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[ANN] GemStone/S product and team move to a dedicated company
by Dale Henrichs May 4, 2013

May 4, 2013

If you haven't already heard, the GemStone/S team is becoming an independent company after 3 years as part of VMware. The entire engineering team is moving to GemTalk Systems[1]. GemTalk Systems is completely focused on Smalltalk, GemStone/S and allied initiatives. I've published a blog post[2] with my take on the acquisition (short answer is "excited!"), if you have any additional questions, feel free to contact me. Dale [1] http://gemtalksystems.com/index.php/about-us/engineers/ [2] http://gemstonesoup.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/gemtalk-systems-acquires-gemst…

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Re: [Esug-list] GSoC Project Proposal: Morphic for Amber, Looking for mentor
by Matthias Springer May 1, 2013

May 1, 2013

Hi, I decided to write a proposal for both the Athens HTML5 Canvas project and the Morphic for Amber project. The Athens project will be my primary (favorite) project and in case it does not get accepted by Google hopefully the Morphic project does. Does that make sense? Is there a way to prioritize the Athens proposal? Juan, would you like to be the primary mentor for the Morphic project? Either way, I plan to do the Morphic project now or after the GSoC (built on top of Athens). Thanks for your ideas and comments! Best regards, Matthias -- Matthias Springer * me(a)matthiasspringer.de * +49-1577-3814255 Student B.Sc. IT-Systems Engineering (Hasso-Plattner-Institut) Stahnsdorfer Straße 144c, 14482 Potsdam

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JQueryMobile Seaside on iOS by Nick Ager
by Stéphane Ducasse May 1, 2013

May 1, 2013

Hi smalltalkers James produced a new videos showing the talk of Nick Ager of last ESUG redone to be captured for you on Seaside and JqueryMobile for iOS. http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?entry=3544872614 Enjoy. Stef

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GSOC deadline is really approaching
by Stéphane Ducasse May 1, 2013

May 1, 2013

What is really important is that all the smart students should get some money and help the community to grow and get better. I will propose to the esug board to support (up to the reasonable) projects that would not be funded by google with the money we got from previous year mentors. So this is important that all the students register and write their proposals. Stef > Dear mentors, > > Not to squeezing their time to write a proposal please invite the students you think they are good enough for your porject as soon as possible. > > To repeat the invitation steps: > go to your project page on http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects, > click button Invite and select one student or two, > don't change your invitation until really necessary. > Notify them by email that they are invited and to hurry up writing a proposal. They must write first on our website, then register on http://www.google-melange.com and copy proposal there in following format: > project page from our website > student proposal from our website > student biography from our website > Deadline for students to write a proposal and copy it on Google-melange website is this Friday at 19 UTC! > Dear students, Your proposals are nicely coming on our special GSoC website http://gsoc2013.esug.org, but after being invited and writing it on our website, you need to copy it on official Google GSoC website too! That site is called Google-melange http://www.google-melange.com. So: Go to http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/esug and click Students apply, Register Fulfill a form there Open a proposal Copy in following order: project page from our website your proposal from our website your biography from our website Please do that immediately, even that it won't be complete yet. You have a time to improve it until adeadline in Friday at 19 UTC. That way you won't miss that deadline for sure. Beware that missing a GSoC deadline is a fatal mistake, there is no excuse to rescue you from it! Best regards Janko

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*important*: science needs you - we need your feedback on current integration tools.
by Stéphane Ducasse April 30, 2013

April 30, 2013

Hi guys we got only 20 answers filled up and I cannot believe that you Smalltalkers do not integrate fixes when you work on multiple contributors, even Envy can be improved. Please consider spending 15 min to get information on your practices and problems. Please distribute this mail as you see it fit. Stef > Hi all, > > We are conducting an academic research to improve tools for software integration. If you maintain a project with multiple contributors, we will greatly appreciate your participation. > > Your answers will be used for research purposes and to support the development of new tools. You can later access the results of this study, make free use of our tools to support the integration of changes, and maybe receive a gift. > > https://sondages.inria.fr/index.php/667625/lang-en > > Best regards, > Martin Dias, Nicolas Anquetil, Veronica Isabel Uquillas, Stéphane Ducasse and the RMOD Inria team

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GSoC Project Proposal: Integrated Chat System
by Nicolás Paez April 29, 2013

April 29, 2013

Hi everyone, I have an idea for a project. Let my explain it: *Context / Business need* I teach OOP at the university with Pharo. Every week our students have to solve some assignments programming with Pharo. We would like to have an integrated chat system into Pharo in order to be able to assist our students when they are working on the assignments. *Vision* I imagine this chat to allow the exchange of text but it should also allow to send "a class or a category" so the teacher (or other student) can analyse/reproduce a situation/error. Even more, it could use fuel to serialize the error and share it. >From the implementation point of view I image this like a client-server system. Each subject/institution could have its own server, then the students/teacher, open Pharo, start the chat client and connect to the selected server. *What do you think? * If there is a student interested in this I could be the mentor. Regards, Saludos! NicoPaez <http://nicopaez.wordpress.com/>

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GSoC Project Proposal: Morphic for Amber, Looking for mentor
by Matthias Springer April 28, 2013

April 28, 2013

Hi Smalltalkers, I'm a computer science student studying in Potsdam, Germany, in the 6th semester (take a look at my profile on the ESUG GSoC website, http://gsoc2013.esug.org/matthias-springer/biography) and want to propose a GSoC project. I'm looking for a mentor. I know that it's already late but I started working on this project just some weeks ago. Regardless of whether you would be willing to participate as a mentor, I'd like to know if this project is something you're interested in and what features are most important for you. I'd like to hear about your ideas. Amber is a Smalltalk implementation running in a web browser. It is written in JavaScript. Amber provides some basic Smalltalk classes and methods. It is also possible to render HTML code in a Seaside-like way. But in contrast to Seaside, Amber has the advantage that the whole Smalltalk VM runs inside the browser. Code written in Amber can be automatically filed out to the hard disk (using a NodeJS server running in the background). My proposal is to reimplement parts of the Morphic framework in Amber. This would have several advantages. - Existing Squeak/Pharo/... applications that use the Morphic framework can be ported to Amber easily. - GUI applications can be developed more easily. For complex GUI applications running in a browser, people usually use JavaScript libraries like ExtJS. But I think, when someone decides to use Amber, we can assume that the this person is also fairly familiar with the Morphic framework. This makes Amber even more interesting. Furthermore, more people might decide to use Smalltalk. - GUI applications can be written entirely in Smalltalk, without JavaScript. - We can easily provide advanced programming tools like multiple class browser windows and OmniBrowser. My vision is to provide a fully-featured Smalltalk programming environment running in the browser that provides all features that are offered by Squeak/Pharo (class browsers, Monticello, ...). I think not all of this can be done in the scope of a GSoC project but providing a Morphic implementation would be the first step. Having multiple class browsers and all the other components (inspect, debugger; this already exists in Amber) in a seperate window (instead of tabs) would already be great! I'm currently working on porting a very small part of the Morphic framework to Amber, in order to get Dale Henrichs' tODE (https://github.com/dalehenrich/tode) working in Amber. I already implemented some basic Morph classes like "Morph", "SystemWindow", "TextMorph" and "SimpleButtonMorph", but only very basic methods that are needed by tODE (see https://github.com/matthias-springer/tode-web-amber) Here's some technical stuff about how my current implementation works. - All morphs need to be rendered as HTML DOM elements. - Morphs are rendered using "HTMLCanvas" and "Widget", both classes are provided by Amber. - Morphs are rendered inside a div container, submorphs can be added by adding the submorph's div container to the owner's div container and setting its position and so on. - Not all HTML tags can be reused. For instance, the HTML text box/text area does not support text with different text formats (color, emphasis, ...). I had to reimplement text areas for editable "TextMoprh"s with DOM manipulation. - I use JQuery and JQuery UI intensively for DOM manipulations and events. JQuery is already integrated in Amber and can be used from Smalltalk code (but I had to implement some additional helper functions). A proposal on how to get started and structure the project. - 1st week: think about architecture (how to do the rendering, ...), class structures (e.g. which Morph classes are needed) and choose some existing Squeak/Pharo applications that use an important/representative subset of Morphic. - Next weeks: implement Morphic classes in order to get the Squeak/Pharo applications running (start with an easy one). - Half-time: basic Morphic functionality should be working. Begin implementing more advanced Morphic classes for getting a class browser running. We have to think about whether to port an existing class browser or to reuse parts of the current Amber class browser (atm, I don't know if it's even implemented in Smalltalk). When we decide to port an existing class browser, we have to take into account that Amber has a different way of manipulating and compiling classes (to JavaScript). Similar previous work: The Lively Kernel (http://www.lively-kernel.org/) is an implementation of the Morphic framework in JavaScript (no Smalltalk). I want to do this in Amber. I'm looking for a mentor for the GSoC 2013. Ideally, the mentor has a good understanding of the Morphic framework and maybe even HTML, JavaScript and CSS (but I'm already quite familiar with this). Best regards, Matthias Springer -- Matthias Springer * me(a)matthiasspringer.de * +49-1577-3814255 Student B.Sc. IT-Systems Engineering (Hasso-Plattner-Institut) Stahnsdorfer Straße 144c, 14482 Potsdam

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IWST 2013 Call for papers
by Alain Plantec April 27, 2013

April 27, 2013

Dear smalltalkers, You will find below the CFP for the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2013. Please disseminate through your own mailing lists. We also hope you will be able to submit some of your contributions. Best regards, Program Co-chairs Loïc Lagadec, Alain Plantec Lab-STICC/CNRS, Université de Bretagne Occidentale ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2013 September 10, 2013 Annecy, France ESUG 2013 joint event -- Important dates -- Submission deadline: June 15, 2013 Notification deadline: July 15, 2013 Workshop : September 10, 2013 All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL (ACM In-Cooperation to be confirmed). -- 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. Participants are invited to submit research articles. We will not enforce any length restriction. However we expect papers of two kinds: Short position papers describing emerging ideas. Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results. 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 Links home page: http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop 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. Program chairs Loïc Lagadec and Alain Plantec (LabSticc CACS/CNRS, University of Brest, France)

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Small(talk) opportunities
by DeNigris Sean April 26, 2013

April 26, 2013

>From time to time, I lead small commercial Smalltalk projects, parts of which I'm able to delegate. If you're interested in more details / participating when these come up, email me and I'll keep you in mind. Cheers, Sean

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Smalltalk Team
by mani kartha April 25, 2013

April 25, 2013

Hi, We have a team of 8 smalltalkers with 8+ years experience in smalltalk. The areas of expertise include Visual works, Squeak, Seaside, Glorp,Store and also thorough with OOAD and have hands on experience in Agile methodologies. Do you think there are chances of getting smalltalk related work for the team (development,support or conversion)?, especially when we are not having any marketing team for ourselves. We are also ready to do man power supply of smalltalk resources but needs work permit outside India. Do you think it is better to search jobs individually or wait for projects as a team? Is it worth maintaining such a team? Can someone suggest some way to search smalltalk work for our team? If someone wants to know more about the team or what we can offer, please let me know Regards, Mani S Kartha maniskartha <At> gmail <dot> com

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