- Esug-list - lists.esug.org

[ANN] LatAm Squeaksource Mirror online again
by Johan Fabry Aug. 25, 2011

Aug. 25, 2011

Hi all, I'm happy to announce that the Latin American public, read-only Squeaksource mirror is again up and running. (We are bringing the contents up to date right now, it should be competely up-to-date in about 5 hours ...) The URL is: http://www.dsal.cl/squeaksource/ Note that you can use this mirror *in a completely transparent fashion*. We have worked out a solution to the privacy issues raised by the first iteration of our mirror. I would like to emphasize that private data has never been present on the mirror, only the name of private projects was accessible. TECHNICAL DETAILS BELOW. Please redistribute this announcement! (below is mainly a repeat of the body of my previous mail) MOTIVATION: For us, Switzerland is a long way and the connection to Squeaksource has always been painfully slow. We've set up this mirror to help to address this, and I imagine that it will be of use not only for the Chileans but also other countries in latin america, which is why I am announcing it here. ITS TRANSPARENT: I've worked out a way to make the use of this mirror transparent when using Pharo 1.3: you just use monticello as always, and have a setting to redirect loads from Squeaksource to wherever you want. I have successfully loaded Moose and Seaside from the mirror using this package, so it should work for you. And I can tell you, it was blazingly fast: Seaside loaded in 5m45, and most of the time was spent compiling ... ;-) So try the mirror and the package out, send me your comments, we want to work on this to make Squeaksource a better experience for everybody. HOW TO USE from Pharo 1.3: - Get the redirection package from http://www.squeaksource.com/MonticelloRedirect - To load from the mirror instead of from Squeaksource, do-it of the following: MRManager redirectFrom: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/' to: 'http://www.dsal.cl/squeaksource/'. - To remove this redirection: MRManager removeFrom: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/'. - See comments of MRManager for more info. MRManager list can be useful at some times. - Only 2 classes, < 10 methods, not counting accessors. The trick is the use of MethodWrappers. - I did not test this in Squeak or other versions of Pharo. Feel free to try it out in your environment and send me patches if needed. - There is no UI, contributions are welcome!! DETAILS ON THE MIRROR - It's a full copy of Squeaksource, updated daily. - The mirror is read-only: if you want to make a commit you still have to do it in Squeaksource. This is to avoid all the complications of distributed writes. - Updates happen once a day, before midnight Chilean time. Updates take typically (up till now) 200 minutes (!), average download speed here is 200KB/s :-( - Lukas Renggli pointed out that the Squeaksource sitemap file provides a list of projects. We pass this to wget (with some massaging of the data inbetween). - The software that does the mirror is available here: https://github.com/vramiro/easy-wget-mirror MANY THANKS TO: - Daniel Galdames for doing the original mirroring tests - Victor Ramiro for taking Daniels' work and putting it in production - The Squeaksource team for helping us, especially Fabrizio Perin and Mircea Lungu - Lukas Renggli for pointing out the issues with the previous version and providing an alternative. - You for trying it out and telling us about it! ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

2 1

Slowly uploading ESUG Slides
by Marcus Denker Aug. 24, 2011

Aug. 24, 2011

Hi, We are starting to upload the Slides of ESUG 2011: SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/esug/ Archive (PDF): http://esug.org/data/ESUG2011/Slides/ I will tweet every uploaded slide here: http://twitter.com/#!/esugsmalltalk Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

1 0

Research Engineer Position at INRIA
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 23, 2011

Aug. 23, 2011

Hi guys We have a position for an engineer position around dynamic language (javascript, smalltalk) and security. Engineer position • Duration: 1-2 years • Starting date: end 2011/beginning 2012 • Where: RMOD team at INRIA Lille Nord Europe http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/ • Salary: 55 Keuros net (before taxes) Keywords: dynamic languages, security, information flow, Smalltalk, Javascript The position will take place in the context of the Systematic Resilience project. Three main tasks will be our focus: • Develop a component model named JIO to manage I/O user interface in Javascript for cloud applications • Identification of security problems in Javascript • Study and analyze approaches towards securing Javascript and dynamic languages (Caja, isolate...) • Prototype of a safe architecture for Resilience Please contact Stephane Ducasse (Stephane.Ducasse(a)inria.fr) for more information. ------------------------ Dr. Stéphane Ducasse -- Directeur de Recherche (Senior Researcher) INRIA - USTL - CNRS UMR 8022 stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/ **NEW ***Tel 00 33 (0)3 20 43 42 56 - Fax 33 3 59 57 78 50 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza, Villeneuve d'Ascq, FR-59650, France.

1 0

Announcement: Smalltalk Industry Conference 2012 will be in Biloxi, MS, March 18 to 21
by Georg Heeg Aug. 23, 2011

Aug. 23, 2011

Dear ESUG Members, I just made this announcement in Edinburgh: 1. Smalltalk Solutions has been renamed to Smalltalk Industry Conference (STIC) 2. STIC 2012 will be in Biloxi, Mississippi 3. STIC 2012 will open Sunday March 18th, 2012 in the evening 4. STIC 2012 conference days will be Monday to Wednesday March 19th to 21st, 2012 5. STIC 2012 will be followed by a Camp Smalltalk on Thursday and Friday 6. There will be program for Student Volunteers 7. Call for papers is open 8. STIC will continue to collaborate with ESUG Please stay tuned for further announcements on www.stic.st Georg Heeg STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council Executive Director Phone +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712

1 0

3 years postdoc position on dynamic language and security
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 23, 2011

Aug. 23, 2011

We have a 3 year postdoc position on dynamic languages and security: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/blog/2011-08-19-2 Do not hesitate to apply Postdoc Position • Duration: 3 years • Starting date: end 2011 • Where: RMOD team at INRIA Lille Nord Europe http://rmod.lille.inria.fr • Salary: 55 Keuros net (before taxes) Keywords: dynamic languages, security, information flow, Smalltalk, Javascript The position will take place in the context of the Systematic Resilience project. We will focus on the following main tasks: • Identification and understanding of security problems in Javascript and other dynamic languages • Study and analyze existing approaches towards securing Javascript (Caja, isolates...) • Comparison of different approaches to secure dynamic applications (Zope model, ZTK), Ruby • Study of Mirrors/Capabilities as a basis for security in Javascript • Proposition of an safe architecture for Resilience Please contact Stephane Ducasse (Stephane.Ducasse(a)inria.fr) for more information. Stef ------------------------ Dr. Stéphane Ducasse -- Directeur de Recherche (Senior Researcher) INRIA - USTL - CNRS UMR 8022 stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/ **NEW ***Tel 00 33 (0)3 20 43 42 56 - Fax 33 3 59 57 78 50 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza, Villeneuve d'Ascq, FR-59650, France.

1 0

[ANN] glamorous inspector
by Tudor Girba Aug. 23, 2011

Aug. 23, 2011

Hi, I am happy to announce the first release of the Glamorous Inspector, a new browser for inspecting objects based on Glamour. More information, including a demo and screenshots, can be found here: http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/glamorous-inspector-for-smalltalk To download it follow the instructions from: http://www.moosetechnology.org/tools/glamoroustoolkit You can use it by: 1. "GTInspector openOn: someObject", or 2. "GTInspector registerToolsOn: Smalltalk tools" and then use CMD+I (explore) Please let your opinion be heard :) Cheers, Doru p.s. Have fun at ESUG :) -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every successful trip needs a suitable vehicle."

1 0

[UPDATE] Call for Papers: Smalltalks 2011
by Andy Kellens Aug. 22, 2011

Aug. 22, 2011

UPDATE: We received numerous requests to postpone the submission deadline. Therefore, you can still submit a paper to Smalltalks 2011 until Monday, September 5th! CALL FOR PAPERS SMALLTALKS 2011 5th International Conference on Smalltalk Technologies Research Track: Call for Papers November 3th - 5th, 2011 Camera Ready Submission: October 7th, 2011. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2011 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): August 22th, 2011 (Argentinian time: UTC/GMT -3 hours). Notification of acceptance: September 23th, 2011. Camera Ready Submission: October 7th, 2011. Papers: Papers should be written in English, in PDF-format and should not exceed 15 pages (including references and figures), using the Elsevier journal format. Templates for LaTeX formats can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/elsart Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair submission web site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smalltalks2011 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 Jannik Laval and Andy Kellens to smalltalks2011-chair(a)fast.org.ar. Program Committee -------------------------- - Gonzalo Zabala (Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Argentina) - Hernan Wilkinson (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Serge Stinckwich (Institut de recherche pour le developppement, France) - Mircea Lungu (University of Bern, Switzerland) - Tudor Girba (Sw-eng. Software Engineering GmbH, Switzerland) - Johan Fabry (DCC, Universidad de Chile, Chile) - Luc Fabresse (Ecole des Mines Douai, France) - Marcus Denker (INRIA Lille, France) - Coen De Roover (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) - Damien Cassou (Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam, Germany) - Gilad Bracha (SAP Labs, Palo Alto, USA) - Noury Bouraqadi (Ecole des Mines Douai, France) - Alexandre Bergel (DCC, Universidad de Chile, Chile) - Gabriela Arevalo (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina) Program Chairs -------------------- Andy Kellens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Jannik Laval (INRIA Lille/LABRI Bordeaux, France) --- Jannik Laval PhD Student - Rmod Team - INRIA Certified Project Management Associate (IPMA) http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://rmod.lille.inria.fr ---

1 0

[ANN] PDF 4 Smalltalk
by Christian Haider Aug. 21, 2011

Aug. 21, 2011

I am proud to announce an open source PDF implementation. I will give a talk about this at ESUG (on Wednesday, 10:30, according to current schedule). The presentation will be available at Origo (see below) after the talk. I just published the bundles to the Cincom public store: - Fonts Development - PDF Development It is developed in VisualWorks 7.8 and should work with older versions. If not, please give me a note. The bundle comment of {PDF Development}: 8<------------------------ Read and write PDF files. Support for PDF as defined by the ISO standard PDF 32000-1:2008 (see http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html) Look at Document class in Package [PDF Development] to find simple demos to get you started. Best load order for development: 1. bundle {Values Development} 2. bundle {Fonts Development} 3. bundle {PDF Development} See also the project site at Origo: http://pdf4smalltalk.origo.ethz.ch/ ---------------->8 Happy hacking, Christian

4 3

[ANN] Fuel release version 1.6
by Martin Dias Aug. 19, 2011

Aug. 19, 2011

Hello! I want to announce the new release version number 1.6 of Fuel, a binary serialization framework for Pharo that provides extremely fast deserialization. More information on our home page<http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel>. Again, I thank ESUG for sponsoring me through the SummerTalk<http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Promotion/SummerTalk/SummerTalk2011>program. You can download this version in Pharo 1.2.1 with: Gofer new squeaksource: 'Fuel'; package: 'ConfigurationOfFuel'; load. ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfFuel) project version: '1.6') load. This version does not add any new concrete functionality but has two main achievements: a performance improvement and a design clean up. Many changes included in this release are part of a design clean up. They are a necessary step forward to new functionalities that are coming soon. They make code more understandable. They enable simpler extension. Happily they also helped to improve serialization performance by reducing unnecessary interactions. And it is specially important a bottleneck in graph analysis stage we have successfully attacked, obtaining great results. Details: - Removed explicit references to cluster classes scattered around the system. For example, in previous versions Float>>fuelCluster has an explicit reference to FLFloatCluster. This version replaces this by a double dispatch interaction. - Clusters: Better reification. Removed annoying IDs. Removed Singleton instance creation mechanism, now mappers manage uniqueness in a better way. - Mappers: They were simplified. New mapping machanism inspired on Chain of Responsibility pattern. The global objects detection has been optimized considerably. - Analyzer: Part of its behavior and state has been moved to a new abstraction called 'clusterization'. Best regards, Martín Dias

2 2

Re: [Esug-list] Smalltalk lecture Saturday 20th of August at ESUG
by Marcus Denker Aug. 16, 2011

Aug. 16, 2011

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Juraj Kubelka <juraj.kubelka(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Smalltalkers, > If it is worth to do it and someone give me an introduction to management of > live-streaming, I can be in charge of that. > Live streaming needs serious internet infrastructure... (just imagine 100 people watching at the same time). Than there is the software side... I am sure that last year, citilab didn't set this up in a week :-) Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- denker(a)acm.org http://www.marcusdenker.de

6 6