30, 2020

Sept. 30, 2020

Hello guys We are looking for beta tester for the new version of the Pharo mooc. The beta test period is planned from 12 to 23 of october Let me know if you can help. Tx -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Aurore Dalle FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 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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Pharo tool presentation as Keynote at SCAM 2020
by Stéphane Ducasse Sept. 28, 2020

Sept. 28, 2020

Hello I was invited to give a keynote at the SCAM 2020 conference (this is a software analysis conference). Here is the recording of my talk. http://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Videos/2020-09-26-powerfull-Tools-SCAM.mp4 <http://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Videos/2020-09-26-powerfull-Tools-SCAM.mp4> S. -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Aurore Dalle FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 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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UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday, September 30th
by Giovanni Corriga Sept. 21, 2020

Sept. 21, 2020

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, September 30th. For this meeting, Niall Ross and Vlad Degen from Cincom will present AppeX ( ), Cincom’s web application development framework. Together they will cover: - The advantages of the AppeX design philosophy - lightweight, plays well with others - How AppeX works in the Cincom Smalltalk IDE - The advantages of WYSIWYG AppeX JavaScript development through debugging of running AppeX applications - How you can use AppeX in the Cincom Smalltalk IDE to learn and improve your JavaScript, and to create and deploy JavaScript intensive modern web applications. - The advantages of AppeX web development, using the Chrome DevTools in conjunction with AppeX for debugging. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, this will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/cbklbrybcmbfc/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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