The Weekly Squeak

Category: Publicity

  • UK Smalltalk User Group Releases Archived Presentation Videos on YouTube

    UK Smalltalk User Group Releases Archived Presentation Videos on YouTube

    The holidays may be over, but the presents are still arriving from the UK Smalltalk User Group! Videos of previous presentations have been released over the past month, covering a variety of interesting topics–a total of 57 as of this writing! Be sure to check out their new YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@UKSTUG. Also, be sure to visit their homepage at https://www.uksmalltalk.org/, and if you would like to attend any meetings, their Meetup site can be found at https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/.

    Have a great time with Smalltalk and keep on Squeaking!

  • SqueakJS Release 1.2.3

    SqueakJS Release 1.2.3

    Work has progressed with SqueakJS since our last report in April. In May, version 1.2.1 was released, adding a virtual Cmd button and fixes for touch events. The June release, version 1.2.2, made the copy-and-paste menu items functional on mobile devices. The most recent version, 1.2.3, was released in September, bringing a touch keyboard and other minor fixes.

    Additionally, we would like to extend congratulations to the SqueakJS project! The Dynamic Language Symposium (DLS) awarded SqueakJS this year’s DLS Most Notable Paper award for the paper “SqueakJS: A Modern and Practical Smalltalk that Runs in Any Browser,” authored by Vanessa Freudenberg, Dan Ingalls, Tim Felgentreff, Tobias Pape, and Robert Hirschfeld. You can read the paper here, and also view the announcement here.

    Work continues to progress with SqueakJS, and we are grateful for it. The project leverages web browsers as the primary platform, enabling applications to run directly without the need for native software installations. This feature ensures easy deployment and access, making it ideal for environments where installing traditional software is not possible or practical.

    SqueakJS is an HTML5 runtime engine for Squeak/Smalltalk, written in pure JavaScript. It is also compatible with many other OpenSmalltalk-compatible images. Check it out at https://squeak.js.org. If you would like to contribute, head over to https://github.com/codefrau/SqueakJS and see what you might like to help with. Contributions are welcome!

    Have a great time with Smalltalk and keep on Squeaking!

  • 23rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Call for Contributions

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    ESUG

     

    23rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Call for Contributions

     

    Brescia, Italy

    from 13 to 17 July 2015

    http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2015/

     

    This call includes:

    Developer Forum

    Smalltalk Technology Award

    International Workshop

    http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/International-Workshop-IWST_15

    Student Volunteer

    http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Student-volunteers

    Camp Smalltalk 12 July 2015

     

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    You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways:

     

    * Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at

    http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/About/BecomeSponsor

    * 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 enrol

    into the the Student Volunteers program. See below.

     

    Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference

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    We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have

    30 min for presentations and 45-60 min for hand-ons tutorial.

     

    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

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    – 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?

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    Submissions deadline is 15 of May 2015

    Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly.

    More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2015

     

     

    Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last  minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to  Stephane.Ducasse at inria.fr AND USE THE following header [ESUG 2015 Developers].

     

    Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed!

     

    Subject: [ESUG 2015 Developers] + your name  First Name:

    Last Name:

    Email where you can always be reached:

    Title:

    Type: Tutorial/Talk/Teaching Pearl

    Abstract:

    Bio:

     

    Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically

     

     

    International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies

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    Read the page: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/International-Workshop-IWST_15

     

    Technology Award Competition

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    The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive,  respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awards  ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based  software are welcome to compete.

    More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2015/

     

    Student Volunteer Program

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    If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you considered  being a student volunteer? 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.

    More information at

    http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/

    http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Student-volunteers

     

    We hope to see you there and have fun together.

     

     

     

  • Squeak 4.5 Released!

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    From Chris Muller:

    So!  Let it be known!  Squeak 4.5 is released!

    Home page is here:  http://www.squeak.org

    4.5 release notes are here:  http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6193

    Excellent Job Everyone!!  Can you tell we are excited!

  • Alan Kay – Abel, Fields and Turing Laureates Meet the Next Generation

    Kay SketckPad Ivan Sutherland

     

    Alan Kay Meeting the Next Generation.  See the talk here: http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/blog/video/lecture-friday-september-27-alan-kay/

     

  • Etoys at Maker Faire in Hannover

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    Etoys, children, a funny hat and a handmade Smalltalk balloon.  What more could you ask for!  Looks like a great day for everyone.

    Read more about it here: http://squeaklandnews.blogspot.de/

  • Smalltalk under the Pi: an Interview with tim Rowledge

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    Don’t miss Tim’s interview with SmalltalkInspect!  You can find it here: Smalltalk under the Pi: an Interview with tim Rowledge

    In this episode we talk to tim Rowledge about his work on Smalltalk VMs over the years, especially for the RISC OS Platform and ARM machines.. The latest and probably hottest thing in this arena is his port of Squeak to the Raspberry Pi. This is not only cool in itself, but more importantly enables Raspberry Pi users to use Scratch and EToys on this little machine on RISC OS (the Raspbian Linux version existed before). You can probably imagine how much fun we had in recording this session.

     

  • Smalltalks 2010 – conference report

    Smalltalks 2010 took place last weekend, meaning that the post-conference reports have started hitting the blogs, and they’re universally enthusiastic about the content, organisation and atmosphere of the event.

    Organised by Fundacion Argentina de Smalltalk (FAST), and hosted this year by Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, in Concepción del Uruguay, Smalltalks aims to “strengthen the Argentine and international Smalltalk communities through the exchange of works, experiences and anecdotes connected with this technology or related matters”. This year’s speakers included Gilad Bracha, Eliot Miranda, Lukas Renggli and many many more (see the conference home page for a full listing and descriptions of talks).

    German Arduino described it as an “excellent event, with very very good organization—thanks to the hard work of FAST people—and high level technical talks”.

    Felipao Banados was attending his first Smalltalk conference, and was also impressed: “I remember talking with classmates and hearing things like ‘Yeah, Smalltalk, nice. But where can you work on that afterwards?’ Well, there ARE a lot of interesting places to do it, and there is a need for smalltalk programmers.”

    Andrés Valloud posted some rocking photos of the social event, and reported that the conference even got coverage in the local paper, including a video interview with Hernán Wilkinson.

    As James Robertson wrote: “Sounds a lot like ESUG to me – and that’s a good thing.”

  • Design Principles Behind Smalltalk

    Lambda the Ultimate is celebrating 10 years of its own existence, 30 (nominal) years of Smalltalk-80 and PARC turning 40, by revisiting a classic article Design Principles Behind Smalltalk by Dan Ingalls. From the post: “Ingalls’s piece should be filed under Visionary Languages. Alas, no such category exists on LtU.” Does this mean that Smalltalk-80 was the last visionary language?

  • ESUG Innovation Technology Awards – sneak preview

    This year’s ESUG conference will host the 6th annual Innovation Technology Awards. The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, €500, €300 and €200 during an awards ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based software are welcome to compete, and, for the first time, this year entrants are asked to provide a 3-5min video explaining each entry.

    There are lots of interesting projects up for the competition, based on Squeak, Pharo, VisualWorks, and Smalltalk/X.  You can find out more about the competition at http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010/Innovation+Technology+Awards, and of course, you’ll be able to see them for yourself at the conference. See you there!