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[ann] GTExamples alpha
by Tudor Girba Aug. 25, 2016

Aug. 25, 2016

Hi, Over the last coupe of years Stefan Reichhart and the rest of the GT team worked on an implementation of examples. The work is inspired from previous work done by Markus Gaelli and Adrian Kuhn. As one of the goals of GT is to offer a live programming environment, one important issue is how to move from the static code to live objects as fast as possible. That is why we worked on this library as a solution to provide a link between the static code and live objects. Furthermore, this examples library also enables the definition of assertions on the examples, and this provides the possibility of rethinking the way we construct tests throughout our system. Tests are great as they help us create live objects and then to assert live properties. However, they do not allow us to leverage the objects we create, and this can be a tremendous resource for understanding systems. In our vision, examples should be everywhere and they should be explicitly linked to the static code they exemplify. That is why the library comes with an initial integration in existing tools (such as Nautilus, Spotter, Inspector). The current solution works well and it is the result of several rewrites. We think that the solution is complete in terms of features, but there are still several things to improve and iterate on. To this end, I kindly ask you to take a look at it while distinguishing between the concrete implementation choice (e.g., the current extensive use of pragmas) and the conceptual benefits of the approach. To ease the discussion, we put together a short documentation: http://gtoolkit.org/doc/Examples/examples.html That being said, you can get it with the full GToolkit in Pharo 6.0: http://gtoolkit.org/#install (easiest is to download the ready made image for now) For those that are at ESUG, I will try to provide a short overview during the Show Us Your Project session from today. Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "Innovation comes in the least expected form. That is, if it is expected, it already happened."

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Call for Papers: Object Oriented Programming Languages and Systems @ SAC 2017, April 3-7, 2017
by Nick Papoylias Aug. 24, 2016

Aug. 24, 2016

************************************************** OOPS 2017 Call for Papers Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems http://oops.disi.unige.it/OOPS17 ************************************************** Technical Track at the 32nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2017 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2017 April 3 - 7, 2017 Marrakesh, Morocco - Important Dates Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts September 15, 2016 Paper and SRC notifications November 10, 2016 Paper and SRC camera-ready copies November 25, 2016 Author registration December 10, 2016 SAC 2017 April 3 - 7, 2017 - Track Chair Davide Ancona (davide.ancona(a)unige.it) DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy - SAC 2017 For the past thirty one years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2017 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and is hosted by the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada; University Cadi Ayyad (UCA) of Marrakech, Morocco; National School of Engineering in Rabat (EMI), Rabat, Morocco; and National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA) of Kenitra, Morocco. - Call For Student Research Abstracts Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited to submit original abstracts of their research work in areas of experimental computing and application development related to SAC 2017 Tracks. The Student Research Competition (SRC) Program is designed to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. - OOPS Track: Aims and Topics Object-oriented programming (OOP) has become the mainstream programming paradigm for developing complex software systems in most application domains. However, existing OO languages and platforms need to evolve to meet the continuous demand for new abstractions, features, and tools able to reduce the time, effort, and cost of creating object-oriented software systems, and improving their performance, quality and usability. To this aim, OOPS is seeking for research advances bringing benefits in all those typical aspects of software development, such as modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, concurrency and distribution, code generation, analysis, verification, testing, debugging, evaluation, deployment, maintenance, reuse, and software evolution and adaptation. The specific topics of interest for the OOPS track include, but are not limited to, the following: * Aspects and components * Code generation, and optimization, just-in-time compilation * Context-oriented programming * Databases and persistence * Distribution and concurrency * Dynamic and scripting languages * Evaluation * Feature Oriented Software Development and Programming * Formal verification * Internet of Things technology and programming * Integration with other paradigms * Interoperability, versioning and software evolution and adaptation * Language design and implementation * Modular and generic programming * Reflection, meta-programming * Runtime verification * Secure and dependable software * Static analysis * Testing and debugging * Type systems and type inference * Virtual machines OOPS offers a great opportunity to the OOP community to gain visibility, and to exploit the inter-disciplinary nature of SAC. - Submission Instructions Prospective papers should be submitted to the track in pdf format using the START submission system for regular and SRC papers available through the SAC 2017 home page. Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed; all papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome. SAC 2017 will use double-blind reviewing; to facilitate this, author name(s) and institution(s) must be omitted, and references to authors' own related work should be in the third person. The format of the paper must adhere to the sig-alternate style. Full papers are limited to 6 pages with the option for up to 2 additional pages (max of 8 pages) at extra charge (80 USD per page). Posters are limited to 3 pages with the option for up to 1 additional page (max of 4 pages) at extra charge (80 USD). The length of the SRC abstracts is 2 pages with no additional pages at extra charge. Papers that fall short the above requirements are subjected to rejection. All papers must be submitted by September 15, 2016. For more information please visit the SAC 2017 home page. - Proceedings Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the annual conference proceedings. Accepted posters will be published as extended abstracts in the same proceedings. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. Student registration is only intended to encourage student attendance and does not cover inclusion of papers/posters in the conference proceedings. Finally, following the tradition of the past OOPS editions, depending on the quality and the overall number of accepted papers, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a journal special issue, after the conference.

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Praha social event
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 23, 2016

Aug. 23, 2016

Hi happy smalltalker attending ESUG I updated the social event web page http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Social-Event Stef -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas 03 59 57 78 50 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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What to taste in Prague
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 20, 2016

Aug. 20, 2016

Begin forwarded message: From: Pavel Krivanek <pavel.krivanek(a)gmail.com> If you like trying of the local traditional culinary specialties, I have some tips what taste in Prague during ESUG: Svickova (s karlovarskym knedlikem) http://www.mlsanicko.cz/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/svickova.jpg <http://www.mlsanicko.cz/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/svickova.jpg> Pecena kachna (s karlovarským knedlikem a cervenou repou) http://www.topvareni.cz/images/recepty/58019-pecena-kachna.jpg <http://www.topvareni.cz/images/recepty/58019-pecena-kachna.jpg> Ovocne tvarohove knedliky http://www.veganotic.cz/uploads/images/ovocne_knedliky.jpg <http://www.veganotic.cz/uploads/images/ovocne_knedliky.jpg> - attention: sweet and of cours the Czech BEER :-) If you are looking for beer from smaller local producers (Marcus, Denis?), you should start on this place: http://www.zlycasy.eu/ <http://www.zlycasy.eu/> (https://goo.gl/d1iOWT <https://goo.gl/d1iOWT>) -- Pavel > -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas 03 59 57 78 50 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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[Ann] Cuis now runs on Spur!
by juanlists＠jvuletich.org Aug. 19, 2016

Aug. 19, 2016

Hi Folks, I've successfully finished the Spur conversion of Cuis. I was able to merge all required changes to Cuis compiler and make it work in both ObjectMemories. Cuis is now offered in Spur and pre-Spur formats. And the best part is that they share 100% of the source code. There is no forking! This means that there is no extra work in maintaining both flavors. So, we are not leaving anyone behind. It also means that, at deployment, you might chose between better performance and larger memory (with Spur) or smaller footprint and SqueakJS compatibility (with pre-Spur). I've just updated our GitHub repo https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev . Included are Cuis4.2-2906-spur.image and Cuis4.2-2906.image, and, as usual, the whole update stream. I wrote a brief description of the Spur conversion at Documentation/SpurConversion.md, in case you want to reproduce it, or apply it to your own Cuis images. The images seem very stable. Please test them, load your code, and report any issues. This work was enabled by Eliot Miranda and the OpenSmalltalk team who develop Spur, VMMaker and the Spur bootstrap. Thank you folks! I also used Squeak 5 as a reference implementation of Compiler and related stuff. I also want to thank the greater Squeak community for it. Some cleanup is in order. The scaffolding I did for the conversion, including dual Compilers is still in the image. I'll be cleaning it soon. I'll also be able to pay a bit more attention to unrelated suggestions and ongoing discussion at cuis-dev(a)cuis-smalltalk.org Enjoy! Cheers, Juan Vuletich www.cuis-smalltalk.org https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev @JuanVuletich

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Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: William Resume
by ravinder phogat Aug. 19, 2016

Aug. 19, 2016

In continuation with my last email, please find attached most recent updated resume.

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Fwd: William Resume
by ravinder phogat Aug. 19, 2016

Aug. 19, 2016

Hi All, My friend William is a Smalltalker of around 25+ years of experience and is looking for smalltalk opportunities within US or Canada. I am attaching his profile for reference, any help would be appreciated. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ravinder Phogat <ravinder.smalltalk(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:45 PM Subject: Fwd: William Resume To: ravinder phogat <raviphogat.50(a)gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wiliam Mytnowych <bmytnowych(a)yahoo.com> Date: Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:28 PM Subject: William Resume To: "ravinder.smalltalk(a)gmail.com" <ravinder.smalltalk(a)gmail.com> Hi Ravi, My personal email is bmytnowych(a)yahoo.com. Here is my resume. Thanks for everything. - William - William Mytnowych bmytnowych(a)yahoo.com (404) 565-3553

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Partner & kids at Esug Conference
by Stephan Eggermont Aug. 17, 2016

Aug. 17, 2016

Dear Esug participants, My wife is considering coming to Prague (with the kids 7&9) and wonders if there are more partners (&kids?) there who would be interested in exploring the town together Cheers, Stephan Eggermont

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Remainder: ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards
by Jordi Delgado Aug. 17, 2016

Aug. 17, 2016

Reminder: *Only a few days left to submit!!* ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards Have you written innovative Smalltalk? The developers of any Smalltalk-based software can enter by submitting a 3-5min video of their software. Entrants demo their systems in a session at the end of Monday August 22, 2016, after which the conference attendees vote. (A vote consists in providing a sorted list of 3 preferred pieces of software.) The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros. The results are announced in the Awards ceremony that is held during the social event. Applicants should provide the following information on the conference registration server (registration.esug.org) Once you have registered your personal info, an 'Awards' menu allows submitting your software. You can provide this information when you first register, or login again later and update your details. Info to provide: Name of the software Licence information (free, shareware, or commercial) Name of the Smalltalk dialect used Name, Affiliation and Country of developers Besides, it would be great if the submission could include: URL for a video (3-5 min) showing a screencast / demo of the software URL for downloading the software or at least a runnable demo Deadline: *August 21, 2016* Any Smalltalker can apply (students, companies, ...). The presented piece of code/software should be written in Smalltalk or directly support Smalltalk (e.g. Smalltalk VM). All Smalltalk dialects are accepted. The applicant should be "strongly related" to the presented code, be it as an author, as owner of the copyright/copyleft, or as an official representative of the copyright/copyleft owner. Bests, Jordi

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[ann] moose 6.0
by Tudor Girba Aug. 15, 2016

Aug. 15, 2016

Hello everyone, We are happy to announce version 6.0 of the Moose Suite, the platform for software and data analysis built in Pharo: http://moosetechnology.org/#install Description --- The key highlights are: - It is based on Pharo 5.0 including the latest version of the Glamorous Toolkit. - It includes the SmaCC parsing framework together with parsers and abstract syntax trees for Java, JavaScript and Swift. - Roassal2 comes with several enhancements. - Famix features a new and generic query API engine. - Moose Finder and GTInspector come with more custom presentations and visualizations. - SmaCC comes with a dedicated debugger. - The debuggers for Glamour, PetitParser and Announcements received a new update. - DeepTraverser is an order of magnitude faster. Extra highlights: - Roassal2 is documented in a brand new book: http://agilevisualization.com - jdt2famix is a new open-source importer for Java: https://github.com/girba/jdt2famix Installation --- The Moose Suite 6.0 comes for each platform as a separate bundle: - For Mac: http://moosetechnology.org/res/download/moose_suite_6_0-mac.zip - For Windows: http://moosetechnology.org/res/download/moose_suite_6_0-win.zip - For Linux: http://moosetechnology.org/res/download/moose_suite_6_0-linux.zip The Moose Suite 6.0 can also be loaded in a Pharo 5.0 image either from the Configuration Browser, or by executing the following script: Metacello new smalltalkhubUser: 'Moose' project: 'Moose'; configuration: 'Moose'; version: #stable; load. Enjoy, The Moose team

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