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Next step
by Saurav March 28, 2012

March 28, 2012

Hi all! I have been reading the PBE e-book and running the examples and playing away in the Pharo environment. I now have a decent overview of the Pharo environment, the process of developing and writing Smalltalk code for the Pharo implementation (Using the System Browser, classification of classes and methods into packages and protocols respectively, and use of the Debugger). I now want to take the next step for Pharo contribution, and this is something which will really get me into gears. I want to work on the *"**Export Excel files and other spreadsheet related goodies" *project for GSoC 2012 for ESUG. I request for some description of the project from *Carla Griggio *for some pointers, and I will start making my applucation ready to submit. Thank you very much, Best regards, Saurav

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Fwd: [Pharo-project] Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? | Hacker News
by Noury Bouraqadi March 24, 2012

March 24, 2012

Begin forwarded message: > From: Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven(a)beta9.be> > Date: 24 mars 2012 09:22:36 HNEC > To: "Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr Development" <Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr> > Subject: [Pharo-project] Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? | Hacker News > Reply-To: Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > > Vote for Smalltalk! > > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692 > > Registration is non-agressive. Noury -- http://twitter.com/#!/NouryBouraqadi http://www.kroobe.com/profile/noury

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Smalltalk Industry Conference - STIC 2013 with Smalltalk Directions 2013
by Georg Heeg March 23, 2012

March 23, 2012

Dear ESUG Members, First of all thank you for sponsoring STIC 2012. We have used some of the ESUG sponsorship to make our first Smalltalk directions happen. Thus we could print the proceedings and we will mail a copy to all those authors who could not make it for various reasons. And we had s student volunteer Fabian who did a great job. Overall it has been a great conference. I personally liked the keynote by Sam Adams about Big POOP most. We have recorded all presentations. And after we will be back we will make slides and videos available. Please have a look at www.stic.st. At the end of the conference we announced Smalltalk Industry Conference 2013 which we will organize in Arizona in June 2013. You will find detailed information on www.stic.st. In June 2013 we will also have Smalltalk Directions 2013 organized by Smalltalk Academic Advisory Board STAAC. The formal call for papers will go out soon. But you can start planning to submit your research results today. The topics will probably be along the lines of this year's call for papers in <http://www.stic.st/2011/11/smalltalk-directions-call-for-participation/> http://www.stic.st/2011/11/smalltalk-directions-call-for-participation/. The papers will get reviewed and published and in the presentation you will get into contact with co-researchers and industrial Smalltalk users from all over the world. Overall it has been a great conference, thanks to all the authors and the participants to come. Georg Heeg PS: As for many conferences before James Robertson has blogged a lot on <http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView> http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView. Thanks to James for the publicity. STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council Executive Director Phone +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712

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Contributing to Smalltalk
by Saurav March 22, 2012

March 22, 2012

Hi all! I am keen to start contributing to the Smalltalk Community. Where can I find bug reports/submit patches? Also, I am a beginner at Smalltalk but am willing to learn. How can I start contributing? Thank you very much.

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International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2011
by Loïc Lagadec March 20, 2012

March 20, 2012

Dear smalltakers, We are now pleased to inform you that the IWST 2011 proceedings are currently on-line. here is the IWST link: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166929&picked=prox&cfid=71182337&cftoken… From this page, you will be able to acces all papers. Regards, Loïc Lagadec & Alain Plantec IWST 2011 co-chairs

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Fwd: [vwnc] [ANN] Code profiler and test coverage for VisualWorks
by stephane ducasse March 19, 2012

March 19, 2012

Begin forwarded message: > From: Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel(a)me.com> > Subject: [vwnc] [ANN] Code profiler and test coverage for VisualWorks > Date: March 19, 2012 3:54:52 PM GMT+01:00 > To: VWNC <vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu> > Cc: Vanessa Peña Araya <vpena(a)dcc.uchile.cl>, Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer <juampiboy(a)gmail.com> > > Dear All, > > The Smalltalk way of programming is really cool. However, we believe things can be significantly improved when talking about code profiling and testing. > > Over the last few months, we have worked hard on producing: > > - the Kai CPU profiling tool. It outputs some nice graphical report on where the CPU time is being spent on. It also indicates where you could introduce a memoization cache > > - the Hapao test coverage tool. It employs an effective and intuitive graphical representation to visually assess the quality of the coverage. > > Screenshots and descriptions may be found on http://objectprofile.com > Everything is available on the Cincom public store, under the MIT license. > There is a number of sophisticated technologies involved into this. So if you find a bug, we will do our best in a timely fashion to fix it. We pushed it hard before flying to STIC. Feedbacks are welcomed. > > Cheers, > Alexandre, Vanessa, Juan Pablo -- The Object Profile team > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vwnc mailing list > vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc

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GSoC 2012: we're in!
by Carla Griggio March 18, 2012

March 18, 2012

Hi everybody!! I'm glad to announce that ESUG has been accepted as an organization this year :) So Google will be funding some Smalltalk projects of our choice. Soon you'll be able to find the next steps into the program at http://gsoc2012.esug.org/. Cheers! Carla Griggio & Janko Mivšek GSoC Admins

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Fwd: [Pharo-project] Three presentations at Dyncon 2012 in Stockholm
by Marcus Denker March 15, 2012

March 15, 2012

Begin forwarded message: > From: Göran Krampe <goran(a)krampe.se> > Subject: [Pharo-project] Three presentations at Dyncon 2012 in Stockholm > Date: March 15, 2012 2:39:17 PM GMT+01:00 > To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> > Cc: pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > Reply-To: Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > > Hey fellas! > > Just wanted to mention that Smalltalk and Amber in particular has a fairly strong presence this year at Dyncon 2012 (http://swdc.se/dyncon2012/) > > - I am presenting "Brave new world" (the architecture of SmalltalkHub, which includes Amber, Phriak, Pharo, Seaside-REST etc) (see http://swdc.se/dyncon2012/sessions/) > > - Nicolas is presenting Amber. > > - Jason Ayers is probably presenting something Smalltalk related :) > > regards, Göran > -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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Fwd: [squeak-dev] [ANN] BioSmalltalk
by stephane ducasse March 15, 2012

March 15, 2012

Begin forwarded message: > From: Hernán Morales Durand <hernan.morales(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [squeak-dev] [ANN] BioSmalltalk > Date: March 15, 2012 1:32:55 PM GMT+01:00 > To: A friendly place where any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr>, beta(a)seaside.gemstone.com, vwnc mailing list <vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu>, The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> > Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> > > Dear all, > > It's been two years since I've started to work in bioinformatics with > Smalltalk. It has been a difficult decision because the quality and > amount of bioinformatics libraries is absolutely amazing, but I've > received a lot of support from the main researchers at the Institute > of Genetics where I'm working in Argentina. > > Now the initial step for a BioSmalltalk release is done. I hope the > FOSS community receive this pre-release as the basis for future > enhacements for bioinformatics with any Smalltalk flavor. Although in > the short-term it is unlikely for a BioSmalltalk to reach the users, > maturity and competitive level of major Bio* toolkits (BioPerl, > BioPython, BioRuby or BioJava), it could take too many years more if I > continue this work alone. However, BioSmalltalk was not conceived to > replace or defeat any other similar packages, but to provide to the > bioinformatics community the features of a pure object system. So feel > free to spread the word for all bioinformaticians, newcomers, > developers, or life scientists, for helping in any way and discovering > why Smalltalk is such a special environment. > > This release was implemented in Pharo 1.3 custom Core, but cross > Smalltalk portability was a priority. I'm working now to release > versions for GemStone, Squeak and VisualWorks is there is enough > interest. Everybody is welcome to contribute. > > You may download a pre-compiled release from the project page: > http://code.google.com/p/biosmalltalk/ > > Best regards, > > Hernán > > > -- > Hernán Morales > Institute of Veterinary Genetics (IGEVET). > National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). > La Plata (1900), Buenos Aires, Argentina. > Telephone: +54 (0221) 421-1799. > Internal: 422 > Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799. >

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[JOB, Academia] PhD Position at INRIA Lille
by Marcus Denker Feb. 27, 2012

Feb. 27, 2012

INRIA has a new call for PhD Student positions. Description ============ To support the creation and evolution of complex systems, dynamic languages provide support for reflection. A reflective system contains a model of itself to enable runtime change: if we change the model, the system changes and vice versa. Reflection allows the programmer to do any kind of change at runtime, even those that render the system useless or breach any kind of security guarantees. Reflection is an established research theme and has seen a lot of work over the last decades. The question of how to control reflection and related that of secure reflective systems in general has not seen much research activity. The goal of this PhD is to propose a new secure reflective language kernel for dynamic languages. The following points should be explored: - Study existing models of security. - Study existing reflective systems and especially prior work on security and reflection. - Propose a new, secure model of reflection. - Implemented the model in a dynamic, object-oriented language. References =========== - Jean-Baptiste Arnaud, Marcus Denker, Stéphane Ducasse, Damien Pollet, Alexandre Bergel, and Mathieu Suen. Read-Only Execution for Dynamic Languages. In Proceedings of the 48th International Conference Objects, Models, Components, Patterns (TOOLS'10), Malaga, Spain, 2010. - Marcus Denker, Mathieu Suen, and Stéphane Ducasse. The Meta in meta-object architectures. In Proceedings of TOOLS EUROPE 2008, volume 11 of LNBIP, pages 218–237, 2008. - Oscar Nierstrasz, Alexandre Bergel, Marcus Denker, Stéphane Ducasse, Markus Gaelli and Roel Wuyts, “On the Revival of Dynamic Languages,” Proceedings of Software Composition 2005, Thomas Gschwind and Uwe Aßmann (Eds.), vol. 3628, LNCS 3628, 2005, pp. 1-13 - Mark S. Miller and Jonathan S. Shapiro. Paradigm Regained: Abstraction Mechanisms for Access Control. In Proceedings of the 8th Asian Computing Science Conference, p. 224-242, 2003. Skills and Profile ==================== - You must hold a Master's in computer science, control engineering, mathematics, scientific computation or an equivalent diploma. - Nationality is not taken into consideration. - Knowledge in programming language design - Object-oriented programming with knowledge of Smalltalk About Lille and INRIA: ====================== - Lille is located in the north of France at the border to Belgium - one hour from Paris, 1h20 from London, 35 min from Brussels, by train. - French food, combined with belgian beer. - RMoD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr - INRIA Lille: http://www.inria.fr/lille/ - INRIA in General: http://www.inria.fr - Lille: -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille -http://wikitravel.org/en/Lille Benefits ======== - Duration : 36 months – starting date of the contract : October 2012, 15th - Salary: 1957,54 EUR the first two years and 2058,84 EUR the third year Monthly salary after taxes: around 1597,11 EUR the 1st two years and 1679,76 EUR the 3rd year (social security included). - Possibility of French courses - Help for housing - Scientific Resident card and help for husband/wife visa Additional Information ====================== - Application deadline: 4 May 2012 - Info on INRIA PhD Positions 2012: http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/phd/campaign-2012 - Before applying, please contact the scientist advisor: marcus.denker(a)inria.fr Permanent URL of this call: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/blog/2012-02-27 All RMOD Jobs: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/Jobs -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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