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moose 4.1
by Tudor Girba Sept. 20, 2010

Sept. 20, 2010

Hello, We are happy to announce the Moose Suite version 4.1: http://moosetechnology.org/download What's new: • Significant speed improvements of Mondrian and Glamour • Improved Mondrian drawing of complex shapes • Improved Glamour engine to handle cyclic updates • New user interface look an feel • Improved set of Glamour widgets • Re-packaging to strengthen the naming convention • Re-organization of the code to break unwanted dependencies • Cleaning of FAMIX • New extensible design of the Moose Finder • New PetitParser-based parsers for MSE, Java, and MANIFEST.MF files • New browser for meta-models described in MSE files • Based on Pharo 1.1 A complete list of issues fixed in this release can be found at:http://code.google.com/p/moose-technology/issues/list?can=1&q=status=Fix… An incomplete set of future actions: • Better browsers for various analyses use cases • Improved FAMIX query API (MooseChic) • Improved Glamour widgets • EyeSee engine for drawing charts • AST for Java Have fun, The Moose Team

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Is the live streaming down?
by Henrik Høyer Sept. 17, 2010

Sept. 17, 2010

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Thanks to ESUG and their sponsors
by Henrik Høyer Sept. 17, 2010

Sept. 17, 2010

Just my humble thoughts... I watched the talks from Cincom and Instantiations , and was somewhat surprised of the very short time they were given. They are sponsors of the event, and should imho get more time to promote their offerings. The talks from the vendors was biased towards existing customers, and I think that the vendors should be given a chance to promote the offerings; show their usp's, showcase their references, present licensing information, prices etc. etc. Basically allow them to give the sales pitch, they would normally use to impress a prospect. -- Henrik Høyer, sPeople ApS Chief Software Architect (+45) 4029 2092

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ESUG 2010 Tech Awards Results
by Noury Bouraqadi Sept. 17, 2010

Sept. 17, 2010

Hi, Monday evening we had demos of participants. It was great and we had hard time voting. Yesterday evening we had the awards ceremony. And the winners are... -1st Physical Etoys (Squeak Etoys) • Developers: Lic. Gonzalo Zabala, Ricardo Moran, Sebastián Blanco • Keywords: Visual programming, Programming Real world objects -2nd Cog (Squeak, Pharo) • Developers: Eliot Miranda • Keywords: Virtual machine -3rd Mars (Pharo) • Developers: Esteban Lorenzano • Keywords: MVC framework, native UI, OSX Videos and more info about participants and winners are on: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2010/InnovationTechnologyAwards Thanx to all participants and congratulations to the winners! Noury @ ESUG 2010 - Barcelona :-) --- 18th International Smalltalk Joint Conference, September 13 -17 2010 Barcelona, Spain. http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010

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Best Smalltalk Book of the previous 6 years
by Noury Bouraqadi Sept. 16, 2010

Sept. 16, 2010

Yesterday evening we also announced the result of the survey. And the winner is... Dynamic Web Development with Seaside By Stéphane Ducasse, Lukas Renggli, David C. Shaffer, Rick Zaccone, Michael Davies Noury @ ESUG 2010 - Barcelona :-) --- 18th International Smalltalk Joint Conference, September 13 -17 2010 Barcelona, Spain. http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010

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Monticello Wine?
by Noury Bouraqadi Sept. 15, 2010

Sept. 15, 2010

Last night while having dinner in a local restaurant, Sean noticed the wine label ;-) http://www.flickr.com/photos/30234970@N02/sets/72157624960714450/ Noury @ ESUG 2010 - Barcelona :-) --- 18th International Smalltalk Joint Conference, September 13 -17 2010 Barcelona, Spain. http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010

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Re: [Esug-list] [squeak-dev] ESUG Awards
by stephane ducasse Sept. 15, 2010

Sept. 15, 2010

This is fixed sorry for the mess. Stef On Sep 15, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Jorge Ressia wrote: > Hi Noury, > > It seems that the survey is already closed. > Is this ok? > > Cheers, > > > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Noury Bouraqadi <bouraqadi(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This evening we'll announce the winners for the Tech Awards, and the Book Awards. >> For the Tech Awards, the conference participants did voted monday after the demos. >> For the Book Awards, you still can vote on-line untill 12pm (Barcelona Time). >> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q2LKKDT >> >> Best, >> Noury @ ESUG 2010 - Barcelona :-) >> --- >> 18th International Smalltalk Joint Conference, September 13 -17 2010 Barcelona, Spain. >> http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010 >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Jorge Ressia > www.jorgeressia.com >

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ESUG Awards
by Noury Bouraqadi Sept. 15, 2010

Sept. 15, 2010

Hi, This evening we'll announce the winners for the Tech Awards, and the Book Awards. For the Tech Awards, the conference participants did voted monday after the demos. For the Book Awards, you still can vote on-line untill 12pm (Barcelona Time). http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q2LKKDT Best, Noury @ ESUG 2010 - Barcelona :-) --- 18th International Smalltalk Joint Conference, September 13 -17 2010 Barcelona, Spain. http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010

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Re: [Esug-list] previous thread / apple iphone & squeak -- teaching opportunity
by stephane ducasse Sept. 14, 2010

Sept. 14, 2010

David Do you want me to forward that mail to esug? BTW do you know that all my lectures are in creative commons as well as the ones of oscar nierstrasz. http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/Tmp/PowerPoint/ I'm thinking that he could find somebody to help you even orthogonally to this position. for example if you succeed to some lectures over a week we could send an experienced teacher (like me for example) and we could ask ESUG to support some of the cost. Stef > Stephane, > > The visiting professor job would be at New Mexico Highlands University - > a small State funded university in New Mexico. Our main campus is in > Las Vegas (no casinos or bright lights, just 200 years of history) New > Mexico with centers around the State. Because the university is small, > and New Mexico is a poor state, the salary would only be $60,000-65,000 > dollars U.S. a year, with health benefits. (I can offer no-cost > housing, shared with one other person, if desirable.) > > The opportunity is, however, rather exciting. I have started a new > program at Highlands - software-driven systems design, partly computer > science, partly management information systems and a huge emphasis on > complex adaptive systems, design thinking, and object thinking. The > program is an apprenticeship program - all students have the opportunity > to work on projects for paying customers (outside the university) > alongside professional developers. If you want to see a bit more about > the philosophy behind the program go to: > http://www.infoq.com/articles/arsMagna-agile-essay and > http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/08/software-education-highlands > > Instead of courses, the program is centered on "competencies" - discrete > knowledge/skills modules that can must be demonstrated (not just passing > a test, but actually used). Each competency is defined at seven > different levels from "completes under supervision" to "makes a > professional contribution." All instruction and project work is done in > a a studio, and all students, at all levels are working and learning in > the studio at the same time. > > This creates some unique challenges for faculty. You are expected to be > in the studio 30-40 hours a week working with a huge variety of students > and on multiple topics. You might be showing someone how to use a > database this week, and building a web page next week. Everything, > including instruction, is done based on agile principles so the > environment is highly stimulating and highly dynamic. All of our > students are required to produce a conference or journal paper > (refereed) before graduating, so the visiting professor would likely be > co-author of such papers during their time here. > > I want to make Smalltalk (Pharo-Seaside-et. al.) the core of the > program, but do not have the expertise to ensure it is done well. > Students would still need to learn Java, relational database, HTML, > Javascript, C++, etc., but I would prefer that they do so after they > have seen "how to do things the right way." > > Long introduction, but the specifics for the position: > > Visiting Professor - 6 months definite, one-year probable, > longer-term possible. > Starting - late May, 2011 (start of summer session) or late August > 2011 (start of fall session). > Salary $60-65,000 U.S. plus health insurance. > Qualifications: > Expertise in complete squeak environment and tools (Pharo, Seaside, > Gemstone or other OODBMS, Version Control, libraries, etc.) - > Essential > Expertise in agile software development - Desirable > Willingness to teach many MIS/CS subjects as needed. > Willingness to work in non-traditional, studio-based, educational > environment. > Expertise can be any combination of graduate education (minimum is > a Masters degree in CS, MIS, Business, or related) and experience. > > Contact: Prof. Dave West, profwest(a)fastmail.fm or > dmwest(a)nmhu.edu > > > If you need more information, please let me know. > > dave west > > > > > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:25 +0200, "stephane ducasse" > <stephane.ducasse(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi >> >> davic can you provide more information about the visiting professor >> position? >> >> On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:32 PM, David West wrote: >> >>> Apple announced the removal of development restrictions for iPhone / >>> iPad apps, preventing only the "downloading of code" by the app. >>> >>> Can anyone comment on what affect this has on the previously discussed >>> de facto ban of smalltalk (squeak dialects) and scratch from the apple >>> platforms? >>> >>> also >>> >>> If anyone on the list is interested in and qualified (minimum masters >>> degree plus several years experience) for a visiting professor job - one >>> semester definite, and probably one year - please send an email to >>> profwest(a)fastmail.fm I will respond with details. >>> >>> dave west >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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Barcelona by Freddie Mercury and Monserrat Caballé
by Janko Mivšek Sept. 13, 2010

Sept. 13, 2010

For heating the atmosphere a bit more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wixz_r7v51E :) Janko -- Janko Mivšek AIDA/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

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