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-= First Visualization Contest with Roassal =-
by Alexandre Bergel Aug. 23, 2013

Aug. 23, 2013

Dear colleagues and friends, We are happy to announce the First Visualization Contest with Roassal. What can I win? - 150 euros, sponsored by ObjectProfile - a über-cool ObjectProfile T-shirt and some wonderful stickers - maximum publicity of your work - a nice award certificate, delivered during ESUG How can I win? - you have to produce a visualization with Roassal. You can use the Pharo, VisualWorks or VAST version of Roassal. Here is an example of what we expect http://bit.ly/sunburstDemo - making a video is mandatory. The video will weight the most in our decision. The video could be of any length and has to include your name and say that is was made (partly or completely) with Roassal. No need to talk, just show off! - making your code available and easy to install will help you get more points How can I submit? - send the links of your video and other material (if needed) to info(a)objectprofile.com Every email you will send to this email will be acknowledged. If you do not receive a 'Ok' from us, it means we haven't read it, in that case send your email again after a few days. - the deadline for submitting is September 4, 2013 Mini FAQ? - Is the object-profile team allowed to participate? No - Should my visualization or code be open source? No need for this, whatever license is fine. However your video should be made public. - How can I get more information? Just comment on the facebook https://www.facebook.com/ObjectProfile or using Twitter @ObjectProfile or send email to info(a)objectprofile.com - What I submit twice? Yes, no problem with that - How will judge the videos? both the esug community and the object profile team. The Esug community will have 30% of the final grade, object profile the remaining 70% -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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ESUG 2013, 10th Innovation Technology Awards
by Jordi Delgado Aug. 16, 2013

Aug. 16, 2013

Reminder: Have you written innovative Smalltalk? The developers of any Smalltalk-based software can enter by submitting a 3-5min video of their software. Entrants demo their systems in a session at the end of Monday September 9th 2013, after which the conference attendees vote. (A vote consists in providing a sorted list of 3 preferred pieces of software.) The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros. The results are announced in the Awards ceremony that is held during the social event. Applicants should provide the following information on the conference registration server. Once you have registered your personal info, an 'Awards' menu allows submitting your software. You can provide this information when you first register, or login again later and update your details. The registration server will open soon. You can start preparing your software right now though. Info to provide: - Name of the software - Licence information (free, shareware, or commercial) - Name of the Smalltalk dialect used - Name, Affiliation and Country of developers Besides, it would be great if the submission could include: - URL for a video (3-5 min) showing a screencast / demo of the software - URL for downloading the software or at least a runnable demo - Deadline: *September 7th* Any Smalltalker can apply (students, companies, ...). The presented piece of code/software should be written in Smalltalk or directly support Smalltalk (e.g. Smalltalk VM). All Smalltalk dialects are accepted. The applicant should be "strongly related" to the presented code, be it as an author, as owner of the copyright/copyleft, or as an official representative of the copyright/copyleft owner. Bests, Jordi

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Vegetarian version - Sunday camp meal registration (new version)
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 14, 2013

Aug. 14, 2013

Dear All, I modified the doodle in adding a column for vegetarian people. Those of you who already filled in the doodle can do it again ;-) You'll use the same link as the one previously sent by Stephane: http://www.doodle.com/igd4fax6ym2qvvra#table See you soon at Annecy, Herve ======== Stef's email ======== Hi guys If you want to have lunch during the camp we found a solution for 14.7 euros that we will have to pay individually. If you want to benefit from it and, you must sign the doodle. http://www.doodle.com/igd4fax6ym2qvvra#table The 26 of August we will freeze the list and commit. There are few open restaurants open the sunday in this place and the ones are most expensive and require probably registration. Stef

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About Smalltalk camp sunday lunch
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 13, 2013

Aug. 13, 2013

Hi guys If you want to have lunch during the camp we found a solution for 14.7 euros that we will have to pay individually. If you want to benefit from it and, you must sign the doodle. http://www.doodle.com/igd4fax6ym2qvvra#table The 26 of August we will freeze the list and commit. There are few open restaurants open the sunday in this place and the ones are most expensive and require probably registration. Stef

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Presentation of rackincloud.com (new Pharo hosting)
by mikefilonov Aug. 13, 2013

Aug. 13, 2013

Hello, My name is Mikhail Filonov and I am here to present my project "RackInCloud – virtual appliance hosting" to the community. Some time ago I created several Seaside applications and faced with the fact that it was quite a job to host them. After couple futile attempts I could not find any satisfied Seaside-hosting solution. Other option, running and configuring a VPS with Pharo/Seaside seemed like a non-trivial task that requires some skills. You should be very motivated to host your seaside application, right? I'm sure, this kind of troubles might be a huge barrier for people who want to try Smalltalk. I believe existence of easy Smalltalk hosting is an essential addition to Seaside with its beauty and power, which in its turn should attract more people to the community. At the time being I know several ways on how this issue could be solved. First of the existent solution – seasidehosting.st. This project has several strong constraints on its use though, which limit possible applications it hosts. Frankly speaking, I also don’t share the way their management is organized: it is really not obvious for new user how to deploy and manage your Smalltalk image. Another trouble with seasidehositing.st is that it is a little bit outdate: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-dev-rackincloude-seaside-hosting-tp4701427p4701…. The promising successor of seasidehositing.st – the smalltalkharbour project - seemed to set a very good set of aims for them: http://smallharbour.seasidehosting.st/seaside/seaside/seaside/seaside/seasi…. However it seems that smalltalkharbour team chose a very long road to the success and now this promising project is dead: the last news is dated with 11 August 2011, their main site does not respond. Moreover as for me, the way of management that is set by seasidehositing.st is not very convenient. For example, it is not possible to use monticello to update my application on hosting or to use external services like MySql or mongodb. Moreover there is a performance concern: by moving memory- and processes- expensive tasks from Smalltalk to other services, Seaside might be used with all its beauty and speed for Web font-end development. Even Seaside developers share this approach by recommending to move "static file sharing" task outside of Smalltalk to Apache server: http://book.seaside.st/book/in-action/serving-files. So when we talk about Smalltalk hosting, it is not correct to think only of Seaside: it is important to find a more general way to manage the whole infrastructure of external services for easy deployment. RackInCloud might solve this issue with the idea of "appliances" — the pre-configured VMs which are built to serve one single function (ex., MySql-appliance, FileServer-appliance, Pharo-appliance). One great benefit of this approach is that we can prepare all necessary ISO images for the services and deploy them when needed, so that a developer can easily build their own service environment – just running all necessary services in one click in a personal "virtual rack". Thereby I developed a Pharo-Appliance. It is an ISO image that runs Pharo-vm and provides developer with an access via VNC to the Pharo developing environment, where it is possible to use your favorite tools to deploy your application: you are absolutely not limited in configuration of the hosting. Ideologically the appliance is a non-installable ISO-image with minimal memory footprint (approx. 60Mb), where it is supposed that only user data is stored on a hard disk (Pharo image in the case of Pharo appliance) and all the software and libraries are loaded directly from a system ISO-image. This makes it possible to startup a new Pharo instance in "one click". Here you may watch a short video of the full process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V75LFgdxHY or you may simply try it out on http://www.rackincloud.com (it is free for a trial). In my opinion this approach is far more generic then the existing ones. It does not limit the developer in how to use the hosting. For example, here you can read the comment, written by Janko Mivšek, the author of Aidaweb Smalltalk Web application framework on how he run his framework on RackInCloud: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-dev-rackincloude-seaside-hosting-tp4701427p4701…. So it is important that here you are not limited only to Seaside. Anything, that can be run on Pharo, can be run on rackincloud.com. Moreover, if it cannot be run on Pharo for some reason, we can apply the same approach to build the appliance you need and run your application in coherent environment. In conclusion let me mention, that this is a very first run of rackincloud.com. This is only a starting point (though we have already implemented most of smallharbour project vision here :) ) and in the future I plan to develop the service further on. If this project finds interest among the community, I already have a lot of ideas on how to enhance the service. So let me invite everyone to test it and I'm really looking forward to hear any feedback from you, guys. If you have any ideas, please contact me. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Presentation-of-rackincloud-com-new-Pharo-hosting-tp4… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Getting the feel of ESUG 2013
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 13, 2013

Aug. 13, 2013

Hi Smalltalkers Are you ready for the ESUG beer? …. Yes this year we will have an ESUG beer at Annecy http://www.ifalpes.com/en/annecy-0 Are you ready for some paragliding :) http://www.lac-annecy.com Do not stress we will NOT bring you above the lake but I know some Smalltalk paragliders that appreciate Annecy for that. Stef PS: Annecy is really a lovely location so do not show these websites to your partner or you will have to bring her/him with you :)

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ESUG 2013 registration
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 7, 2013

Aug. 7, 2013

> > Reminder: The European Smalltalk Conference registration is open until August 10th: > > 21st International Smalltalk Joint Conference > > Annecy, France from 9 to 13 September 2013 http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2013 > > During the week, interesting events include: > > - Developer Forum > - Smalltalk Technology Award > - International Workshop http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop > - Student Volunteer http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers > - Camp Smalltalk 8 September 2013 > > For the past 21 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has organized the International Smalltalk Conference, a lively forum on cutting edge software technologies that attract people from both academia and industry for a whole week. The attendees are both engineers using Smalltalk in business and students and teachers using Smalltalk both for research and didactic purposes. > > As every year, this year's edition of the largest European Smalltalk event will include the regular Smalltalk developers conference with renowned invited speakers, a Smalltalk camp that proves fruitful for interactions and discussions. This year will be held the 9th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will be awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects and an international workshop on Smalltalk and dynamic languages: http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop > > > -- > --- Herve VERJUS -----ooOoo----- http://univ.herveverjus.com/ > -- Universite de Savoie - IAE Savoie Mont-Blanc > -- Departement Technologie et Management > -- Co-resp. Master Management et Technologies de l'Information > -- B.P. 80439 / F-74944 Annecy-le-Vieux > -- Reception: +33 (0)450092443 - Office 009: +33 (0)450092415 > -- LISTIC Lab. - Polytech Annecy-Chambery Office A113 > > ------ > Plus d'infos sur le GDR GPL : http://gdr-gpl.cnrs.fr

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[ANN] Pharo 2 Summer released
by Esteban Lorenzano July 31, 2013

July 31, 2013

The Pharo Team is happy to announce the Pharo 2 Summer release, the regular half of the year bugfix edition. For this version, we incorporated really few changes since 2.0 was a really successful release. Anyway, we managed to sneak in a couple of minor additions: - Integrated ProfStef - Updated Configurations Browser Also, we integrated 42 bugfixes, 20 of them backported from 3. 0 alpha. As always, Summer edition can be downloaded at: http://www.pharo-project.org/pharo-download We want to thank to all members of the community for their help and support and specially to all who submitted the reports, fixed the bugs and tested them. The Pharo Team List complete of bugfixes and backports: =============================== Fixed: -------- 7345 DNU with Glamour: PaginatedMorphTreeMorph>>setSelectedMorph: https://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=7345 10014 World menu > System > Switch User serves no purpose https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10014/World-menu-System-Switch-User-serve… 10004 SmalltalkImage current reportCPUandRAM > DNU https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10004/SmalltalkImage-current-reportCPUand… 10017 ProtocolCLient do not propagate the erros from the server https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10017 7627 FileReference>>deleteAll follows symlinks https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/7627 10027 Failing Test: FileReferenceTest>>#testDeleteAl https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10027 10123 Bug in warning in CriticBrowser https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10123 10196 Change shortcuts default settings of 2.0 to the traditional ones https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10196 10195 Replace ugly Keymappings API on:do: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10195 10200 Date instances dayOfWeek wrong https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10200 10109 MNU : SmalltalkEditor>>browseItHere: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10109 10394 Duplicated instance #model in NewList (already defined in MorphicModel) https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10394 10336 Port 2.0: Document difference between TextModel and TextInputFieldModel https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10336 10653 Some Jenkins images show a stdout is closed error https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10653 10653 Some Jenkins images show a stdout is closed error https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10653 10415 Integrate 2.0: 10411 flush after nextChunkPut: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10415 10888 Backport 2.0: Compound Extension Methods Unpackaged https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10888/Backport-2-0-Compound-Extension-Met… 10730 Fix for stack serialization with Fuel https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10730/Fix-for-stack-serialization-with-Fu… 10946 HistoryCollection package is empty https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10946 11101 fileOutMethod:on: uncategorized in 2.0 https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/11101 11179 Config browser buttons broken due to missing method https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/11179 10860 option click on list in TestRunner and others: freeze system https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10860 Backported: ---------------- 10194 Backport to 2.0: special objects array recreation crash https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10194 10185 Backport 2.0: 10173 ClassBuilder cannot safely modify a class why using it https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10185 10174 Backport 2.0 Issue 10162: multiple selection of methods in method pane ... https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10174 10249 Backport 2.0: Red Light when all test are green https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10249 10230 backport 2.0: 10229 Fix sender of #copyWithTempsFromMethodNode: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10230 10179 backport 2.0: 10038 Wrong deprecated message https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10179 10260 backport 2.0: 10258 DivideByZero in SystemProgressMorph https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10260 10406 backport 2.0: 5819 Implement a way to get the user directories based on the current OS https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10406 10396 backport 2.0 10395 DNU SmallInteger>>#add: when loading metacello configuration https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10396 10387 backport 2.0: 10102 SocketStream>>next: should not signal ConncetionClosed https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10387 10311 Backport 2.0: 10228 Fix tab key for autocompletion https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10311 10537 Backport 2.0: StartupPreferences interferes with zeroconf pharo binary https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10537 10938 backport 2.0 : an MCOrganizationDefinition should only remove empty categories during unload https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10938 10909 Backport Pharo2.0: Prepare isHeadless for new VMs with double dash -- arguments https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10909 10994 Backport 2.0: Delays do not work properly directly on image startup https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10994/Backport-2-0-Delays-do-not-work-pro… 10931 Backport 2.0: Filing out extension package in Nautilus produces empty file https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10931 10978 Backport 20: ZipArchive utf8 handling https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10978 11125 backport 2.0: 10859 Monticello freezing the image https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/11125 10569 Backport 2.0: Better Interrruptionche https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10569 10940 Backport 2.0: 10925 Use caching in Gofer https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10940 11252 backport 2.0: have SliceMaker use fogbugz https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/11252

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Stuttgart - ESUG, ESUG-Stuttgart
by jtuchel＠objektfabrik.de July 30, 2013

July 30, 2013

Is anybody interested to share a car ride from Stuttgart (or some place on the route) to ESUG and back? I plan to leave Stuttgart Sunday afternoon and drive back on friday after the conference. please contact me off-list for more. Joachim

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[ESUG 2013] Please Register before 12 of August
by Stéphane Ducasse July 29, 2013

July 29, 2013

Hi Smalltalk friends I can tell you that the Conference will be great. We are doing another pass on the schedule and the social event :). Now the organisation has some strong deadlines for Tshirts… We will send some other announces for example for the Camp meals. Stef

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