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[ESUG'15] Last call for student volunteers
by Damien Cassou April 17, 2015

April 17, 2015

Hi, you are a student? You want to attend a nice conference but don't have money to afford it? Please apply to the student volunteer program: http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2015/Student-volunteers This is the last call. Best, -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

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[ANN] ESUG'15 registration is open
by Luc Fabresse April 17, 2015

April 17, 2015

Dear Smalltalkers, I am pleased to announce that registration for the 23rd ESUG Conference in Brescia, Italy is now open! To register, please proceed to the website http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015 or go directly to http://registration.esug.org Note: Fill carefully your registration because you will receive an automatically generated invoice by email. Important: do not forget to book your accommodation directly at one of the hotels in Brescia. See: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Hotels See you all @ Brescia, Best, Luc Fabresse On behalf of the ESUG board and ESUG'15 local organizers PS: Please forward widely

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ESUG Registration?
by James Foster April 17, 2015

April 17, 2015

Any word on when we will be able to register for ESUG?

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Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo 4.0 is released!
by Mariano Martinez Peck April 16, 2015

April 16, 2015

Super good news! thank you all! On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Richard Wettel <wettel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Great! And thank you all! > Ricky > > — > Sent from Mailbox <https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox> > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Serge Stinckwich < > serge.stinckwich(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thank you all ! >> >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Please spread widely. >>> Sorry for multiple posts. >>> >>> (this post can be see here: http://pharo.org/news/pharo-4.0-released) >>> >>> Dear World, >>> >>> Pharo 4.0 (http://www.pharo.org) is here. >>> >>> Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful >>> environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. >>> >>> Many things have changed in Pharo. Here are some highlights: >>> - Inspector/Playground/Spotter are new moldable development tools for >>> inspecting, coding and searching objects. >>> - Slots model instance variables as first class entities and enable >>> meta-programming on this level. >>> - ShoreLine reporter introduces a way to report system errors and >>> collect statistics, that we will use for future improvements >>> - Dark theme. >>> >>> These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just >>> as important. We have closed 1697 issues in Pharo 4. Take a moment to go >>> through a more detailed recount of the progress: >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/pharo-project/ChangeLogs/blob/master/Pharo40ChangeLogs.md >>> >>> Pharo is improving on many fronts, but one of the most prominent changes >>> is the addition of moldable tools for inspection and search. These tools >>> provide extension mechanisms that allow every object to define ways in >>> which it can be understood effectively. To provide an idea of the impact of >>> the already existing extensions, the map below shows the Pharo classes >>> grouped in packages, highlighting in red those parts of the system that >>> have at least one such custom view coming with the main distribution. The >>> spread of these extensions shows that moldability is powerful mechanism >>> that can be used in many contexts. >>> >>> >>> Remember that Pharo is your platform. We thank all the contributors of >>> this release: >>> >>> Clara Allende, Jean-Baptiste Arnaud, Jean-Christophe Bach, Philippe >>> Back, Clement Bera, Alexandre Bergel, Torsten Bergmann, Vincent Blondeau, >>> Noury Bouraqadi, Santiago Bragagnolo, Johan Brichau, Sven Van Caekenberghe, >>> Damien Cassou, Nicolas Cellier, Guido Chari, Dimitris Chloupis, Andrei >>> Chis, Ben Coman, Bernardo Contreras, Tommaso Dal Sasso, Jan Van De Sandt, >>> Christophe Demarey, Sean DeNigris, Marcus Denker, Martin Dias, Stephane >>> Ducasse, Stephan Eggermont, Luc Fabresse, Johan Fabry, Hilaire Fernandes, >>> Jerome Garcia, Tudor Girba, Thierry Goubier, Jigyasa Grover, Kris Gybels, >>> Norbert Hartl, Dale Henrichs, Pablo Herrero, Nicolai Hess, Pavel Krivanek, >>> Juraj Kubelka, Jan Kurs, Laurent Laffont, Jannik Laval, Kevin Lanvin, Max >>> Leske, David Lewis, Diego Lont, Esteban Lorenzano, Tim Mackinnon, Attila >>> Magyar, Esteban Maringolo, Stefan Marr, Max Mattone, Martin Mc Clure, Eliot >>> Miranda, Alain Plantec, Guillermo Polito, Damien Pollet, Stefan Reichhart, >>> Mark Rizun, Udo Schneider, Ignacio Sniechowski, Henrik Sperre Johansen, >>> Igor Stasenko, Aliaksei Syrel, Ciprian Teodorov, Camille Teruel, Sebastian >>> Tleye, Yuriy Tymchuk, Peter Uhnak, Andres Valloud, Sven Van Caekenberghe, >>> Thomas Vincent, Jan Vrany, Martin Walk, Richard Wettel, Dmitri Zagidulin >>> >>> And all those who contributed indirectly, by reporting bugs, >>> participating in discussion threads, providing feedback... >>> >>> Pharo 4.0 is another big step. And, the best is yet to come. >>> >>> Enjoy! >>> The Pharo Team >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Esug-list mailing list >>> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >>> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Serge Stinckwich >> UCBN & UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC) >> Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk >> http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/ >> > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

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23rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions
by Stéphane Ducasse April 11, 2015

April 11, 2015

Please distribute widely 23rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions Brescia, Italy from 13 to 17 July 2015 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2015/ This call includes: Developer Forum Smalltalk Technology Award International Workshop http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/International-Workshop-IWST_… Student Volunteer http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Student-volunteers Camp Smalltalk 12 July 2015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: * 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/2015/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/conferences/2015/ 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/2015/ http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Student-volunteers We hope to see you there and have fun together. _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org -------------------------------------------- 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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CFP IWST 2015 - Deadline extension - 17th April
by jannik laval April 9, 2015

April 9, 2015

Please note that the deadline has been extended to the 17th April 2015 . [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] [Please send to interested colleagues / mailing-lists] ************************************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS IWST15 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Brescia, Italy; July 15, 2015 http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/International-Workshop-IWST_… ************************************************************************************************************ ------------------- 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: April 17th, 2015* Notification deadline: May 20th, 2015 Workshop : July 15th, 2015 All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL ------------------- 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 eligible, 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=iwst2015 ------------------- Program chairs ------------------- Anne Etien (Université de Lille 1, France) Jannik Laval (Ecole des Mines de Douai, France) -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ École des Mines de Douai Enseignant-chercheur http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://www.phratch.com http://www.approchealpes.info http://car.mines-douai.fr/

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ESUG call for sponsors
by Luc Fabresse April 4, 2015

April 4, 2015

Dear Smalltalkers, The European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) welcome sponsors for the organization of the 23rd ESUG conference edition ( http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015) Sponsoring ESUG also help us to do achieve multiple actions to support Smalltalk all over the year such as: conferences, events, summertalks, projects, research articles, publications, books, student mobility, ... More infos at: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Promotion. As previous years (http://www.esug.org/About/BecomeSponsor) sponsorships level are: * Silver ESUG Sponsor: By paying 500€, the logo of your company/association is displayed during the ESUG conference, and you are also recognized as a sponsor on our ESUG website http://www.esug.org. You are entitled to mention that you are an ESUG sponsor, and to use the ESUG logo in that context. * Gold ESUG Sponsor: By paying 1000€, you get all of the above, and ESUG correspondence and distributions (CD, Documentation) will feature your logo. You also get a 10% fee reduction on the ESUG events for up to 5 people of your organization. * Platinum ESUG Sponsor: By Paying 2000€, you get all of the above, but you get a 20% fee reduction on the ESUG events for up to 10 people of your organization. If your company is interested, you can choose a sponsorship level, send us (at board(a)esug.org) information such as Organization name, VAT number, etc. and we will send you back an invoice. Also consider that sending people to the conference is a kind of sponsoring in an indirect way. So see you @ ESUG'15, Brescia, Italy 13-17 July 2015. Best regards, Luc Fabresse On behalf of ESUG board PS: Forward widely #Luc

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Nested Degenerate Convenience Methods
by Sean P. DeNigris April 2, 2015

April 2, 2015

Is there a name for the following pattern? doSomething: arg1 ^ self doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2Default doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2 ^ self doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2 ifB: arg3Default ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Nested-Degenerate-Convenience-Methods-tp4816719.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Roassal and Spy
by Alexandre Bergel March 19, 2015

March 19, 2015

Dear Community, The Smalltalk community is flourishing and the number of projects being developed is growing incredibly fast. We are happy to see an increasing number of Roassal and Spy users. Fantastic projects are being built using these frameworks. We have a very long list of todos to address many of your requests for improvement and bug fixes. Unfortunately, we have been time to time slow on addressing your request. As you can imagine, our manpower to push Roassal and Spy is limited, although it has been regularly increasing over the last three years (and will continue to do so). We would like to deliver more. Much more. Our long-term goal is to deliver the platform for visualization. Yes, we are aiming at being _the_ platform, and not simply _a_ great platform. Soon we will have D3, Protoviz, Raphael and all their friends far behind. Attaining this goal takes time. We are looking for a way to speed our effort up. That is the reason of this email. We are now making the public announcement for services provided by Object Profile, the company behind Roassal and Spy. We are selling engineering work and dedicated services. Get in touch with us for more info. Kind regards The Object Profile crew -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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Camp Smalltalk PDX
by Andres Valloud March 19, 2015

March 19, 2015

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