November 2016 - Pharo-users

2nd Call for papers - <Programming> 2017
by Tim Molderez Nov. 10, 2016

Nov. 10, 2016

<Programming> 2017 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming April 3-6, 2017, Brussels, Belgium http://2017.programming-conference.org We started a new conference and journal focused on everything to do with programming, including the experience of programming. We call the conference <Programming> for short. Paper submissions and publications are handled by the journal. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. ******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************** <Programming> 2017 accept scholarly papers including essays that advance the knowledge of programming. Almost anything about programming is in scope, but in each case there should be a clear relevance to the act and experience of programming. **PAPER SUBMISSIONS**: December 1, 2016 We accept submissions covering several areas of expertise. These areas include, but are not limited to: â¢ General-purpose programming â¢ Distributed systems programming â¢ Parallel and multi-core programming â¢ Graphics and GPU programming â¢ Security programming â¢ User interface programming â¢ Database programming â¢ Visual and live programming â¢ Data mining and machine learning programming â¢ Interpreters, virtual machines and compilers â¢ Modularity and separation of concerns â¢ Model-based development â¢ Metaprogramming and reflection â¢ Testing and debugging â¢ Program verification â¢ Programming education â¢ Programming environments â¢ Social coding ******************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ******************************************************** â¢ Research paper submissions: December 1, 2016 â¢ Research paper first notifications: February 1, 2017 â¢ Research paper final notifications: March 7, 2017 â¢ Workshop proposals: November 15, 2016 â¢ European Lisp Symposium submissions: January 30, 2017 **new** â¢ Salon des RefusÃ©s workshop submissions: February 1, 2017 **new** â¢ LASSY 2017 workshop submissions: January 13, 2017 **new** â¢ PX 2017 workshop submissions: February 4, 2017 â¢ Poster abstract submissions: January 16, 2017 ******************************************************** ORGANIZATION ******************************************************** General Chair: Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Local Organizing Chair: Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Program Chair: Crista V. Lopes, University of California, Irvine Organizing Committee: JÃ¶rg Kienzle (workshops), McGill University Hidehiko Masuhara (demos), Tokyo Institute of Technology Ralf LÃ¤mmel (contest), University of Koblenz-Landau Jennifer Sartor (posters), Vrije Universiteit Brussel Tobias Pape (web technology), HPI - University of Potsdam Tim Molderez (publicity), Vrije Universiteit Brussel Program Committee: Andrew Black, Portland State University Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria Robby Findler, Northwestern University Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de MÃ¡laga Richard Gabriel, IBM Research Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Jeff Gray, University of Alabama Robert Hirschfeld, HPI - University of Potsdam Roberto Ierusalimschy, PontifÃcia Universidade CatÃ³lica do Rio de Janeiro JÃ¶rg Kienzle, McGill University Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology Sasa Misailovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Guido Salvaneschi, Technische UniversitÃ¤t Darmstadt Mario SÃ¼dholt, Ecole des mines de Nantes Jurgen Vinju, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Tijs van der Storm, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica ******************************************************** <Programming> 2017 is kindly supported by: ACM in-cooperation ACM SIGPLAN in-cooperation ACM SIGSOFT in-cooperation AOSA Vrije Universiteit Brussel ******************************************************** For more information, visit http://2017.programming-conference.org

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OopluCon 2017
by Chris Cunnington Nov. 10, 2016

Nov. 10, 2016

http://www.ooplu.com/ Chris

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Can pharo association web page point to association.pharo.org, like the consortium one?
by Offray Vladimir Luna CÃ¡rdenas Nov. 10, 2016

Nov. 10, 2016

Hi, I just received a mail telling me some password and login information and telling me to go to https://pharo.wildapricot.org/, but that domain seem suspicious to me, so I went to the consortium and association which are subdomains of Pharo. First one works well, but second is a redirection to the previous link. In this time of page defacement, could we have the subdomain of the association not redirected to another domain? Cheers, Offray

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Re: [Pharo-users] about balkanisation
by Stephan Eggermont Nov. 10, 2016

Nov. 10, 2016

Kilon wrote: > If you really want to embrace Github , kill Smalltalkhub We are not close to doing that. We'll need Monticello support indefinitely, and at least a few years two-way. And that assumes we automatically migrate all open projects. First we need good workflows that also work for complex projects. That includes cross-platform projects like Seaside Stephan

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Converting an Array of Characters to a String
by Dimitris Chloupis Nov. 10, 2016

Nov. 10, 2016

I feel like stupid but I cannot find a way to convert an Array of Characters to a String , I can do with a do: and join characters converted to strings to a single string but it feels too many steps. Is there a simpler way ?

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Ideas for a binary format for an image acting as an extension of the Pharo image
by Dimitris Chloupis Nov. 9, 2016

Nov. 9, 2016

So now that CPPBridge at least basic are sort out I have to figure out a binary file format The idea here is to implement an image format which will be part of the memory of the Pharo process but will live outside the memory of the Pharo VM. Lets call this CPPMemory will be stored to an image file, lets call it CPPImage, like we do with the Pharo image and will store a shared state among all other processes (Pharo or not) that connect to this shared memory (CPPMemory) via accessing the file (CPPImage). So basically it will act as an extension to the Pharo image. In the image file , objects will be stored obviously not in a byte-code format but definitely in a byte format that will basically store the data of this object using very basic primitives like character , integers and of course bytes. Obviously each object will have to have an id as a header and also its size in bytes and the size of each of its instance variables. There will be also a global headers for the entire file with the list of the objects included and probably a references to other CPP images that they will be able to interconnect with each other like lego blocks. Thats my vague idea, but I am open to suggestions and even links to articles and documentation about what a binary format must have to be considered well architectured. Obviously I dont expect perfection because this is my first binary file format but at least I am looking for advise for avoiding common pitfalls.

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Re: [Pharo-users] may I please be added to the Mercap/HighchartsSt repo
by Mariano Martinez Peck Nov. 9, 2016

Nov. 9, 2016

That's great to hear. Let me know if the latest commits do work for you (they should work for 5.0.2). Cheers, On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Richard Pillar via Pharo-users < pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Richard Pillar <richardpillar(a)googlemail.com> > To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> > Cc: > Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 22:43:30 +0000 > Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] may I please be added to the > Mercap/HighchartsSt repo > Hi, > > This is great news. > > I have been using Highcharts for some of my personal projects and have > added code to build box plots and heat charts. > > I will download the updates shortly. > > Many Thanks > > Richard > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:33 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck < > marianopeck(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Paul, >> >> Quick comment: I was about to make an ANN soon but.... I have been >> refactoring it a LOT these last days and I did: >> >> 1) make it fully the auto-generation code (already done) >> 2) making it work for highcharts 5.0.2 (already done) >> 3) start supporting highstocks (was going to start this this week). >> >> Please please please grab the very last version. What are your plans with >> it? >> >> I just added you. >> >> Cbest >> >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 3:24 PM, PAUL DEBRUICKER <pdebruic(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I'd like to add code that allows the creation of boxplots: >>> >>> http://www.highcharts.com/docs/chart-and-series-types/box-plot-series >>> >>> >>> my username is pdebruic >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Mariano >> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com >> > > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

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UFFI can not generate Structure accessor of type char[100]
by Dimitris Chloupis Nov. 9, 2016

Nov. 9, 2016

I have FFIExternalStructure which has at class side fieldsDesc ^#( char data[100]; int count; ) if I try to do EphCPPTestStructure rebuildFieldAccessors . in order to generate the accessors for the members of the struct it complains with an error that it does not recognise the type of " [ " Does that mean that char arrays are other arrays are not supported as struct members or will I have to do this manually ?

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[ANN] Introspect web content (Soup with some GT extensions)
by Torsten Bergmann Nov. 8, 2016

Nov. 8, 2016

Hi, I added a few GT inspector extensions to Soup and cleaned up a little bit. Released as a new version 1.8 of Soup - you will find easily in Catalog for Pharo 5 or by opening Spotter and entering "Soup" to load. As the attached screenshots shows you now have a nice way to introspect the structure of a web page as a tree in the inspector or see the attributes of tags/nodes in a table. Thx T.

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may I please be added to the Mercap/HighchartsSt repo
by PAUL DEBRUICKER Nov. 8, 2016

Nov. 8, 2016

I'd like to add code that allows the creation of boxplots: http://www.highcharts.com/docs/chart-and-series-types/box-plot-series my username is pdebruic Thanks

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