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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - 31 August 2022
by Giovanni Corriga Aug. 10, 2022

Aug. 10, 2022

For this month, we'll be welcoming Instantiations' Mariano Martinez Peck and Seth Berman, who will be talking to us about asynchronous programming in Smalltalk. Whether youâre interested in starting a new project or enhancing an existing system, asynchronous programming offers a great way to optimize application speed and help ensure maintainability as complexity increases. Weâll discuss the asynchronous programming approach, why itâs important, and show live demos in the VAST Platform ( https://www.instantiations.com/vast-platform/ ) of how to get started with futures/promises, asynchronous streams/zones, and more! Mariano Martinez Peck ( https://twitter.com/martinezpeck ) is a senior systems engineer specializing in dynamic programming language software. In 2018, he joined Instantiations to further develop the VAST Platform through the addition of new frameworks, libraries and tools, as well as improving the existing code base of VAST. He is active in the Smalltalk development community, and has used his expertise to co-author numerous open source projects. Mariano has a PhD in Computer Science, and his academic research has been published across various international journals. Seth Berman ( https://twitter.com/sethloco78 ) is President & CEO of Instantiations ( https://www.instantiations.com/ ). He leads a dedicated team that tirelessly supports and enhances Instantiations' VAST Platform, while he guides expansion into new software/service areas like IoT, cloud, and edge computing solutions. Before leading Instantiations, Seth joined the company in 2011 as a software engineer working on projects ranging from advanced code editors and cryptography libraries to FFI enhancements and virtual machine implementations. Previously, he worked for the US government in a variety of domains including stochastic simulation, operations research, grid computing, and link analysis. Seth has a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Software Engineering. 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/cbklbrydclbgc/ ) to receive the meeting details. Donât forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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Using pharo in a cloud native environment
by Stefan Krecher Aug. 9, 2022

Aug. 9, 2022

Hi, every now and then I get back to smalltalk/ pharo to find out if there's a practical way to use pharo to manage cloud resources, e.g. by calling Azure- or AWS APIs. I know there have been efforts to implement a Smalltalk binding to use the AWS API at least for some of their services but it looks like there's support for only a few, eg S3. I'd love to use pharo to build a seaside app with a nice UI to make calls to Azure and/ or AWS to start/ stop ec2 instances etc. Of course I could create Azure functions that do the API calls and then just call those functions from pharo - but I ask myself if there's a nicer way do do this ... Any recommendations? Regards Stefan

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Re: Omnibase/Monibase repository removal
by vinref＠gmail.com Aug. 9, 2022

Aug. 9, 2022

Hi Norbert Posting this here in pharo-users as I am not a member of pharo-dev. I also emailed David Gorisek late last year regarding the license (for Dolphin Smalltalk) and this was his reply. He wrote that I needed only to mark the repo as a fork and attach the copyright notice: > David Gorisek <david.gorisek@....com> \ > \ > 12:35 AM (9 hours ago) \ > \ > to me \ > \ > Dear Vince, \ > \ > OmniBase is most definitely not abandonware because it is actively being used, improved and even supported for paying customers. We also have a version for D7 but since OmniBase is used as a DB repository for STS we don't use Github. In my company we use a central STS repository which is accessible over HTTPS and we keep all our code there so I haven't had time to try Github yet. \ > \ > There are many versions and forks of OmniBase circling around because many people have done re-porting on their own for whatever reasons but these ports were not approved and are not supported by us. So, if you want to place your fork on Github you just need to indicate that it is a fork and that the original code is Copyright (c) by David Gorisek and then write what changes you made in your fork. \ > \ > Thank yout and best regards, \ > \ > David Gorisek \ > E-RACUNI d.o.o. \ > Maribor, Slovenia Vince

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[PDFtalk] second fileOut for Squeak and Pharo
by christian.haider Aug. 9, 2022

Aug. 9, 2022

With help from the community some issues were fixed which improved the test statistics nicely. Check it out: https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=portingblog#second_pdftalk_fileout_for_… Thanks to everybody involved! Happy hacking, ChristianÂ

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Books
by danhunfeldz＠mail.com July 30, 2022

July 30, 2022

I am learning Pharo and like to have printed copies of books. I see that âPharo 9 by Exampleâ has been released and it shows âGet printed (soon)" When will that be available on lulu to purchase? Also there is another book titled âPharo with Styleâ and there are two links to buy a printed version, but both sites are in French. Will this book be available for purchase on lulu at some point? Thanks!

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Two engineer positions
by stephane ducasse July 29, 2022

July 29, 2022

Hello please distribute We have two engineer positions opening: - one on improving the Pharo VMs - one on designing IA library We will also have another engineering position on analysing Fortran (with the possibility to develop a startup) Contact us if you are interesting

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Call for Papers: Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium
by Andrei Chis July 26, 2022

July 26, 2022

Due to the untimely passing of Eelco Visser, members of his former research communities TU Delft, CWI, OOPSLA, SLE, and IFIP Working Groups 2.11 & 2.16 have joined in organizing the Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium. The event will be held on the occasion of the first anniversary of his passing in April of next year. You are cordially invited to contribute to this symposium, by writing a paper and giving a presentation related to Eelco and his influential work, or by just attending. Please see the CfP below. Best regards, The EVCS Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium (EVCS) 5 April 2023 Delft, The Netherlands https://symposium.eelcovisser.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eelco Visser (1966â2022) was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Programming Languages Group in the Department of Software Technology at TU Delft. His research career started with studies at the University of Amsterdam and CWI, followed by appointments at Oregon Graduate Institute and Utrecht University. He was highly influential in the software language engineering and programming language design communities. His many scientific contributions about meta-languages and domain-specific languages have been of high importance in both the scientific and industrial communities. He was a founding member of IFIP Working Groups 2.11 (Program Generation) and 2.16 (Programming Language Design). Eelco Visserâs work on the cutting-edge language workbench Spoofax started with a ground-breaking publication in 2010, for which he received a Most Influential Paper award at OOPSLA 2020. As a strong advocate of tool-supported programming education, he led the development of WebLab, a learning management system that is in use for a range of programming languages and courses at TU Delft. He also led the design, implementation and use of conf.researchr.org, a content management system for scientific events used by hundreds of international events since 2011. --------------------------- Call for Papers --------------------------- A commemorative symposium for Eelco Visser is to be held on the first anniversary of his untimely passing away in April 2022. It will bring together colleagues from various communities, with presentations of papers on topics related to his research and other academic activities. --------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Language engineering - Program transformation - Language workbenches - Declarative language specification - Name binding and scope graphs - Type soundness and intrinsically-typed interpreters - Language specification testing - Language implementation generation - Domain-specific programming languages - DSLs for software deployment - DSLs for web application development - Tool-supported programming education --------------------------- Important Dates --------------------------- - Friday 30 September 2022: Declaration of intent to submit - Friday 28 October 2022: Paper submission deadline - Monday 28 November 2022: Notifications - Wednesday 5 April 2023: Symposium --------------------------- Types of Submissions --------------------------- - **Unpublished research**: These are extended abstracts of novel research contributions related to Eelco Visserâs work. Papers may range from 4 to 8 pages in length, and may optionally include up to 2 further pages of bibliography. Papers will be reviewed by selected members of the relevant research communities. Subsequent submission of full papers including the same results to other venues is encouraged. - **On the relationship between Eelco Visser's work and other frameworks**: These are papers that present some framework and explain its relationship to his work, but without novel research contributions. Papers may range from 4 to 8 pages in length, and may optionally include up to 2 further pages of bibliography. Papers will be reviewed by an expert on the relevant topic. - **Personal reflections on Eelco Visser's activities**: These are short papers that recall and reflect upon personal experiences of his contributions in academia or industry. Papers may range from 1 to 4 pages in length, including bibliography. Papers will be lightly reviewed for relevance. --------------------------- Submissions --------------------------- Declaration of intent to submit is optional, but helpful for allocation of appropriate reviewers. It is to include a provisional title, the type of submission, and an indication of the topics covered. The other details regarding submissions will be announced later. The page ranges for submissions (see above) are assuming a format such as Springer LNCS or Dagstuhl OASIcs. --------------------------- Publication --------------------------- All accepted papers are to be published in an open access volume by the start of the symposium (publisher to be decided). Authors retain copyright. --------------------------- Presentations --------------------------- All accepted papers are to be presented at the symposium. Presenters may choose between 5, 10, and 15-minute slots (including questions) subject to availability. Remote presentations are allowed. --------------------------- Organising Committee --------------------------- - Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University - Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes, Inria, and IRISA - Paul Klint, CWI and University of Amsterdam - Ralf LÃ¤mmel, University of Koblenz - Peter Mosses (chair), TU Delft and Swansea University - Friedrich Steimann, FernuniversitÃ¤t in Hagen - Tijs van der Storm, CWI and University of Groningen - Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota --------------------------- Local Organisation Committee --------------------------- - Arie van Deursen - Jasper van Dijck - Peter Mosses - Roniet Sharabi - ShÃ©mara van der Zwet --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For all enquiries about the symposium, please use the contact form at symposium.eelcovisser.org/contact or email symposium(a)eelcovisser.org

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FileTree to Tonel migration.
by Offray Vladimir Luna CÃ¡rdenas July 19, 2022

July 19, 2022

Hi, We're trying to organize better our Pharo repositories with a friend, adding properly named folders for the software part (what we call Apps/) and for the documentation part (what we cal Docs/), as we feel that src/ is kinda generic for a source code repository as everything is source. Anyway, while working on such renaming we created two different repositories, with two different file formats Tonel and FileTree and he continued to work on the last one, while I recreated the repository, with our ad-hoc convention (Apps/Package) in Tonel. Now, despite we're working in the same repository, he is working in a branch that contains code exported in FileTree format, while I'm working in the Tonel one. How can we migrate all the code to a single format? Seems that Tonel is the one choose, as far as we have seen in the documentation[1]. [1] https://github.com/pharo-open-documentation/pharo-wiki/blob/master/General/… Thanks in advance, Offray

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UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - 27 July 2022
by Giovanni Corriga July 18, 2022

July 18, 2022

For this month's UKSTUG meeting, we'll open the floor to the whole audience and let people show what they are working on. If you have an interesting project to show, or if you'd like to get some help with some hard problem, just show up and be ready to present! 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/286802146/ ) to receive the meeting details. Donât forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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Fwd: [Esug-list] [ESUG 2022] Innovation Technology Awards
by stephane ducasse July 17, 2022

July 17, 2022

> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Noury Bouraqadi <bouraqadi(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Esug-list] [ESUG 2022] Innovation Technology Awards > Date: 20 June 2022 at 11:55:43 CEST > To: Members ESUG <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org> > > Dear fellow Smalltalkers, > > ESUG conference is a great event with multiple opportunities to discover and exchange. > One of them is the Innovation Technology Awards. > > This is a great opportunity to demo and discuss smart and cool Smalltalk software you've been developing the last 2 years. > All Smalltalk flavors are welcome! > > Submit your project now > https://esug.github.io/2022-Conference/awardsCall2022.html <https://esug.github.io/2022-Conference/awardsCall2022.html> > On Behalf of the ESUG Board, > Noury > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org

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