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Survey: Identifying and Fixing Undesirable Behaviors Across Software Versions
by Remi Dufloer May 12, 2025

May 12, 2025

Hello, As part of my PhD at the University of Lille, I am currently conducting a study on how developers handle certain bug scenarios. The goal is to better understand current practices, the tools used, and developers' needs regarding debugging in a specific scenario. Link to the questionnaire: [ https://sondages.inria.fr/index.php/566958?lang=en | https://sondages.inria.fr/index.php/566958?lang=en ] Your participation in this short questionnaire (5 - 10 minutes) would greatly help us analyze existing methods and identify potential gaps in the available solutions. This survey will be open for 6 weeks (Until May 15th, 2025) . The responses will be analyzed and included in a scientific publication. The results will be available [ https://remidufloer.github.io/Dufloer.github.io/survey.html | here ] . If you can, please feel free to share this questionnaire with other developers who might be interested. Every response counts and will contribute to a better understanding of the community's practices! A big thank you for your help and time. Best regards, Rémi Dufloer PhD Student, University of Lille ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ Bonjour , Dans le cadre de ma thèse à l’Université de Lille, je mène actuellement une étude sur la manière dont les développeurs gèrent certains scénarios de bugs. L’objectif est de mieux comprendre les pratiques actuelles, les outils utilisés et les besoins des développeurs en matière de debugging sur un scénario précis. Voici le lien du questionnaire : [ https://sondages.inria.fr/index.php/566958?lang=en | https://sondages.inria.fr/index.php/566958?lang=en ] Votre participation à ce court questionnaire (5 - 10 minutes) nous aiderait énormément à analyser les méthodes existantes et à identifier les éventuelles lacunes dans les solutions disponibles. Ce survey est ouvert durant 6 semaines (fermeture le 15 mai 2025 ). Les réponses obtenues seront analysées et feront l'objet d'une publication scientifique. Les résultats seront publiés [ https://remidufloer.github.io/Dufloer.github.io/survey.html | ici ] . Si vous le pouvez, n’hésitez pas à partager ce questionnaire avec d’autres développeurs susceptibles d’être intéressés. Chaque réponse compte et contribuera à une meilleure compréhension des pratiques de la communauté ! Un grand merci pour votre aide et votre temps. Bien cordialement, Dufloer Rémi Doctorant, Université de Lille

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IWST Logo selection
by Guillermo Polito April 30, 2025

April 30, 2025

Hello board, For the IWST logo, we launched last year a competition. We received several submissions, we filtered the “ugly” ones. The PDF below shows a selection of three, ranked by our preferences. (First one is our preferred one). We need from you: - validating/voting for the one we should use, as this logo will represent ESUG too. We prefer the first one, but we are open to suggestions. - to know if you have some proposals or modifications. We are thinking on asking some font changes, probably you have some extra requirements like color or so... - we talked last year a prize of 200€. Is that still ok? We could give it during the social event in the conference. Cheers, G & G

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Obituary for Christian Haider
by peter＠ursprung.ch April 18, 2025

April 18, 2025

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Smalltalk Meetup in Zurich, 16 May 2025
by peter＠ursprung.ch April 16, 2025

April 16, 2025

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UKSTUG Meeting: Esteban Lorenzano - Pharo-CIG: C++ Interface Generator - 23 April 2025
by UK Smalltalk April 14, 2025

April 14, 2025

For our April meeting, we'll be hosting Pharo's Esteban Lorenzano to talk about Pharo-CIG - a C++ Interface Generator. The Pharo FFI (Foreign Function Interface) system is an excellent tool that enables Pharo users to create bindings with external C libraries. However, there's a significant drawback that often discourages its use: the bindings must be manually created, a process that can be slow and prone to crashes. Pharo-CIG ( https://github.com/estebanlm/pharo-cig ) proposes a solution to bridge that gap. Esteban Lorenzano ( https://github.com/estebanlm/ ) studied Computer Sciences at Universidad de Buenos Aires, and worked since 1994 in several object-oriented and low-level technologies, in different software companies, serving in various positions from programmer to senior architect. In 2007 he co-founded Smallworks to offer Pharo-based agile development projects. Since 2012 he dedicated full time to developing the Pharo code and community. He works with the INRIA-EVREF team in Lille, France, as core developer for Pharo, being responsible with the coordination of new releases and the implementation and maintenance of several Pharo libraries. This will be an online meeting. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/305761373/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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ESUG 2025 CFP
by stephane ducasse April 11, 2025

April 11, 2025

Please distribute! ESUG 2025 Call for Presentations from Tuesday 1st to 4 th of July 2025 Gdansk Poland https://esug.github.io https://esug.github.io/2025-Conference/conf2025.html 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, software to the award competition, or a paper to IWST http://https://esug.github.io/2025-Conference/IWST2025.html - Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of attendance (180 people at Koln 2019)! - Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll in the the Student Volunteers program. See below. New this year: a 3 days lectures will be organised before the conference following the isLoop summerschool principle https://isloop.pharo.org/ ## 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 hands-on tutorials. 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 We added two types of sessions in addition to the regular talks and ''Show us your project'' sessions. - Show your business in a 10-minute session (Get prepared!!) - Teaching pearls: we want some sessions 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-minute sessions aggregated. ### How to submit? Make a Pull Request here https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2025-Conference/talks [Or but only if you are not connected to the world… send an email to stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr] Title: [ESUG 2025] Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Name: Email: Abstract: Bio: ## Call for Student Volunteers 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. Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Conference details: Send an email to Steven Costiou <steven.costiou at inria.fr> and Oleksandr Zaitsev <olk.zaytsev at gmail.com> with: title: [ESUG 2025 Student] name, gender, university/school, country, email address want to attend the isLoop lectures (https://isloop.pharo.org/) short description of you and why you are interested in participating For which period is accommodation covered? Accommodation is covered from Monday 30 th June to 4th July 2025. If you attend the isLoop lectures the saturday and sunday nights will be covered. Students will be hosted in student rooms. ESUG additionally covers the lunches during the week and one dinner. This year the isLoop schools is organized the Satruday, Sunday and Monday before the conference (soon at https://isloop.pharo.org/) Duties include handling registration as people arrive at the conference, collecting presentation slides for ESUG right after the presentation is given, being present at an information desk to answer questions, and generally being helpful. Student volunteering makes the conference better, takes a fairly small amount of time, and doesn't significantly interfere with enjoying and learning from the conference. Please note, that this role requires discipline and constant attention to all attendees. Information about hotel Student Volunteer rooms are booked at (to be announced). If you are a student volunteer, do not book yourself, we have arranged the booking already! Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr 06 30 93 66 73 "If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes

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