CfP 23rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference

• Brescia, Italy
• from 13 to 17 July 2015

You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways:

• Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described 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

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

• 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?

• 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

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

Technology Award Competition

  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

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 ccommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the conference. More information here

We hope to see you there and have fun together.

[ANN] Numerical Methods book Open Source

Didier Besset offered his great book "Object-Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods An Introduction with Smalltalk and Java" to the community.

We would like to thank Didier Besset for his great book and for his gift of the source and implementation to the community.

You can find

• Archive of the original book, with code in both Java and Smalltalk github.
• An abridged version of Didier’s book, without the Java implementation and reference; our goal is to make the book slimmer and easier to read. The implementation presented in this book is part of the SciSmalltalk library. github

[ANN] GemStone/S 64 Bit 3.2.4 release

Please see the original announcement message on the GemStone forum here

For those that aren't aware, there is a free, community-support version available even for commercial use. Refer to the Community and Web Edition Licensing section at http://gemtalksystems.com/licensing/

CORMAS - open sourced

The CORMAS modelling platform is now open-source and available under the MIT licence.

CORMAS (Common-pool Resources and Multiagent Systems; Bousquet et al., 1998) has originally been developed by CIRAD green team to provide a multi-agent framework that can be used to simulate the interactions between a group of agents and a shared environment holding natural resources. It is written in Smalltalk (originally in VW).

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Smalltalk Reflections #006: Debugging

In this episode, David and Craig talk about debugging in Smalltalk. The debugger is an essential tool and Smalltalkers use it for more than just finding and fixing bugs.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections_006.mp3

The video on debugging mentioned in this episode can be found here

You can leave comments on our blog at http://smalltalkreflections.blogspot.ca, leave us a review on iTunes or email us at smalltalkreflections@thiscontext.com. You can tweet us at @buckdk or @ccrraaiigg.