Smalltalk with James Robertson

Apparently, Koans are interactive tests, and they are fairly popular with the "mainstream languages". I got an email today pointing to this start at a GNU Smalltalk set of them

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It's time to start preparing for Smalltalks 2011:

SMALLTALKS 2011
5th International Conference on Smalltalk Technologies
Research Track: Call for Papers
November 3th - 5th, 2011

Important dates:

Submission (Hard Deadline): August 22th, 2011 (Argentinian time:
UTC/GMT -3 hours).
Notification of acceptance: September 23th, 2011.
Camera Ready Submission: October 7th, 2011.

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Craig Latta has gotten a first cut at modularizing Smalltalk packages for his Spoon project done - he's posted the modules and their contents at the link.

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The 4.5 release of Moose is out.

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The latest update is now available:

We are pleased to announce the release of Seaside 3.0.5. This is a minor release for Seaside 3.0 that introduces Pharo 1.2 and jQuery 1.6 support. We recommend all users of Seaside 3.0 to update. A changelog is available

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Torsten tells us about a Squeak meetup in Frankfurt Potsdam next month:

There is a meeting of Squeakers in germany in Potsdam on 23.07.2011. Two days before there is a presentation from Alan Kay.

There are details at this link, in German

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Dave Buck has been pretty busy with VW improvements - here's another announcement:

Well, I've received permission to make the following announcement. I'll be working with Cincom to upgrade GemKit to VisualWorks 7.8.

You can get full details at the link.

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Interested in learning Smalltalk at the command line? Learning Smalltalk shows the way with GNU Smalltalk.

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ESUG is making their annual call for papers:

We invite submissions to the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies which is held as part of the ESUG 2011 joint event at Edinburgh.

You can get full details on what they are looking for at the link above. The conference itself is being held August 22-26 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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