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CfP <Programming> 2018: Research Papers Third Submission Deadline
by Sylvia Grewe Oct. 20, 2017

Oct. 20, 2017

<Programming> 2018 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming Mon 9 - Thu 12 April 2018 Nice, France http://2018.programming-conference.org/ In 2017, we started a new conference and journal focused on everything to do with programming, including the experience of programming, called <Programming> for short. The first edition of <Programming> was a great success (see http://twitter.com/programmingconf for testimonies). Paper submissions and publications are handled by the affiliated journal (http://programming-journal.org/) Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. ******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************** <Programming> 2018 accepts papers that advance 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. UPCOMING SUBMISSION DEADLINES: December 1 2017 (Research Papers Third Submission Deadline, for journal Vol. 2, Issue 3) 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 UPCOMING DATES ******************************************************** Research paper submissions: December 1 2017 (Research Papers Third Submission Deadline, for journal Vol. 2, Issue 3) Research paper first notification (for third submission deadline): February 1 2018 Research paper revised submission (for third submission deadline): March 1 2018 Research paper final notification (for third submission deadline): March 7 2018 Camera-ready copy (for third submission deadline): March 15 2018 Student Research Competition Abstracts Submission: January 22 2018 All important dates of the journal throughout the year can also be found at http://programming-journal.org/timeline/ ******************************************************** ORGANIZATION ******************************************************** General Chair: Manuel Serrano, INRIA France Local Organizing Chair: Tamara Rezk, INRIA France Organizing Committee: Stefan Marr (workshops co-chair), University of Kent, United Kingdom Jennifer B. Sartor (workshops co-chair), Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Belgium Philipp Haller (student research competition chair), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Tobias Pape (web technology), HPI - University of Potsdam Sylvia Grewe (publicity), Technische UniversitÃ¤t Darmstadt Germany Minh Ngo (volunteers chair), INRIA France Etienne Lozes (grants committee chair), UniversitÃ© de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France Yves Roudier (poster chair), UniversitÃ© de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France Program Committee: Guido Salvaneschi (program chair), Technische UniversitÃ¤t Darmstadt, Germany Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy Alberto Bacchelli, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK Patrick Eugster, TU Darmstadt, Germany & Purdue University, United States Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, UK Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, United States Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de MÃ¡laga, Spain Richard P. Gabriel, Dream Songs, Inc. & HPI, California Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK Yossi Gil, Israel Institute of Technology Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Phlipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Matthew Hammer, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States Felienne Hermans, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), Germany Roberto Ierusalimschy, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jun Kato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan JÃ¶rg Kienzle, McGill University, Canada Neelakantan R. Krishnaswami, University of Cambridge, UK Ralf LÃ¤mmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Mira Mezini, Technische UniversitÃ¤t Darmstadt, Germany Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University, United States Mario SÃ¼dholt, IMT Atlantique, Nantes, France Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University, United States Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Tijs van der Storm, CWI & University of Groningen, Netherlands ******************************************************** <Programming> 2018 is kindly supported by: ACM In-Cooperation SIGPLAN (In-cooperation) SIGSOFT (In-cooperation) INRIA France AOSA ********************************************************

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ANN: Smalltalk Express Blog
by Peter Fisk Oct. 20, 2017

Oct. 20, 2017

Hi everyone, I have started a new blog to discuss the "Smalltalk Express" framework. https://smalltalkexpress.quora.com/ Smalltalk Express is web development framework using a Smalltalk interpreter written in the "Go" language. The first blog post provides some details and a video. A few months ago, I built an experimental framework called "Rails Express" which had an interactive interpreter based on Ruby. The feedback that I have received has been fantastic. "Smalltalk Express" uses all the same UI techniques and is designed to be capable of production deployment. I am intending to offer "Smalltalk Express" initially as a service based on Google's App Engine, but I would be happy to hear any ideas of how to market the product. The product website will be "smalltalk.express" (smalltalk - dot - express). Thoughts and feedback are welcome. Cheers, -- Peter -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

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Engineer Position 1 year
by Stephane Ducasse Oct. 20, 2017

Oct. 20, 2017

Engineer Position 1 year INRIA RMoD are looking for a full-time engineer for helping with developing Pharo in the context of IoT.The focus of this job is "Pharo on embedded and mobile devices for the internet of things" With Pharo, we have developed over the last two years an interactive, remote development environment. It allows embedded, headless software running on typical raspberry pi class hardware to be developed and debugged in an interactive way. It allows programmers to explore and change running headless embedded programs from their desktop development machine. The next step will be to extend this infrastructure to cover the use case of industrial use: Deployment. We want to build a middle-ware to manage, authenticate and script deployed Pharo embedded installations. The engineer will help to develop the Pharo IoT infrastructure, especially with a focus on industrial use: Â·I mprove Pharo for a platform with an industrial focus. Â· Work on a middleware to manage deployed Pharo instances. Â·Realize two small demos: First, as an industrial IoT example, a demo deployed on 20+ devices. Demo 2: Pharo deployed on multiple mobile autonomous robots. Â·Help with creating a website for PharoIOT. We are looking for a candidate with some prior experience with Pharo. In addition: Â· Knowledge in Dynamic Languages (Pharo is a plus but not required) Â·Experience with embedded development is a plus but not required Â·English Work in a research lab, but no paper writing, no teaching, no administration. In addition: Centrally located (one hour from Paris, 1h20 from London, 35 min from Brussels) Try a lot of good beer (our office is just 10km from the border to Belgium) Program with Pharo all day! Lille is an active city but not expensive (lot of students...), centrally located with good connections by train to everywhere (including CDG and Brussels airports). Duration: 12 + 12 months Starting date: Feb or March 2016 Salary: 2600-3200 euros brut (french brutto = potentially one month of taxe per year) / month, depending on experience - (56000 Euros paid by the employer before any taxes). Location: Lille (no remote job possible) More about Pharo: http://www.pharo.org INRIA RMOD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr INRIA Lille: http://www.inria.fr/lille INRIA in General: http://www.inria.fr Lille: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille http://wikitravel.org/en/Lille Do not hesitate to contact us for more information. -------------------------------------------- StÃ©phane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, BÃ¢t.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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Anoying bug fond in Artefact running in Windows 10
by casimiro.barreto＠gmail.com Oct. 19, 2017

Oct. 19, 2017

When you insert a jpeg from a file, for some reason the file descriptor (stream) is kept open (at least in the Windows end of things). Then, if a second page is to be generated, the following error is shown: 'MessageNotUnderstood: receiver of "reset" is nil PDFJpegElement>>stream: JPEGReadWriter aJPEGReadWriter JPEGReadWriter(ImageReadWriter)>>on: nil Sample code: aPage := PDFPage new. imageStream := FileStream fileNamed: 'lsi-tec.jpg'. aPage add: ((PDFJpegElement fromStream: imageStream) from: 15 mm @ 20 mm; dimension: 40 mm @ 40 mm). imageStream close. Generated report is in annex The only way to recover is to close pharo, start it again. Then the file descriptor (stream) is released and it is possible to go on. Has anyone faced this problem? How to solve it? Best regards, Casimiro Barreto

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Cannot update GLMTabulator containing list with Separators
by Peter UhnÃ¡k Oct. 19, 2017

Oct. 19, 2017

Hi, apparently it is not possible to update a GLMTabulator if it contains a list pane with separators. Tested in P6 & P7. ``` data := { { #one. #two. #three } asOrderedCollection. { #alpha. #beta } asOrderedCollection } asOrderedCollection. browser := GLMTabulator new. browser column: #list; column: #actions. browser transmit to: #list; andShow: [ :a | a fastList withSeparators ]. browser transmit to: #actions; andShow: [ :a | a actionList act: [ :actionList | data last add: #dynamic. browser update ] entitled: 'Add Item'; act: [ :actionList | data last remove: #dynamic ifAbsent: [ ]. browser update ] entitled: 'Remove Item'. ]. browser openOn: data. ``` [image: Inline image 1] Thanks, Peter

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Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument
by James Ladd Oct. 19, 2017

Oct. 19, 2017

Nice response Sent from my Commodore 64 > On 19 Oct 2017, at 7:02 pm, Sebastian Heidbrink <sheidev(a)yahoo.de> wrote: > > Hi Paulo, > > I think this is not the right question to ask. > The problem is not "Where to find Smalltalk developers?", the problem is rather > "How much effort does it take to help a good experienced OO developer to transition to Smalltalk?" > > OO developers have to steadily gain and learn new technologies and frameworks... > So why not Smalltalk? > Those developers that are not willing to learn a new language just because they consider the trade-offs of not finding a job in that field that easily, might not be the best choice for your team anyway... > > That is my experience... I know more developers missing the "Smalltalk experience" than those hating Smalltalk once they left a team... > > Sebastian > > >> On 2017-10-19 12:04 AM, Paulo R. Dellani wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> after using Smalltalk for several years I developed a passion for the >> language (how not to?), and Pharo is just so great to develop with. >> So thank you guys for keeping this wonderful project running. >> >> Unfortunately, it is not easy to always point out why Smalltalk >> should be employed as "main development language" in a team >> or for a project. In the last discussion of this sort I was confronted >> with the question "where are we going to get new smalltalk >> developers if our startup grows or if you go?". Well, I had no >> good answer to that. What would have you answered? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Paulo >> >> >> > >

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Pharo and instance variables ...
by James Ladd Oct. 19, 2017

Oct. 19, 2017

Hello Pharo Users, I'm wondering about instance variables for support in Redline Smalltalk and want to get my understanding straight. Are instance variables only accessible (without using #instVarNamed:) inside the method with the same name as the instance variable? eg: myInstVar ^ myInstVar. Or can you reference an instance variable from a method that doesn't have the same name ? anotherMethod ^ myInstVar. Can someone give me or point me to an example of accessing an instance variable in Pharo Smalltalk? - James. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

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iceberg - changing non-code files in the same commit as code
by Peter UhnÃ¡k Oct. 18, 2017

Oct. 18, 2017

Hi, this is maybe a bit advanced use case from Iceberg perspective, but quite basic from git perspective. Use case: In the same commit where code has changed I want to update text file CHANGELOG.md. Right now I need to modify the file after the commit and then amend it (so it is in the same commit), but it would be nice to do everything from within Pharo. Thanks, Peter

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SpecColumnLayout not behaving as expected
by Steven R. Baker Oct. 18, 2017

Oct. 18, 2017

Heya folks, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what it is. I have the following: defaultSpec Â Â Â ^ SpecColumnLayout composed Â Â Â Â Â Â newColumn: [ :col | Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â col Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â add: #sideBar; Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â add: #listView ]; Â Â Â Â Â Â yourself In the resulting window, I get the widgets stacked one on top of the other, and I expected them to be next to each other (two columns in a row.) What am I missing? Thanks! -Steven

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Techtalk today: AI
by Marcus Denker Oct. 18, 2017

Oct. 18, 2017

Hello! The tech talk starts in 20 minutes (17h europe time). Slides (pdf) can be downloaded here <https://github.com/AgileArtificialIntelligence/AgileArtificialIntelligence.…>. Invite for Discord (for Q&A after): http://discord.gg/Sj2rhxn <http://discord.gg/Sj2rhxn> The talk will be on Youtube, follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexandreBergel/live <https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexandreBergel/live>

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