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Smalltalk book in English
by Georg Heeg Aug. 25, 2016

Aug. 25, 2016

I just learned that the Smalltalk book by Johannes Brauer is not yet widely known http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658068226 Georg Heeg, Wallstraße 22, 06366 Köthen

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[ann] seaside gtdebugger
by Tudor Girba Aug. 25, 2016

Aug. 25, 2016

Hi, As presented at ESUG on Monday, we now have a custom GTDebugger for Seaside. This was built by Andrei as an initial experiment. As we do not know much about Seaside-specific debugging problems, we asked a couple of Seaside users to describe issues that would be useful to be addressed in the debugger, and Andrei allocated some 4h to construct some of these in an custom debugger for Seaside. Two of the issues that popped up are: - get a quick view of the current request context - get an overview of the current component nesting They are now addressed like depicted in the screenshot below. You should look at this debugger as a beginning. Beside the current basic extensions one added value is that we now have the scaffolding to build more. Please take a look at it and let’s try to identify more concrete issues that might be addressed. It would be great if this would be taken over by the Seaside community. The debugger can be loaded on top of a Pharo 6.0 with Seaside inside like this: Gofer new smalltalkhubUser: 'Moose' project: 'GToolkit'; package: 'GT-SeasideDebugger'; load. #GTSeasideDebugger asClass register Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "The coherence of a trip is given by the clearness of the goal."

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[ann] Lam Research evaluates Pharo
by Tudor Girba Aug. 25, 2016

Aug. 25, 2016

Hi, We are very happy to make the following announcement: Lam Research, a leading supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the global semiconductor industry, is an experienced user of the Smalltalk programming language. Smalltalk is a key component in Lam's software control system for a broad range of the equipment it manufactures. Tudor Girba is a leading member of the tools and environment development effort in Pharo, having architected the Glamorous Toolkit for live programming. Eliot Miranda is author of the Cog virtual machine that underlies Pharo and other Smalltalk dialects. Lam has engaged Tudor and Eliot to explore potential enhancements in Lam's use of Smalltalk. These enhancements range from running highly optimized Smalltalk on low cost, single board computers, to enhancing Lam's Smalltalk development practices with state-of-the-art live programming. During the engagement, Tudor and Eliot successfully moved a key communication component of the control system to Pharo. It was a challenging task aimed at extending the reach of Lam’s system to the Pharo world including the option of executing on ARM processors. Cheers, Tudor Girba, Eliot Miranda and Chris Thorgrimsson

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[ann] Lam Research evaluates Pharo
by Tudor Girba Aug. 25, 2016

Aug. 25, 2016

Hi, We are very happy to make the following announcement: Lam Research, a leading supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the global semiconductor industry, is an experienced user of the Smalltalk programming language. Smalltalk is a key component in Lam's software control system for a broad range of the equipment it manufactures. Tudor Girba is a leading member of the tools and environment development effort in Pharo, having architected the Glamorous Toolkit for live programming. Eliot Miranda is author of the Cog virtual machine that underlies Pharo and other Smalltalk dialects. Lam has engaged Tudor and Eliot to explore potential enhancements in Lam's use of Smalltalk. These enhancements range from running highly optimized Smalltalk on low cost, single board computers, to enhancing Lam's Smalltalk development practices with state-of-the-art live programming. During the engagement, Tudor and Eliot successfully moved a key communication component of the control system to Pharo. It was a challenging task aimed at extending the reach of Lam’s system to the Pharo world including the option of executing on ARM processors. Cheers, Tudor Girba, Eliot Miranda and Chris Thorgrimsson

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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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