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Smalltalks 2012 - 6th International Conference on Smalltalk Technologies - Call for papers
by Jorge Ressia Aug. 6, 2012

Aug. 6, 2012

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers] CALL FOR PAPERS SMALLTALKS 2012 6th International Conference on Smalltalk Technologies http://www.fast.org.ar/smalltalks2012 Research Track: Call for Papers - http://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/events/smalltalks12 November 3th - 5th, 2012 Important dates: Submission (Hard Deadline): September 17th, 2012 (Argentinian time: UTC/GMT -3 hours). Notification of acceptance: October 8th, 2012. Camera Ready Submission: November 2nd, 2012. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Location: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Argentina) The Smalltalks series of conferences (www.fast.org.ar) is a lively forum on Smalltalk-based software technologies that brings together more than 200 people from both academia and industry for a period of three days. Past editions of Smalltalks have included many high-quality presentations from industry and research. These contributions have shown interesting applications of Smalltalk, advances in the Smalltalk language, didactic uses of Smalltalk and so on. Similar to last year, Smalltalks 2012 will include a dedicated research track. We welcome submissions to this research track presenting original scientific contributions to, or using, Smalltalk in general. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Aspects, Aspect Languages and Applications. - Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous / Pervasive Computing and Embedded Systems. - Compilation Technology, Optimization, Virtual Machines. - Educational Material. - Language Engineering, Extensions. - Model Driven Engineering / Development. - Meta-Modeling, Reflection and Meta-programming. - Programming in the Large, Design, Architectures and Components. - Programming Environments, Browsers, User Interfaces, UI Frameworks. - Source-code analysis and manipulation (Static analysis, refactoring, type inference, metrics). - Team Management. - Testing, Extreme Programming / Practices. - Web Services, Internet Applications, Event-driven Programming. - Experience Reports. Important dates: Submission (Hard Deadline): September 17th, 2012 (Argentinian time: UTC/GMT -3 hours). Notification of acceptance: October 8th, 2012. Camera Ready Submission: November 2nd, 2012. Papers: Papers should be written in English, in PDF-format and should not exceed 15 pages (including references and figures), using the JOT journal format. Templates for LaTeX formats can be found at http://www.jot.fm/authors.html Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair submission web site at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smalltalks12 The accepted papers will be digitally available on the conference website. We are currently negotiating a special edition of a journal for which the best papers will get invited. Papers submitted must not have been previously published and must not be under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must strictly adhere to submission guidelines. If you have questions, please send an e-mail to Jorge Ressia (ressia(a)iam.unibe.ch) Special Issue Publication -------------------------- The best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work in a special issue of the International Journal JOT (The Journal of Object Technology), http://www.jot.fm/ Program Committee -------------------------- - Alexandre Bergel (DCC, Universidad de Chile, Chile) - Andy Kellens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) - Coen De Roover (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) - Damien Cassou (Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam, Germany) - Gabriela Arevalo (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina) - Gonzalo Zabala (Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Argentina) - Hernan Wilkinson (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Jannik Laval (INRIA Lille/LABRI Bordeaux, France) - Johan Fabry (DCC, Universidad de Chile, Chile) - Luc Fabresse (Ecole des Mines Douai, France) - Lukas Renggli (Google, Switzerland) - Marcus Denker (INRIA Lille, France) - Mircea Lungu (University of Bern, Switzerland) - Noury Bouraqadi (Ecole des Mines Douai, France) - Serge Stinckwich (Institut de recherche pour le developppement, France) - Tudor Girba (Sw-eng. Software Engineering GmbH, Switzerland) Program Chair -------------------- Jorge Ressia (Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland)

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Altitude web framework presentation - Vancouver, BC
by Francois Stephany Aug. 1, 2012

Aug. 1, 2012

Hey Smalltalkers, The Vancouver Smalltalk developer group is meeting again. This time, Colin Putney will show us his new open source web framework: Altitude. http://forum.world.st/ANN-Altitude-td4640421.html The location of the event is still to be announced. Please email me if you/your company can/want to host the event. If nobody comes with a better suggestion, we can gather at the same place than last time (The Office — Cordova at Cambie, Gastown). The presentation will take place between 6th and 11th August 2012. Please answer the Doodle: http://www.doodle.com/uvif5cuuh9kmtf8y If possible, RSVP on the Meetup group, that will help me to organize: http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Smalltalk-Developers-Group/events/74847972/ As usual, all Smalltalk levels are welcome ;) Cheers, Francois -- http://tulipemoutarde.be CA: +1 778 558 3225 BE: +32 65 709 131

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[ANN] humane assessment / moose courses
by Tudor Girba July 21, 2012

July 21, 2012

Hi, Humane assessment is a method for making software engineering decisions. Assessing software systems to make decisions is a critical activity that needs to be approached explicitly during development. Humane assessment is made possible by the Moose analysis platform. I am organizing a couple of courses in Bern that might be of interest to people on this list: Humane Assessment Primer (August 17) - This course is relevant for both managers and engineers. It covers assessment economics and the means to integrate humane assessment in the development process and in the organization - http://www.humane-assessment.com/courses/humane-assessment-primer Moose Apprentice (September 6-7) - This course is relevant for engineers. This is an introductory hands-on course on using the Moose analysis platform for putting humane assessment into practice - http://www.humane-assessment.com/courses/moose-apprentice If you are interested in participating, please contact me directly. Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com "In a world where everything is moving ever faster, one might have better chances to win by moving slower."

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Wolf Pack Programming Workshop in Berlin
by Nowak, Helge July 20, 2012

July 20, 2012

Dear Smalltalkers in and around Berlin, we are organizing a Wolf Pack Programming workshop in Berlin. It is free of charge and open to OO developers, Smalltalkers and non-Smalltalkers, interested in learning about Real-Time Collaboration in software development. It will take place on August 9th from 18:00 to 23:00 at the offices of Nokia Gate 5 (many thanks to Nokia!!). Workshop seats are limited. Further information you'll find here: https://www.xing.com/events/wolf-pack-programming-workshop-1116038 If you are not a XING member (and don't want to become one) simply send me an email and I will sign you up. Please forward the information to anybody who might be interested. Cheers Helge ************************************************************** Helge Nowak Technical Account Manager Cincom Smalltalk Cincom Systems GmbH & Co. oHG Am Kronberger Hang 4 D-65824 Schwalbach/Ts. Tel.: +49-(0)89-89664494 Mobil: +49-(0)172-7400402 Fax: +49-(0)89-89664495 Email: mailto:hnowak@cincom.com <mailto:hnowak@cincom.com> Twitter: @nowagil Web: http://www.cincom.com <http://www.cincom.com/> All about Cincom Smalltalk: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com <http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/> Vorträge und Workshops zu Real-Time Collaboration: GI Karlsruhe (4.7. und 11.7.) http://rg-karlsruhe.gi.de/veranstaltungen/2012.html <http://rg-karlsruhe.gi.de/veranstaltungen/2012.html> Agile World München (12.7.) http://agileworld.de/ <http://agileworld.de/> A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero. -- Albert Einstein Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Thomas M. Nies, Gerald L. Shawhan oHG mit Sitz/based in Schwalbach/Ts. (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRA 2653) Pers. haftender Gesellschafter/Partner liable to unlimited extent: Cincom Systems Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRB 5069) **************************************************************

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Pharo 1.4 "Summer" released!
by Esteban Lorenzano July 19, 2012

July 19, 2012

We are proud to announce the summer release of Pharo 1.4! You can find information about Pharo at: http://www.pharo-project.org About this release. We integrated 30 fixes (the rounded number is completely casual) and integrated some tools that users feedback showed as necessary, specially the inclusion of OmniBrowser as part of the core for 1.4. As a result of all this changes and fixes, the stability of this version is a lot better and we are really happy with it. Structural changes to the image: - Backport configurations browser from 2.0. This will easy the loading of packages for everybody, specially newcomers. - Integrated ProfStef. Again, useful for newcomers. - Integrated Spotlight. Easy to find classes and methods. - Integrated OmniBrowser. Nautilus will wait to 2.0 to be core, but it is still loadable. - Integrated Keymapping. This is in fact a sub-product of the inclusion of Spotlight, but the framework is powerful and it deserves its inclusion too :) - Updated Zinc to latest version. Complete list of bugs fixed: - 5665: bug on new ecompletion/ocompletion, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5665 - 5773: Have access to the original event in PLuggableButtonMorph, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5773 - 5584: File Browser not recognizing cs and st if filename has more than one point, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5584 - 5667: Renaming a file just deletes it due to missing #fileNameFromFormattedItem:, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5667 - 5445: Broken command-line arguments in 1.4, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5445 - 5679: Removing a trait does not remove trait methods from class, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5679 - 5722: Be able to remove traits from class definition, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5722 - 5858: DateAndTime >>#hash, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5858 - 5833: More robust allSuperclassesIncluding:, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5833 - 5966: DropListMorph do not pop the list when the text field is clicked, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5966 - 5627: "MessageNotUnderstood: receiver of "displayWorld" is nil" on clicking the red Menu-Halo., http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5627 - 5742: BallonMorph shows flyover help using an extra line, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5742 - 6150: During snapshot: Send cr after Transcript message for 1.4, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6150 - 6147: Code completion in all tools for 1.4, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6147 - 6189: [BUG]: Port to Pharo 1.4 - stdin hangs until EOF, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6189 - 6143: MIME decoding and Unicode not working, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6143 - 6188: [BUG]: (1.4) Put back the correct order in #asert:equals:, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6188 - 6187: [Bug]: (1.4) Mouse down events are being processed twice, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6187 - 6117: SimplifiedChineseEnvironment should implement leadingChar, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6117 - 6082: Missed translated selector for the dialog title in the ColorChooserMorph, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6082 - 6231: FileList revert, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6231 - 6303: [BUG]: Completion DNU in Inspector/Object Explorer for 1.4, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6303 - 6305: StartupPreferences "run once" broken, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6305 - 6324: For Pharo 1.4 disable StartupPreferences only for Windows, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6324 - 6313: failing test: MorphicTests.Event.EventHandlerTest.testKeyStrokeFromMorph, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6313 - 6352: StartupPreferences loads non-st files in 1.4, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6352, , - 6373: Add #version to OSPlatform, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6373 - 6366: [Bug]: In 1.4, Finder UI DNU guessTypeByName:, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6366 - 6343: move Windows on screen should take in account the task bar, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6343 - 6386: [BUG]: [1.4]: New ProcessSpecificVariables & Running Processes, http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6386 Not bad, isn't? Thanks a lot to all who contributed with fixes, reports and suggestions. The Pharo Team

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9th Innovation Technology Awards - Reminder
by jdelgado July 17, 2012

July 17, 2012

Hi, Reminder: 29 days to deadline Have you written innovative Smalltalk? The developers of any Smalltalk-based software can enter by submitting a 3-5min video of their software. Entrants demo their systems in a session at the end of Monday August 27th 2012, after which the conference attendees vote. (A vote consists in providing a sorted list of 3 preferred pieces of software.) The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros. The results are announced in the Awards ceremony that is held during the social event. Applicants should provide the following information on the conference registration server. Once you have registered your personal info, an 'Awards' menu allows submitting your software. You can provide this information when you first register, or login again later and update your details. The registration server will open soon. You can start preparing your software right now though. Info to provide: Name of the software Licence information (free, shareware, or commercial) Name of the Smalltalk dialect used Name, Affiliation and Country of developers Besides, it would be great if the submission could include: URL for a video (3-5 min) showing a screencast / demo of the software URL for downloading the software or at least a runnable demo Deadline: August 15 Any Smalltalker can apply (students, companies, ...). The presented piece of code/software should be written in Smalltalk or directly support Smalltalk (e.g. Smalltalk VM). All Smalltalk dialects are accepted. The applicant should be "strongly related" to the presented code, be it as an author, as owner of the copyright/copyleft, or as an official representative of the copyright/copyleft owner. Bests Jordi -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/9th-Innovation-Technology-Awards-Reminder-tp4640271.h… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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ESUG considers sponsoring the Pharo Consortium
by Damien Cassou July 15, 2012

July 15, 2012

The ESUG board currently considers sponsoring the Pharo Consortium (see http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2012-June/066881.html) We believe that Pharo is important for the Smalltalk ecosystem. Note that ESUG is promoting Smalltalk in general and this action is in the same vein as previous actions such as sponsoring local Smalltalk groups (FAST, Catalan, Russian, …), Smalltalk dialects (SqueakFoundation, etoy), development projects (Mars, DBXTalk, DrGeo II, SqueakVirtual Machine cleaning), and books (Seaside and GNU book). Before deciding, the board would like to gather feedback from the community. We want to be clear that there is a strict distinction between ESUG and Pharo (both consortium and association) even if some people are involved in both. What do you think? -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." James Iry

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Re: [Esug-list] Smalltalk lecture in Africa
by Nowak, Helge July 12, 2012

July 12, 2012

Dear Stef, what kind of lecture would that be and who will be doing it? Or, are you also looking for a lecturer that you'd like to fund the travel? Cheers Helge -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: esug-list-bounces(a)lists.esug.org [mailto:esug-list-bounces@lists.esug.org] Im Auftrag von Stéphane Ducasse Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2012 21:40 An: Stéphane Ducasse Cc: ESUG Mailing list Betreff: Re: [Esug-list] ESUG considers sponsoring the Pharo Consortium BTW since people are reading this nice thread I would like to take the advantage to get the following message: ESUG would like to get some lectures done in Afrika. If you happened to know good university that would be interested we would like to sponsor a lecture. Stef _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

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[ANN] Roassal 1.59 released
by Alexandre Bergel July 12, 2012

July 12, 2012

Hi! For nearly one year, we have been pushing the Roassal visualization engine at a steady pace. We are now happy to release Roassal 1.59, for VisualWorks and Pharo. Screenshots have been added to http://objectprofile.com/pier/Products/Roassal/ We have fixed many bugs. Thanks to you to have reported it. In addition to this, a set of "color normalizers" have been added. A highly wanted feature, especially by the Moose community. Normalizers are useful to generate fading and coloring effects. Numerous examples are provided in the easel. Glamour also supports Roassal. This means that panes of a glamour browser can be a Roassal visualization. What could be considered as "game changers" will be announced soon. Such as an Amber/JavaScript exporter and to use the athens renderer. Many people are involved in this new release. Our thanks goes in particular to, in no special order: Tudor Girba, Chris Thorgrimsson, Usman Bhatti, Dennis Schenk, Stéphane Ducasse, Martin Dias, Daan Smit, Steffen Märcker, Ben Coman, Paul DeBruicker, Serge Stinckwich, Torsten Bergmann, Mariano Martinez Peck, Santiago Vidal and many others. Cheers, The Object Profile crew http://ObjectProfile.com

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New coat of paint for the World of Smalltalk ...
by Geert Claes July 11, 2012

July 11, 2012

After about 2 years I thought it was time to give the World of Smalltalk ( http://www.world.st world.st ) a refresh and I managed to find a bit of time after work. Some Google Analytics stats: forum.world.st data since January 2011: Visits: 214,519 Unique Visitors: 106,871 Average Visits: Between 300 - 450 per day From: 182 Countries Top City: Buenos Aires, Argentina world.st data since April 2010: Visits: 25,096 Unique Visitors: 14,002 Average Visits: Between 30 - 40 per day From: 140 Countries Top City: Montevideo, Uruguay http://forum.world.st/file/n4639533/worldStVisits.png http://forum.world.st/file/n4639533/worldStForumVisits.png -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/New-coat-of-paint-for-the-World-of-Smalltalk-tp463953… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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