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[Pharo-project] Fwd: job opportunity

by Dale Henrichs

In case you didn't see the announcement on the Squeak-def list ... Begin forwarded message: From: Prof David West <profwest(a)fastmail.fm<mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm>> Date: May 7, 2011 7:45:39 AM PDT To: "squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org<mailto:squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org>" <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org<mailto:squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org>> Subject: [squeak-dev] job opportunity Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org<mailto:squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org>> My apologies for the short lead time, but I need a person that is very conversant with Squeak-Seaside-Pharo-Pier-GLASS plus an interest and ability to quickly learn and mentor others in web-mobile languages and tools. Will be working with English speakers, so facility in that language is essential. The person must be able to be in New Mexico, US, from May 23 to July 29. You will be working 6-8 hours a day, Monday through Thursday - teaching, mentoring, developing projects (list below) and overseeing my software Studio when I am in London Jun 4-19. Compensation: Approximately $10K USD plus health benefits for the two-months. If you like the work and are good at it, the position can be converted to a one-year, renewable annually, as a visiting professor (at least a Masters degree is required). The annual salary will be approximated $60K USD plus benefits. An ownership interest in the products being developed is also available - as a supplement to the academic salary. Applications we will be working on, priority order -- technology: 1) iPad app for the Bradbury Museum at Los Alamos National Labs -- XCode - cocoa based framework 2) an outcomes assessment app for Highlands University -- Web ecology (HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Javascript) 3) itsYourRep - an achievement profile / portfolio Web App - very similar to #2 -- GLASS 4) confirmOwnership - for paying client, tracks ownership interests in investments, etc. -- Seaside or GLASS 5) ambientAgile -- an app using cameras and projectors to create a distributed 'agile wall' -- not sure, start with Squeak-Seaside 6) Web-based subset of Behavior! Seaside or GLASS 7) Infrastructure for Software Design Studios - content management plus Web presence - Seaside / Pier / GLASS I must find a person very quickly, so if you are interested, please email me and we can arrange a phone call to discuss the opportunity. David West New Mexico Highlands University dmwest(a)nmhu.edu<mailto:dmwest@nmhu.edu> profwest(a)fastmail.fm 01-505-231-7233

May 8, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry

by Stefan Marr

On 07 May 2011, at 16:33, Igor Stasenko wrote: > On 7 May 2011 10:41, StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> wrote: >> Too bad. The eclipse license is not for us. >> > I'm not a lawyer, but reading it, it looks like this license are > compatible with MIT. My understanding is that the EPL requires 'derived work' to be EPL licensed. While the EPL has much clearer definition of derived work than the GPL, it is still not as free as the MIT license. (Derived work explicitly excludes software modules build on top, so that it is clear that your business code can stay closed source. That definition is missing in the GPL as far as I understand.) But I can't change that. The IBM lawyers insist on EPL. Anyway, the RoarVM will never be as performant as the CogVM, so, the only reasonable approach is to steal the ideas and bring them to Cog. Most ideas are described in papers already. And some missing details are hopefully published soon... -- Stefan Marr Software Languages Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr Phone: +32 2 629 2974 Fax: +32 2 629 3525

May 8, 2011

[Pharo-project] Additional Test for Shared Queue (s)

by pharo-project-owner＠lists.gforge.inria.fr

While trying to track down a bug, I started thinking that there was a problem with SharedQueue. There isn't, but there were no tests that convinced me of that. So I wrote one that actually has two processes reading and writing many times to a Q. The same tests works for NSSharedQueue (except that the class under test is hard coded). I suggest that putting these tests in the appropriate packages/core would be a good idea. Tests attached.

May 8, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry

by Toon Verwaest

On 05/07/2011 07:27 PM, Michael Haupt wrote: > Toon, > > Am 07.05.2011 um 16:56 schrieb Toon Verwaest<toon.verwaest(a)gmail.com>: >>> I do agree that we could do something in this regard. But given that >>> we could "do something" almost everywhere, it is hard to say if this >>> topic should take priority. Currently my plate is full. So, its not >>> about that there are someone says "no we don't want it ", >>> its mainly about lack of resources. >> And in addition, the whole OOPSLA world is working on it already so ... why bother ;P > oh. I had not known the OOPSLA community was devoting so much time to improvements in certain Smalltalk implementations. ;-) Point well taken. I wasn't talking about Smalltalk of course :) > Best, > > Michael

May 7, 2011

[Pharo-project] How to load Nautilus?

by Mariano Martinez Peck

I took the latest PharoCore 1.3 and evaluated: Gofer new squeaksource: 'Nautilus'; package: 'ConfigurationOfNautilus'; load. ConfigurationOfNautilus project lastVersion load But it says This package depends on the following classes: SystemAnnouncer You must resolve these dependencies before you will be able to load these definitions: GroupAnnouncer Select Proceed to continue, or close this window to cancel the operation. Then after in the load, I have a DNU in MCWorkingCopy >> modified: aBooleanm, because MonticelloAnnouncer is nil (not defined) So....how I am supposed to load Nautilus? And if I want the integration with Refactoring Browser, OCompletion, Shout, etc, what should I do? load those packages and magically Nautilus will work ? What happens if I load Nautilus in a dev image? Thanks -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

May 7, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] WebDoc, SimpleWebDoc and Pharo website

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

On May 7, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > Hi guys. One of the things I hate most is when there is a cool tool/documentation available and we don't spread it. > > I know Laurent did SimpleWebDoc a couple of months ago. > > Then Camillo did it again...and call it WebDoc. > But...still, from the user point of view, there is nothing. You go to the Pharo website, and there is nothing. The webdoc is not hosted (seaside hosting is too slow). I asked camillo to sit down with marcus and damien and it will happen. > So... my question is....can we put WebDoc o SimpleWebDoc somewhere (for example in the same host where Pharo website runs) so that it is accessible? then we should link to it from different places in the phaor website. Yes we should and will. > Don't tell me it is not ready. It doesn't need to be perfect (I don't care for the moment if there is no serach or if it is slow), we can already start to work: > > 1) Define where to host it > 2) host it > 3) put info and links from Pharo website to it. > > Then, updating webdoc is just a matter of upoading a new version... Yes. > > Thanks > -- > Mariano > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com >

May 7, 2011

[Pharo-project] WebDoc, SimpleWebDoc and Pharo website

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Hi guys. One of the things I hate most is when there is a cool tool/documentation available and we don't spread it. I know Laurent did SimpleWebDoc a couple of months ago. Then Camillo did it again...and call it WebDoc. But...still, from the user point of view, there is nothing. You go to the Pharo website, and there is nothing. The webdoc is not hosted (seaside hosting is too slow). So... my question is....can we put WebDoc o SimpleWebDoc somewhere (for example in the same host where Pharo website runs) so that it is accessible? then we should link to it from different places in the phaor website. Don't tell me it is not ready. It doesn't need to be perfect (I don't care for the moment if there is no serach or if it is slow), we can already start to work: 1) Define where to host it 2) host it 3) put info and links from Pharo website to it. Then, updating webdoc is just a matter of upoading a new version... Thanks -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

May 7, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] PetitParser puzzle

by Damien Pollet

On 6 May 2011 19:13, Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name> wrote: > Here you test if the parser can consume all of the string. But it different to the situation if the parser succeeds. A star parser always succeeds. And the operator / only matches of the parser on the left side couldn't succeed. In the "line" case the lineBlank succeeds thus the right one is not tried. Hmm, indeed, hadn't thought of that. Swapping the / sides makes it work. > So no characters are consumed and the test fails because it does not parse. That was what first came to my mind but then I thought this might be just a hack to reverse the order of ther parser. But my initial mail was right. The more specific parser should go before to all matching parser. OK, makes sense. Thanks! -- Damien Pollet type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet

May 7, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] [OT] Meeting in Europe

by HernÃ¡n Morales Durand

Ok, this is Eastern Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe I'm going to Budapest and then Praga, if I have enough budget I will take a train to France, it would be cool to find some smalltalkers. Cheers, 2011/5/3 StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr>: > what is eastern europe? > we are at one hour from paris so if you drop by let us know > Stef > > On May 3, 2011, at 5:45 PM, HernÃ¡n Morales Durand wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Sorry for the OT, I'm during this month in eastern Europe, if someone >> would like to meet and talk about the Smalltalk world just write me >> here or by private e-mail. >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> HernÃ¡n Morales >> Information Technology Manager, >> Institute of Veterinary Genetics. >> National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). >> La Plata (1900), Buenos Aires, Argentina. >> Telephone: +54 (0221) 421-1799. >> Internal: 422 >> Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799. >> > > > -- HernÃ¡n Morales Information Technology Manager, Institute of Veterinary Genetics. National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). La Plata (1900), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Telephone: +54 (0221) 421-1799. Internal: 422 Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799.

May 7, 2011

Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry

by Michael Haupt

Hi Igor, Am 07.05.2011 um 16:54 schrieb Igor Stasenko <siguctua(a)gmail.com>: > I do agree that we could do something in this regard. But given that > we could "do something" almost everywhere, it is hard to say if this > topic should take priority. Currently my plate is full. So, its not > about that there are someone says "no we don't want it ", > its mainly about lack of resources. point taken. For me, it would also be strictly spare-time. Best, Michael

May 7, 2011