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Re: [Esug-list] ESUG 2016 Taxi reduction

by Tudor Girba

Thanks! Doru > On Aug 18, 2017, at 3:20 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> wrote: > > > Hi ESUGers > > Ales negotiated some reduction with the company named “Mikro taxi”. Prices for taxi from different airports to Maribor are as following: > From Graz: 50€ > From Ljubljana and Zagreb: 100€ > From Vienna: 170€. > Currently there can go 4 people in the car but with arrangement with taxi company also bigger car can be requested. > Contact for taxi: ml-tim(a)telemach.net > > Stef > -------------------------------------------- > Stéphane Ducasse > http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr > http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org > 03 59 35 87 52 > Assistant: Julie Jonas > FAX 03 59 57 78 50 > TEL 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "No matter how many recipes we know, we still value a chef."

Aug. 18, 2017

ESUG 2016 Taxi reduction

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi ESUGers Ales negotiated some reduction with the company named “Mikro taxi”. Prices for taxi from different airports to Maribor are as following: From Graz: 50€ From Ljubljana and Zagreb: 100€ From Vienna: 170€. Currently there can go 4 people in the car but with arrangement with taxi company also bigger car can be requested. Contact for taxi: ml-tim(a)telemach.net Stef -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 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

Aug. 18, 2017

Raffle Results of "Live Programming in Smalltalk development environments survey + raffle"

by Juraj Kubelka

Dear Smalltalkers, thank you again for participating in our survey. We are currently analyzing the results. Here, we would like to announce winners of the survey raffle… and winners are: - Craig Latta, and - Gabriel Omar Cotelli Congratulations! :-) The raffle draw was recorded and is available at: https://youtu.be/cRfPAAeF-xw <https://youtu.be/cRfPAAeF-xw> We will contact the winners in a private email in order to deliver the books to them. Regards, Juraj Kubelka, Romain Robbes, and Alexandre Bergel

Aug. 16, 2017

Call for PhD candidates in the Software Composition Group, U Bern

by Oscar Nierstrasz

Hi Folks, I am looking for several PhD students to work on Agile Software Analysis: http://scg.unibe.ch/news/2017-08-14 Kind regards, Oscar Nierstrasz --- Prof. Dr. O. Nierstrasz -- oscar(a)inf.unibe.ch Software Composition Group -- http://scg.unibe.ch University of Bern -- Tel +41 31 631 4618

Aug. 14, 2017

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Monday 21st August

by Giovanni Corriga

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting will be on Monday, 21st August. We'll meet at a new venue The City Pride ( http://www. cityprideclerkenwell.co.uk/ ) at 7pm. If you'd like to join us, you can just show up at the pub. You can also sign up in advance at the meeting's Meetup page: *https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/242432390/ <https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/242432390/> *. See you there!

Aug. 10, 2017

[ann] moldable brick editor - alpha

by Tudor Girba

Hi, We are very happy to announce the alpha version of a moldable editor built in Brick (https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Brick) which is based on Bloc (https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Bloc) This is primarily the work of Alex Syrel. The project was initially financially sponsored by ESUG and it is currently supported by feenk. And of course, the project is based on the tremendous work that went into Bloc and Brick by all contributors. Take a look at this 2 min video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vy6VMJM9W4&feature=youtu.be The basic editor works and it is both flexible and scalable. For example, the last example shown in the video is an editor opened on 1M characters, which is reasonably large, and as can be seen see one can interact with it as smoothly as with the one screen text. It actually works just as fine with 100M characters. The functionality of the editor includes: rendering, line wrapping, keypress and shortcut handling, navigation, selection and text styling. Currently, the editor is 1260 lines of code including method and class comments. This is not large for a text editor and this is possible because most of the work is done by generic concepts that already exist in Bloc such as layouts and text measurements. Beside the small maintenance cost, the benefit is that we have the option to build all sorts of variations with little effort. That is why we call this a moldable text editor. Another benefit of using elements and layouts is that we can also embed other kinds of non-text elements with little effort (such as pictures), and obtain a rich and live text editor. We already have basic examples for this behavior, and we will focus more in the next period on this area. The next immediate step is to add syntax highlighting. Beside the text attributes problem, this issue will also exercise the thread-safety the implementation is. The underlying structure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)) is theoretically thread-safe, but it still needs to be proven in practice. We think this is a significant step because the editor was the main piece missing in Brick and it will finally allow us to build value that can be directly perceived by regular users on top of Brick and this, in turn, will generate more traction. Please also note that because now Bloc is directly embeddable in Morphic it means that we can actually start using it right away. For example, the picture below shows the text element being shown through a live preview in the GTInspector. This is another puzzle piece towards the final goal of engineering the future of the Pharo user interface. There is still a long way to go to reach that goal, but considering the work that is behind us, that goal that looked so illusive when Alain and Stef initiated the Bloc project is now palpable. We will continue the work on this over the next period and we expect to announce new developments soon. If you want to play with it, you can load the code like this (works in both Pharo 6 and 7): Iceberg enableMetacelloIntegration: true. Metacello new baseline: 'Brick'; repository: 'github://pharo-graphics/Brick/src'; load: #development Please let us know what you think. Cheers, Alex and Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "What is more important: To be happy, or to make happy?"

Aug. 4, 2017

Live Programming in Smalltalk development environments survey + raffle

by Juraj Kubelka

— “We are apologize for multiple copies.” — Dear Smalltalker, Live programming frees developers from the "edit-compile-run" loop and allows people to interact with running programs very easily. Live programming is getting popular, but many of its features have been present in Smalltalk for a very long time. We want to understand how Smalltalk software developers use live programming features in practice. We would be grateful if you could participate in our 10-minute survey on this subject: http://bit.ly/2ufcg2D <http://bit.ly/2ufcg2D> As a thank you for your participation, you will be able to participate in a raffle to win a Smalltalk book of your choice. If you wish to participate, you will need to share your email with us, so that we can contact you. We will appreciate if you share the survey - Twitter post: https://twitter.com/JurajKubelka/status/893006267085709312 <https://twitter.com/JurajKubelka/status/893006267085709312> - Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/juraj.kubelka/posts/10212505941300008 <https://www.facebook.com/juraj.kubelka/posts/10212505941300008> By participating in the survey you will: - help me to successfully finish my PhD, - push Smalltalk awareness in Live Programming research community, - bring new integrated electronic communication ideas, and - bring new ideas to improve our Smalltalk Live Programming experience :-) We will close the survey on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 AoE. Thank you and we really hope you enjoy participating in our survey! Juraj Kubelka, PhD Student at the University of Chile Romain Robbes, Professor at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Alexandre Bergel, Professor at the University of Chile

Aug. 3, 2017

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Monday, 31st July

by Giovanni Corriga

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting will be on Monday, 31st July. We'll meet at a new venue The City Pride ( http://www.cityprideclerkenwell.co.uk/ ) at 7pm. If you'd like to join us, you can just show up at the pub. You can also sign up in advance at the meeting's Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/241876612/ . See you there!

July 20, 2017

Re: [Esug-list] [OFFTOPIC] Update: Debris Publishing / Quuve Research & Portfolio Management Platform

by Mariano Martinez Peck

BTW, thanks for creating the ycombinator post! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14756598#14757008 Cheers, On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck < marianopeck(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > A while back our team presented Quuve [1], a customizable investment > management ecosystem for professional investors. We also discussed the > technologies employed to build it [2] (it is developed on Pharo and > deployed on GemStone). We are reaching out again because we recently > revamped our website [3] and created a number of promotional videos that > demonstrate Quuve's power [4]. We would appreciate your help in marketing > our wares! > > Quuve is the world's first fully integrated and customizable research and > portfolio management platform. The system offers powerful features never > before seen by the investment community and it empowers users to tailor tools > in ways that accommodate their idiosyncratic investment style. In the > coming years, customization, data-inheritance, shared databases, > machine-learning, and robo-trading will become standard among investors of > all sizes, and we expect Quuve will blaze the trail. > > If you have any questions about Quuve please let us know. > > [1] http://pharo.org/success/Quuve > [2] http://forum.world.st/Fwd-Debris-Quuve-Technologies-used > -td4819786.html > [3] http://www.debrispublishing.com/ > [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLfTMPTPc22sGNrm2rXt8 > kD-9iFTgqbAUG&v=zdm4CVse2Hc > > Thanks, > > -- > Mariano > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

July 13, 2017

[OFFTOPIC] Update: Debris Publishing / Quuve Research & Portfolio Management Platform

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Hi all, A while back our team presented Quuve [1], a customizable investment management ecosystem for professional investors. We also discussed the technologies employed to build it [2] (it is developed on Pharo and deployed on GemStone). We are reaching out again because we recently revamped our website [3] and created a number of promotional videos that demonstrate Quuve's power [4]. We would appreciate your help in marketing our wares! Quuve is the world's first fully integrated and customizable research and portfolio management platform. The system offers powerful features never before seen by the investment community and it empowers users to tailor tools in ways that accommodate their idiosyncratic investment style. In the coming years, customization, data-inheritance, shared databases, machine-learning, and robo-trading will become standard among investors of all sizes, and we expect Quuve will blaze the trail. If you have any questions about Quuve please let us know. [1] http://pharo.org/success/Quuve [2] http://forum.world.st/Fwd-Debris-Quuve-Technologies-used-td4819786.html [3] http://www.debrispublishing.com/ [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLfTMPTPc22sGNrm2rXt8 kD-9iFTgqbAUG&v=zdm4CVse2Hc Thanks, -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

July 12, 2017