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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, July 29th
by Giovanni Corriga July 19, 2020

July 19, 2020

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, July 29th. Peter Svensson will present his work on Cloudsdk-st. Cloudsdk-st (https://github.com/psvensson/cloudsdk-st) is an experiment in ways to work with cloud deployment from a Smalltalk image. Traditionally cloud deployments run 'out of band' in separate build scripts or build/CI/CD systems. This project lets you define Docker images (using Dockerfiles) for Smalltalk, send them to the build system of a cloud provider directly and then choose what kind of service you want your image to be (cloud function or long-running VM). Currently it only supports Google Cloud and has a very rough UI. Future plans include support for AWS and Azure as well as better feedback and a Spec2 UI. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, 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/cbklbrybckbdc/ to receive the meeting details. See you there!

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Re: [Esug-list] Gestures
by Georg Heeg July 13, 2020

July 13, 2020

Dear ESUG community, The availability of gestures in Smalltalk reminded us of a presentation at ESUG many years ago. Back in 2013, gesture control in VisualWorks has not been created and it is supported. Gesture control is used commercially by our customers successfully. The "gesture control" was developed in connection with our product "GH Presentation<https://www.heeg.de/HeegDe/en/ArticlePage?arg1=GH%20Pr%C3%A4sentation>", for the presentation of videos, electronic book pages and other things needed in exhibitions. The integrated gesture support component is based on Windows api. For those who are interested a few links to more information: https://www.heeg.de/Seiten/produkte-WindowsGestureSupport.htm https://www.heeg.de/files/SBCMSFileLibrary/HeegDe/Resource%2520Library/Syst… (English) https://www.heeg.de/HeegDe/de/ArticlePage?arg1=GH%20Präsentation (German) Georg Heeg Georg Heeg eK, Dortmund und Köthen, HR Dortmund A 12812 Wallstraße 22, 06366 Köthen Tel. +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712 Von: Esug-list <esug-list-bounces(a)lists.esug.org> Im Auftrag von Stéphane Ducasse Gesendet: Montag, 6. Juli 2020 16:59 An: Hennie Kok <hgmkok1993(a)kpnmail.nl> Cc: Members ESUG <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org>; Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> Betreff: Re: [Esug-list] new Pharo success story :) Hello hennie I do not know but what they are doing is really advanced and most of their work is private for the french gov. And advanced gestures and tactil screens were not available back in 89 :) What would be sad is that it would NOT be done in Pharo but in JS like or Java FX. Don’t you think? Of course it can be sad to see things that have been already done, redone. You see Pharo is not a proprietary system so sometimes we are forced to reinvent the wheel but this is an open-source wheel. :) So we get sometimes feedback like it is already available in X or Z, but proprietary code is not available It does not exist except for paying clients. For us we even consider GNU licensed code as forbidden to stay clean. Pharo is following a pure and cristal clear MIT license, it means that people can take the code and do whatever they want, even contribute back or not. Do not hesitate to have fun with us because with Pharo we are really trying to push forward and let people invent what they want and change the world. You can discuss with us on https://discord.gg/QewZMZa S.

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Webminar about VA Smalltalk new OS Process Framework
by Mariano Martinez Peck July 10, 2020

July 10, 2020

Greetings all, Some time ago, I had the pleasure and privilege of being sponsored by the Pharo Consortium to implement OSSubprocess. Because of that work, I quickly realized that a new OS process framework created by Instantiations was quite advanced and unlike anything I had seen before. If you are able, I would highly recommend that you attend the technology preview of this framework coming to VAST 2021: Seth Berman will be presenting, registration here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7491754880594201356 We hope the community can attend and we look forward to your feedback and questions during the event's Q&A session. Best regards, -- Mariano Martinez Peck Email: marianopeck(a)gmail.com Twitter: @MartinezPeck LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-martinez-peck <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mart%C3%ADnez-peck/> Blog: https://marianopeck.wordpress.com/

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Re: [Esug-list] new Pharo success story :)
by Stéphane Ducasse July 6, 2020

July 6, 2020

Hello hennie I do not know but what they are doing is really advanced and most of their work is private for the french gov. And advanced gestures and tactil screens were not available back in 89 :) What would be sad is that it would NOT be done in Pharo but in JS like or Java FX. Don’t you think? Of course it can be sad to see things that have been already done, redone. You see Pharo is not a proprietary system so sometimes we are forced to reinvent the wheel but this is an open-source wheel. :) So we get sometimes feedback like it is already available in X or Z, but proprietary code is not available It does not exist except for paying clients. For us we even consider GNU licensed code as forbidden to stay clean. Pharo is following a pure and cristal clear MIT license, it means that people can take the code and do whatever they want, even contribute back or not. Do not hesitate to have fun with us because with Pharo we are really trying to push forward and let people invent what they want and change the world. You can discuss with us on https://discord.gg/QewZMZa <https://discord.gg/QewZMZa> S.

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new Pharo success story :)
by Stéphane Ducasse July 6, 2020

July 6, 2020

Hello just a little news about a super cool success story about Pharo :) https://pharo.org/success/UXadvancedAtThales Well done UXers at Thales. It is a pity that most of your cool stuff requires confidential accreditation, but this is normal. S. -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Aurore Dalle FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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Agile Artificial Intelligence
by Stéphane Ducasse July 1, 2020

July 1, 2020

We are happy to announce that the book of A. Bergel is out https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484253830 Agile Artificial Intelligence in Pharo Implementing Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, and Neuroevolution Cover classical algorithms commonly used as artificial intelligence techniques and program agile artificial intelligence applications using Pharo in this book. It takes a practical approach by presenting the implementation details to illustrate the numerous concepts it explain… https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Artificial-Intelligence-Pharo-Neuroevolution/d… As a book author I want to congratulate alex for this effort. S. -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Aurore Dalle FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] [ANN] PharoPro
by Mariano Martinez Peck June 23, 2020

June 23, 2020

A bit late to the party, but I still wanted to congratulate everyone involved and wish you all the best. I said (but didn't do) many times in the past that having a LTS version would be really good. So I hope you can make it. Also, thanks for the FAQ entry comparing with the Consortium, as that was my immediate question hhahaha. Best, On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 10:07 PM Pierce Ng <pierce(a)samadhiweb.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 10:34:09AM +0200, Norbert Hartl wrote: > > we are very proud to announce the availability of PharoPro, a company > > that offers professional support for the pharo platform. Our mission > > is to enable people and companies to secure their business when > > building products with pharo. > > Great stuff! All the best! > > Pierce > > > -- Mariano Martinez Peck Email: marianopeck(a)gmail.com Twitter: @MartinezPeck LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-martinez-peck <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mart%C3%ADnez-peck/> Blog: https://marianopeck.wordpress.com/

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[ANN] TruffleSqueak 20.1.0 released
by Fabio Niephaus June 22, 2020

June 22, 2020

Hi all, I'd like to officially announce the first stable release of TruffleSqueak [1], a Squeak/Smalltalk VM and Polyglot Programming Environment for the GraalVM [2]. As some of you know, we at HPI [3] have been working on this for quite a while and open-sourced it a few weeks after our presentation at ESUG'19 [4]. The virtual machine is implemented in Truffle [5], GraalVM's Java-based language implementation framework. The image has direct access to GraalVM's language interoperability protocol [6] and based on this, we have adapted the workspace and inspection tools so that they work consistently for objects from Javascript, Python, R, Ruby, and all other languages supported by GraalVM. In addition, the image comes with our polyglot notebook system [7] and a polyglot code editor [8]. You may also find our paper on TruffleSqueak (formerly GraalSqueak) [9] and our blog post on "Smalltalk with the GraalVM" [10] an interesting read. Nonetheless, please keep in mind that TruffleSqueak is a research project, so there will be bugs (please report them at [11]) and things left to do (feedback is welcome!). You can follow TruffleSqueak on Twitter [12] for more updates. On June 24, I'm also going to talk about TruffleSqueak in the UK Smalltalk User Group meeting [13], and you are invited to join us. Lastly, I’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to TruffleSqueak and I'm excited to see what you’re going to do with it. Fabio [1] https://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak [2] https://www.graalvm.org [3] https://hpi.de/swa [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAk3Ec8hmzk [5] https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/truffle [6] https://www.graalvm.org/truffle/javadoc/com/oracle/truffle/api/interop/Inte… [7] https://doi.org/10.1145/3328433.3328434 [8] https://medium.com/graalvm/hpi-polyglot-programming-seminar-3fd06ffa59d2 [9] https://doi.org/10.1145/3357390.3361024 [10] https://www.javaadvent.com/2019/12/smalltalk-with-the-graalvm.html [11] https://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak/issues [12] https://twitter.com/TruffleSqueak/ [13] https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/cbklbrybcjbgc/

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Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] [ANN] PharoPro
by Jerry Kott June 18, 2020

June 18, 2020

Norbert, let me join everyone in congratulating on this fantastic news, and wish your new company all success. Jerry Kott, OSCP Principal, Imageware Corporation <https://image-ware.com/> Security with Integrity. By Choice. By Design. This message has been digitally signed. PGP Fingerprint: A9181736DD2F1B6CC7CF9E51AC8514F48C0979A5 > On Jun 17, 2020, at 15:19, Hernán Morales Durand <hernan.morales(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Norbert, > > This is really good news for the community. > I wish you all the best for this initiative! > > Cheers, > > Hernán > > El mié., 17 jun. 2020 a las 5:35, Norbert Hartl (<norbert(a)hartl.name <mailto:norbert@hartl.name>>) escribió: > Dear community, > > we are very proud to announce the availability of PharoPro, a company that offers professional support for the pharo platform. Our mission is to enable people and companies to secure their business when building products with pharo. > > We have been tinkering with the idea creating it for a long time. We talked to a lot of people, especially at last ESUG in cologne and finally decided to do it. So at the end of last year we founded the company PharoPro. Obstacles (one being covid-19) kept us from make it public until today. > > In close relationship with the pharo consortium our mission is to extend the market opportunities for pharo. > Although PharoPro is new and still small we want to show our commitment to the consortium and the community from the start. We decided therefor that PharoPro will join the pharo consortium as platinum member. > > Our plans apart from support contracts is to have an LTS (long term support) version of pharo, create a professional pharo ecosystem with libraries and frameworks and to help out building the infrastructure pharo needs. > > We are still shaping up. We want to know your requirements and needs that help us deciding what are the most needed things. So you might visit > > http://pharo-pro.com <http://pharo-pro.com/> > > and then come talk to us. > > Best regards and health, > > Norbert > PharoPro GmbH

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[ANN] PharoPro
by Norbert Hartl June 17, 2020

June 17, 2020

Dear community, we are very proud to announce the availability of PharoPro, a company that offers professional support for the pharo platform. Our mission is to enable people and companies to secure their business when building products with pharo. We have been tinkering with the idea creating it for a long time. We talked to a lot of people, especially at last ESUG in cologne and finally decided to do it. So at the end of last year we founded the company PharoPro. Obstacles (one being covid-19) kept us from make it public until today. In close relationship with the pharo consortium our mission is to extend the market opportunities for pharo. Although PharoPro is new and still small we want to show our commitment to the consortium and the community from the start. We decided therefor that PharoPro will join the pharo consortium as platinum member. Our plans apart from support contracts is to have an LTS (long term support) version of pharo, create a professional pharo ecosystem with libraries and frameworks and to help out building the infrastructure pharo needs. We are still shaping up. We want to know your requirements and needs that help us deciding what are the most needed things. So you might visit http://pharo-pro.com and then come talk to us. Best regards and health, Norbert PharoPro GmbH

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