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Announcement: Smalltalk Industry Conference 2012 will be in Biloxi, MS, March 18 to 21

by Georg Heeg

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

Aug. 23, 2011

3 years postdoc position on dynamic language and security

by Stéphane Ducasse

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.

Aug. 23, 2011

[ANN] glamorous inspector

by Tudor Girba

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."

Aug. 23, 2011

[UPDATE] Call for Papers: Smalltalks 2011

by Andy Kellens

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 ---

Aug. 22, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] PDF 4 Smalltalk

by Leandro Caniglia

Good news! Thank you! /Leandro leandro caniglia ph.d. | chief technologist | *caesar** systems *| *see clearly. decide smarter**.* lcaniglia(a)caesarsystems.com | t: +1.281.598.8810 +1.281.617.2972 +54.11.4389.0126 | petrovr.blogspot.com | www.caesarsystems.com This message and any attached documents contain information from Caesar Systems LLC that may be confidential/trade secret and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not read, copy, distribute or use this information. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or by reply e-mail and then delete this message. On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Christian Haider < Christian.Haider(a)smalltalked-visuals.com> wrote: > 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**** > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > >

Aug. 21, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] PDF 4 Smalltalk

by stephane ducasse

Excellent! Stef > Christian Haider wrote: >> >> I am proud to announce an open source PDF implementation. >> > > Wow, very cool - and MIT! I'm eager to port this to Pharo. > > Sean > > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/ANN-PDF-4-Smalltalk-tp3757605p3757791.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

Aug. 21, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] PDF 4 Smalltalk

by Sean P. DeNigris

Christian Haider wrote: > > I am proud to announce an open source PDF implementation. > Wow, very cool - and MIT! I'm eager to port this to Pharo. Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/ANN-PDF-4-Smalltalk-tp3757605p3757791.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Aug. 20, 2011

[ANN] PDF 4 Smalltalk

by Christian Haider

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

Aug. 20, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] Fuel release version 1.6

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Ahh and thanks to Claire Barroca we now have a wonderful logo: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Martin Dias <tinchodias(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

Aug. 19, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] Fuel release version 1.6

by Mariano Martinez Peck

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Martin Dias <tinchodias(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 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: > > Or Pharo 1.1 or 1.1.1 or 1.3 or 1.4 :) > Gofer new > squeaksource: 'Fuel'; > package: 'ConfigurationOfFuel'; > load. > ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfFuel) project version: '1.6') load. > > Notice that as always, since Fuel is being developed, this version is NOT compatible with older versions. That means, you cannot materialize with this version a stream which was serialized with an older version. What you have to do is: 1) materialize your graph. 2) update Fuel. 3) serialize again. > 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 > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

Aug. 19, 2011