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[Pharo-project] [ANN] Hackers wanted - Zinc HTTP Components
by Sven Van Caekenberghe Sept. 24, 2010

Sept. 24, 2010

Fellow Pharoers, HTTP is arguably the most important and most widely used networking protocol. It is paramount for any programming environment to have a good implementation of this protocol. Sadly, the current one in HTTPSocket is incomplete and of low quality. Furthermore, an HTTP implementation in Smalltalk should be clear enough so that others can understand it, learn from it and extend it. Zinc HTTP Components is an attempt at filling this gap. Started September 1st and currently under development, it is an open source, MIT licensed, open development Smalltalk framework to deal with the HTTP protocol. Please have a look at it, please help make this something we can be proud of. http://www.squeaksource.com/ZincHTTPComponents.html http://homepage.mac.com/svc/Zinc-HTTP-Components/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/svc/Zinc-HTTP-Components/getting-started.html Check out what works today (Status) and what still needs to be done (Todo). HTTP is fun, relatively easy and is something every programmer should understand, I hope that Zinc HTTP Components can make a difference here. Sven

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[Pharo-project] Fwd: [Esug-list] Position Vacancy: New Mexico Highlands University
by Mariano Martinez Peck Sept. 24, 2010

Sept. 24, 2010

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> Date: Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:18 PM Subject: [Esug-list] Position Vacancy: New Mexico Highlands University To: ESUG Mailing list <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org> Position Vacancy (Subject to funding and program approval) New Mexico Highlands University plans to offer both an undergraduate (BS) and graduate (MS) degree in Software-driven Systems Design. The undergraduate program is in place and State of New Mexico approval of the graduate program is in its final stages. Final approval during the legislative session in February 2011 is hoped for but is not guaranteed. If approval is forthcoming the position will be open as early as summer term (May 2011) and definitely by fall term (August 2011). If approval is not obtained (the legislature will be concentrating on economic issues this session), the dates will slip to May or August 2012. The position: Visiting Professor, School of Business Administration. Contract is renewable annually for up to five years. Compensation: $50,000 - $60,000, depending on qualifications, plus standard fringe benefits (health, retirement, dental). Additional compensation, from project work, is possible. Expected Start Date: May 20th, 2011 or August 15th, 2011. Qualifications: â¢ Masters degree in Computer Science (software engineering specialization), MIS, Informatics or similar degree focused on software development and systems design. â¢ Extensive knowledge of Squeak (ideally Pharo), its extensions (e.g. Seaside), and libraries (CMS, version control, morphic, etc.) plus several years experience using Squeak to develop commercial or research applications. â¢ Demonstrated multi-disciplinary / cross-disciplinary commitment; e.g. multiple degrees, publications or teaching experience across disciplinary boundaries, multi-disciplinary honors teaching. â¢ Demonstrated ability to use a hybrid approach to instruction and mentoring, combining the use of on-line and in-class resources and techniques. â¢ The position does not required full-time residency in New Mexico, but will require at least 26 weeks of residency (in two to four week blocks), annually. Full-time residency is highly desirable, but not an absolute essential. Expectations: This position is unlike any other academic position, because of the unique nature of the program it supports. Faculty are expected to spend up to forty hours a week, while in residence, in the Studio working with students at all levels, and delivering academic content âon-demandâ and in a highly modular and accelerated fashion. Faculty are expected to define (and seek grant funding for) research projects and involve students in both the conduct of the research and co-authoring of publications arising from the research. Faculty may take on project management responsibilities (receiving appropriate additional compensation) for commercial projects underway in the Studio. The program emphasizes the ability to think and to employ multiple perspectives (systems, object, design, agile, and computational thinking) and faculty are expected to help students develop this kind of thinking capability â far more challenging than simply preparing them to pass a final exam. Program: This program is unique: in focus, in structure, and in terms of the demands placed on faculty. The stated goal of the program is to graduate students as full-participating members of a professional community dedicated to and capable of using computing and software technology to analyze and solve the âwickedâ problems confronting business enterprises, communities, and global societies. Graduates will be âmodern polymathsâ masters not of all extant knowledge but who have learned and integrated knowledge from multiple disciplines and domains. The program is experience-based. All students will spend significant amounts of time (up to thirty-two hours a week) in a Studio â simultaneously working on real-world projects for paying customers and learning new subject matter. Students will work side-by-side- with professionals (acting as project managers and guarantors of successful delivery) who will provide tacit knowledge and mentoring. [Faculty members are eligible, and encouraged, to assume this kind of professional role â for additional compensation.] The University works with one or more private sector entities, the latter responsible for contracting and managing projects, generating sufficient revenues to pay for professionals, student apprenticeship wages, and program expenses (e.g. travel to conferences). The program is competency-based (approximately 100 currently defined) and not course-based. All competencies are defined at seven different levels (from âunderstands concepts as evidenced by objective testâ to âmakes an original contribution to the communityâ) and student progress (and graduation) is based on number of competencies demonstrated at level. Curricular subject matter is presented in highly modular form (think in term of one-credit, 16 face-time hours) and utilizes a combination of on-line and self-paced study, broadcast (e.g. webinar format), and in-class workshops. Students define iterative and incremental âindividual education plansâ every eight weeks and those plans, collectively, defined the curricular material to be delivered. Knowledge integration and motivation for learning is provided by the project and studio context in which all instruction is delivered. The Studio is a âone-room classroomâ â all students, faculty, and professionals occupy the same room at the same time (much like the ideal Agile work room or the botegga where Leonardo was an apprentice and later a Master). Multiple projects are underway, with different groups working on different projects. The rhythm of the Studio is defined with iterative cycles, each beginning with a planning session and ending with a retrospective. Within the cycles are defined, repetitive, periods for special activities like reader and writer workshops, social activities, and learning âspikes.â We would like to provide the students with a comprehensive development tool and environment â Smalltalk/Squeak â as a foundation for all of their technical software development learning and activities. The use of a uniform environment will make it easier to focus on the thinking behind the technology and the analysis of problems and design of solutions. When marketplace and technical demands indicate, students will learn prevailing technologies (ranging from HTML to Java â to relational database) and new technologies (e.g. non-relational and document databases) as alternatives to the Smalltalk base. Students will leave with the same level of expertise and understanding of current mainstream tools and technologies as graduates of any other CS / MIS program; but they will also have the underlying foundation made possible with the common tool and environment. If this kind of radically different program and alternative academic appointment is of interest, please contact: (Vita is OK, but would prefer a simple letter explaining why this is of interest to you and a description of your qualifications.) Dr. David West dmwest(a)nmhu.edu profwest(a)fastmail.fm 1-505-231-7233 School of Business Administration, New Mexico Highlands University Las Vegas, New Mexico, 87701 _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

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Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] Hackers wanted - Zinc HTTP Components
by StÃ©phane Ducasse Sept. 24, 2010

Sept. 24, 2010

thanks **a lot** sven. We appreciated this effort and I hope that we will be able to replace some of the code in the environment with yours. Stef On Sep 24, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > Fellow Pharoers, > > HTTP is arguably the most important and most widely used networking protocol. It is paramount for any programming environment to have a good implementation of this protocol. Sadly, the current one in HTTPSocket is incomplete and of low quality. Furthermore, an HTTP implementation in Smalltalk should be clear enough so that others can understand it, learn from it and extend it. > > Zinc HTTP Components is an attempt at filling this gap. Started September 1st and currently under development, it is an open source, MIT licensed, open development Smalltalk framework to deal with the HTTP protocol. Please have a look at it, please help make this something we can be proud of. > > http://www.squeaksource.com/ZincHTTPComponents.html > > http://homepage.mac.com/svc/Zinc-HTTP-Components/index.html > > http://homepage.mac.com/svc/Zinc-HTTP-Components/getting-started.html > > Check out what works today (Status) and what still needs to be done (Todo). HTTP is fun, relatively easy and is something every programmer should understand, I hope that Zinc HTTP Components can make a difference here. > > Sven > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project

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Re: [Pharo-project] Launching class form command line ...
by StÃ©phane Ducasse Sept. 24, 2010

Sept. 24, 2010

Thanks David but It is defined in SmalltalkImage same implementation >>>>>> > argumentAt: i > "Answer the i-th argument of the command line, or nil if not so many argument." > ^self getSystemAttribute: 2 + i > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project

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[Pharo-project] How i can sorting category in the system browser
by Dario Trussardi Sept. 24, 2010

Sept. 24, 2010

Hi, a stupid question: i work with: Pharo-1.0 Latest update: #10517 I'm interested to sorting the category in the system browser based on the relative name. In the browser i select the menu command reorganize category but don't do anything. Any idea ? Thank, Dario

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[Pharo-project] [ANN] Hackers wanted - Zinc HTTP Components
by Torsten Bergmann Sept. 24, 2010

Sept. 24, 2010

Havent looked to deep or tested but why do you name it ZnClient instead of ZnHTTPClient or HTTPClient? Maybe the project adds FTPClient and others later... How does it compare to WebClient project from Andreas? Thx Torsten -- GMX DSL SOMMER-SPECIAL: Surf & Phone Flat 16.000 fÃ¼r nur 19,99 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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[Pharo-project] Pharo Mailing List on MarkMail
by Alberto Bacchelli Sept. 24, 2010

Sept. 24, 2010

Hi, MarkMail [1] is a very nice web service for searching emails in mailing list archives. It also registers to the mailing lists that it archives, so it is always updated. A few days ago, I wrote to the administrators to ask them to add the pharo mailing list to their service. They just wrote me that the Pharo archive is up! You can reach the Pharo archive directly from this address, and compose the queries you want: http://pharo.markmail.org/ I hope this will be useful for everybody. Ciao, Alberto [1] http://markmail.org/ [2] http://pharo.markmail.org/

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Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo Mailing List on MarkMail
by Alberto Bacchelli Sept. 24, 2010

Sept. 24, 2010

On 9/24/10 10:02 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > Thanks for the initiative. > > which are the advantages over http://forum.world.st/Pharo-f1294836.html ? First of all, unfortunately, I was not aware of the existence of such link. I see that it is in the http://pharo-project.org/community page, but I missed it. Shame on me. I use Markmail quite often, and I find it to have a very intuitive interface and to present results very quickly. I also like the interactive bar chart, and that you can refine your searches step-by-step in real time. Finally, I like how messages are displayed: it is very clean and simple. Anyway, the more the merrier: Now one can pick the preferred one among Nabble, Gmane, and Markmail! Ciao, Alberto

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[Pharo-project] Smalltalks 2010 --- Registration and invitation
by Andres Valloud Sept. 24, 2010

Sept. 24, 2010

======== INGLES The FundaciÃ³n Argentina de Smalltalk (FAST) invites you to the 4th Smalltalk Conference of Argentina, to be held on November 11, 12 and 13, 2010 at the ConcepciÃ³n del Uruguay site of the Universidad TecnolÃ³gica Nacional. Everyone, including teachers, students, researchers, developers and entrepreneurs, are welcome as speakers or attendees. Registration is free and now open athttp://www.fast.org.ar. The goal of the conference is to strengthen the Argentine and international Smalltalk community through the exchange of works, experiences and anecdotes connected with this technology or related matters. Renowned members of the international Smalltalk community will visit the conference. Moreover, this edition of the conference will have a Research Session with publications reviewed by an international committee, as well as an Industry Track for those preferring a more relaxed environment. We look forward to see your submissions. You can propose papers or talks know through our website, or by sending an email toinfo(a)fast.org.ar. See you there! ======== SPANISH La FundaciÃ³n Argentina de Smalltalk (FAST) los invita a la 4ta Conferencia de Smalltalk de Argentina, a realizarse desde el 11 al 13 de Noviembre del 2010 en la sede de ConcepciÃ³n del Uruguay de la Universidad TecnolÃ³gica Nacional. Esperamos verlos a todos entre la audiencia o como oradores, ya sean profesores, estudiantes, investigadores, desarrolladores o empresarios. La registraciÃ³n es gratis y estÃ¡ disponible enhttp://www.fast.org.ar. El objetivo de la conferencia es afianzar los vÃnculos entre las comunidades Smalltalk de Argentina y del mundo, a travÃ©s del intercambio de trabajos, experiencias y vivencias conectadas con esta tecnologÃa. De hecho, este aÃ±o nos visitarÃ¡n personalidades de renombre de la comunidad internacional. AdemÃ¡s, en esta ediciÃ³n de la conferencia tendremos un track de investigaciÃ³n formal con publicaciones y referato de un comitÃ© internacional. TambiÃ©n tendremos un track de industria para aquellos que prefieran un ambiente mÃ¡s informal. Pueden enviarnos sus propuestas de charlas o papers mediante nuestra pÃ¡gina web, o enviÃ¡ndonos un mail ainfo(a)fast.org.ar. Nos vemos en la conferencia!

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Sept. 24, 2010

A little digest of the Opal activity. Thanks marcus, jorge and jb Name: OpalCompiler-Core-MarcusDenker.39 Author: MarcusDenker Time: 22 September 2010, 12:49:03 pm UUID: f0990355-584c-4f3e-b72e-4ef73c915e20 Ancestors: OpalCompiler-Core-JorgeRessia.38 -> escaping now destinguishes between escapingRead and escapingWrite -> write on an escapingRead Temp makes it escapingWrite, too -> fixed ASTranslator to correctly use the copying vars of the outer scope when calling IRBuilder to create a block -> Cleanups Name: OpalCompiler-Core-JorgeRessia.41 Author: JorgeRessia Time: 22 September 2010, 7:28:07 pm UUID: a22e64f9-0181-45a0-a531-2b929c2bd969 Ancestors: OpalCompiler-Core-MarcusDenker.40 - fixing optimezed blocks remote temps Name: OpalCompiler-Core-JorgeRessia.42 Author: JorgeRessia Time: 23 September 2010, 10:48:37 am UUID: b144fc34-6ed0-4acd-a538-3dd8fa386143 Ancestors: OpalCompiler-Core-JorgeRessia.41 Fixing optimized Block analysis Name: OpalCompiler-Tests-JorgeRessia.41 Author: JorgeRessia Time: 23 September 2010, 11:26 am UUID: f0c522bc-5b78-442f-942c-181e4fe03f98 Ancestors: OpalCompiler-Tests-JorgeRessia.40 New cases for the optimized blocks Name: OpalCompiler-Tests-JorgeRessia.43 Author: JorgeRessia Time: 23 September 2010, 2:29:09 pm UUID: dcca39e4-660f-4a9e-9349-021743f3773b Ancestors: OpalCompiler-Tests-JorgeRessia.42 Lexical Analysis and Closure Analysis green tests Name: OpalCompiler-Core-JorgeRessia.43 Author: JorgeRessia Time: 23 September 2010, 2:02:56 pm UUID: 8208019f-9941-4279-b969-ed5c63a92fc2 Ancestors: OpalCompiler-Core-JorgeRessia.42 Fixing optimized Block analysis Name: OpalCompiler-Core-JorgeRessia.45 Author: JorgeRessia Time: 23 September 2010, 7:20:04 pm UUID: e3dbc461-ba42-4153-af21-bf321b07f131 Ancestors: OpalCompiler-Core-JorgeRessia.44 Refactoring and fixing code ==================== Summary ==================== Name: OpalCompiler-Core-JorgeRessia.44 Author: JorgeRessia Time: 23 September 2010, 6:10:02 pm UUID: 971894ca-6ca7-4f21-9ac2-bb1c47be0958 Ancestors: OpalCompiler-Core-JorgeRessia.43 - Fixed problems with optimized block in the semantic analysis - Fixed bug with the copied temp in a block in the semantic analysis. - new test for special cases of optimized loops. - fixed ASTClosureAnalysisTest for testing the copied values.

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