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[ESUG 2024] Slides for ESUG2024 are online
by Marcus Denker July 31, 2024

July 31, 2024

We have uploaded the slides to the ESUG Archive: http://archive.esug.org/ESUG2024/ Videos are being worked on, we will post them as soon as possible Marcus

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Object-centric breakpoint experiment during ESUG'24
by Steven Costiou July 5, 2024

July 5, 2024

Dear community, First, I would like to thanks again all the participants to our experiment with object-centric breakpoints in Pharo. Many people participated, and we plan to present our results in an informal manner at ESUG. However, from the scientifical point of view it would strenghten our analysis if we had more participants. The more participants we have, the more we can trust our results and take enlightened decisions about how to further develop the object-centric debugger. Therefore, the experiment remains open until July 10th (included). If you're interested you can still do it, the instructions are here https://github.com/Pharo-XP-Tools/XPImageGeneration/tree/exp-ocd Many people also declined to participate because of a lack of time, which we totally understand. This is why we also propose to you, if time is an issue, to participate to the experiment during the first days of esug. We can find a calm room in which we can supervise the experiment and collect your data (reminder: once in our server the data is anonymized). Please let us know if you would be potentially interested to participate in such setting during ESUG. Thanks in advance, Steven and Valentin, EVREF team.

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SQAMIA WS 2024 in Novi Sad
by Gordana Raki? June 7, 2024

June 7, 2024

Dear all, Our team in Novi Sad is organizing an annual "low-cost" for research-oriented students, their mentors, young researchers, ... and all other interested participants, named SQAMIA: Software Quality Analysis, Monitoring, Improvement, and Applications workshop. The new edition of SQAMIA 2024 will be held in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 9th to 11th September 2024. This edition of the SQAMIA workshop is dedicated to commemorate the memory of Prof. Zoran Budimac <https://www.dmi.uns.ac.rs/o-departmanu/secanja/zoran-budimac/>, a Founding Member of SQAMIA series of workshops. The Call for Papers that can be found at https://easychair.org/cfp/sqamia2024, or downloaded from https://alphito.pmf.uns.ac.rs/s/7efkYzyrYYpLrHX. While we are setting up some final details, please book the following dates in your calendars: !!!NEW Submission deadline: June 21st 2024 Notification deadline: July 12th 2024 Camera-ready submission deadline: August 16th 2024 For further information please follow the http://www.sqamia.org and do not hesitate to contact us. Sincerely yours, SQAMIA team ⁣Get BlueMail for Android

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12 Month engineer position at Toulouse in Pharo
by stephane ducasse June 1, 2024

June 1, 2024

Hi people Can you distribute this job position around you? Yannick Chevalier has a position to develop a tool to detect abnomalies Développement de l’outil iCANt pour la détection d’anomalies <mailto:yannick.chevalier@gmail.com> Who: yannick.chevalier(a)gmail.com <mailto:yannick.chevalier@gmail.com> Where: Toulouse Salary: 45 K Euros a more experienced dev could be hired for a shorter period and get a better salary. S. Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr 06 30 93 66 73 "If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes

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DATE CORRECTION - UKSTUG Meeting - Javier Pimas -- Live Metacircular Runtimes: The case of Egg Smalltalk - 29 May 2024
by UK Smalltalk May 22, 2024

May 22, 2024

Egg is a new Smalltalk dialect that was designed from scratch to incorporate some interesting features: A module system with namespaces that replaces the old-good Smalltalk global. Dynamic identifiers, which are bound lazily similarly to how methods are lazily bound. A multi-VM architecture, with different VM implementations written in C++, Pharo, JavaScript and Egg. The Egg-in-Egg VM is special in that the VM component is just another module of the system, creating what we have named Live Metacircular Runtimes (LMRs) [1]. The most interesting characteristic of LMRs in Smalltalk is that they can be developed using standard Smalltalk tools, which shorten feedback loops when doing VM development. During the talk I'll show a little bit about Egg and its LMR, and how not only VM developers get more productive when writing VMs, but also application developers can better understand what the VM does behind the scenes. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16973 - Live Objects All The Way Down: Removing the Barriers between Applications and Virtual Machines Javier Pimas is a fan of high-level low-level programming. He has been successfully mixing Smalltalk and assembly code for more than a decade. Within Bee Smalltalk, SqueakNOS and now Egg Smalltalk projects he has been trying to make live-programming of system-level concerns more practical to application programmers. Javier works for Labware and Quorum Software, where he applies his expertise to real-world challenges while pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at Buenos Aires University. 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/300511322/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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UKSTUG Meeting - Javier Pimas -- Live Metacircular Runtimes: The case of Egg Smalltalk - 29 June 2024
by UK Smalltalk May 22, 2024

May 22, 2024

Egg is a new Smalltalk dialect that was designed from scratch to incorporate some interesting features: A module system with namespaces that replaces the old-good Smalltalk global. Dynamic identifiers, which are bound lazily similarly to how methods are lazily bound. A multi-VM architecture, with different VM implementations written in C++, Pharo, JavaScript and Egg. The Egg-in-Egg VM is special in that the VM component is just another module of the system, creating what we have named Live Metacircular Runtimes (LMRs) [1]. The most interesting characteristic of LMRs in Smalltalk is that they can be developed using standard Smalltalk tools, which shorten feedback loops when doing VM development. During the talk I'll show a little bit about Egg and its LMR, and how not only VM developers get more productive when writing VMs, but also application developers can better understand what the VM does behind the scenes. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16973 - Live Objects All The Way Down: Removing the Barriers between Applications and Virtual Machines Javier Pimas is a fan of high-level low-level programming. He has been successfully mixing Smalltalk and assembly code for more than a decade. Within Bee Smalltalk, SqueakNOS and now Egg Smalltalk projects he has been trying to make live-programming of system-level concerns more practical to application programmers. Javier works for Labware and Quorum Software, where he applies his expertise to real-world challenges while pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at Buenos Aires University. 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/300511322/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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IWST Deadline Extension
by Guillermo Polito May 17, 2024

May 17, 2024

Dear Community, Please let us inform you that the submission deadline for the full/short papers has been extended until May 31st, 2024 AoE. Let us remind you of the submission details: - Short position papers (5 to 10 pages) describing fresh ideas and early results. - Full papers (more than 10 pages) with deeper descriptions of experiments and research results. Please also consider that you may submit another work other than your original abstract. Paper accepted for publishing will be published within a *CEUR-WS Proceedings>https://ceur-ws.org/*. Hence, both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the *CEUR ART style>https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip*. We recommend using the template in single-column style, although you may use two columns. CEUR proceedings accept papers in both styles as soon as they follow the template and have 5 or more pages. The IWST team, Gordana, Guille, and Steven https://esug.org/2024-Conference/IWST2024.html

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[ESUG 2024] Camp Smalltalk
by Marcus Denker May 15, 2024

May 15, 2024

Hello, As usual at ESUG, we will be holding an informal „Camp“, the Weekend before the conference. This year we have the Friday after the conference, too. To know how many people would be interested, please Fill out the Form: https://esug.org/2024-Conference/camp2024.html Marcus

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Submission is open for the ESUG 2024 Innovation Technology Awards
by Noury Bouraqadi May 14, 2024

May 14, 2024

Dear fellow Smalltalkers, Please find below the call of the call for submissions to the ESUG 2024 Innovation Technology Awards. Best, Noury ---- Innovation Technology Awards 19th Edition Have you developed a cool Smalltalk project you want to share? Developers of any Smalltalk-based software can participate (https://forms.gle/8k8DwauZj8VJb6cu9) During the conference, participants demonstrate their systems in a session Monday July 8th, during which the conference attendees vote. The top 3 teams will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros. The results will be announced in the Awards ceremony that is held during the social event. Submit now (https://forms.gle/8k8DwauZj8VJb6cu9) Submission Deadline: Sunday June 30th

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Open Call: Object-Centric Breakpoints experiment
by Steven Costiou May 14, 2024

May 14, 2024

Dear Community, as part of a research project in the EVREF team, we are looking for people to participate to an empirical experiment on object-centric breakpoints - a debugging tool present in Pharo 9. Many people from the community already participated, and we thank them very much :) We are still looking for participants, we need 40 people to do the experiment! Please help us, in return it helps us understand better our tools and their impact and therefore build better tools for the Pharo community! For those who want to know a bit more, see my original email below. For those who just want to jump at the experiment, you can go there https://github.com/Pharo-XP-Tools/XPImageGeneration/tree/exp-ocd Thanks in advance :) Steven. --- We would like to invite you to participate to our experimental study on Object-Centric Breakpoints. This study aims to evaluate and to understand how Object-Centric Breakpoints impacts the debugging activity. This experiment takes place in **Pharo 9**. In this experiment, we ask you to solve 2 debugging tasks, one with standard Pharo tools and one other with Object-Centric Breakpoints. Between the two tasks, you will have to follow a tutorialand warmup tasks to learn how to use the tool. **How to Participate:** All instructions are here, please read them carefully: https://github.com/Pharo-XP-Tools/XPImageGeneration/tree/exp-ocd **About the Experiment:** The experiment last between 40 minutes and 2 hours. Participants should have experience with Pharo development and debugging. We recommend having more than 6 months experience in Pharo and debugging in general. You will gain insights into the Object-Centric Breakpoints approach and contribute to advancements in debugging research. Help us to build better debugging tools that help you debug! **Some constraints:** - You are not allowed to load external tools and baselines, but you can use anything that is in the base image - Please do the experiment in one shot if possible without interruptions - The experiment sends anonymous data to our inria server, please make sure that you have a valid internet connection - Please try to use the object-centric breakpoints when the experimental framework asks you to **Notes:** Participation is voluntary, and everything is anonymous. You can abandon the experiment at any point (and your data will be discarded). For any question, you can contact us: steven.costiou(a)inria.fr and valentin.bourcier(a)inria.fr Thank you for considering participating in our study. Your contribution will be valuable in advancing the field of debugging and helping us understand what tools we need to build for Pharo. Sincerely, Steven and Valentin, EVREF team, Inria

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