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24rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions
by Stéphane Ducasse March 17, 2016

March 17, 2016

24rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions Prague, Czech Republic from 22 to 26 August 2016 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2016/ This call includes: Developer Forum Smalltalk Technology Award International Workshop http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/International-Workshop-IWST_… Student Volunteer http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Student-volunteers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: * Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/About/BecomeSponsor * Submit a talk, a software or a paper to one of the events. See below. * Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of attendance (170 people at Amsterdam 2008)! * Students can get free registration and hosting if they enrol into the the Student Volunteers program. See below. Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have 30 min for presentations and 45-60 min for hand-ons tutorial. The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials includes, but is not limited to the following: * Micro Services, Container, Cloud, Big Data, * XP practices, Development tools, Experience reports * Model driven development, Web development, Team management * Meta-Modeling, Security, New libraries & frameworks * Educational material, Embedded systems and robotics * SOA and Web services, Interaction with other programming languages Teaching Pearls and Show us Your Business ----------------------------------------- - Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!) - Teaching pearls : we want some session on how to teach some design aspects. We want your tip and tricks to teach Smalltalk or OOP. We expect to have several 10 to 15 min sessions aggregated. !! How to submit? -------------- Submissions deadline is 15 of May 2015 Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly. More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2015 Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to Stephane.Ducasse at inria.fr AND USE THE following header [ESUG 2015 Developers]. Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Subject: [ESUG 2015 Developers] + your name First Name: Last Name: Email where you can always be reached: Title: Type: Tutorial/Talk/Teaching Pearl Abstract: Bio: Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Read the page: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/International-Workshop-IWST_… Technology Award Competition ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awards ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based software are welcome to compete. More information at http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Innovation-Technology-Awards Student Volunteer Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you considered being a student volunteer? Student volunteers help keep the conference running smoothly; in return, they have free accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the conference. More information at http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/ http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Student-volunteers We hope to see you there and have fun together. -------------------------------------------- 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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Workshop on Context-oriented Programming (COP) 2016 at ECOOP | Call for Papers
by Robert Hirschfeld March 11, 2016

March 11, 2016

Call for Papers *** Workshop on Context-oriented Programming (COP) 2016 *** July 19 (Tue), 2016 Co-located with ECOOP 2016 in Rome http://2016.ecoop.org/track/COP-2016 === Introduction === Context information plays an increasingly important role in our information-centric world. Software systems must adapt to changing contexts over time, and must change even while they are running. Unfortunately, mainstream programming languages and development environments do not support this kind of dynamic change very well, leading developers to implementing complex designs to anticipate various dimensions of variability. Context-oriented Programming (COP) directly supports variability depending on a wide range of dynamic attributes. In effect, it should be possible to dispatch run-time behavior on any property of the execution context. By now, several researchers have been working on notions approaching that idea, and implementations ranging from first prototypes to mature platform extensions used in commercial deployments have illustrated how multidimensional dispatch can indeed be supported effectively to achieve expressive run-time variation in behavior. === Topics === The previous editions of this workshop (ECOOP 2009–2015) have shown to be well-received. The goal of the 8th Workshop on Context-oriented Programming (COP-16) is to further establish context orientation as a common thread to language design, application development, and system support. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Interesting application domains and scenarios - Programming language abstractions for Context-oriented Programming (e.g. dynamic scoping, roles, traits, prototype-based extensions) - Theoretical foundations for Context-oriented Programming (e.g. semantics, type systems) - Configuration languages (e.g. feature description interpreters, transformational approaches) - Interaction between non-functional programming concerns and Context-oriented Programming (e.g. security, persistence, concurrency, distribution). - Interaction with other paradigms: event-based and reactive programming, object-oriented programming. - Modularization approaches for Context-oriented Programming (e.g. aspects, modules, layers, plugins). - Guidelines to include Context-oriented Programming in programs (e.g. best practices, patterns) - Runtime support for Context-oriented Programming (e.g. reflection, dynamic binding) - Implementation issues such as optimization, VM support, JIT compilation etc. for Context-oriented Programming - Tool support (e.g. design tools, IDEs, debuggers). === Submissions === COP invites submissions of high-quality papers reporting original research, or describing innovative contributions to, or experience with Context-oriented Programming, its implementation, and application. Papers that depart significantly from established ideas and practices are particularly welcome. Submissions must not have been published previously and must not be under review for any another refereed event or publication. The program committee will evaluate each contributed paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, and originality. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Papers are to be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cop2016) Papers must be written in English, be provided as PDF documents, and follow the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format (10 point font, Times New Roman font family, numeric citation style, http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) They should not exceed 6 pages. === Important dates === Submissions: April 15, 2016 Notifications: May 13, 2016 COP-16: July 19, 2016 === Organizers === Guido Salvaneschi, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan === Program committee === Tomoyuki Aotani, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Dave Clarke, Uppsala University, Sweden and KU Leuven, Belgium Rocco De Nicola, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy Coen De Roover, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Pierpaolo Degano, University of Pisa, Italy Gorel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden Tetsuo Kamina, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Jens Lincke, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany Harold Ossher, IBM, United States Mario Südholt - École des Mines de Nantes, France Didier Verna, EPITA / LRDE, France === -- Robert Hirschfeld hirschfeld(a)acm.org www.hirschfeld.org

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Programming Experience 2016 (PX/16) Workshop at ECOOP | Call for Papers
by Robert Hirschfeld March 11, 2016

March 11, 2016

Call for Papers *** Programming Experience 2016 (PX/16) Workshop *** July 18 (Mon), 2016 Co-located with ECOOP 2016 in Rome http://2016.ecoop.org/track/PX-2016 http://programming-experience.org/px16 === Abstract === Imagine a software development task. Some sort of requirements and specification including performance goals and perhaps a platform and programming language. A group of developers head into a vast workroom. <crossfade to developers exiting the vast workroom> The Programming Experience Workshop is about what happens in that room when one or a couple of programmers sit down in front of computers and produce code, especially when it's exploratory programming. Do they create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or do they operate on behavior directly ("liveness"); are they exploring the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency, literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and curiously, is joy relevant to the experience? Correctness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus of this workshop. === Submissions === Submissions are solicited for Programming Experience 2016 (PX/16). The thrust of the workshop is to explore the human experience of programming—what it feels like to program, or more accurately, what it should feel like. The technical topics include exploratory programming, live programming, authoring, representation of active content, visualization, navigation, modularity mechanisms, immediacy, literacy, fluency, learning, tool building, and language engineering. Submissions by academics, professional programmers, and non-professional programmer are welcome. Submissions can be in any form and format, including but not limited to papers, presentations, demos, videos, panels, debates, essays, writers' workshops, and art. Presentation slots will be between 30 minutes and one hour, depending on quality, form, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions directed toward publication should be so marked, and the program committee will engage in peer review for all such papers. Video publication will be arranged. All artifacts are to be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=px16) Papers and essays must be written in English, provided as PDF documents, and follow the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format (10 point font, Times New Roman font family, numeric citation style, http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) There is no page limit on submitted papers and essays. It is, however, the responsibility of the authors to keep the reviewers interested and motivated to read the paper. Reviewers are under no obligation to read all or even a substantial portion of a paper or essay if they do not find the initial part of it interesting. === Format === Paper presentations, presentations without papers, live demonstrations, performances, videos, panel discussions, debates, writers' workshops, art galleries, dramatic readings. === Review === Papers and essays labeled as publications will undergo standard peer review; other submissions will be reviewed for relevance and quality; shepherding will be available. === Important dates === Submissions: April 15, 2016 (anywhere in the world) Notifications: May 13, 2016 PX/16: July 18, 2016 === Publication === Papers and essays accepted through peer review will be published as part of ACM's Digital Library; video publication on Vimeo or other streaming site; other publication on the PX workshop website. === Organizers === Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany Richard P. Gabriel, Dreamsongs and IBM Almaden Research Center, United States Hidehiko Masuhara, Mathematical and Computing Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan === Program committee === Carl Friedrich Bolz, King's College London, United Kingdom Gilad Bracha, Google, United States Andrew Bragdon, Twitter, United States Jonathan Edwards, CDG Labs, United States Jun Kato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Cristina Videira Lopes, University of California at Irvine, United States Yoshiki Ohshima, Viewpoints Research Institute, United States Michael Perscheid, SAP Innovation Center, Germany Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt, Germany Marcel Taeumel, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany Alessandro Warth, SAP Labs, United States === Flyer === http://programming-experience.org/px16/media/PX16CfP.pdf -- Robert Hirschfeld hirschfeld(a)acm.org www.hirschfeld.org

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CFP - IWST 2016 - International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies
by jannik laval March 11, 2016

March 11, 2016

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] [Please send to interested colleagues / mailing-lists] ************************************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS IWST16 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Prague, Czech Republic; August 23th, 2016 ************************************************************************************************************ ------------------- Goals and scopes ------------------- The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Participants are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers. This year we want to open two different tracks: one research track and one industrial track with less scientific constraints. We expect papers of three kinds: Short position papers describing emerging ideas Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Industrial papers with presentation of real and innovative Smalltalk applications; this kind of paper should enlighten why Smalltalk is really appropriate for your application. We will not enforce any length restriction. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Submission deadline: *May 15th, 2016* Notification deadline: June 20th, 2016 Workshop : August 23th, 2016 *All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL (To be confirmed)* *Best papers would be extended in an International Journal* ------------------- Topics ------------------- We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as: -Aspect-oriented programming, -Design patterns, -Experience reports, -Frameworks, -Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, -Interaction with other languages, -Meta-programming and Meta-modeling, -Tools ------------------- Best Paper Award ------------------- To encourage the submission of high-quality papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Best Paper Award for this edition of IWST. We thank the Lam Research Corporation for its financial contribution which makes it possible for prizes for the three best papers: 1000 USD for first place, 600 USD for second place and 400 USD for third place. The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event. The Best Paper Award will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be illegible, a paper must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference. ------------------- Publication ------------------- Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm. This site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions. ------------------- Submission ------------------- All submissions must be sent via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst20160 ------------------- Program chairs ------------------- Anne Etien (Université de Lille 1, France) Jannik Laval (Université Lyon 2 Lumière, France) -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ Enseignant-chercheur Responsable Pédagogique Licence Coordonnateur de Projet en Système d'Information IUT Lumière, Université Lyon Lumière laboratoire DISP http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://www.phratch.com http://www.approchealpes.info

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Postdoc in Chile
by Alexandre Bergel March 10, 2016

March 10, 2016

Hi! We have an opportunity for doing a postdoc in Chile, in the field of software engineering and/or data visualization. I could provide a lengthy description about living in Chile, and its fantastic food, latin atmosphere, and gorgeous nature. But I will surely be far from the truth. If you want to know more about this possibility, get in touch! Cheers, Alexandre` -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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Programming Experience 2016 (PX/16) Workshop at ECOOP | Call for Papers
by Robert Hirschfeld March 10, 2016

March 10, 2016

Call for Papers *** Programming Experience 2016 (PX/16) Workshop *** July 18 (Mon), 2016 Co-located with ECOOP 2016 in Rome 2016.ecoop.org/track/PX-2016 programming-experience.org/px16 === Abstract === Imagine a software development task. Some sort of requirements and specification including performance goals and perhaps a platform and programming language. A group of developers head into a vast workroom. <crossfade to developers exiting the vast workroom> The Programming Experience Workshop is about what happens in that room when one or a couple of programmers sit down in front of computers and produce code, especially when it's exploratory programming. Do they create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or do they operate on behavior directly ("liveness"); are they exploring the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency, literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and curiously, is joy relevant to the experience? Correctness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus of this workshop. === Submissions === Submissions are solicited for Programming Experience 2016 (PX/16). The thrust of the workshop is to explore the human experience of programming—what it feels like to program, or more accurately, what it should feel like. The technical topics include exploratory programming, live programming, authoring, representation of active content, visualization, navigation, modularity mechanisms, immediacy, literacy, fluency, learning, tool building, and language engineering. Submissions by academics, professional programmers, and non-professional programmer are welcome. Submissions can be in any form and format, including but not limited to papers, presentations, demos, videos, panels, debates, essays, writers' workshops, and art. Presentation slots will be between 30 minutes and one hour, depending on quality, form, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions directed toward publication should be so marked, and the program committee will engage in peer review for all such papers. Video publication will be arranged. All artifacts are to be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=px16) Papers and essays must be written in English, provided as PDF documents, and follow the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format (10 point font, Times New Roman font family, numeric citation style, http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) There is no page limit on submitted papers and essays. It is, however, the responsibility of the authors to keep the reviewers interested and motivated to read the paper. Reviewers are under no obligation to read all or even a substantial portion of a paper or essay if they do not find the initial part of it interesting. === Format === Paper presentations, presentations without papers, live demonstrations, performances, videos, panel discussions, debates, writers' workshops, art galleries, dramatic readings. === Review === Papers and essays labeled as publications will undergo standard peer review; other submissions will be reviewed for relevance and quality; shepherding will be available. === Important dates === Submissions: April 15, 2016 (anywhere in the world) Notifications: May 13, 2016 PX/16: July 18, 2016 === Publication === Papers and essays accepted through peer review will be published as part of ACM's Digital Library; video publication on Vimeo or other streaming site; other publication on the PX workshop website. === Organizers === Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany Richard P. Gabriel, Dreamsongs and IBM Almaden Research Center, United States Hidehiko Masuhara, Mathematical and Computing Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan === Program committee === Carl Friedrich Bolz, King's College London, United Kingdom Gilad Bracha, Google, United States Andrew Bragdon, Twitter, United States Jonathan Edwards, CDG Labs, United States Jun Kato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Cristina Videira Lopes, University of California at Irvine, United States Yoshiki Ohshima, Viewpoints Research Institute, United States Michael Perscheid, SAP Innovation Center, Germany Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt, Germany Marcel Taeumel, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany Alessandro Warth, SAP Labs, United States === Flyer === http://programming-experience.org/px16/media/PX16CfP.pdf -- Robert Hirschfeld hirschfeld(a)acm.org www.hirschfeld.org

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Upcoming deadlines SPLASH'16 in Amsterdam: OOPSLA & Onward!
by Tijs van der Storm March 9, 2016

March 9, 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 Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************************************/ # Important dates OOPSLA Papers: * Submissions due: March 23, 2016 * Author Response: May 19 - May 21, 2016 * Author Notification: June 1, 2016 * Camera Ready: August 26, 2016 Onward! Papers & Essays: * Submissions due: April 1, 2016 * First notification: May 20, 2016 * Revised papers: July 15, 2016 * Final notification: July 31, 2016 * Camera ready: August 26, 2016 # SPLASH 2016 The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction, to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, systems, and software engineering. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. ## OOPSLA Research Papers Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions due: Wed 23 March, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-oopsla ## Onward! Research Papers Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities, and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. Submissions due: Fri 1 April, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/onward2016/onward-2016-papers ## Onward! Essays Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be an exploration of a topic, its impact, or the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps by which the author reached an understanding of such a topic. The subject area should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Submissions due: Fri 1 April, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/onward2016/onward2016-essays ## More information Contact: publicity(a)splashcon.org Website: http://2016.splashcon.org Location: Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands ## Organization: SPLASH General Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) OOPSLA Papers Chair: Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Athens) Onward! Papers Chair: Emerson Murphy-Hill (North Carolina State University) Onward! Essays Chair: Crista Lopes (University of California, Irvine) Artifacts Co-Chairs: Michael Hind (IBM Research) and Michael Bond (Ohio State University) Publications Chair: Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) Sponsorship Chair: Jurgen Vinju (Purdue University) Publicity and Web Co-Chairs: Tijs van der Storm (CWI) and Ron Garcia (University of British Columbia) Web Technology Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) /************************************************************************************/ -- Researcher Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Master of Software Engineering Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) Dr. Tijs van der Storm @ Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Office: L225 | Phone: +31 (0)20 5924164 | Address: Science Park 123 P.O. Box 94079 | Postal code: 1090 GB | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Why you should follow the Pharo mooc :)
by Stéphane Ducasse March 7, 2016

March 7, 2016

Dear ESUGers and others I really encourage you to register and follow the Pharo Mooc. https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41010/session01/about?platform=hootsu… I do not imagine that you will learn something about our lovely language but the idea behind the mooc is to offer for free all the mooc resources - videos (around 80 videos including lectures) - slides (61 lectures) - exercises - quiz - miniprojects to the community to push people to give lectures. So following the mooc can you you arguments to push people to teach Smalltalk. For your information, the building of this mooc has been estimated to 180 K Euros. In addition, the number of participants to the mooc is a criteria of success and there too we are watched. There is a python mooc of course. 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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smart Smalltalker and more available :)
by Stéphane Ducasse March 5, 2016

March 5, 2016

Hi smalltalker friends Anthony is looking for a job in a non english speaking country with nice cultural events. Contact him directly. > Greetings vwnc-ers and, by extension, vw-deviants > > I am leaving the Cincom VisualWorks dev team. It's been a pleasure interacting with you all, and in some cases, chatting, even when it has been a bit spiky :) > > I will be somewhat footloose and fancy-free. If anyone has a need for an experienced Smalltalker (the architect and implementor of UISkinning and UILayout), especially one with additional extensive frontend/JS/Java/Swift/ObjC/Haskell/React/Reactive/Clojure/Erlang/Ruby, startup, and design experience, I'd love to hear from you. I'm especially keen on moving, either to the east coast of Australia (BNE/SYD/MEL), Europe/UK, or north-east US (NY/MA/VT et al). > > Cheers, > > Antony Blakey > -------------------------- > Ph: +61 438 840 787 > > Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. > -- Flower A. Newhouse > 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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PDF4Smalltalk 1.4 release
by Stéphane Ducasse March 2, 2016

March 2, 2016

Dear all, Version 1.4 of the PDF library PDF4Smalltalk has been released to the public store (with MIT licence). The library now supports Smalltalk images (pictures) to be inserted into PDFs. There is some documentation: http://christianhaider.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=pdf:images <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__christianhaider.de_doku…> . Any Smalltalk image can be added to a PDF (with masks and alpha transparency). The attachment is a demo page as a teaser. The implementation is supposed to be complete in the sense that ALL Smalltalk images should be convertible to PDF. With a drawback: due to missing image compression algorithms (JPEG, JBIG2 and others), not the most space saving representation is used (only Zip compression). Also, not all images found in PDFs can be converted to Smalltalk images. This is again due to missing image compression filters and, for PDF images with other color spaces than /DeviceRGB and /DeviceGray, due to missing color conversion methods. The feature is well tested and reasonable efficient. But, of course, there will be bugs I don’t know about. Please, if you see something fishy, tell me and I’ll fix it. The library works in all VisualWorks versions from 7.10 up (Jenkins tested). Is there anyone who uses the library with previous versions of VisualWorks? Happy hacking, Christian christian.haider(a)smalltalked-visuals.com <mailto:christian.haider@smalltalked-visuals.com> P.S. This overdue feature was realized thanks to the encouragement of Bob Nemec, author of Report4PDF, and funding from his employer, the Canadian engineering company HTS. P.P.S. I am going to move my business more towards PDF and I will try to develop tools and services around PDF. If anybody knows projects interested in PDF related work, I would be glad to hear about it J . -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr <http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/> http://www.synectique.eu <http://www.synectique.eu/> / http://www.pharo.org <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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