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[ANN] SqueakJS 0.2 released, now runs Etoys
by Bert Freudenberg July 4, 2014

July 4, 2014

Hi all, my SqueakJS VM has reached a major milestone. It is now sufficiently complete to run a full Etoys image (and possibly other non-closure images, too). It has support for most BitBlt modes, WarpBlt, even some Balloon2D rendering (for TTF fonts), a virtual file system, image saving etc. Try it: http://bertfreudenberg.github.io/SqueakJS/etoys/ (Safari and IE are significantly faster than Firefox and Chrome, best is Safari Webkit nightly, works on iPad too, hopefully Android) For more details, see my blogpost: http://croquetweak.blogspot.de/2014/07/squeakjs-runs-etoys-now.html Feedback and contributions welcome :) - Bert -

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[ESUG2014] 2places in cambridge for 22-23Aug available
by Yuriy Tymchuk July 2, 2014

July 2, 2014

Hi everyone, in case you need to stay in Cambridge on a night after the conference (22-23 Aug), I have 2 tickets in Trinity Hall's Wichfield site for EUR55 (each). Let me know if you are interested because in case of reselling tickets to you I need to extend my booking in London and it may be not possible closer to the conference itself. Cheers. Yuriy

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[ANN] Amber 0.12.6 released!
by Nicolas Petton July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

Hi! After two months of development we are happy to announce the release of Amber 0.12.6 (skipping 0.12.5 for technical reasons). The team has once again been busy improving Amber to make it rock more than ever! With 260 commits done by 8 contributors, this release brings several important improvements as well as the usual bug fixes. Highlights: - Helios now has a test runner - The `amber-cli` npm package installs the CLI tooling. `amber` is not to be installed globally any more. Instead, install `amber-cli` with `npm install -g amber-cli`. - New `amber-init` command: After installing the cli tooling, `amber init` initializes a new project. - `amber` and `amberc` cli tools can now be found in the `external` directory and in dedicated npm packages. - Amber now parses `$c` character literals. - Bootstrap 3 can be used in Amber projects (no more nameclash with Helios' bootstrap 2 using bootstrap2.3.2 name). - Wider range of jQuery versions allowed. API changes: + String >> + value: + ProtocolAnnouncement >> + package + Behavior >> + isTestClass + Package >> + isTestPackage + amber/{devel,deploy,lang} exports + nil + amber/helpers exports + nil We would like to thank the contributors who made this release possible, and especially Ryan Simmons for his work on the Helios Test Runner. /The Amber crew.

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Pharo Academic Partner Program
by Stéphane Ducasse June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014

Dear Friends The Pharo consortium http://consortium.pharo.org is launching a new program in direction to academic partners: teachers, Universities and research institutes. We realized that the advantages/duties to be an academic member were unclear. We really want to build a strong community. http://files.pharo.org/consortium/Membership%20Agreement%20for%20Academic%2… Here are the key facts extracted from the document. Here are the main advantages as an academic partner: - Direct access to Pharo core developers via an automatic subscription to a specific mailing list. - Access to Pharo documents and courses. - Its logo posted on the Pharo Website Academic pages. - The possibility to propose and participate in actions. Here are the main duties (which you are already doing): - Put a link to Pharo Consortium Website from its institutional website. - When using Pharo to teach, create web pages with document courses related to Pharo. - Provide Inria with an annual report of at most half a page of its actions to promote and sustain Pharo. As member of the Pharo Consortium, the Academic Partner shall make its best efforts to: - Give courses on Pharo or related topics to its students - Participate to the development of open source software libraries in Pharo - Participate to selected Pharo mailing lists : pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org and/or pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org - Participate in the authoring of open-source books on Pharo and related topics. We really hope that you will register and help us making Pharo grow and be a really cool and friendly ecosystem. The Pharo Board.

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A Smalltalk job at Yesplan?
by Johan Brichau June 24, 2014

June 24, 2014

Dear Smalltalkers, The Yesplan team is looking for a new development colleague! This is a full time position to be performed on site. We are not looking for a freelancer. Please see [1] for the full description of the vacancy. Dutch speakers can check out the Dutch version [2]. If you are interested, or if you have additional questions, please contact me via johan(a)yesplan.be Also, do not hesitate to forward this email to potential candidates. best regards Johan [1] http://yesplan.be/docs/vacancy-software-engineer.pdf [2] http://yesplan.be/docs/vacature-software-engineer.pdf

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Re: [Esug-list] [IMPORTANT] Accommodation booking @ ESUG'14
by David Chisnall June 23, 2014

June 23, 2014

On 30 May 2014, at 11:49, Sabine Knöfel <sabine.knoefel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > *can you please send a google maps link or address to the computer lab (to > find hotels nearby)? The computer lab is in the William Gates Building: http://osm.org/go/0EQSAZ2Po-?layers=N&m= The accommodation that we have reserved is in Trinity Hall's Wychfield site, just down the road: http://osm.org/go/0EQSDPLdZ-?layers=N&m= (No Google Maps links because their map data is shockingly bad in Cambridge) > *will you also provide a list of hotel suggestions like the last year? We don't have a list of hotels other than the university accommodation. There aren't many on this side of Cambridge. The Møller Centre is very convenient, but unfortunately is fully booked for the week of the conference. Arundel House is fairly close (20-25 minutes walk, 5 minutes bike): http://www.arundelhousehotels.co.uk/cambridge/ There is a YourSpace apartment on Chesterton Road that is a similar distance and may be of interest: http://www.yourspaceapartments.com MSR Cambridge has a list of recommended hotels, but they've now moved to the other end of town, so the locations are not optimal: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/cambridge/accommodations.aspx Hotel Felix is very nice, but a bit out of town (not too bad for getting to the CL on a bike): http://www.hotelfelix.co.uk There's a Doubletree by Hilton on the backs, which is about 25 minutes walk (5-10 minute cycle) from the CL, but very convenient for town (including the conference dinner). The Hotel du Vin is very nice, but a little bit further away from the CL: https://www.hotelduvin.com/locations/cambridge/ I hope this helps, David

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Interview RMoD #5: Guillermo Polito
by Nicolas Petton June 18, 2014

June 18, 2014

Hi! This is the fifth interview of my colleagues of RMoD, this time I interviewed Guille! You can read the interview here: http://nicolas-petton.fr/blog/interview-guille.html Cheers, Nico -- Nicolas Petton http://nicolas-petton.fr

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CFP - IWST 2014 - Deadline Extension - June, 22
by jannik laval June 10, 2014

June 10, 2014

Dear smalltalkers, we decided to extend the deadline for submitting contributions to IWST. The new deadline is set to *22nd June, 2014*. ************************************************************ ************************************************ [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] [Please send to interested colleagues / mailing-lists] ************************************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS IWST14 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Cambridge, England; August 19, 2014 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/IWST14 ************************************************************************************************************ ------------------- 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: June 15, 2014 Notification deadline: July 15, 2014 Workshop : August 19, 2014 All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL (To be confirmed) ------------------- 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 Lam Research Corporation for its financial contribution that makes it possible a price 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://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst2014 ------------------- Program chairs ------------------- Alain Plantec (UMR 6265 Lab-STICC, University of Brest, 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://car.mines-douai.fr/

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Guidance for an experienced smalltalker
by mani kartha June 8, 2014

June 8, 2014

Hi, First of all, this is not a technical doubt in the sense that it is not related to a code snippet, class or an IDE. But I think my doubt can be cleared only by experienced professionals in smalltalk. I am a smalltalker with 9.5 years of software development experience (fully in smalltalk). I prefer to work in the technical side of software projects rather than the managerial side. But now I find it difficult to get job opportunities as even Senior Software Engineer job requirements find me as over experienced. I suppose some of you are managers/employers and can tell me, what do an employer/manager expect from an engineer with <10 years experience 1) designing,coding and debugging skills ? 2) domain knowledge? 3) soft skills like ability to communicate with team/client? 4) skills like other programming languages/tools? 5) work permit in US/Europe (since I am in India) or something other? I have 5-6 similarly experienced(VWST,Squeak,Pharo) friends with me and will it be easier to find work as a team ? How can a team without a proven expertise (only those who had worked with us know about us) get a software contract? Do we require mentor ? Do we need to have a business Development Manager ? I am not asking for shortcuts but for a proper direction to proceed. May be it will be easy to get some small software contracts by switching to other languages but we wanted to stick on to smalltalk as we all believe in the strength of smalltalk What i wanted to know is, whether it is possible to grow together as a team with smalltalk skills, otherwise we will have to switch to other technologies or try to grow individually. Thanks in advance Mani S Kartha

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Celebration of Life for James Robertson - a message from Jim's wife and daughter
by Fortman, Suzanne June 7, 2014

June 7, 2014

Jim's wife and daughter would like to plan a celebration of life for Jim. Tori just posted a message on Jim's FaceBook page. If you don't have access to FB, but would like to reply, please send a message to me and I will forward it to the family immediately. Suzanne ****** Message from Tori and Jackie ****** Hi, everyone. This is Tori<https://www.facebook.com/torirob>. My mom, Jackie<https://www.facebook.com/jackie.robertson.33>, and I are planning the memorial service for my father. We are currently thinking the 9th of August is best, but we are open to exploring another date later. We want to know what would be best for the most people to attend. Please comment your availability (dates/times/etc) and any other suggestions. You can also message me for more information on my profile. ***************** Suzanne M. Fortman Cincom Systems, Inc. Smalltalk Program Director Manager, Cincom Smalltalk Engineering office: 949-722-8928 mobile: 949-933-0055 [CincomLogo05Blue-lg (2)] This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, please be advised that it has been sent in error and therefore any use is strictly prohibited.

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