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Re: [Pharo-users] [squeak-dev] IWST 2010 Call for Papers

by Mariano Martinez Peck

One of the reasons I created smalltalk-research(a)googlegroups.com was exactly not having to do this ;) On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Michael Haupt <mhaupt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > * Apologies for multiple copies. * > > Call for Papers > > International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST) 2010 > > co-located with European Smalltalk User Group Conference (ESUG) > Barcelona, Spain, September 11-17, 2010 > > > ** Description > > The goal of the IWST workshop series is to create and foster a forum > around advances or experience in Smalltalk. We welcome contributions > on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk-related > topics. > > There are two possible kinds of submissions, which must be in ACM SIGPLAN > style: > > * Research papers (up to 10 pages). Submissions in this category will > be rigorously reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the > ACM Digital Library (ACM SIGPLAN has approved, the final ACM approval > is pending). > > * Demonstration papers (up to 4 pages). Submissions in this category > will not be published in the ACM Digital Library, but will be > available for download from the workshop web page. > > > ** Submission and Reviewing Process > > The EasyChair submission web site is at > http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst10. > > Authors will be given the opportunity to comment on reviewers' work by > providing feedback on the reviews. For this purpose, a questionnaire > will be sent to authors. Their answers will be evaluated anonymously, > and feedback will be handed on to reviewers. > > > ** Important Dates > > Submission: May 14, 2010 (Samoa time) > Feedback: June 28, 2010 > ESUG Early Registration Deadline: July 9, 2010 > Workshop: September 12, 2010, Barcelona, Spain > > > ** Programme Committee > > Co-Chairs: > Michael Haupt, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany > Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany > > PC Members: > Gabriela Arevalo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina > Johannes Brauer, NORDAKADEMIE, Germany > Johan Brichau, UniversitÃ© catholique de Louvain, Belgium > Marcus Denker, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France > Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium > StÃ©phane Ducasse, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France > James Foster, GemStone Systems, Inc., USA > Andy Kellens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium > Andreas Raab, Teleplace Inc., USA > Lukas Renggli, Software Composition Group (SCG), University of Bern, > Switzerland > Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. > Dave Ungar, IBM Research > >

March 30, 2010

IWST 2010 Call for Papers

by Michael Haupt

* Apologies for multiple copies. * Call for Papers International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST) 2010 co-located with European Smalltalk User Group Conference (ESUG) Barcelona, Spain, September 11-17, 2010 ** Description The goal of the IWST workshop series is to create and foster a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk. We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk-related topics. There are two possible kinds of submissions, which must be in ACM SIGPLAN style: * Research papers (up to 10 pages). Submissions in this category will be rigorously reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library (ACM SIGPLAN has approved, the final ACM approval is pending). * Demonstration papers (up to 4 pages). Submissions in this category will not be published in the ACM Digital Library, but will be available for download from the workshop web page. ** Submission and Reviewing Process The EasyChair submission web site is at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst10. Authors will be given the opportunity to comment on reviewers' work by providing feedback on the reviews. For this purpose, a questionnaire will be sent to authors. Their answers will be evaluated anonymously, and feedback will be handed on to reviewers. ** Important Dates Submission: May 14, 2010 (Samoa time) Feedback: June 28, 2010 ESUG Early Registration Deadline: July 9, 2010 Workshop: September 12, 2010, Barcelona, Spain ** Programme Committee Co-Chairs: Michael Haupt, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany PC Members: Gabriela Arevalo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Johannes Brauer, NORDAKADEMIE, Germany Johan Brichau, UniversitÃ© catholique de Louvain, Belgium Marcus Denker, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium StÃ©phane Ducasse, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France James Foster, GemStone Systems, Inc., USA Andy Kellens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Andreas Raab, Teleplace Inc., USA Lukas Renggli, Software Composition Group (SCG), University of Bern, Switzerland Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. Dave Ungar, IBM Research

March 30, 2010

Fwd: Student internships at INRIA

by Marcus Denker

Begin forwarded message: > From: Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> > Date: March 26, 2010 5:28:52 PM GMT+01:00 > To: "Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr Development" <Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr> > Cc: smalltalk-research(a)googlegroups.com > Subject: Student internships at INRIA > > Hi, > > Besides Postdocs, PhDs and Engineers, we are looking for student interns. > INRIA has a program for Students to work in a research group as an Intern. Application is open now. > > http://www-direction.inria.fr/international/PROGRAMMES/internship/indexAPPE… > > More information in english: > http://www-direction.inria.fr/international/Page_Programmes_en.php?prog=int… > > Subjects: http://www-direction.inria.fr/international/PHP/Internship/CandidatsII.php > > The ones of RMoD are: > > - Flexible Modules for Dynamic Languages > - Layer Identification and Diagnotics > - Trait-based Remodularisation > - Minimal Smalltalk Runtime > On Mar 27, 2010, at 11:25 AM, stephane ducasse wrote: > of course you can also contact us to see if you have a nice project that we would like to push with us. > > Marcus > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de > INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. > -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

March 27, 2010

[GSoC] Problems, Students bio and projects without mentor

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Hi everybody. I hope everybody is fine. As you may have noticed, the ESUG GSoC has been quite busy the last weeks. Students started to register in the website, discuss with mentors, etc... A little problem that we saw few times: when you register (as a student or mentor) you should receive a confirmation email. I don't know why but some people reported this mail was filtered in the spam folder. So, if you are mentor or student and didn't receive a confirmation email, please check you spam folder. Students, when you edit your profile there is a tab called "Biography". Please, take the time to complete that. There are multiple students per project and that may help the mentor to choose the student. Another problem is that we have two projects without mentors. 1. Native windows for Squeak and Pharo http://gsoc2010.esug.org/projects/native-windows 2. OpenSSL Smalltalk wrapper http://gsoc2010.esug.org/projects/openssl Fortunately no student yet expressed interest on any of them. There is a deadline in Monday to remove them if there won't be any mentor found. That's all for the moment. Mariano ESUG GSoC admin esug.gsoc.adm2010(a)gmail.com http://gsoc2010.esug.org/

March 27, 2010

Re: [Pharo-users] using weak collections

by Marcus Denker

On Mar 24, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Yoandy RodrÃguez MartÃnez wrote: > > Hello again: > > I need to create an object's registry that keeps certain objects in a dictionary and a second registry that keeps only objects currently in the first registry so i thought it was a good idea to user IdentityDictionary and WeakIdentityKeyDictionary so when the any object in the first registry is removed then the second registry remove's it too. > Problem is that when i try to test my code, the second assertion fails. Is there anything wrong with my test or weak collections are not suppose to work like that? > Yes. But doesn't your method hold on to the object, too? It's pointed to by the "object" temp, which is not weak. > ColonyTest>>testWeakRefs > |registry anotherRegistry object | > registry:= Registry uniqueInstance. > "this keeps weak references" > anotherRegistry := Colony new. > object:= ColonyMember new. > registry register: anotherRegistry. > anotherRegistry addMember: object. > registry register: object. > "object is into the second registry" > self assert:[ anotherRegistry contains: object]. > "if we unregister this reference then the registry should lose it too" > registry unregister: object. > self deny:[ anotherRegistry contains: object] > -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

March 25, 2010

using weak collections

by Yoandy RodrÃguez MartÃnez

Hello again: I need to create an object's registry that keeps certain objects in a dictionary and a second registry that keeps only objects currently in the first registry so i thought it was a good idea to user IdentityDictionary and WeakIdentityKeyDictionary so when the any object in the first registry is removed then the second registry remove's it too. Problem is that when i try to test my code, the second assertion fails. Is there anything wrong with my test or weak collections are not suppose to work like that? ColonyTest>>testWeakRefs |registry anotherRegistry object | registry:= Registry uniqueInstance. "this keeps weak references" anotherRegistry := Colony new. object:= ColonyMember new. registry register: anotherRegistry. anotherRegistry addMember: object. registry register: object. "object is into the second registry" self assert:[ anotherRegistry contains: object]. "if we unregister this reference then the registry should lose it too" registry unregister: object. self deny:[ anotherRegistry contains: object]

March 24, 2010

[GSoC] Call for students

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Dear Students, Now it is your turn! You will have to register in our website, put there some information, show interest for the projects and contact the project mentors. After the registration step you will get all the mentors information in order to contact them. By pressing the button on the project, you will show your interest. This is not something formal yet. Our mentors will vote for the most interesting projects and in the middle of the voting Google will tell us, how many projects will actually be funded. Voting will happen in April, with final results expected at the end of April. At that time you will finally know if you are accepted or not. Of course, there can be many students interested per project. This means that interest for this project is high, but on the other side a chance that you will be chosen is lower. It is up to you to convince a mentor that you are the best! Note also that the Ideas page is deprecated. On ideas page just the project ideas were collected. Now, we are preparing the real projects. So, please from now on always refer to this link for the projects: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/projects So, the initial steps are: 1. Register on our special Smalltalk GSoC website: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/registration 2. Edit your profile to get some more contact information for mentors to let you know, 3. Fulfill your brief Biography page (see Biography tab on profile), 4. Go to Projects page, choose up to three projects and click there I'm interested button, 5. Contact and discuss with project mentors about your interest. You will be also subscribed to a special mailing list [1] where we will help you with further steps. Deadline: as soon as possible, because the deadline to register on official GSoC website [2] is 9.April, which is, well, soon! But about that later... Finally, we will really appreciate if you can help us to distribute this call for students. One of our goals is to increase the Smalltalk community. Those who have access to universities can distribute this among the students. GSoC Admin Team esug.gsoc.adm2010(a)gmail.com http://gsoc2010.esug.org [1] Students mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-students mailto:smalltalk-gsoc-students@googlegroups.com [2] Official GSoC website http://socghop.appspot.com/

March 24, 2010

Re: [Pharo-users] Dynamic Bindings

by Yoandy RodrÃguez MartÃnez

Thanks, this site is simply great!!!! En Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:04:10 -0300, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck(a)gmail.com> escribiÃ³: > Stef are you shy ? ;) > > http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:48 AM, StÃ©phane Ducasse > <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr >> wrote: > >> what kind of book are you looking for. >> New does not mean better from what I know. >> >> Stef >> >> On Mar 23, 2010, at 3:10 AM, Yoandy RodrÃguez MartÃnez wrote: >> >> > Hello everyone >> > >> > I've just started in the Smalltalk world and recently moved to Pharo >> after trying a little Squeak (mostly e-Toys). I want to promote the use >> of >> Smalltalk solutions but there seems to be no books on the subject >> besides >> Squeak and Pharo by Example. Can anyone point me to any recent book >> about >> Smalltalk? >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Pharo-users mailing list >> > Pharo-users(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr >> > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-users mailing list >> Pharo-users(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-users

March 23, 2010

Re: [Pharo-users] Dynamic Bindings

by laurent laffont

I've just finished Kent Beck's Smalltalk best practices patterns, I like it. Laurent Laffont 2010/3/23 Yoandy RodrÃguez MartÃnez <yrodriguezma(a)uci.cu> > Hello everyone > > I've just started in the Smalltalk world and recently moved to Pharo after > trying a little Squeak (mostly e-Toys). I want to promote the use of > Smalltalk solutions but there seems to be no books on the subject besides > Squeak and Pharo by Example. Can anyone point me to any recent book about > Smalltalk? > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-users mailing list > Pharo-users(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-users >

March 23, 2010

[GSoC] Call for mentors!!!

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Hi folks. We wanted to let you know that we are calling for mentors. As you can see in the ideas page: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas There are some projects that still don't have mentors. Furthermore, it would be GREAT if each project can have also a second mentor. This is very important as they can complement each other, be backup, etc. So, please, if you want to be mentor or second mentor, just let us know. If you want to be second mentor of a project, it would be a good idea to talk with the first mentor so that both agree about that (we don't want problems!!!). Remember ALL mentors and second mentors have to register to our website as soon as possible. To register: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/registration All mentors have to register to the mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-mentors Janko is doing an excellent work with the website as you can see. Here you can see, for example, the list of the current mentors: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/mentors After mentors (when I say mentors are both, included second mentors), students will have to apply. Of course, we will let you know when. Cheers GSoC admin team esug.gsoc.adm2010(a)gmail.com http://gsoc2010.esug.org/

March 23, 2010