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Zürich Smalltalkers' Meetup November 8th, 2016?
by jtuchel＠objektfabrik.de Sept. 14, 2016

Sept. 14, 2016

Dear Smalltalkers in the Zürich Area, it's probably time to get together again. It's been too much fun the last few times to just miss this opportunity. So I suggest November 8, 2016 as the date for our next meetup. The Steinfels has proven to be a suitable place, but if anybody has a better idea, let me know. If you are interested, please send me a note and I'll keep you updated on when, how, what and who. Hope to meet as many old and new Smalltalk enthusiasts and wannabes as possible! Joachim

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Fwd: VA Smalltalk News
by stephane ducasse Sept. 13, 2016

Sept. 13, 2016

> > Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. <http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=40d53f69de264c389f24ea8ef&id=7199e2a20b…> > > VA Smalltalk News > New VAST Release Coming Soon, ESUG Conference, Camp Smalltalk NMU, Upcoming Conferences > > Dear VA Smalltalk User, > > There's a lot going on at Instantiations and in the Smalltalk community so we thought we'd send out this brief news bulletin to help you stay abreast of the latest developments. > > The European Smalltalk Users Group Conference (ESUG) was held in Prague, Czech Republic August 22-26. Instantiations was a Platinum sponsor and two of our senior technical people (John O'Keefe, CTO and Seth Berman, VP of Engineering) presented papers. The conference was very successful and included several dozen technical papers and the International Workshop on Smalltalk (more papers) plus "Show Us Your Project", an opportunity for attendees to show off their latest Smalltalk projects. > > You can find the presentations and videos at: > ESUG News: http://esug.org/wiki/ <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f2…> > > ESUG 2016 Video channel > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5nSnWzQXi8pkvGyi1ZniLcAu_J8OFRs <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f2…> > VA Smalltalk Product Update and Roadmap (John O'Keefe) > (video) <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f…>https://goo.gl/IaB7yq <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f2…> > (slides) http://www.slideshare.net/esug/va-smalltalk-product-update-and-roadmap-6531… <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f2…> > Security with VA Smalltalk (Seth Berman) > (video) https://goo.gl/qrF2AL <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f…> > (slides) http://www.slideshare.net/esug/security-with-va-smalltalk <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f2…> > > International Workshop on Smalltalk > (slides) http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2016/IWST/ <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f2…> > (videos) https://goo.gl/DsEBxH <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f2…> > > Show Us Your Project: http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2016/ShowUS/ <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f2…> > Camp Smalltalk NMU (Northern Michigan University) - September 15-18, 2016 > > You are invited to Camp Smalltalk NMU! Come join the fun September 15-18 in beautiful Marquette, Michigan! > > There is no set schedule. Some of the areas that will surely be covered include: > > Smalltalk on small devices, such as Scratch on Raspberry PI > Web frameworks such as Seaside > Virtual machine implementations > Data processing applications > Language design, Smalltalk and beyond > Education (many students will be present) > More info at: http://mqt.st/ <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f…> > FAST-10th International Conference on Smalltalk Technologies (Smalltalks) > > The Fundación Argentina de Smalltalk (FAST, http://www.fast.org.ar <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f2…>) invites you to the 10th International Conference on Smalltalk Technologies (Smalltalks), to be held from November 9th through November 11th at the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Tucumán, located in the city of Tucumán, Argentina. Everyone, including teachers, students, researchers, developers and entrepreneurs, are welcome as speakers or attendees. > > This year, we are extremely happy to announce Ralph Johnson and Gilad Bracha as keynote speakers. > > Ralph Johnson is part of the Gang of Four that gave us the language to talk about Design Patterns in software. He taught Smalltalk at the University of Illinois with widespread influence on the community. His students include Don Roberts and John Brant, authors of the Refactoring Browser. > > Gilad Bracha's work as a language designer and implementer spans Strongtalk and the Animorphic VM, the Java HotSpot VM, and more recently Dart at Google as well as NewSpeak. > > Registration: Registration is free and now open at: http://fast.org.ar/registration <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f…>. > > SPLASH'16 - ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity > > The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH 2016 will take place from Sunday, October 30 to Friday, November 4, 2016 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. > > More info: http://2016.splashcon.org/ <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f2…> > New Release of VA Smalltalk Coming Soon > > The VAST engineering team has been working hard and plans an update release of VA Smalltalk during Q4 of this year. Check out John O'Keefe's ESUG Product Update and Roadmap presentation above for details. When the new release (V8.6.3) is ready to go we'll send out another bulletin to let you know. Remember, if you have a current support agreement the upgrade is free! > > If you're not on support please contact our Sales department (sales(a)instantiations.com <mailto:sales@instantiations.com>) and they'll help you get set up to take advantage of all the modernized and updated features of VA Smalltalk. > Hope you enjoy the videos and presentations. If you get a chance, attend Camp Smalltalk NMU. Camp Smalltalk is always great way to learn new things about Smalltalk and meet friends, old and new! > > Onward and upward! > > > Mike Taylor > President & CEO > > 1-855-4-SMALLTALK > (1-855-476-2558) > www.instantiations.com <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40d53f69de264c389f2…> > > > Instantiations® and VA Smalltalk™ are trademarks of Instantiations, Inc. > > > > This email is intended for those who have an interest in Instantiations' VA Smalltalk. If you do not wish to continue receiving messages from Instantiations please Unsubscribe below. > > Unsubscribe <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=40d53f69de264c389f…> board(a)esug.org <mailto:board@esug.org> from this list | Forward to a friend <http://us2.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=40d53f69de264c389f24ea8ef&id=719…> | Update your profile <http://instantiations.us2.list-manage2.com/profile?u=40d53f69de264c389f24ea…> > > Copyright (C) 2016 INSTANTIATIONS INC All rights reserved. >

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SPLASH'16 Amsterdam: Call For Participation
by Tijs van der Storm Sept. 12, 2016

Sept. 12, 2016

################################################# ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'16) ################################################# Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sun 30th October - Fri 4th November , 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org https://twitter.com/splashcon https://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon/ ** REGISTRATION ** 30 September 2016 (Early Deadline) Contact: info(a)splashcon.org http://2016.splashcon.org/attending/registration # What's happening at SPLASH? ## Keynotes - Benjamin Pierce (SPLASH) The Science of Deep Specification - Andy Ko (SPLASH) A Human View of Programming Languages - Martin Odersky (SPLASH) - Guy Steele Jr. (SPLASH-I) - Robby Findler (SLE) Redex: Lightweight Semantics Engineering - Tiark Rompf (GPCE) Lightweight Modular Staging: Generate all the things! - Simon Peyton Jones (SPLASH-I/E) The dream of a lifetime: shaping how our children learn computing - Laurence Tratt (Scala) ## Workshop Keynotes - Andrew Black (NOOL) - Alan Blackwell (PLATEAU) - Alastair Donald (WODA) - Sam Guyer (WODA) - Felienne Hermans (DSLDI) - Ben Liblit (WODA) - Benjamin Livshits (WODA) - Ivano Malavolta (Mobile!) - Yannis Smaragdakis (WODA) - Frank Tip (WODA) - Markus Voelter (ITSLE) ** Conference Program ** http://2016.splashcon.org/program/program-splash2015 ** SPLASH-I Track ** SPLASH-I is a series of invited and solicited talks that address topics relevant to the SPLASH community. Speakers are world-class experts in their field, selected and invited by the organizers. The SPLASH-I talks series is held in parallel with the rest of SPLASH during the week days. Talks are open to all attendees. A selection of confirmed talks: - Edwin Brady Type-driven Development in Idris - Jürgen Cito Using Docker Containers to Improve Reproducibility in PL/SE Research - Yvonne Coady Exploratory Analysis in Virtual Reality: The New Frontier - Adam Chlipala Rapid Development of Web Applications with Typed Metaprogramming in Ur/Web - Tudo Girba Software Environmentalism - Brian Harvey Snap! Scheme Disguised as Scratch - Lennart Kats Responsive Language Tooling For Cloud-based IDEs - Ralf Laemmel The basic skill set of software language engineering - Crista Lopes Simulating Cities: The Spacetime Framework - Heather Miller Language Support for Distributed Systems - Mark Miller & Bill Tulloh The elements of decision alignment: Large programs as complex organizations - Boaz Rosenan & David Lorenz Define Your App, Don’t Implement It: Building a Scalable Social Network in 45 minutes - Emmanuel Schanzer Bootstrap - Chris Seaton Truffle and Graal: Fast Programming Languages With Modest Effort - Emma Söderbergh From Tricorder to Tricium: Useful Static Analysis and the Importance of Workflow Integration - Emma Tosch Designing and Debugging Surveys with SurveyMan - Todd Veldhuizen Fast Datalog - Markus Völter How Domain Requirements Shape Languages - Jos Warmer Making Mendix Meta Model Driven - Andy Zaidman Fact or fiction? What software analytics can do for us (developers and researchers) More information here: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash2016-splash-i ** Research tracks - OOPSLA http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-oopsla#event-overview - Onward! http://2016.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2016-papers#event-overview - Onward! Essays http://2016.onward-conference.org/track/onward2016-essays#program - Software Language Engineering (SLE) http://conf.researchr.org/track/sle-2016/sle-2016-papers#event-overview - Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) http://conf.researchr.org/track/gpce-2016/gpce-2016-papers#event-overview - Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) http://conf.researchr.org/track/dls-2016/dls-2016-papers#event-overview - Scala Symposium http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2016/scala-2016#event-overview ** Other Events - Doctoral Symposium http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-ds#event-overview - Programming Language Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-plmw - Student Research Competition (SRC) http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-src - Posters http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-posters#event-overview ** Workshops SPLASH'16 is hosting a record number of 15 workshops: - AGERE! Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control http://2016.splashcon.org/track/agere2016 - DSLDI: Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dsldi2016 - DSM: Domain-Specific Modeling http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dsm2016 - FOSD: Feature-oriented Software Development http://www.fosd.net/workshop2016 - ITSLE: Industry Track Software Language Engineering http://2016.splashcon.org/track/itsle2016 - LWC@SLE: Language Workbench Challenge http://2016.splashcon.org/track/lwc2016 - META http://2016.splashcon.org/track/meta2016 - Mobile! http://2016.splashcon.org/track/mobile2016 - NOOL: New Object-Oriented Languages http://2016.splashcon.org/track/nool2016 - PLATEAU: Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools http://2016.splashcon.org/track/plateau2016 - Parsing@SLE http://2016.splashcon.org/track/parsing2016 - REBLS: Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems http://2016.splashcon.org/track/rebls2016 - SA-MDE: Tutorial on MDD with Model Catalogue and Semantic Booster http://2016.splashcon.org/track/samde2016 - SEPS: Software Engineering for Parallel Systems http://2016.splashcon.org/track/seps2016 - VMIL: Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages http://2016.splashcon.org/track/vmil2016 - WODA: Workshop on Dynamic Analysis http://2016.splashcon.org/track/woda2016 ## SPLASH'16 is kindly supported by the following organizations: - ACM: http://www.acm.org/ - SIGPLAN: http://www.sigplan.org/ - LogicBlox (Gold): http://www.logicblox.com/ - Oracle (Silver): http://www.oracle.com/index.html - TU Delft (Silver): http://tudelft.nl/ - Huawei (Bronze): http://www.huawei.com/en/ - Facebook (Bronze): https://research.facebook.com/ - IBM Research (Bronze): http://www.research.ibm.com/ - Google (Bronze): https://www.google.com - Itemis (Bronze): https://www.itemis.com/en/ - ING (Bronze): https://www.ing.nl Interested in supporting SPLASH'16? See our options here: http://2016.splashcon.org/attending/support-program.

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PharoJS ESUG 2016 Demo files
by Noury Bouraqadi Sept. 9, 2016

Sept. 9, 2016

Dear Smalltalkers, The Pharo 4.0 image + related files used in the PharoJS ESUG 2016 demo are now available for download at https://pharojs.github.io/faq.html#demoEsug2016 <https://pharojs.github.io/faq.html#demoEsug2016> Best, Noury

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Fwd: [Smalltalks 2016] --- Invitation
by Carlos E. Ferro Sept. 8, 2016

Sept. 8, 2016

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Annotated slides "Perfection & Feedback Loops or: why worse is better”
by Marcus Denker Sept. 2, 2016

Sept. 2, 2016

Hi, I got lots of request for the slides for my talk last Friday. They are now online (with all the other slides of ESUG), but as slides do not contain much (just headlines), I created a special “Annotated” version with links and some comments so one can follow better: http://marcusdenker.de/talks/16ESUG/FeedbackLoopsAnnotated.pdf SlideShare of the original slides: http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/perfection-feedback-loops-or-why-wor… PDF and .key file are there, too: http://marcusdenker.de/talks/16ESUG/ (the .key file contains the embedded videos shown). A video of the presentation should be available soon. Marcus

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Slant looking for "best server-side platform" and Pharo is trailing badly
by David Mason Sept. 1, 2016

Sept. 1, 2016

You might want to go and vote/comment at https://www.slant.co/topics/1565/~server-side-programming-languages ../Dave

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Engineer position at Lille (France) about Moose FAMIX
by Anne Etien Sept. 1, 2016

Sept. 1, 2016

Hi, We have an engineer position at Lille (France) in the RMOD team to modernize FAME, FAMIX and software analysis tools. The position is for two years starting in November or December. Conditions to apply are to have a master with 2 to 10 years of experience. Industrial applications of Moose have shown some limits: (1) problem to scale, (2) modularity and extensibility and (3) user syntax. To overtake these limits, it becomes essential to modernize Moose heart. This project has three major objectives: (i) reduce the memory print to enable a better scaling, (ii) modernize Moose heart to introduce more modularity and extensibility and (iii) simplify the use and extension of Moose. This project aims to develop a new version of Moose (Moose 2.0) more modular, less memory consumer and easier to use. Advantages of Platypus (PL)(http://dossen.univ-brest.fr/apl/index.php/Platypus <http://dossen.univ-brest.fr/apl/index.php/Platypus>) a research prototype developed in Pharo to analyse software systems as models will be combined to those of the current Moose (M) version and the new features of Pharo (P). Moose 2.0 = flexible metamodel (M) supporting multiple inheritance and union of types (PL) + user syntaxto simplify model specifications (PL) + lot of analysis and visualization tools (M) + tool infrastructure (M) + model generator (PL) + compatibility with industrial and academic standard (PL) + low memory print (P) + access to method details (M) on demand (P) Mission description (in French) and application form are available here (https://www.inria.fr/institut/recrutement-metiers/offres/ingenieurs-r-d-con… <https://www.inria.fr/institut/recrutement-metiers/offres/ingenieurs-r-d-con…>). French is not mandatory whereas English is ;o) If you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask. Sincerely, Anne Etien

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How to play ESUG 2016 videos on Windows
by Georg Heeg Aug. 29, 2016

Aug. 29, 2016

All, I know that 90%+ of all ESUG attendees are using Macs, but I don't. I saw that the videos are .key files. Technically they are zip files with a directory structure in it. Does anybody know how to play these videos on Windows? Georg Georg Heeg eK, Dortmund und Köthen, HR Dortmund A 12812 Wallstraße 22, 06366 Köthen Tel. +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712

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Power adapter
by Guillermo Amaral Aug. 26, 2016

Aug. 26, 2016

Hi! The conference was really exciting, full of interesting talks and topics, and as with previous editions, I've got several motivating ideas from it. Perhaps that's part of the reason why I forgot my MacAirbook power adaptor (MagSafe 2 connector). I just returned to the university but the room was closed. If anybody knows where it might be, I'll apreciate if you let me know. I'll be here until next sunday evening. Thanks!

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