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Silver Anniversary
by Georg Heeg June 28, 2012

June 28, 2012

Dear Smalltalkers, 7/7/1987 I founded my company, thus we will celebrate our silver anniversary 7/7/2012. Hereby I invite you and your friends and colleagues to celebrate with us. Saturday, 7/7/2012, an open day will take place from 10 am to 4 pm in our house in Wallstr. 22 in Köthen under the motto "Actually what does the company Heeg do?". We will begin at 10 am with a devotion led by Reverend Armin Kensbock. This will be followed by welcome addresses: the Mayor of our city Mr. Kurt-Jürgen Zander, Ms. Brigitte Take, Member of the Landtag, Mr. Minister (Ret.) Dr. Werner Sobetzko have announced addresses so far. A colorful programme follows, where anyone can learn, what we have done in the past 25 years and what the focus of our work has been. Who is prevented, for example by the Saxony Anhalt day in Dessau on Saturday or just wants to party with us on the eve, is invited Friday evening 6.7.2012 to an informal barbecue. Instead of presents, we ask for donations for the restoration of the Steinway grand piano of Music School Johann Sebastian Bach in Cöthen. Keyboard buttons can be purchased symbolically where the price is depending on the pitch from 55 € to 150 € (the a1 (440 Hz) is already sold to the string wind Orchestra and today the money transfer will take place). We ask that payments to the account of the Association of friends of the school of music at the Kreissparkasse Anhalt-Bitterfeld, bank code 80053722, account number 310000807. We'll have also a violin case. We ask you a short feedback, with how many people you plan to come. Georg Georg Heeg eK, Dortmund und Köthen, HR Dortmund A 12812 Wallstraße 22, 06366 Köthen Tel. +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712

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Worrying issue re compilation in Pharo 1.4
by Graham McLeod June 27, 2012

June 27, 2012

Hi Guys I am trying to use Pharo1.4 Latest update: #14438 as downloaded in the Moose 4.7 image. I am loving most of the changes and system tools - well done all! But I am coming up with a worrying bug where there is a difference between Source code and decompiled source code. Specifically, this occurs with two set methods which point to the wrong instance variable slot. So, when the code runs, the wrong variables are updated. Here is an example: Class definition: Thing subclass: #Relationship instanceVariableNames: 'context fromNode properties relType toNode' classVariableNames: '' poolDictionaries: '' category: 'Sapiento' Source Code: relType: anObject relType := anObject Byte Codes: 13 <10> pushTemp: 0 14 <62> popIntoRcvr: 2 15 <78> returnSelf Decompiled Code: relType: anObject properties := anObject NOTE: properties is updated instead of relType. I may have added a new instance variable since the original class definition. Are there known issues / available fixes around this? Please advise Thanks in advance. Graham

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German Squeakers meeting July, 7th in Potsdam
by Rita Freudenberg June 27, 2012

June 27, 2012

Dear Squeakers, here comes the invitation for the annual meeting of Squeak Germany e.V. on July, 7th at HPI in Potsdam. http://www.squeak.de/events-squeaktreffen-2012/squeaktreffen-2012 Greetings, Rita ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Liebe Squeaker, auch dieses Jahr laden wir Euch wieder herzliche zum Squeak-Treffen mit Vorträgen und zur Mitgliederversammlung ein Wo? Dank Robert Hirschfeld und seinem Team wieder am Hasso Plattner Institut bei der Software-Architektur Gruppe in Potsdam. Den Raum geben wir noch bekannt. Anfahrt: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hpi/campus/anfahrt.html S a m s t a g, 07.07.2012 Vorträge (Beginn 13:00 Uhr) Themen sind gern gesehen bzw. in Planung. Wenn Ihr Ideen habt, bitte melden! Bitte meldet Euch rechtzeitig! Vereinsversammlung (17:00 Uhr - 18:00 Uhr) - Bestimmung des Protokollführers und der Kassenprüfer - Feststellung der Beschlussfähigkeit - Vorstellung / Änderung der Tagesordnung - Aktivitäten des Vereins 2011-2012 - Bericht des Schatzmeisters und der Kassenprüfer - Künftige Aktivitäten - Sonstiges Wer noch Ideen für Tagesordnungspunkte hat, bitte satzungsgemäß innerhalb von zwei Wochen melden. Anschließend Ausklang in gemütlicher Runde in Potsdam. Bitte antwortet an uns oder an die Liste, wenn Ihr kommen könnt, so dass wir ein wenig planen können, vor allem wegen des abendlichen Treffens! Wir hoffen Euch wieder zahlreich in Potsdam treffen zu können. Viele Grüße Enno, Esther und Rita Rita Freudenberg rita.freudenberg(a)ovgu.de

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IWST 2012 Best Papers special issue
by Loïc Lagadec June 26, 2012

June 26, 2012

Dear smalltalkers, We are pround to announce that the authors of the best accepted papers of IWST 2012, will also be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a special issue of Elsevier "Science of Computer Programming : Methods of Software Design: Techniques and Applications" (Impact factor 1.82) IWST 2012 web page: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2012/International-Workshop---IWS… Best regards, Program Co-chairs Loïc Lagadec, Alain Plantec Lab-STICC, Université de Bretagne Occidentale

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REMINDER: early registration deadline for ESUG is next Saturday (June 30th)
by Johan Brichau June 23, 2012

June 23, 2012

Dear Smalltalkers, The early registration deadline for this year's ESUG conference in Gent, Belgium, is next Saturday (June 30th). Please register for the conference on http://registration.esug.org ! If you have not booked your accomodation yet, please do so before June 30th (all our options at the various hotels expire at that date). Do not hesitate to contact me for further inquiries. Hope to see you in Gent! Johan Brichau

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Cincom Smalltalk Team is hiring!
by mkobetic＠cincom.com June 22, 2012

June 22, 2012

We're looking for experienced developers with passion for Smalltalk. We're especially interested in candidates that have experience relevant to VM development, or GUI/Tools development. Following link provides information on how to find the descriptions of the openings and how to apply: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/2012/05/looking-for-a-few-good-smalltal…

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Vancouver Meetup group. Second edition
by Francois Stephany June 16, 2012

June 16, 2012

Hi, The next meetup of the Vancouver Smalltalk Developers Group is scheduled for next thursday in Gastown. This will be a demo meetup. If you want to show something, bring your laptop and share your love! * 6pm, Thursday, June 14, 2012 * The Office (http://www.theofficevancouver.com/) 309 West Cordova Street (Room 320) Vancouver BC V6B 1E5 If you're a meetup.com member, please RSVP for the event, that will help to plan and bring some visibility to the group: http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Smalltalk-Developers-Group/ Cheers, Francois -- http://tulipemoutarde.be CA: +1 778 558 3225 BE: +32 65 709 131

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[ESUG 2012] Call for sponsors
by Luc Fabresse June 14, 2012

June 14, 2012

Dear Smalltalkers, As you know ESUG (European Smalltalk User Group) is a nonprofit organization, ran by a bunch of volunteers which aims at promoting Smalltalk (http://www.esug.org/Promotion) ESUG does have multiple actions such as sponsoring Smalltalk-related publications (articles and books), encouraging developers and more specifically young students to learn Smalltalk (Student Volunteers program) and build innovative software using Smalltalk (SummerTalk, ESUG Awards, "Support your project" program, Umbrella for GSoC, ...). ESUG revenue comes only from sponsoring, donations, and registrations to the ESUG yearly event (for 20 years!). Therefore, we invite you to support the ESUG actions by encouraging your companies and organizations to sponsor ESUG. As previous years, we have three sponsoring packages ( http://www.esug.org/About/BecomeSponsor) * Silver ESUG Sponsor: By paying € 500 per year, the logo of your company/association is displayed during the ESUG conference, and you are also recognized as a sponsor on our ESUG website http://www.esug.org. You are entitled to mention that you are an ESUG sponsor, and to use the ESUG logo in that context. * Gold ESUG Sponsor: By paying € 1000 per year, you get all of the above, and ESUG correspondence and distributions (CD, Documentation) will feature your logo. You also get a 10% fee reduction on the ESUG events for up to 5 people of your organisation. * Platinum ESUG Sponsor: By Paying € 2000 per year, you get all of the above, but you get a 20% fee reduction on the ESUG events for up to 10 people of your organisation. For any further information, you can contact us directly at board(a)esug.org. Best regards, Luc Fabresse On behalf of the ESUG board

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IWST Extended Deadline
by Loic Lagadec June 14, 2012

June 14, 2012

Dear smalltalkers, We would like to inform you that we will extend the deadline for IWST 2012 submission to Monday, June 25th. We have received several requests asking for a delay concerning the submission deadline. Please can you disseminate this information and use the CFP to invite some of your colleagues/students/partners to submit papers. Your support is essential to make IWST 2012 a success. Please find attached to this message the CFP (with deadline extension), so as you can disseminate the CFP through your own mailing lists. We also hope you will be able to submit some of your contributions. Thank you for your interest in IWST'2012 and if you have any questions, feel free to contact us, it will be our pleasure to exchange with you. Best regards, Program Co-chairs Loïc Lagadec, Alain Plantec Lab-STICC, Université de Bretagne Occidentale INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SMALLTALK TECHNOLOGIES 2012 August 28th, 2012 Gent, Belgium. ESUG 2012 Smalltalk joint event IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: June 15, June 25 2012 EXTENDED DEADLINE Notification deadline: July 15, 2012 All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL, and the authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a journal special issue (To Be Confirmed). GOALS AND SCOPES The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas. Participants are invited to submit research articles. We will not enforce any length restriction. However we expect papers of two kinds: Short position papers describing emerging ideas. Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Topics We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as: * Aspect-oriented programming, * Design patterns, * Experience reports, * Frameworks, * Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, * Interaction with other languages, * Meta-programming and Meta-modeling, * Tools LINKS_home page:_http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2012/International-Workshop… submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm. This site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions. PROGRAM CHAIRSLoïc Lagadec and Alain Plantec (LabSticc CACS/CNRS, University of Brest, France) PROGRAM COMMITTEEGabriela Arevalo Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina Alexandre Bergel University of Chile Andrew P. Black Portland State University, US Marcus Denker Rmod, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France Luc Fabresse Ecole des Mines de Douai, France, Tudor Girba CompuGroup Medical Schweiz, Switzerland Andy Kellens Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Mickaël Kerboeuf LabSticc, University of Brest, France Jannik Laval LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France Mariano Martinez Peck Ecole des Mines de Douai, France, Lukas Renggli Google, Switzerland Jorge Ressia Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland Bastian Steinert HPI, Software Architecture Group, Germany Hernan Wilkinson 10Pines, IT consultancy, Buenos Aires, Argentina Roel Wuyts IMEC Leuven, Belgium [1] Liens: ------ [1] http://www.univ-brest.fr

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Metacello BOF at ESUG 2012?
by Dale Henrichs June 13, 2012

June 13, 2012

I am planning on doing an informal Metacello Q&A session at Camp Smalltalk this year. Johan Fabry suggested a Metacello BOF during the main conference for folks who weren't able to attend Camp Smalltalk. I've also submitted a talk proposal on Metacello. Anyway, it doesn't seem that there are usually a lot of BOFs at ESUG, nor the facilities for a BOF, so I was wondering what options there might be? ... I could make room for open Q&A at the end of my talk, but I would prefer a much more informal setting for the Q&A - something with a white board ... What do you folks think. Dale

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