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L’édition 2008 de la conférence ESUG Smalltalk commence dans 4 jours à Amsterdam. Je serais présent et je vais essayer comme l’année précédente de faire un compte-rendu régulier sur ce blog. N’hésitez pas intervenir pour préciser vos attentes.

Smalltalks 2008 - 2nd Argentinian Smalltalk Conference
November 13th – 15th Buenos Aires, Argentina

Conference Site:
http://neuquina.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar:8001/Smalltalks-2008

Last year, Smalltalks 2007 (1st Argentinian Smalltalk Conference) was a lively forum on Smalltalk-based software technologies that attracted over more than 200 people from both academia and industry for three days. During this first conference, the industrial partners showed the applicability of Smalltalk in business, while the students and professors showed their research and didactic uses of Smalltalk. The presented approaches andmethodologies concerned the language, its implementation technology, its
programming tools as well as the software development culture it supports. In this year conference, we are extending the scope of the research and educational track to include other dynamic languages, not only Smalltalk.

In this call, we invite research papers that report on original scientific research conducted in and/or for Smalltalk and Dynamic Languages in general.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• Aspects, Aspect Languages and Applications.
• Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous / Pervasive Computing and Embedded Systems.
• Compilation Technology, Optimization, Virtual Machines.
• Educational Material.
• Language Engineering, Extensions.
• Model Driven Engineering / Development.
• Meta-Modeling.
• Programming in the Large, Design, Architectures and Components.
• Programming Environments, Browsers, User Interfaces, UI Frameworks.
• Reasoning About Code (Analysis, Refactoring, Type Inference, Metrics).
• Reflection and Meta-programming.
• Team Management.
• Testing, Extreme Programming / Practices.
• Web Services, Internet Applications, Event-driven Programming.
• Experience Reports.

Important dates:

• Submission (Hard Deadline): September 7th, 2008 (Argentinian time).
• Notification of acceptance: October 6th, 2008.
• Camera Ready Submission: October 15th, 2008.

Papers:
Papers should be written in English, in pdf-format and not exceed 10 pages (including references and figures), using the 2-column IEEE conference format. Templates for Microsoft Word and LaTeX formats can be found at http://www.ieee.org/go/conferencepublishing/templates

Papers must be submitted through the Conference Website, in the Research Track section. The accepted papers will be published in the Smalltalks 2008 Research Track Proceedings published by CEUR (online proceedings for scientific workshops) and will be digitally available in the conference website. Papers submitted must not have been previously published and must not be under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must strictly adhere to submission guidelines.

If you have questions, please send an e-mail to Gabriela Arévalo (gabriela.arevalo at lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar) using [Smalltalks08-RT] as tag in the e-mail subject.

Program Committee:

• Federico Balaguer (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
• Tulio Ballari (UTN, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Alexandre Bergel (INRIA, Lille, France)
• Gilad Bracha (Cadence Design Systems, USA)
• Johan Brichau (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
• Cecilia Challiol (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
• Marco D’Ambros (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
• Marcus Denker (SCG, University of Bern, Switzerland)
• Fernando Dodino (UTN, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Stéphane Ducasse (INRIA, Lille, France)
• Alejandra Garrido (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
• Tudor Girba (SCG, University of Bern, Switzerland)
• Orla Greevy (SCG, University of Bern, Switzerland)
• Julián Grigera (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
• Robert Hirschfeld (Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam, Germany)
• Andy Kellens (PROG, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
• Michele Lanza (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
• Kim Mens (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
• Guillermo Adrián Molina (ESSI Projects, Spain)
• Damien Pollet (INRIA, Lille, France)
• Romain Robbes (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
• David Röthlisberger (SCG, University of Bern, Switzerland)
• Daniel Solmirano (UTN, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Tom Van Cutsem (PROG, Vrije Universeit Brussels, Belgium)
• Roel Wuyts (IMEC, Belgium)

Organizing Committee:

• Gabriela Arévalo (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
• Andrés Fortier (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

Le site ClubSmalltalk a réalisé une interview de Luca Bruno, le développeur d’un nouveau Smalltalk open-source nommé SmalltalkYX

Cmsbox est l’un des gagnants du concours “Best Application UI” de 2008 par useit.com du spécialiste de l’utilisabilité Jakob Nielsen. Cette compétition identifie les 10 meilleures applications de l’année 2008 du point de vue de l’interface utilisateur.

Cmsbox est un système de gestion de contenu qui permet à des utilisateurs de créer, éditer et arranger du contenu directement sur un site web. Cmsbox est un produit de la compagnie Suisse de même nom qui utilise le Smalltalk Squeak, Seaside et Scriptaculous.

Hernan Galante a mis en place un nouveau site web concernant Smalltalk : Club Smalltalk. Ce site regroupe des Smalltalkiens de la communauté hispanique.

Choisir des noms qui soient suffisamment descriptifs.

Exemple

• timeOfDay
• tod

• milliseconds
• millis

• editMenu
• eMenu

Extrait de Smalltalk with Style.

Interested in Seaside?  Want to see its makers show Maglev? You can do both in Amsterdam in late August at the 2008 ESUG conference.

Thursday 28th,  a whole day of Seaside.  See Web Velocity and GLASS demoed in the morning, Maglev in the evening, talk to Seaside experts, get hands-on Seaside experience. Look at thursday schedule.

• GLASS and Maglev are both provided by GemStone, whose top engineers will be at the conference
• Web Velocity builds Seaside web apps that talk to relational databases
• see how to get started fast, and evolve fast beyond the end of the rails

Can’t spare a whole day?  Wednesday 27th is a short day;  see a Maglev demo, Pier (a Seaside open-source CMS) and talk to Seasiders.  Look at the schedule.

Can you spare more than a day?  The conference lasts for a week.

Un nouveau Smalltalk vient de voir le jour : Pragmatic Smalltalk. Il s’agit d’un projet issu de Etoilé, l’environnement graphique basé au dessus du framework GnuStep (le clone du défunt NextStep). Sa spécificité est son intégration importante avec Objective-C, le langage de développement de GnuStep. Les objets Smalltalk sont directement compilé en objets Objective-C et il est également possible de sous-classer par des classes Smalltalk, des classes Objective-C. La version 0.5 est disponible.

So far, we have 123 registred people to the ESUG 2008 conference. Registrants are from 19 countries from 5 continents (of course Europe, but also, North America, South America, Asia and Africa).

With the current rate of daily registrations, we expect a full house (150 people). So, if you plan to come to Amsterdam, register yourself ASAP.

The previous record was 116 in 2004 when ESUG conf was held in Köthen, Anhalt, Germany !

We have now 78 registrations for ESUG’08 at Amsterdam. The record to be beaten is of 116 people with ESUG’ 03 in Köthen. Time for you to register to the Smalltalk event of the year ! The early registration rates are only until July 15th.