January 2022 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

Re: UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, January 26th

by James Foster

Will this be recorded for later viewing (for those of us who would prefer to be asleep at 3am)? James > On Jan 17, 2022, at 2:30 PM, Giovanni Corriga <giovanni(a)corriga.net> wrote: > > For our January meeting, we'll be hosting GemTalk's Martin McClure who will talk about a new Smalltalk IDE - Sparkle. > > If you're setting out to develop a Smalltalk IDE from scratch, what design decisions do you make? You'd love to "fix" the things that have long annoyed you in existing IDEs, but new designs risk creating their own novel annoyances. > The Sparkle project-in-progress is creating a new and not entirely conventional development environment for GemStone Smalltalk. Come see factors that have influenced its design, get a demo of the current state of the tools, learn about the project's next steps, and share *your* IDE annoyances. > > Martin heard about Smalltalk in 1975, *finally* got his hands on a running Smalltalk system ten years later, and hasn't let go since. In his 25 years on the GemStone team, Martin has worked on many aspects - some VM internals, some user interface design, but mostly all the things that go in between. In his rare spare time, he works on Mist, a Smalltalk variant with improved modularity and no virtual machine. When not dodging Covid, he does a lot of contra and country dancing. > > This will be an online meeting from home. > > If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/282299228/ <https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/282299228/> ) to receive the meeting details. Donât forget to bring your laptop and drinks! >

Jan. 18, 2022

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, January 26th

by Giovanni Corriga

For our January meeting, we'll be hosting GemTalk's Martin McClure who will talk about a new Smalltalk IDE - Sparkle. If you're setting out to develop a Smalltalk IDE from scratch, what design decisions do you make? You'd love to "fix" the things that have long annoyed you in existing IDEs, but new designs risk creating their own novel annoyances. The Sparkle project-in-progress is creating a new and not entirely conventional development environment for GemStone Smalltalk. Come see factors that have influenced its design, get a demo of the current state of the tools, learn about the project's next steps, and share *your* IDE annoyances. Martin heard about Smalltalk in 1975, *finally* got his hands on a running Smalltalk system ten years later, and hasn't let go since. In his 25 years on the GemStone team, Martin has worked on many aspects - some VM internals, some user interface design, but mostly all the things that go in between. In his rare spare time, he works on Mist, a Smalltalk variant with improved modularity and no virtual machine. When not dodging Covid, he does a lot of contra and country dancing. This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/282299228/ ) to receive the meeting details. Donât forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

Jan. 17, 2022

Re: Ubuntu update ... great!

by Esteban Lorenzano

we already have it since months ;) On Jan 15 2022, at 11:22 am, Santiago Bragagnolo <santiagobragagnolo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > We are going to have apt get????? > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, 11:05 Norbert Hartl, <norbert(a)hartl.name (mailto:norbert@hartl.name)> wrote: > > Just got an email this morning containing: > > > > The following packages are currently pending an upgrade: > > linux-firmware 1.187.25 > > pharo9 9.0.11-0 > > > > > > This feels great and is highly appreciated that we have that now. I hope we keep doing it like this. > > > > Thanks to Pablo and all that participated in that. > > > > Norbert

Jan. 15, 2022

Re: Ubuntu update ... great!

by Santiago Bragagnolo

We are going to have apt get????? On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, 11:05 Norbert Hartl, <norbert(a)hartl.name> wrote: > Just got an email this morning containing: > > > > > *The following packages are currently pending an upgrade: linux-firmware > 1.187.25 pharo9 9.0.11-0* > > This feels great and is highly appreciated that we have that now. I hope > we keep doing it like this. > > Thanks to Pablo and all that participated in that. > > Norbert >

Jan. 15, 2022

Ubuntu update ... great!

by Norbert Hartl

Just got an email this morning containing: The following packages are currently pending an upgrade: linux-firmware 1.187.25 pharo9 9.0.11-0 This feels great and is highly appreciated that we have that now. I hope we keep doing it like this. Thanks to Pablo and all that participated in that. Norbert

Jan. 15, 2022

Re: [Pharo-dev] Pharo VM Release - v9.0.11

by Tudor Girba

Awesome work! Thank you, Tudor > On Jan 13, 2022, at 5:44 PM, tesonep(a)gmail.com wrote: > > Hello, > I have released a new version of the Pharo VM for Pharo 9 and Pharo 10. This VM is accessible right now from Zero-Conf, updating it in the Pharo Launcher or using the usual downloads (as described in pharo.org/download) > > This version includes a series of minor bug fixes. > > Changelog: > > - Include FloatArrayPlugin in the build > - Updating SDL2 to 2.0.18 for OSX X86_64 > - Using Pharo 10 image as VMMaker image > - Fixing issue in message counting on non-JIT VM > > Thanks a lot, and any doubt please let me know. > Cheers, > > Pablo on behalf of the whole Pharo team. > > -- > Pablo Tesone. > tesonep(a)gmail.com -- feenk.com "To lead is not to demand things, it is to make them happen."

Jan. 13, 2022

Pharo VM Release - v9.0.11

by tesonep＠gmail.com

Hello, I have released a new version of the Pharo VM for Pharo 9 and Pharo 10. This VM is accessible right now from Zero-Conf, updating it in the Pharo Launcher or using the usual downloads (as described in pharo.org/download) This version includes a series of minor bug fixes. Changelog: - Include FloatArrayPlugin in the build - Updating SDL2 to 2.0.18 for OSX X86_64 - Using Pharo 10 image as VMMaker image - Fixing issue in message counting on non-JIT VM Thanks a lot, and any doubt please let me know. Cheers, Pablo on behalf of the whole Pharo team. -- Pablo Tesone. tesonep(a)gmail.com

Jan. 13, 2022

ESUG 2022 call for presentations & Call for student volunteers

by stephane ducasse

ESUG 2022 Novisad Serbia 22. â 26.8. https://esug.github.io/2022-Conference/call2022.html You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/ <http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/> Submit a talk, a software or a paper to one of the events. See below. Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of attendance (170 people at Amsterdam 2008)! Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll into the the Student Volunteers program. See below. <>Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have 30 min for presentations and 45 min for hands-on tutorials. The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials includes, but is not limited to the following: XP practices, Development tools, Experience reports Model driven development, Web development, Team management Meta-Modeling, Security, New libraries & frameworks Educational material, Embedded systems and robotics SOA and Web services, Interaction with other programming languages <>Teaching Pearls and Show us Your Business New this year!!! We added two types of sessions in addition to the regular talks and show us your projects sessions. Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!) Teaching pearls : we want some session on how to teach some design aspects. We want your tip and tricks to teach Smalltalk or OOP. We expect to have several 10 to 15 min sessions aggregated. <>How to submit? Make a Pull Request here https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2022-Conference/talks Or but only if you are not connected to the worldâ¦ send an email to stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr Title: [ESUG 2022] Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Name: Email: Abstract: Bio: Call for Student Volunteers Student volunteers help keep the conference running smoothly; in return, they have free accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the conference. Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Conference details: Send an email to stephane.ducasse at inria.fr and serge.stinckwich at gmail.com with: title: [ESUG 2022 Student] name, gender, university/school, country, email address short description of you and why you are interested in participating For which period is accommodation covered? Accommodation is covered from Sunday 21 August until Friday 26 August 2022 (including nights from Sunday to Monday and from Thursday to Friday). Students will be hosted in student rooms. ESUG additionally covers for the lunches during the week and one dinner. Duties include handling registration as people arrive at the conference, filling coffee machines, collecting presentation slides for ESUG right after the presentation is given, being present at an information desk to answer questions, and generally being helpful. Student volunteering makes the conference better, takes a fairly small amount of time and doesn't significantly interfere with enjoying and learning from the conference. Please Note, this role requires discipline and constant attention to all attendees. Information about hotel Student Volunteer rooms are booked at (to be announced). If you are student volunteer, do not book yourself, we have arranged the booking already!

Jan. 13, 2022

[Pharo Days'22] Call for participation

by Guillermo Polito

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pharo Days March 3rd and 4th, Lille, France https://days.pharo.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not miss the opportunity to meet Pharo and its community! PharoDays is a unique event where you can meet other Pharoers, discover latest advances, and share your experience. Hand-ons sessions are there to help you getting started on advance topics. Follow the "Show us your project" sessions to get immersed in Pharo lively community. This year, PharoDays is a mix of technical talks and hand-ons. Come to join business chat and enjoy friendly atmosphere and discuss with experts. Do you have a project to show? We are looking for presentations to fill up our schedule! Presentations will have 30' slots. Contact the Pharo board at <board(a)pharo.org> before January 21st with your ideas! Are you a student wanting to show your research project? We are going to organize poster sessions so you can show your work to the community! Prepare your posters, and contact us for a slot at <board(a)pharo.org>!

Jan. 10, 2022

Re: Ghost subclass

by Robert Briggs

Just to let you know, I appear to have successfully removed the offending subclass by executing the following in Playground after setting CurrentProject to nil. | s sc| s := ERAElement subclasses. sc := s at: 1. ERAElement removeSubclass: sc Let me know if you think there is anything left to do? Regards R From: Robert Briggs via Pharo-users <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> Reply to: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> Date: Monday, 10 January 2022 at 10:21 To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> Cc: Robert Briggs <rbriggs2009(a)me.com> Subject: [Pharo-users] Re: Ghost subclass A thought occurred to me. I use a ERA100SharedPool to hold the CurrentProject global variable, for access by the classes in my model. I ran a test on the offending image to retrieve and inspect the contents of CurrentProject which is a reference to ERAProject. Each time an instance of an ERAElement subclass is created an entry is added to a Dictionary of instances of the relevant subclass. It still holds instances of the Component Subclass created during one of my unit tests. I wonder if this may be a clue as it is essentially a hanging reference to the subclass. I probably should have a tear-down method to clean up such references. R From: Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito(a)gmail.com> Reply to: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> Date: Monday, 10 January 2022 at 08:47 To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> Cc: Robert Briggs <rbriggs2009(a)me.com> Subject: [Pharo-users] Re: Ghost subclass Hi Robert, Can you tell us how did you remove the subclasses? Was it through the UI? Which option? Or was it programatically? Can you reproduce it? G El 8 ene 2022, a las 18:25, Robert Briggs via Pharo-users <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> escribiÃ³: Hi I currently have a problem that I am unable to resolve. I am working on a personal project. I created a Class âERAElementâ and four subclasses: âComponentâ, âCriticalIssueâ, âDecisionâ and âRequirementâ. A while ago I removed he subclass Component, and naturally Pharo will not let me create an instance of this subclasses. However it is still listed in the ERAElement subclass collection. As shown below. <image001.png> I can test for existence of each subclass as shown below: <image002.png> However the same code will not accept Component as a possible value. <image007.png> I can even create a new Subclass Component and get two (different) subclasses with the same name. Any thoughts as to what is going on and if so how to resolve the problem? Many thanks in advance for any and all feedback. Kind regards Robert Briggs

Jan. 10, 2022