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UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday 29th March
by Giovanni Corriga March 21, 2023

March 21, 2023

This month's online meeting introduces a new format whereby we'll give space to commercial companies to discuss how they make use of Smalltalk and contribute to the Smalltalk community. The first of this series will be Mercap Software ( https://www.mercapsoftware.com/en/ ), represented by Gabriel Cotelli, Inés Sosa, Iván Boaretto, Matías Fernandez, and Maximiliano Tabacman. During this talk, Mercap will showcase five of their solutions designed for different types of investors. They will shed light on how Mercap benefits from the open-source projects maintained by the Buenos Aires Smalltalk group on GitHub. They will share with you how they use these freely available frameworks to interact with databases, operate on math and time units, create custom CSS, declare interactions on web applications, display complex charts, manage application startup, and streamline the creation of Docker images. Gabriel Cotelli is a CS bachelor, continuous learner & free-thinker. Supporter of libre knowledge, human intelligence augmentation and open source software. Working in Smalltalk at Mercap since 2004. He's an active member of the Smalltalk development community and regular contributor to open source projects in Buenos Aires Smalltalk and Pharo. Inés Sosa writes code in Smalltalk. Iván Boaretto is a software developer by day and a computer science student by night. He is very passionate about his craft and is always striving to improve. Now, in his first time at the Smalltalks, he is looking to attract new blood to the wonderful Smalltalk community. Matías Fernandez is a software and tech enthusiast, and Smalltalk developer. Maximiliano Tabacman has been a part of Mercap since he started his studies in IT, which now include a PhD in Computer Sciences from the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA). His main interest is the design of systems that apply nature inspired concepts, such as evolutionary algorithms and neural networks. Smalltalk, with its object-message design, is his natural choice for a development platform. He is also the creator of ERA, a standalone web server application for running table-top roleplaying games, which runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/292128721/ ) to receive the meeting details.

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Looking for a job.
by Santiago Bragagnolo March 5, 2023

March 5, 2023

Hello everybody. I am finishing my PhD soon, an industrial PhD on software migration. A quick brief: I have 10 years of experience in Pharo and another 10 years in other technologies. I want to learn if there are any opening positions for working in Pharo/Smalltalk. Please feel free to talk to me privately. I attached my CV. Cordially, Santiago.

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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - 22 February 2023
by Giovanni Corriga Feb. 14, 2023

Feb. 14, 2023

WebAssembly (WASM - https://wikiwand.com/en/Webassembly ) is an instruction format for portable high-performance code, run by a stack-based virtual machine. To Smalltalkers, this sounds very familiar. WASM is supported by the three most popular web browsers, and by other host platforms as well. Perhaps we can translate certain Smalltalk compiled methods to WASM, augmenting our support for physical processors and for livecoding the Web. For our February meeting, Craig Latta will describe his initial experiments, using the Epigram compilation framework ( https://thiscontext.com/epigram ). Craig Latta ( https://thiscontext.com/ ) is a research computer scientist in Berkeley and Amsterdam, with interests including livecoding, music performance, and interactive visualization. The discovery of a mysteriously-placed copy of the Blue Book at university led to stints at several exploratory labs, and a pursuit of improvisation wherever code is found. This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/291365015/ ) to receive the meeting details.

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ESUG 2022 Videos on Youtube
by Marcus Denker Feb. 14, 2023

Feb. 14, 2023

Hi, Sorry for the delay, we finally have the playlists ready: ESUG 2022 main https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5nSnWzQXi_7LGwiSa-8VwYXELwFQLBt Show us your Projects! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5nSnWzQXi-QLQViXAR41B0KdsSb4-nq Marcus

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ESUG 2023 Call for participation
by stephane ducasse Feb. 11, 2023

Feb. 11, 2023

ESUG 2023 Call for Presentations 28.8.2023 to 01.9.2023 Lyon France https://esug.github.io https://esug.github.io/2023-Conference/conf2023.html ESUG is the premium and fun conference around smalltalk technologies. You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: - Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/ - Submit a talk, a software or a paper to one of the events. See below. - Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of attendance (180 people at Koln 2019)! - Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll into the the Student Volunteers program. See below. ## Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have 30 min for presentations and 45 min for hands-on tutorials. The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials includes, but is not limited to the following: - XP practices, Development tools, Experience reports - Model driven development, Web development, Team management - Meta-Modeling, Security, New libraries & frameworks - Educational material, Embedded systems and robotics - SOA and Web services, Interaction with other programming languages - Teaching Pearls and Show us Your Business New this year!!! We added two types of sessions in addition to the regular talks and show us your projects sessions. Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!) Teaching pearls : we want some session on how to teach some design aspects. We want your tip and tricks to teach Smalltalk or OOP. We expect to have several 10 to 15 min sessions aggregated. ### How to submit? Make a Pull Request here https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2023-Conference/talks [Or but only if you are not connected to the world… send an email to stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr] Title: [ESUG 2023] Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Name: Email: Abstract: Bio: ## Call for Student Volunteers Student volunteers help keep the conference running smoothly; in return, they have free accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the conference. Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Conference details: Send an email to stephane.ducasse at inria.fr and Oleksandr Zaitsev <olk.zaytsev(a)gmail.com> with: Title: [ESUG 2023 Student] name, gender, university/school, country, email address short description of you and why you are interested in participating For which period is accommodation covered? Accommodation is covered from Sunday 27.8.2023 to 01.9.2023 (including nights from Sunday to Monday and from Thursday to Friday). Students will be hosted in student rooms. ESUG additionally covers for the lunches during the week and one dinner. Duties include handling registration as people arrive at the conference, filling coffee machines, collecting presentation slides for ESUG right after the presentation is given, being present at an information desk to answer questions, and generally being helpful. Student volunteering makes the conference better, takes a fairly small amount of time and doesn't significantly interfere with enjoying and learning from the conference. Please Note, this role requires discipline and constant attention to all attendees. Information about hotel Student Volunteer rooms are booked at (to be announced). If you are student volunteer, do not book yourself, we have arranged the booking already!

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Smalltalk books for sale
by Steve Edwards Feb. 1, 2023

Feb. 1, 2023

Hi, I have old Smalltalk books for sale. Be good if they could go to a good home. Thinking of selling them as packages of related books to simplify buying and posting. Anybody interested? (Not sure if best means is to use eBay?) =================================================================== Package A - Smalltalk 80 Smalltalk-80 - Bits of History, Words of Advice Glenn Krasner Addison Wesley 1983 Smalltalk-80 - The Interactive Programming Environment Adele Goldberg Addison Wesley 1984 (HB) Smalltalk-80 (2 copies) - The Language Adele Goldberg, David Robson Addison Wesley 1989 An Introduction to OO Programming and Smalltalk Lewis Pinson, Richard Wiener Addison Wesley 1988 =================================================================== Package B - The Object People Inside Smalltalk - Vol 1 Wilf LaLonde, John Pugh Prentice Hall 1990 (HB) Inside Smalltalk - Vol 2 Wilf LaLonde, John Pugh Prentice Hall 1991 (HB) Discovering Smalltalk Wilf LaLonde Benjamin Cummings 1994 Smalltalk/V - Practice and Experience Wilf LalOnde, John Pugh Prentice Hall 1994 =================================================================== Package C - VisualWorks Smalltalk - An Introduction to Application Development using VisualWorks Trevor Hopkins, Bernard Horan Prentice Hall 1995 The Art and Science of Smalltalk (2 copies) - An Introduction to OO Programming using VisualWorks Simon Lewis Prentice Hall (HP) 1995 The Smalltalk Developer's Guide to VisualWorks Tim Howard SIGS Books 1995 =================================================================== Package D - Smalltalk/V, Windows, OS2 A Quick Trip to ObjectLand - OO Programming with Smalltalk/V Prentice Hall 1992 Smalltalk Programming for Windows Dan Shafer Prima Publishing 1993 IBM Smalltalk Programming for Windows and OS/2 Don Shafer, Scott Herndon Prima Publishing 1995 IBM Smalltalk - The Language David Smith Benjamin Cummings 1995 VisualAge for Smalltalk Distributed Walter Fang, Sven Guyet, Randy Haven, Matti Vilmi, Eduardo Eckmann Prentice Hall 1996 =================================================================== Package E - Practice, Patterns Rapid Software Development with Smalltalk Mark Lorenz SIGS Books 1995 Smalltalk with Style Suzanne Skublic, Edward Klimas, David Thomas Prentice Hall 1996 Smalltalk - Best Practice Patterns Kent Beck Prentice Hall 1997 Guide to Smalltalk - A Sorted Collection Kent Beck Cambridge University Press 1999 =================================================================== HB = Hard Back -- Steve Edwards Formerly of The Object People

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GSUG -- German Smalltalk User Group : die deutschsprachige Smalltalk-Anwendergemeinde trifft sich jetzt auf LinkedIn
by Nowak, Helge Jan. 30, 2023

Jan. 30, 2023

Hallo Smalltalker! Die weltweite deutschsprachige Smalltalk-Anwendergemeinde hat einen neuen Treffpunkt: die GSUG-Gruppe auf LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12754122/ Hier wollen wir uns zu allen Themen rund um Smalltalk austauschen: Technologien, Produkte und Projekte vorstellen und diskutieren, Stellenangebote und -gesuche bekanntmachen, und was uns sonst noch zu unserer Lieblingsumgebung bewegt. Die Gruppe ist dialektneutral und offen für Erweiterungen im Geiste von Smalltalk, wie Self, Strongtalk oder Newspeak. Wir sind schon gespannt auf die nächsten innovativen Ideen! Wir freuen uns auf Euch! Anmelden und Weitersagen 😉 Smalltalk ist anders - und das ist gut so! Helge Nowak

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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - 25th January 2023
by Giovanni Corriga Jan. 16, 2023

Jan. 16, 2023

For the first UKSTUG online meeting of the year, Stéphane Rollandin will talk to us about muO: musical objects for Squeak ( http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/sqgeo.htm ). The presentation will focus on some of the interactive tools and subsystems widely used in muO, that are of interest in their own right, and potentially useful to others. The main emphasis will be on the large family of zoomable fields, which are modular plotting editors. Stéphane will demonstrate the workflow they are designed for, and show in what sense it is a seamless and natural exploitation of the Morphic framework. The code for these tools is somewhat entangled with the muO package, so Stéphane will also provide a Squeak image taylored to help people find their way there. Stéphane Rollandin has been doing independent research on software for musical composition and representation for the last 20 years, during his whole careeer as a stay-at-home father. After developing the GeoMaestro system for KeyKit, and the Csound-x package for Emacs, he was introduced to Smalltalk and never looked back. Besides muO, he developed for Squeak a modular Lisp interpreter, the LambdaMessageSend framework and a few games. He is now working on an experimental game engine with an emphasis on procedural generation and complex autonomous agents. He was formally educated in physics, and his other artistic ventures are in photography and aikido. His music is freely available online ( https://stephanerollandin.bandcamp.com/ ). Born in Marseille, he currently lives in the southern French Alps. This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/290746320/ ) to receive the meeting details.

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IWST proceedings online
by stephane ducasse Jan. 16, 2023

Jan. 16, 2023

Hi guys I’m happy to sahre with you this EXCELLENT news. The proceedings of IWST 22 are now online https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3325/ in a nice collection. I would like to warmly thank all the authors, loic and vincent for their great job. Soon we will send around the call for paper for 2023! S

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UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - 28 December 2022
by Giovanni Corriga Dec. 19, 2022

Dec. 19, 2022

For the UKSTUG 2023 holiday meeting, Simberon's David Buck will present Beagle Smalltalk. Over the past 8 years, David has been developing a Smalltalk virtual machine. He used it to release two Smalltalk Games written in VisualWorks to run on Andriod and iPhone devices. More recently, he's re-written the VM to use its own bytecode set and written his own Smalltalk compiler to make it a stand-alone Smalltalk environment called Beagle Smalltalk named after the ship that took Darwin on his voyage of discovery. David plans to release this as an open-source Smalltalk to help and encourage kids to explore the world of programming. In this talk, David presents the current status of the project and where he hopes to go with it. David Buck is the president of Simberon ( http://simberon.com/ ) - a company that has been providing Smalltalk training and consulting for over 25 years. Along with James Robertson, David produced the Industry Misinterpretations podcast and later the Smalltalk Reflections podcast with Craig Latta. David remains a Smalltalk enthusiast and works to spread the word about Smalltalk. This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/290409453/ ) to receive the meeting details.

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