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[Ann] Cuis 4.0 is released!

by juanlists＠jvuletich.org

Hi Folks, Cuis 4.0 is available at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html . This is a very important release. It's been over 10 months since Cuis 3.3, but all this time means that there are a lot of big news now. The biggest one is the public release of the Styled Text Editor, by Bernhard Pieber. Bernhard will do the announcement of this project himself, all I want to say is that Styled Text Editor is the driving force behind most of the new stuff in this release. I also want to add that I'm delighted to be able to work with Bernhard on his project, and that I'm more than happy with the wonderful effect this is having on Cuis itself. Check http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisReleaseNotes.html . So, the main new features of this release of Cuis are the required support for External Packages. This is a very lightweight implementation of Packages, based on PackageInfo, but not on Monticello. Versioning is done with GitHub. Take a look at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CodeManagementInCuis4.html and http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisAndGitHub.html . Full list of features (from the release notes): ----------------------------------------------------- - Package Support. Cuis 4.0 has a package implementation based on PackageInfo. Can be used with a Git repository (like GitHub) for package versioning. More info at "CodeManagementInCuis4" and "CuisAndGitHub". This infrastructure and process is used for the StyledTextEditor project, developed by Bernhard Pieber and Software Generation. - New handling of ChangeSets. The idea is to have only one "live" change set that automatically captures all changes done to the Cuis Core image. Changes to Packages go to separate ChangeSets. - UCompletion. A new implementation of Autocompletion for Smalltalk code. Activates with ctrl-space. Usually gives the selector desired as the first option. Some features are: = Sorts by last definition of selector (Methods recently saved go first), = Sorts appropriately all selectors matching entered prefix (no hardcoded limits, like 40 selectors matching 2 letters). = Restricts suggestions if receiver is Global, a Constant or a pseudo-variable. = Doesn't have an "expanded mode". Always shows relevant suggestions. = Not restricted to a set of previously selected packages. All the methods in the system are accounted for. = Very fast, thanks to an optimized Trie implementation. = Compact code. Relies on services by Trie (for storing and querying selectors) and Shout (for parsing incomplete methods). = Helps make Shout faster, by providing super fast queries of selector prefixes. = Can be used for other applications besides Smalltalk code. Currently used for an English glossary for StyledTextEditor. - Trie. Cuis 4.- includes a very optimized implementation of a Trie. Tries are dictionaries where keys are Strings. Lookups are extremely fast. Search for entries matching a prefix are extremely fast (O(1) regardless of the size of the collection). Addition and removals are quite fast too. Used for UCompletion, holding 11,000 selectors. Also used for an English spell checker (in the StyledTextEditor project) holding 166,000 words. In both cases use of memory is quite reasonable (3 and 5.4 bytes per character in average) and query speed is extremely fast. - Multiple level undo / redo in all text and code editors. - ClickNHalf+Drag to select words. TripleClick or DoubleClickNHalf+Drag to select paragraphs. Like most modern text editors and wordprocessors do. - Multiple text selection (with control+mouse). Like most modern text editors and wordprocessors do. - Lf. The newline character is no longer Character cr (ASCII code 13), but Character lf (ASCII code 10). This is the standard in Mac and Unix platforms, and the required convention for GitHub. All the code in the image has been converted. - cmd-w closes window below mouse pointer. cmd-< y cmd-> cycle through windows. - New "PostIt" like HoverHelp morphs. - Simplification / Redesign: Scrolling in Morphic (TransformMorph gone, etc). - Deep cleanup in Paragraph and paragraph display services in Canvas and DisplayScanner (now MorphicScanner). - MouseClickState refactor, to ease new gestures (ClickNHalf+Drag, DoubleClickNHalf+Drag, TripleClick). - Killed AbstractEvent hierarchy. Unified event subscribing, triggering and handling everywhere in Cuis. - More TextMorph cleanup. - Numeric enhancements done by nice and jmv, both on Squeak and Cuis. - Many minor enhancements, cleanups and bugfixes. - Updates to Squeak: Numerics, Network, and many others. I hope you enjoy this release of Cuis as much as Bernhard and I enjoyed working on it. As usual, comments, discussion, bug reports, kudos and donations are all welcome! Cheers, Juan Vuletich

April 21, 2012

Pharo 1.4 Released

by Marcus Denker

We are proud to announce the release 1.4 of Pharo! You can find information about Pharo on http://www.pharo-project.org. In particular, you may be interested in: - How to join us and get help: http://www.pharo-project.org/community - Getting the Pharo By Example book (also available as a free PDF): http://www.pharobyexample.org - Watching the screencasts: http://www.pharocasts.com - Reporting problems: http://www.pharo-project.org/community/issue-tracking - Read the forthcoming book: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/pbe2 (yes we love and value documentation) - Read the Pharo vision document: http://www.pharo-project.org/community/consortium About this release --------------- All in all, there were over 870 issues treated in the issue tracker. http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?can=1&q=milestone%3D1.4 Read it again, yes 870 is huge, take two minutes and have a look at the list of improvements! Now you got a feeling for the effort. And this not our own work but the work of our community! It is possible because people worldwide helped! We want to deeply thank them. We want to thank in particular Inria for its constant support, in particular for the salary of Igor Stasenko and for help in the infrastructure put in place. We have accomplished this huge task for a better system because we were together. Do not forget that we are working on a consortium to support our system. Do not forget that our goal is to build a system so that we can make a living with our creativity and programming skills. Read the Pharo vision document and join! Thanks ***a lot*** for your participation, energy and fun. The Pharo Team Some Items of 1.4 ---------------- Not all the changes are reported here, but this is to give you an impression. Changes - New code model: Ring - Support for startUp preference script - #class message is not a byte code anymore - Better union and intersection methods - Better primitive simulation - Better headless support - Better support for error at startup - Introduction of FileSystem - Less dependencies: Color, Scrollbar do not depend on Compiler anymore - Cleaning tests - Unload hostSystemsMenus - More consistent API for browser opening - No event pulling anymore - More class comments - Announcement driven system notification - Better API for sharedPool Zinc Improvement - New mechanism for Zinc servers start/stop handling after system startUp/shutDown - and a lot a lot and a lot more. Tools - Support Cherrypicking when merging - Better timeProfilerBrowser - Better MC commit error - MC handles better dependencies - Better Debugger - Better Inspector - Search in tools - New Finder tool - Cmd-Click for senders and implementors - Senders and implementors deals with class - Better tool registry - Improvements for the FlatBrowser - Better Transcripter - Faster diffBuilder - MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to browse published configurations - New version of OCompletion and Ecompletion that can play together and without code duplication. UI - Support grouping windows as tab - Better search - MultiSelection improvements - Drag and drop in multi selection list - PluggableListMorph improvements - PluggableListMorph selection on drag - Iconic Button improvements - PharoTheme - Better CheckBox - Enhanced PluggableButtonMorph - Polymorph enhancements - Deprecate PluggableListMorphOfMany - Merged NewParagraph and MultiNewParagraph - New Widget: Ticking list and widget - LazyListMorph cleaning - NewTextMorph and TextComposer improvements - Improve behavior of MorphTreeMorph - Removing NewTextMorph and related - StringMorph Cleaning - Object - Old HTTP code - No references to Utilities - Removed toolbuilder - Restructure packages - Canvas hierarchy - MorphicModel - Deprecate recentMessageSet - Deprecate ImageSegment - Deprecate MessageNames - Deprecate TimeProfileBrowser - Really cleaning messageSet and subclasses - SystemChangeNotifier - Removed Project - Removed BlockContext, blue book old closure encodings - Font downloading - HandMorph cleaning Some Fixes - Set growth with nil - Better weak finalization - isPrime fixed - Compiler Fixes - Russian characters in editor - More class comments - Fix drawing shadow morphs - Trait support - Fixed syntax hilighting - Better pointersTo: - Speedup MethodDictionary #rehash - Compiler enhancements. - Stream should not print its contents - Progress bar - InputSensor - CombinedChar - BytexTextConverter fixes -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

April 19, 2012

GSoC news: 13 stipendiums!

by Janko Mivšek

Dear Smalltalkers, Wonderful news, we got 13 "slots" from Google, that is, 13 students and their proposals will be accepted for Google and they will receive stipendiums if they will do their projects right. More exactly, part of 4500 USD immediately, part after interim evaluation and part at successful finish of their projects. We have currently 18 paired projects, that is, projects paired with one student among their many proposals. You can see that from project table, see which are currently accepted (column Acc.): http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects?view=projectTable Now mentors need to review and score those 18 project proposals to indicate which are the best among all that nice proposals and to come with number down to 13. This will happen until next Friday 20.April, when we will finally decide, which 13 students to accept. Google will then officially confirm them in few days after. Best regards Janko & Carla -- Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team http://gsoc2012.esug.org

April 12, 2012

Fwd: GSoC news: we got 30 proposals, few stats

by Janko Mivšek

Dear Smalltalkers, Yesterday passed a deadline for students to propose how will they do the projects and we received 30 proposals from 23 students, which is in my opinion quite a nice number and I'm sure we can end up with quite a number of nice projects this year. And what is even more important: new Smalltalkers in community! Next two weeks mentors will review and rank/vote for the proposals, Google will give us a number of stipendiums it will provide and in few days after Friday 20.April we will have a final list of accepted students and their projects. Few stats (numbers of all participating): 32 projects 34 mentors 32 students 30 proposals 23 students wrote proposal Students by Smalltalk skill: 11 None 9 Low 5 Medium 7 High Students from countries: 5 Argentina 5 India 4 Russia 3 USA 2 Chile 2 Czech Republic 2 Malaysia 1 China 1 Croatia 1 Ecuador 1 Egypt 1 France 1 Germany 1 Sweden 1 Ukraine 1 Slovenia Stay tuned! Janko @ Carla -- Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team http://gsoc2012.esug.org

April 7, 2012

Fwd: [smaltalk-gsoc-students] 3 days left, your biography, invitations, proposals

by Marcus Denker

Begin forwarded message: > From: Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [smaltalk-gsoc-students] 3 days left, your biography, invitations, proposals > Date: April 3, 2012 8:12:01 PM GMT+02:00 > To: smalltalk-gsoc-students(a)googlegroups.com > Reply-To: smalltalk-gsoc-students(a)googlegroups.com > > Dear students, > > 3 days to the Friday deadline at 19 UTC! Those who you didn't already, please write your biography! Without it you don't have any chance, sorry, and in Thursday you'll end up on "Not serious" list. > > Mentors are starting to invite you to write proposals. Look at your profiles and if you'll be invited then start writing a proposal. More about that later. > > To repeat the steps: > > 1. on our website http://gsoc2012.esug.org: > Register there and provide as much contact info for mentors to reach as possible; > Write as best biography as you can. Good biography page is the best way to be accepted! > Choose up to three projects you are interested in. Mark a project you are most interested by clicking the button 'Very interested'; > Mentors will soon invite up to two students per project to write a proposal; > Invited students write a proposal how to make a chosen project. > 2. on Google GSoC site: > Register there as a student as well, and immediately, you can edit the registration until deadline anyway, > After invitation and writing a proposal copy the proposal on the Google website as well. > Why such a dual procedure? On our website we can pair your interest with available projects easier that on Google site, this is the main reason. > > So again, hurry up and best luck! > > Janko > Smalltalk GSoC Admin team -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

April 3, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup Group

by Francois Stephany

Hi Serge, I'll be in Vancouver at that time, let me know in private emails where you stay, we can have beer and some smalltalk ;) Francois On 02/04/12 03:19, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Francois Stephany > <tulipe.moutarde(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I've just started a Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup group. If you're in >> the area, it would great to meet around a beer and some lightning talks. > > Great ! I will be in Vancouver from April 22 to 25 > for the ISCRAM 2012 conference. > Maybe i can meet some Smalltalkers here ? > > Regards, -- http://tulipemoutarde.be CA: +1 778 558 3225 BE: +32 65 709 131

April 3, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup Group

by Serge Stinckwich

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Francois Stephany <tulipe.moutarde(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've just started a Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup group. If you're in > the area, it would great to meet around a beer and some lightning talks. Great ! I will be in Vancouver from April 22 to 25 for the ISCRAM 2012 conference. Maybe i can meet some Smalltalkers here ? Regards, -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/

April 2, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Smalltalk job - Dublin

by Stan Shepherd

Just had confirmation from our personnel dept: "we can only accept candidates who are either EU nationals or are legally entitled to work in Ireland,e.g. stamp 4 holders". Sorry to those of you who are excluded by this. ...Stan -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Smalltalk-job-Dublin-tp4508355p4525404.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

April 2, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup Group

by Francois Stephany

And here's the link: http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Smalltalk-Developers-Group/ On 01/04/12 13:56, Francois Stephany wrote: > Hi there, > > I've just started a Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup group. If > you're in the area, it would great to meet around a beer and some > lightning talks. > > Cheers, > Francois > -- http://tulipemoutarde.be CA: +1 778 558 3225 BE: +32 65 709 131

April 1, 2012

Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup Group

by Francois Stephany

Hi there, I've just started a Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup group. If you're in the area, it would great to meet around a beer and some lightning talks. Cheers, Francois -- http://tulipemoutarde.be CA: +1 778 558 3225 BE: +32 65 709 131

April 1, 2012