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BlockCamp Paris 2009

marcus — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:48:01 -0000

Ruby-fr and Smalltalk-fr will organized their first BlockCamp event in Paris in 28th november 2009.

More information about the Smalltalk talks: http://community.ofset.org/index.php/Smalltalk_Party_Paris_2009

This event is sponsored by the European Smalltalk User Group.

Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176109665285

ESUG 2010: Barcelona

marcus — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:42:27 -0000

The 18th ESUG International Smalltalk Conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, September 11 to Friday, September 17th.

The weekend (11/12) will be camp Smalltalk, the main conference starts Monday, 13th.

Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177596985368

ESUG 2009 Innovation Technology Awards Results

Noury Bouraqadi — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:53:50 -0000

The winners of the ESUG 2009 Innovation Technology Awards were officially announced. More that half of the votes were in favor of the winner:

1st: Retrobjects by Gabriel Eduardo Honoré
2nd: PhidgetLab by L. Kessler, S. Platz, T. Klingbeil, F. Schlegel, Ph. Tessenow, M. Haupt, M. Perscheid, R. Hirschfeld
3rd: For the first time, we got a tie. ESUG board decide to give two 3rd prizes (and not splitting the prize)
- SqueakNOS by V. Murgia, L. Notarfrancesco, L. Caniglia, G. Richarte
- Glamour by Ph. Bunge, T. Gîrba, L. Renggli, J. Ressia, D. Röthlisberger

Find out all details about winners and nominations.

International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies

Noury Bouraqadi — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:33:53 -0000

The International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies will be held as part of the ESUG 2009 Conference. The dead-line for submitting research papers is wednesday june the 24th.

ESUG Conference 2009 registration is open

Noury Bouraqadi — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:21:41 -0000

The registration server is up and running. Note that early registration fees apply till 13th of july.

More info on the ESUG 2009 registration page

Newspeak prototype released

Mike Roberts — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:54:24 -0000

Gilad Bracha reports on the release of the Newspeak prototype. Whilst this is in early stages of development, it's exciting to see a new language get into the wild. Newspeak is descended from Self and Smalltalk.

Niall Ross' reports are now online

Alexandre Bergel — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:57:04 -0000

Niall Ross has been constantly dedicating his writing skills to relate ESUG and Smalltalk Solutions conferences. His reports are of a high quality and represent a good snapshot of the conference. They are accessible under the 'Conferences' tab.

Newspeak bits 'n' bobs

Mike Roberts — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:24:10 -0000

Vassili Bykov has written some interesting blogs on nested classes and implicit receivers. These are features of the Newspeak language, a language language "in the tradition of Self and Smalltalk". I'm quite interested in the discussion on modularity aspects and lack of global state. A public release looks to be forthcoming.

Also of interest is the Alien FFI which has already been made public by the Newspeak team. Work has started integrating this into Pharo and Squeak.

BotsInc

Mike Roberts — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:56:08 -0000

Stéphane Ducasse has arranged, with financial support of ESUG, to buy the rights to his book BotsInc. It is now available free for download and there are translations underway.

ESUG 2009

Mike Roberts — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:10:43 -0000

Loic Lagadec recently announced that next year's ESUG will take place in Brest, France. We'll post more details when we have them.

Links: Tourist information , University of Brest

Look forward to seeing you there!