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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - 26 October 2022

by Giovanni Corriga

For this month's meeting, we'll take it easy and have an online social! Bring your favourite drinks - beer, coffee, or whatever you prefer! 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/289339721/ ) to receive the meeting details.

Oct. 25, 2022

Sponsoring our new mooc

by stephane ducasse

Since more than a year we have been working on a new mooc called: “Advanced Object-oriented Design and Development” It will be quite good. We are bullet proofing it with a new lecture here at Lille. It will not focus on Pharo but on object-oriented design, tests, design patterns. It will present - Test and test-driven - Essential aspects of OOP - Basic and universal principles - Double dispatch - Case studies in Pharo - Some design patterns - Some coding idioms and we will composed of 8 modules Currently it has around 50 lectures and we expect around 60 + exercises. You can access some drafts of the support here: https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/?dir=DesignCoffeeClub <https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/?dir=DesignCoffeeClub> The production cost of this mooc is around 200 K Euros financed by Inria and it will be filmed in January. We hope to deploy it in April or May 2023. The mooc will be produced in english (and may be dub in french). It occurred to me in this difficult time to find good developers that some of you may want to sponsor this mooc\to get exposure. You can be associated with some of the best OO teachers: me, Guillermo Polito and Pablo Tesone. We have cumulated more than 40 years of teaching experience. Several books... Yes at the end of the day we should sale a bit our expertise - check below our track record with the previous mooc. As a sponsor you will get your logo and links on all the supports: Slides and videos. Note that this mooc is designated to have a live time of 10 years or more. It is teaching fundamental points of OOP. So this is a unique opportunity to market your company to people wanted to learn advanced OOP Note that there are no other lectures like this one. We have two levels of sponsoring: 2000 Euros for platinum sponsor 1000 Euros for plain sponsor Let us know. Just a little reminder of the previous Mooc on Pharo. It has more than 8 years. For the record, some youtube videos (that we published after 4 years of running the pharo mooc) got more than 6000 views and this is by developers. We got around 10000 followers not counting the people watching the mooc on youtube and here are some of the testimonies we collected over the years. J'ai trouvé ça très intéressant, beaucoup plus que prévu ! je regrette de ne pas m'y être mis plus tôt. J'ai enfin l'impression de vraiment faire de la POO ! Ou à l'inverse je me rend que je n'en faisais pas vraiment... - Anonymous, 2019 I have just completed week seven of the Pharo Mooc (beginner and object oriented tracks) I am starting a redo of the Mooc with the web track (TinyBlog project). I have already learned so much ! I have spent the last 20 years or so in software development and, following this Mooc, I realized I hadn’t really grasped the essence of object oriented design. - Anonymous « Really one of the best mooc I have ever attended. And I have attended quite a few (openSAP, openHPI). As an old fashioned ABAP developer I want to be reborn as Pharo developer in my next life :-) » - Anonymous Hi! I finished the MOOC some weeks ago and I would like to congratulate everybody involved! After a decade+ of Python programming I think I found my new favorite language :). I'm making a small Teapot server for Slack command bots, I'm goona push it to Github (yay Iceberg), if anyone is interested. - EduardoPadoan I just completed the @pharoproject Mooc the best investment I have ever made of my time. MAQBOOL Hey all - I've just finished the Mooc - thanks for an excellent course and a thouroughly interesting look at a new way to program :smile: Looking forward to starting to play with Pharo on some upcoming ideas I've had. - Tieryn As much as I thought I understand object-orientation, it is very clear NOW that without a truly useable Smalltalk, which Pharo is, it is impossible to really understand and exercise object-orientation. Thank you all soooo much. - Mike D. 06/12/2020 I finished the Pharo MOOC a few days ago. Thank you very much to Damien, Stephane, and Luc for their work on the material! I enjoyed it very much - Anonymous Hey all - I've just finished the Mooc - thanks for an excellent course and a thouroughly interesting look at a new way to program :smile: Looking forward to starting to play with Pharo on some upcoming ideas I've had 👌3 - Anonymous I already had previous Smalltalk experience, but yes, I'm extremely happy Chapter 7 has been extremely fulfilling - Anonymous A general comment I wanted to make is that the MOOC so far has been great. Impressed with the quality and content, and grateful that it is available and free. Many thanks! - Aryeh IMHO the videos were very well done. I would even say shockingly well done… for a bunch of programmers who are supposed to be clueless about design - SeanDeNigris - 10/26/2017 The more I learning about @pharoproject the more I appreciate it's beauty and simplicity, finally, object-oriented programming is done right - MAQBOOL Mooc absolument remarquable. Superbe voyage autour de Pharo. Le paradigme objet qui (re)prend enfin du sens ! - Anonymous - 01/03/2019

Oct. 5, 2022

[ESUG2022] Slides online

by Marcus Denker

The Slides for ESUG 2022 are now online. ESUG Archive (PDF): http://esug.org/data/ESUG2022/ We are uploading to Slideshare (nearly done): https://www.slideshare.net/esug/presentations The Twitter account @esugsmalltalk will tweet one per day: https://twitter.com/esugsmalltalk Videos of the talk will be available soon.

Sept. 27, 2022

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday, 28 September 2022

by Giovanni Corriga

After a two year pause, the ESUG conference returned this past summer when Smalltalkers from all over the world met in Novi Sad, Serbia for a week of presentations, and socials ( https://esug.github.io/2022-Conference/conf2022.html ). For this month's UKSTUG meeting, we'll have an open discussion about what was presented at the conference. If you've been there, join us to tell us what you liked, and why. If you could not go, join us and discover what went down in Novi Sad! 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/288718350/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

Sept. 26, 2022

Re: the video about the conference is just super nice :)

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi boris Our servers and lab got deconnected from the world because people cut the wire physically. So I’m less reactive and the videos I uploaded yesterday are not reachable. Anyway > On 19 Sep 2022, at 09:17, Boris Radivojkov <boris.radivojkov(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Stephane, > > I would like to add my company name for production, it is a good reference. > Yes, I can add at the end: > Attend ESUG 2023 > > + Find more info at: www.something.com <http://www.something.com/> > > - if you wish that - just send me a link. https://esug.github.io <https://esug.github.io/> > I will fix it this evening and send it to you. > > Best Regards > Boris Radivojkov > > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 10:36 AM stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>> wrote: > Hi > > the video > is super nice > https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Videos/2022ESUG/FSUG-2022-highlights-vers… <https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Videos/2022ESUG/FSUG-2022-highlights-vers…> > > May be we should add your name and production company > as well as Join ESUG 2023 > > S

Sept. 19, 2022

the video about the conference is just super nice :)

by stephane ducasse

Hi the video is super nice https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Videos/2022ESUG/FSUG-2022-highlights-vers… <https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Videos/2022ESUG/FSUG-2022-highlights-vers…> May be we should add your name and production company as well as Join ESUG 2023 S

Sept. 18, 2022

Smalltalks Workshop 2022: call for papers!

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Greetings everyone, This year, in addition to traditional technical talks, FAST has organized a Workshop [1] where researchers are invited to submit papers, which will be evaluated by specialized reviewers. We have chosen the Workshop format to let authors get early qualified feedback of their work without preventing them from presenting in other conferences or publications, since this format does not imply exclusive submission. [1] https://smalltalks2022.fast.org.ar/registration/call-for-papers Greetings, -- 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/

Sept. 5, 2022

Re: September is the actual birth month of Smalltalk

by giorgio ferraris

thanks a lot giorgio On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 3:17 AM Richard Kenneth Eng < horrido.hobbies(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Therefore, I've prepared something special: https://youtu.be/TQQ1oXM7Nms. > > Enjoy. > > Cheers, > Richard > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org >

Aug. 31, 2022

September is the actual birth month of Smalltalk

by Richard Kenneth Eng

Therefore, I've prepared something special: https://youtu.be/TQQ1oXM7Nms. Enjoy. Cheers, Richard

Aug. 31, 2022

Re: Breaking news: Esug - Angela Bragagnolo

by Sasa Prokic

Hey Santiago, I am happy that this unfortunate event had it's happy ending and hope that it will not happen again. Customs should be able to learn and remember ;) Cheers,Saša On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 03:26:27 PM GMT+2, Santiago Bragagnolo <santiagobragagnolo(a)gmail.com> wrote: Thanks a lot to all of you to show all the care you had these last days and for helping this much with everything: calling ambassies, universities, directives etc. Special thanks to Gordana whom barely slept since Sunday trying and finally achieving to find the solution, and simulationeusly dealt with my stress. And to the university vice dean and dean, without whom we wouldn't have any political power nor any idea on how to react. Also to the medics and guards those that helped her in need. It has been a really f***ed up days . I wish you all a great time. I regret to not be there this year. Best for all of you! Santiago. On Sun, Aug 21, 2022, 15:41 Santiago Bragagnolo <santiagobragagnolo(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hello everyone, my wife Angela was going to assist esug this year as a student volunteer. She has been stopped in the airport since the information in the ambassy website "was outdated" (really really dickmove. i am starting to hate) and she was actually needing a visa. By the time being she was set into a cell-dorm with only her phone and no electric-socket to charge (so soon incommunicated). She was told to be sent back to paris in 3 days. Meaning that she is going to be in jail for 3 days because the ambassy is not able to keep their website updated. 1st- know that she is not attending.2nd- please if you know someway to help contact me. Thanks all. santiago _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org

Aug. 29, 2022