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UK Smalltalk User Group meeting: Smalltalk and Self hardware - 29 June 2022

by Giovanni Corriga

For our June meeting, Merik Voswinkel will give us a presentation on Smalltalk and Self hardware with a focus on manycore parallelism and distributed computing. This follows from Jecel Assumpcao Jr's SiliconSqueak presentation at the California Smalltalkers meetup ( https://youtu.be/CfYnzVxdwZE ). Merik will bring us on a tour past 50 years of late bound message passing Smalltalk VMs, Smalltalk RISC processors, David Ungar’s RoarVM, adaptive compilers, concurrent aggregates, clone-reduce, a processor per object, FPGA’s, Morphle Logic, Croquet and Teatime , Wafer Scale Integration, hundred (M1 Ultra), thousands and million cores ASICs, Cuniform, Matroshca Brains and much more in our tourney towards the Wayne Gretzky invention game of inventing the future. If there is time we’ll go burning the Smalltalk disk packs, the intergalactic network GUI and the destiny of computers as intellectual amplifiers for humans pervasively networked worldwide and how we are going to communicate with Aliens. Merik Voswinkel is an independent scientist who build his first transputer supercomputer for Smalltalk after the Byte 1981 Smalltalk issue, build one of the first internet providers, works on SiliconSqueak, wafer scale integrations and Enernet energy computing. This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up on the Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/286314641/ ).

June 13, 2022

Smalltalk company in canada

by stephane ducasse

Hi guys I would like to get in touch with companies working in Smalltalk in canada. There is the possibility to get funding for projects based on collaboration between University and companies and we have some friends wanted to have projects around Pharo. S

June 7, 2022

ESUG deadline for Presentation

by stephane ducasse

Hi Happy Smalltalkers Two important points - We are starting to work on the program of ESUG 2022 and we will accept some more talks but do not wait too long. https://esug.github.io/2022-Conference/call2022.html <https://esug.github.io/2022-Conference/call2022.html> - The registration is open and the early rate is nicer than the late one :) https://registration.esug.org <https://registration.esug.org/> But you can sponsor ESUG by registering with late fees from 6th of July. But this is more expensive. S

June 3, 2022

[ANN] Registration ESUG 2022 is open

by Marcus Denker

Registration is now open: https://registration.esug.org Marcus

June 3, 2022

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, May 25th

by Giovanni Corriga

For our May meeting, Object Guild's Jonathan van Alteren and Erik Stel will give us a preview of Expressive Systems. Expressive Systems is a framework inspired by Richard Pawson's work on Naked Objects ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_objects ). It allows Object Guild to rapidly develop flexible applications by focusing on the design of behaviorally complete objects in the business domain. By using a novel web application architecture based on CodeParadise ( https://github.com/ErikOnBike/CodeParadise ), it allows direct manipulation of business objects by the user. The goal of the framework is to better support problem solving activities and to empower users by giving them a first-person experience. The framework is currently in a (private) alpha phase of development. There are plans to open source the framework in the future. Jonathan has been developing business applications for various Dutch companies since 2001, in roles varying from programmer to solution architect. In 2018, he got hooked on Pharo/Smalltalk and never looked back. Erik has developed both technical as well as business applications in a variety of areas using a broad range of technologies. He’s been a Smalltalk addict since using VisualAge in the late 1990’s. This will be a hybrid meetup where we'll connect to Zoom from the The City Pride pub ( https://goo.gl/maps/gxiuohY8z5CvA7wr5 ). If you'd like to join us either via Zoom or in person, please sign up on the Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/285546604/ ).

May 14, 2022

Re: Esug Novi Sad

by Stéphane Ducasse

Nice proposal! S > On 11 May 2022, at 13:15, Sebastijan Kaplar <sebastijan.kaplar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes sure. > > Did you maybe manage to find a place for camp Smalltalk, I could arrange that, I’ve checked with the company I work for, and they would be happy to host it for the weekend (21.8. and 22.8.), it’s right in the city centre so I presume it would be in the walking distance for a people staying around the city centre and is spacious enough so a lot of people could fit in it? I’m sending a location: https://goo.gl/maps/2ACHdXq5ZjnHqkkN8 <https://goo.gl/maps/2ACHdXq5ZjnHqkkN8> And if needed I can provide some photos. > > Also I’ve noticed on the website for accomodation suggestion, first in the list “Voyager”, was closed during the pandemic. > > Best regards, > Sebastijan > > > >> On 11. 5. 2022., at 07:24, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>> wrote: >> >> sure >> this afternoon at 16:00 we will have a meeting with the ESUG board about ESUG organization. >> >> S >> >>> On 11 May 2022, at 02:48, Gordana Rakic <goca(a)dmi.uns.ac.rs <mailto:goca@dmi.uns.ac.rs>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Sebastijan and Stef, >>> >>> Great to hear from you! >>> Now the organization activities are becoming more intensive, so you can expect me to contact you to jump in if you have time. >>> >>> Gordana >>> >>> From: stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>> >>> Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 12:10 PM >>> To: Sebastijan Kaplar <sebastijan.kaplar(a)gmail.com <mailto:sebastijan.kaplar@gmail.com>> >>> Cc: Gordana Rakic <goca(a)dmi.uns.ac.rs <mailto:goca@dmi.uns.ac.rs>> >>> Subject: Re: Esug Novi Sad >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 1 Mar 2022, at 20:05, Sebastijan Kaplar <sebastijan.kaplar(a)gmail.com <mailto:sebastijan.kaplar@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 28.02.2022., at 22:35, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi sebastijan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On 28 Feb 2022, at 09:55, Sebastijan Kaplar <sebastijan.kaplar(a)gmail.com <mailto:sebastijan.kaplar@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello Stef, >>>>>> >>>>>> I saw an email on mailing list announcing esug. Even though unfortunately no one from my former colleagues from the university notified me that it will be happening this year, >>>>> >>>>> May be they do not know it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> I would like to offer if I can be of any help or assistance with logistic or otherwise, >>>>>> regarding transport/accommodation/restaurants etc I would be glad to help. So please you or anyone from the board don’t hesitate to ping me and I will to my best to help and would like to talk/catch up when you are here. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks a lot for your offer. I imagine that gordana may need some help. >>>> Yes, Gordana if you need anything that I can help please ping me. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I hope that you are getting well. >>>> >>>> I am, I’m waiting a second baby now and due date is actually somewhere around mid august and really happy about it. :) >>> >>> :) >>> Pay attention there is not addition but multiplication :) >>> >>> >>>> I hope everything is well at your side also. >>>> >>>> >>>>> BTW I’m working on finalizing the PBE90 book >>>>> - I found a nice publisher for the printed version >>>>> - I validated two days ago that I’m able to produce a cover and that I understand the format of the books >>>>> so I will move on and deliver PBE90 and many new books. >>>> >>>> This is wonderful news, can’t wait to publish it and have the printed version also. >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> BTW do you have a released version of your workflow system because I would like to advertize it. >>>>> It would be great if you could also do a presentation about it at ESUG. >>>> >>>> NewWave has been bumped to work with Pharo 9 which I’m happy about, I don’t have time now to work on it as much because I work full time, but I had about an hour long conversation with Norbert couple of weeks ago, >>>> he’s really interested in it because he saw an application in something he is working on, and I offered to help him to get to know the system and hope that it gets traction again. >>> >>> Excellent >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Sebastijan >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> >>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >>> www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> >

May 11, 2022

Re: Esug Novi Sad

by stephane ducasse

sure this afternoon at 16:00 we will have a meeting with the ESUG board about ESUG organization. S > On 11 May 2022, at 02:48, Gordana Rakic <goca(a)dmi.uns.ac.rs> wrote: > > Hi Sebastijan and Stef, > > Great to hear from you! > Now the organization activities are becoming more intensive, so you can expect me to contact you to jump in if you have time. > > Gordana > > From: stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> > Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 12:10 PM > To: Sebastijan Kaplar <sebastijan.kaplar(a)gmail.com> > Cc: Gordana Rakic <goca(a)dmi.uns.ac.rs> > Subject: Re: Esug Novi Sad > > > > >> On 1 Mar 2022, at 20:05, Sebastijan Kaplar <sebastijan.kaplar(a)gmail.com <mailto:sebastijan.kaplar@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >> >>> On 28.02.2022., at 22:35, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi sebastijan >>> >>> >>>> On 28 Feb 2022, at 09:55, Sebastijan Kaplar <sebastijan.kaplar(a)gmail.com <mailto:sebastijan.kaplar@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello Stef, >>>> >>>> I saw an email on mailing list announcing esug. Even though unfortunately no one from my former colleagues from the university notified me that it will be happening this year, >>> >>> May be they do not know it. >>> >>> >>>> I would like to offer if I can be of any help or assistance with logistic or otherwise, >>>> regarding transport/accommodation/restaurants etc I would be glad to help. So please you or anyone from the board don’t hesitate to ping me and I will to my best to help and would like to talk/catch up when you are here. >>> >>> Thanks a lot for your offer. I imagine that gordana may need some help. >> Yes, Gordana if you need anything that I can help please ping me. >> >>> >>> I hope that you are getting well. >> >> I am, I’m waiting a second baby now and due date is actually somewhere around mid august and really happy about it. :) > > :) > Pay attention there is not addition but multiplication :) > > >> I hope everything is well at your side also. >> >> >>> BTW I’m working on finalizing the PBE90 book >>> - I found a nice publisher for the printed version >>> - I validated two days ago that I’m able to produce a cover and that I understand the format of the books >>> so I will move on and deliver PBE90 and many new books. >> >> This is wonderful news, can’t wait to publish it and have the printed version also. >> >> >>> >>> BTW do you have a released version of your workflow system because I would like to advertize it. >>> It would be great if you could also do a presentation about it at ESUG. >> >> NewWave has been bumped to work with Pharo 9 which I’m happy about, I don’t have time now to work on it as much because I work full time, but I had about an hour long conversation with Norbert couple of weeks ago, >> he’s really interested in it because he saw an application in something he is working on, and I offered to help him to get to know the system and hope that it gets traction again. > > Excellent > > >> >> >>>> >>>> Sebastijan > > > > > <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/antivirus>

May 11, 2022

IWST22 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies

by Vincent Aranega

Hi everyone, As you probably know, after complicated years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST) is here again and will be held with this year ESUG conference August 24th to 26th in Novi-Sad, Serbia. Due to authors requests, we moved further the initial deadlines. The 2022 paper review, WiP submission and acceptance processes will proceed with the following deadlines: - Submission deadline: June 1st, 2022 - Notification deadline: July 1st, 2022 - Workshop with ESUG conference: August 24th-26th, 2022. Like last year, we are very proud to announce a Best Paper Award. We thank the Lam Research Corporation for its financial contribution which makes it possible for prizes for the three best papers. We are also happy to announce that accepted papers will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings. IWST has now a significant history and has served for years as a smart playground for young researchers to practice writing articles & presenting results. In parallel, senior researchers take benefit from IWST to expose mature work and propose some retrospective or draw future directions. Mixing these two kinds of contributors makes IWST that attractive. Let’s do the 2022 edition conformed to this legacy! https://esug.github.io/2022-Conference/cfpIWST2022.html Vincent Aranega Loïc Lagadec

May 2, 2022

Re: [Pharo-users] ESUG 2022 call for presentations & Call for student volunteers

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi The deadline for sending presentation proposal is set to 1st of June! So please do not wait the last moment to send your proposals. S > On 13 Jan 2022, at 13:25, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> wrote: > > ESUG 2022 > Novisad Serbia 22. – 26.8. > https://esug.github.io/2022-Conference/call2022.html <https://esug.github.io/2022-Conference/call2022.html> > > 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/ <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 (170 people at Amsterdam 2008)! > 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/2022-Conference/talks <https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2022-Conference/talks> > > Or but only if you are not connected to the world… send an email to stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> > > Title: [ESUG 2022] 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 <http://inria.fr/> and serge.stinckwich at gmail.com <http://gmail.com/> with: > > title: [ESUG 2022 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 21 August until Friday 26 August 2022 (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! >

April 23, 2022

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, April 27th

by Giovanni Corriga

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be held on Wednesday, April 27th 2022. Newspeak ( https://bracha.org/Site/Newspeak.html ) is a programming system in the Smalltalk tradition, whose current incarnation runs in the web browser. Newspeak is designed to provide the liveness Smalltalkers expect, as well as features atypical of Smalltalk such as modularity, security and good interoperability with the surrounding ecosystem. In this talk, we'll explain how and why Newspeak differs from Smalltalk and demonstrate the Newspeak IDE. Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak programming language and a well known researcher in the area of object-oriented programming languages. He was awarded the senior Dahl-Nygaard prize in 2017. He is currently a Technical Fellow at F5, and has held positions at Google, SAP Labs, Cadence, and Sun. He has authored or co-authored several books including the Java Language and Virtual Machine Specifications, and the Dart Programming Language. Prior to joining Sun, he worked on Strongtalk, the Animorphic Smalltalk System. He received his B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben Gurion University in Israel and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah. 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/cbklbrydcgbkc/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

April 20, 2022