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ESUG'14 early registration deadline is close

by Luc Fabresse

Hi Smalltalkers, I kindly remind you that the early registration deadline to ESUG'14 is next week: july, 16th. http://registration.esug.org So far, we have 83 attendees! See you all @ Cambridge, Best, #Luc

July 7, 2014

Need a native english speaker with a bit of time to help for ESUG

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi Smalltalkers We need some help to organize the catering for ESUG 2014: basically lunches. We need someone to help us helping david and us dealing with meals. We could do it but we are not native speakers so sometimes we do not understand the implications or vocabularies. We selected a list of companies and we need to get offers and probably some menus. Please contact me directly. Stef and Luc

July 5, 2014

[ANN] SqueakJS 0.2 released, now runs Etoys

by Bert Freudenberg

Hi all, my SqueakJS VM has reached a major milestone. It is now sufficiently complete to run a full Etoys image (and possibly other non-closure images, too). It has support for most BitBlt modes, WarpBlt, even some Balloon2D rendering (for TTF fonts), a virtual file system, image saving etc. Try it: http://bertfreudenberg.github.io/SqueakJS/etoys/ (Safari and IE are significantly faster than Firefox and Chrome, best is Safari Webkit nightly, works on iPad too, hopefully Android) For more details, see my blogpost: http://croquetweak.blogspot.de/2014/07/squeakjs-runs-etoys-now.html Feedback and contributions welcome :) - Bert -

July 4, 2014

[ESUG2014] 2places in cambridge for 22-23Aug available

by Yuriy Tymchuk

Hi everyone, in case you need to stay in Cambridge on a night after the conference (22-23 Aug), I have 2 tickets in Trinity Hall's Wichfield site for EUR55 (each). Let me know if you are interested because in case of reselling tickets to you I need to extend my booking in London and it may be not possible closer to the conference itself. Cheers. Yuriy

July 2, 2014

[ANN] Amber 0.12.6 released!

by Nicolas Petton

Hi! After two months of development we are happy to announce the release of Amber 0.12.6 (skipping 0.12.5 for technical reasons). The team has once again been busy improving Amber to make it rock more than ever! With 260 commits done by 8 contributors, this release brings several important improvements as well as the usual bug fixes. Highlights: - Helios now has a test runner - The `amber-cli` npm package installs the CLI tooling. `amber` is not to be installed globally any more. Instead, install `amber-cli` with `npm install -g amber-cli`. - New `amber-init` command: After installing the cli tooling, `amber init` initializes a new project. - `amber` and `amberc` cli tools can now be found in the `external` directory and in dedicated npm packages. - Amber now parses `$c` character literals. - Bootstrap 3 can be used in Amber projects (no more nameclash with Helios' bootstrap 2 using bootstrap2.3.2 name). - Wider range of jQuery versions allowed. API changes: + String >> + value: + ProtocolAnnouncement >> + package + Behavior >> + isTestClass + Package >> + isTestPackage + amber/{devel,deploy,lang} exports + nil + amber/helpers exports + nil We would like to thank the contributors who made this release possible, and especially Ryan Simmons for his work on the Helios Test Runner. /The Amber crew.

July 1, 2014

Pharo Academic Partner Program

by Stéphane Ducasse

Dear Friends The Pharo consortium http://consortium.pharo.org is launching a new program in direction to academic partners: teachers, Universities and research institutes. We realized that the advantages/duties to be an academic member were unclear. We really want to build a strong community. http://files.pharo.org/consortium/Membership%20Agreement%20for%20Academic%2… Here are the key facts extracted from the document. Here are the main advantages as an academic partner: - Direct access to Pharo core developers via an automatic subscription to a specific mailing list. - Access to Pharo documents and courses. - Its logo posted on the Pharo Website Academic pages. - The possibility to propose and participate in actions. Here are the main duties (which you are already doing): - Put a link to Pharo Consortium Website from its institutional website. - When using Pharo to teach, create web pages with document courses related to Pharo. - Provide Inria with an annual report of at most half a page of its actions to promote and sustain Pharo. As member of the Pharo Consortium, the Academic Partner shall make its best efforts to: - Give courses on Pharo or related topics to its students - Participate to the development of open source software libraries in Pharo - Participate to selected Pharo mailing lists : pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org and/or pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org - Participate in the authoring of open-source books on Pharo and related topics. We really hope that you will register and help us making Pharo grow and be a really cool and friendly ecosystem. The Pharo Board.

June 30, 2014

A Smalltalk job at Yesplan?

by Johan Brichau

Dear Smalltalkers, The Yesplan team is looking for a new development colleague! This is a full time position to be performed on site. We are not looking for a freelancer. Please see [1] for the full description of the vacancy. Dutch speakers can check out the Dutch version [2]. If you are interested, or if you have additional questions, please contact me via johan(a)yesplan.be Also, do not hesitate to forward this email to potential candidates. best regards Johan [1] http://yesplan.be/docs/vacancy-software-engineer.pdf [2] http://yesplan.be/docs/vacature-software-engineer.pdf

June 24, 2014

Re: [Esug-list] [IMPORTANT] Accommodation booking @ ESUG'14

by Luc Fabresse

Thanks Holger for the info and thank you very much Niall for updating the website. Best, #Luc 2014-06-23 14:14 GMT+02:00 Niall Ross <nfr(a)bigwig.net>: > I've updated the Hotels page with the info. > > > Holger Kleinsorgen wrote: > > Probably a bit too late: >> >> University Rooms also offers rooms in other colleges that are quite close >> and affordable: >> http://www.universityrooms.com/en/city/cambridge/home >> >> e.g. Churchill College is 1,25km away from the lab and costs 65 pound per >> night. >> >> David Chisnall wrote >> >> >>> On 30 May 2014, at 11:49, Sabine Knöfel < >>> >>> >> >> >> >>> sabine.knoefel@ >>> >>> >> >> >> >>> > wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> *can you please send a google maps link or address to the computer lab >>>> (to >>>> find hotels nearby)? >>>> >>>> >>> The computer lab is in the William Gates Building: >>> >>> http://osm.org/go/0EQSAZ2Po-?layers=N&m= >>> >>> The accommodation that we have reserved is in Trinity Hall's Wychfield >>> site, just down the road: >>> >>> http://osm.org/go/0EQSDPLdZ-?layers=N&m= >>> >>> (No Google Maps links because their map data is shockingly bad in >>> Cambridge) >>> >>> >>> >>>> *will you also provide a list of hotel suggestions like the last year? >>>> >>>> >>> We don't have a list of hotels other than the university accommodation. >>> There aren't many on this side of Cambridge. The Møller Centre is very >>> convenient, but unfortunately is fully booked for the week of the >>> conference. >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/ >> IMPORTANT-Accommodation-booking-ESUG-14-tp4760389p4764328.html >> Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list >> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >

June 23, 2014

Re: [Esug-list] [IMPORTANT] Accommodation booking @ ESUG'14

by Niall Ross

I've updated the Hotels page with the info. Holger Kleinsorgen wrote: >Probably a bit too late: > >University Rooms also offers rooms in other colleges that are quite close >and affordable: >http://www.universityrooms.com/en/city/cambridge/home > >e.g. Churchill College is 1,25km away from the lab and costs 65 pound per >night. > > >David Chisnall wrote > > >>On 30 May 2014, at 11:49, Sabine Knöfel < >> >> > > > >>sabine.knoefel@ >> >> > > > >>> wrote: >> >> >> >>>*can you please send a google maps link or address to the computer lab >>>(to >>>find hotels nearby)? >>> >>> >>The computer lab is in the William Gates Building: >> >>http://osm.org/go/0EQSAZ2Po-?layers=N&m= >> >>The accommodation that we have reserved is in Trinity Hall's Wychfield >>site, just down the road: >> >>http://osm.org/go/0EQSDPLdZ-?layers=N&m= >> >>(No Google Maps links because their map data is shockingly bad in >>Cambridge) >> >> >> >>>*will you also provide a list of hotel suggestions like the last year? >>> >>> >>We don't have a list of hotels other than the university accommodation. >>There aren't many on this side of Cambridge. The Møller Centre is very >>convenient, but unfortunately is fully booked for the week of the >>conference. >> >> > > > > > >-- >View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/IMPORTANT-Accommodation-booking-ESUG-14-tp4760389p476… >Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >_______________________________________________ >Esug-list mailing list >Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > >

June 23, 2014

Re: [Esug-list] [IMPORTANT] Accommodation booking @ ESUG'14

by Holger Kleinsorgen

Probably a bit too late: University Rooms also offers rooms in other colleges that are quite close and affordable: http://www.universityrooms.com/en/city/cambridge/home e.g. Churchill College is 1,25km away from the lab and costs 65 pound per night. David Chisnall wrote > On 30 May 2014, at 11:49, Sabine Knöfel < > sabine.knoefel@ > > wrote: > >> *can you please send a google maps link or address to the computer lab >> (to >> find hotels nearby)? > > The computer lab is in the William Gates Building: > > http://osm.org/go/0EQSAZ2Po-?layers=N&m= > > The accommodation that we have reserved is in Trinity Hall's Wychfield > site, just down the road: > > http://osm.org/go/0EQSDPLdZ-?layers=N&m= > > (No Google Maps links because their map data is shockingly bad in > Cambridge) > >> *will you also provide a list of hotel suggestions like the last year? > > We don't have a list of hotels other than the university accommodation. > There aren't many on this side of Cambridge. The Møller Centre is very > convenient, but unfortunately is fully booked for the week of the > conference. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/IMPORTANT-Accommodation-booking-ESUG-14-tp4760389p476… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

June 23, 2014