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HTML Mail Designer for use in Smalltalk application
by jtuchel＠objektfabrik.de Oct. 12, 2016

Oct. 12, 2016

Hi, please excuse my posting to this list although my question is very generic and not very closely related to Smalltalk. But since here are a few people around who use Seaside and related web technologies in Smalltalk, I thought this question may be of interest to the group. Our web application (Seaside based, to at least justify my abuse of this group a tiny bit) sends out mails to registered users at certain events. We currently have some HTML-Strings that are concatenated into mail messages, by simply streaming the headers, an empty line and the html contents of a mail message. Of course we fill in individual information like the name of the recipient, amounts etc. individually for our mail recipients. I am looking for an application that allows to me visually design such an HTML (and alternative text) message and export the result as a simple ASCII file that can be used to 1. Use a simple text editor (or workspace) to add variables (like %1, %2 etc. for bindWith:with: etc, or Mustache or whatever) 2. Read from a FileStream and fill in the variables and concatenate the ready made message into a String that can be sent out via SMTP I've tried MailDesigner Pro on Mac, but this doesn't embed pictures inline into the exported file. It puts images onto some cloud location and adds links to them. This is not what I have in mind. I want the images to be inline in the message as attachment. I hope I've described exactly enough what I need and that you guys have any tips what I could use. I don't care if it runs on Windows, Mac or Linux, and it can be a reasonably priced commercial product if it does what I need. Maybe you don't have an answer but have an idea where I could ask. Thanks, Joachim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Objektfabrik Joachim Tuchel mailto:jtuchel@objektfabrik.de Fliederweg 1 http://www.objektfabrik.de D-71640 Ludwigsburg http://joachimtuchel.wordpress.com Telefon: +49 7141 56 10 86 0 Fax: +49 7141 56 10 86 1

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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Monday, October 24th
by Giovanni Corriga Oct. 11, 2016

Oct. 11, 2016

Hi, The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting will be on Monday, October 24th. We'll meet at our usual venue The Counting House (http://www.the-counting- house.com/) at 7pm. If you'd like to join us, you can just show up at the pub. You can also sign up in advance at the meeting's Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/233683243/ . Thanks, Giovanni

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Videos of ESUG 2016 are now online
by Marcus Denker Oct. 7, 2016

Oct. 7, 2016

The Videos of ESUG 2016 are now online! Playlist Youtube Main Conference on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5nSnWzQXi8pkvGyi1ZniLcAu_J8OFRs* -PlayList IWST: on youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5nSnWzQXi-hDyGVkyohvKqAgGxQyloy We added a more detailed list of all talks to the website with links to videos and slides: -Monday http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Monday -Tuesday http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Tuesday -Wedesday http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Wednesday -Thursday http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Thursday -Friday http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Friday Sadly some videos where lost. A list of all videos missing can be found here: http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2016/MISSING.txt We started tweeting one talk per day on the ESUG twitter: https://twitter.com/esugsmalltalk

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CfP: OOPS @ SAC 2017, deadline extended to October 7th, 2016
by Nick Papoylias Sept. 30, 2016

Sept. 30, 2016

========================================================= ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: October 7, 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 October 7, 2016 (final extended deadline) Paper and SRC notifications November 18, 2016 Paper and SRC camera-ready copies December 2, 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 October 7, 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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SPLASH'16 Amsterdam CFP: early registration ends Sept 30
by Tijs van der Storm Sept. 28, 2016

Sept. 28, 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) Fine-grained language composition without a common VM - Jan Vitek (Scala) This is not a Type: Gradual typing in practice ## Workshop Keynotes - Andrew Black (NOOL) The Essence of Inheritance - Alan Blackwell (PLATEAU) How to Design a Programming Language - Felienne Hermans (DSLDI) Small, simple and smelly: What we can learn from examining end-user artifacts? - Ivano Malavolta (Mobile!) Beyond native apps: Web technologies to the rescue! - Betsy Pepels (ITSLE) Model Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) in the large - Markus Voelter (ITSLE) Lessons Learned about Language Engineering from the Development of mbeddr - Beverly Sanders (SEPS) Patterns for Parallel Programming: New and Improved! ** Conference Program ** http://2016.splashcon.org/program/program-splash-2016 ** 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 - Robert Grimm Adventures in Software Evolution - 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/splash-2016-splash-i#program ** 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/ - Universal Robots (PLMW, Gold): http://www.universal-robots.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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More videos ESUG 2016 online
by Marcus Denker Sept. 20, 2016

Sept. 20, 2016

Hi, More videos are now online: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5nSnWzQXi8pkvGyi1ZniLcAu_J8OFRs We are tracking down the missing ones… Marcus

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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Monday, September 26th
by Giovanni Corriga Sept. 20, 2016

Sept. 20, 2016

Hi, The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting will be on Monday, September 26th. We'll meet at our usual venue The Counting House ( http://www.the-counting-house.com/) at 7pm. If you'd like to join us, you can just show up at the pub. You can also sign up in advance at the meeting's Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/233567686/ . Thanks, Giovanni

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Slides ESUG 2016
by marcus.denker＠inria.fr Sept. 20, 2016

Sept. 20, 2016

Hi, We are starting to upload Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/esug/presentations <http://www.slideshare.net/esug/presentations> Videos will follow... Everything (Videos, Slides, Descriptions) will end up being archived, too: http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2016/ <http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2016/> (This will happen slowly over the next days) Marcus

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SLE 2016: Call for Participation
by Andrei Chis Sept. 20, 2016

Sept. 20, 2016

======================================================================== ** Call for Participation ** 9th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2016) Oct 31-Nov 1, 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Collocated with SPLASH 2016) http://conf.researchr.org/track/sle-2016/sle-2016-papers http://www.sleconf.org/2016/ Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf ======================================================================== Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the application of systematic, disciplined, and measurable approaches to the development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages. The term "software language" is used broadly, and includes: general-purpose programming languages; domain-specific languages (e.g. BPMN, Simulink, Modelica); modeling and metamodeling languages (e.g. SysML and UML); data models and ontologies (e.g. XML-based and OWL-based languages and vocabularies). ** REGISTRATION ** 30 September 2016 (Early Registration Deadline) Contact: info(a)splashcon.org http://2016.splashcon.org/attending/registration ** VENUE ** Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre Hotel reservations: http://2016.splashcon.org/venue/movenpick-amsterdam ## Program Highlights ### Keynote - Robby Findler Redex: Lightweight Semantics Engineering http://conf.researchr.org/track/sle-2016/sle-2016-papers#Keynote-Robby-Find… ### Awards During the conference, we will announce the following awards: - Distinguished paper. Award for most notable paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the program committee. - Distinguished reviewer. Award for distinguished reviewer, as determined by the PC chairs using feedback from the authors. - Distinguished artefact. Award for the artifact most significantly exceeding expectations, as determined by the AEC chairs based on the recommendations of the artifact evaluation committee. Sponsored by Raincode. ### Accepted Papers - Adding Uncertainty and Units to Quantity Types in Software Models, Tanja Mayerhofer, Manuel Wimmer, Antonio Vallecillo - Automated Testing Support for Reactive Domain-Specific Modelling Languages, Bart Meyers, Joachim Denil, Istvan David, Hans Vangheluwe - BSML-mbeddr: Integrating Semantically Configurable State-Machine Models in a C Programming Environment, Zhaoyi Luo, Jo Atlee - Coupled Software Transformations—Revisited, Ralf Lämmel - DrAST - an inspection tool for attributed syntax trees (Tool Demo), Joel Lindholm, Johan Thorsberg, Görel Hedin - Efficient Development of Consistent Projectional Editors using Grammar Cells, Markus Völter, Tamás Szabó, Sascha Lisson, Bernd Kolb, Sebastian Erdweg, Thorsten Berger - Efficient Model Partitioning for Distributed Model Transformations, Amine Benelellam, Massimo Tisi, Jesús Sanchéz Cuadrado, Juan de Lara, Jordi Cabot - Execution Framework of The GEMOC Studio (Tool Demo), Erwan Bousse, Thomas Degueule, Didier Vojtisek, Tanja Mayerhofer, Julien DeAntoni, Benoit Combemale - Experiences of models@run-time with EMF and CDO, Daniel Seybold, Jörg Domaschka, Alessandro Rossini, Christopher B. Hauser, Frank Griesinger, Athanasios Tsitsipas - Full-fledge Role Modeling Editor (FRaMED), Thomas Kühn, Kay Bierzynski, Sebastian Richly, Uwe Aßmann - Language Design and Implementation for the Domain of Coding Conventions, Boryana Goncharenko, Vadim Zaytsev - MetaEdit+ for Collaborative Language Engineering and Language Use (Tool Demo), Juha-Pekka Tolvanen - Object-Oriented Design Pattern for DSL Program Monitoring, Zoé Drey, Ciprian Teodorov - Parsing and Reflective Printing, Bidirectionally, Zirun Zhu, Yongzhe Zhang, Hsiang-Shang Ko, Pedro Martins, João Saraiva, Zhenjiang Hu - Principled Syntactic Code Completion using Placeholders, Luís Eduardo de Souza Amorim, Sebastian Erdweg, Guido Wachsmuth, Eelco Visser - Runtime support for rule-based access-control evaluation through model-transformation, Salvador Martínez, Jokin García, Jordi Cabot - Raincode Assembler Compiler (Tool Demo), Volodymyr Blagodarov, Yves Jaradin, Vadim Zaytsev - Side effects take the blame, Felipe Bañados Schwerter - Symbolic Execution of High-level Transformations, Ahmad Salim Al-Sibahi, Aleksandar S. Dimovski, Andrzej Wasowski - Taming Context-Sensitive Languages with Principled Stateful Parsing, Nicolas Laurent, Kim Mens - The IDE Portability Problem and its Solution in Monto, Sven Keidel, Wulf Pfeiffer, Sebastian Erdweg - Towards a Universal Code Formatter through Machine Learning, Terence Parr, Jurgen Vinju - Xdiagram: A Declarative Textual DSL for Describing Diagram Editors (Tool Demo), André Santos, Eduardo Gomes

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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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