UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, October 28th

2020-10-14 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, October 28th. Alexandre Bergel will talk about Agile Visualization with Roassal3. Visualizing data is probably the easiest part in the field of data visualization. Numerous books and sophisticated libraries exist for that very

Re: UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, November 25th

2020-11-25 Thread Giovanni Corriga
It appears Meetup is down - the Zoom link is https://zoom.us/j/94624791973?pwd=L2NXc0pWOGIxMm5pbC9DOWdxTzlXUT09 On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 at 13:27, Giovanni Corriga wrote: > The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, > November 25th. > > Stephen Travis Pope

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, December 30th

2020-12-11 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The UK Smalltalk User Group will have an extra meeting this year on Wednesday, December 30th. feenk's Tudor Girba will present the latest in moldable development with Glamorous Toolkit. Moldable development is an approach to programming through which we make the inside of software systems

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, November 25th

2020-11-08 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, November 25th. Stephen Travis Pope will present Siren9 and CSL6 - Frameworks and Applications for Sound/Music Creation and Processing. The Siren system ( https://github.com/stpope/Siren9 ) is a general-purpose software

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday, January 27th

2021-01-15 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, January 27th. For this presentation, guest speaker Michael Engel will bring us back to basics with a bare-metal Smalltalk-80 system for the Raspberry Pi. In 2020, the Xerox PARC research laboratory celebrated its 50th

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday June 30th

2021-06-23 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, June 30th. Hernan Wilkinson ( https://twitter.com/HernanWilkinson ) will talk about his LiveTyping project. Currently, almost all mainstream dynamically typed languages support type annotation a la Strongtalk. Python calls it

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday May 26th

2021-05-19 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, May 26th. Caffeine ( https://caffeine.js.org ) is a livecoded integration of the SqueakJS Smalltalkvirtual machine with the Web platform and its many frameworks. Craig Latta will show the current state of Caffeine development

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday February 24th

2021-02-07 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, February 24th.Christian Haider will guide us in a tour of the Amber dialect of Smalltalk and its Silk web framework.In his own words... Amber [1], created by Nicolas Petton, is a Smalltalk implemented in JavaScript running in a

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday March 31st

2021-03-22 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, March 31st. In this meeting, Juan Vuletich will present a Vector Graphic implementation in Cuis Smalltalk. Graphics for interactive software have traditionally been constrained for performance reasons. The consequence is that

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday April 28th

2021-04-15 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, April 28th. Esteban Lorenzano will give us an update on Pharo: What's new? What is updated? What remains? This talk will present (and show working!) the Pharo 9 roadmap and principal changes made to Pharo since the release of

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, August 25th

2021-08-16 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, August 25th. Marcus Denker will talk about Variables in Pharo. We like to say that “Everything is an Object” in Smalltalk. This is true in many cases: Classes, methods, even the execution stack are reflectively available as

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday, October 27th

2021-10-08 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For this month's meeting, Cincom Smalltalk ( https://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/ ) product manager Arden Thomas will discuss recent product changes and improvements and demonstrate some tools and features of ObjectStudio and VisualWorks 9.1. Arden ( https://twitter.com/ArdenTCST ) started

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, September 29th 2021

2021-09-21 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, September 29th. For this month's meeting, we take a look at an example of an application written in Smalltalk. Specifically, one that fits in a cultural tradition that is as old as Smalltalk itself, if not older: that of using

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday 24 November

2021-11-16 Thread Giovanni Corriga
This month, the UKSTUG will take a look at Objective-S ( http://objective.st/ ), an architecture-oriented programming language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C, by hosting his creator Marcel Weheir. As per Alan Kay, “Code seems large and complicated for what it does”. Objective-S addresses one

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, December 29th

2021-12-09 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For our December meeting, Florin Mateoc will show us JsSqueak ( https://github.com/fmateoc/JsSqueak ), a JavaScript implementation of (JavaScript compiled) Squeak. Whereas SqueakJS or TruffleSqueak are implementations of the Squeak stack VM which run the Squeak bytecodes, JsSqueak compiles all

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday 28th July 2021

2021-07-16 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, July 30th. Russell Allen will talk to us about Self ( https://selflanguage.org/ ). Dating back to the late 1980s, Self is a prototype based programming language and environment in the broader Smalltalk family. Although Self has

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, January 26th

2022-01-17 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For our January meeting, we'll be hosting GemTalk's Martin McClure who will talk about a new Smalltalk IDE - Sparkle. If you're setting out to develop a Smalltalk IDE from scratch, what design decisions do you make? You'd love to "fix" the things that have long annoyed you in existing IDEs, but

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - 23 February 2022

2022-02-19 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For this month's UKSTUG meeting, we'll open the floor to the whole audience and let people show what they are working on. If you have an interesting project to show, or if you'd like to get some help with some hard problem, just show up and be ready to present! This will be an online meeting

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, March 30th

2022-03-22 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be held on Wednesday, March 30th 2022. Come to hear news about Glamorous Toolkit, the moldable development environment. We were busy over the past year: beside everything else, GT also became a multi-language notebook + programmable knowledge

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, April 27th

2022-04-20 Thread Giovanni Corriga
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be held on Wednesday, April 27th 2022. Newspeak ( https://bracha.org/Site/Newspeak.html ) is a programming system in the Smalltalk tradition, whose current incarnation runs in the web browser. Newspeak is designed to provide the liveness

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, May 25th

2022-05-14 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For our May meeting, Object Guild's Jonathan van Alteren and Erik Stel will give us a preview of Expressive Systems. Expressive Systems is a framework inspired by Richard Pawson's work on Naked Objects ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_objects ). It allows Object Guild to rapidly develop

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting: Smalltalk and Self hardware - 29 June 2022

2022-06-13 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For our June meeting, Merik Voswinkel will give us a presentation on Smalltalk and Self hardware with a focus on manycore parallelism and distributed computing. This follows from Jecel Assumpcao Jr's SiliconSqueak presentation at the California Smalltalkers meetup ( https://youtu.be/CfYnzVxdwZE

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - 27 July 2022

2022-07-18 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For this month's UKSTUG meeting, we'll open the floor to the whole audience and let people show what they are working on. If you have an interesting project to show, or if you'd like to get some help with some hard problem, just show up and be ready to present! This will be an online meeting from

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - 26 October 2022

2022-10-25 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For this month's meeting, we'll take it easy and have an online social! Bring your favourite drinks - beer, coffee, or whatever you prefer! This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page (

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - 31 August 2022

2022-08-10 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For this month, we'll be welcoming Instantiations' Mariano Martinez Peck and Seth Berman, who will be talking to us about asynchronous programming in Smalltalk. Whether you’re interested in starting a new project or enhancing an existing system, asynchronous programming offers a great way to

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - 28 December 2022

2022-12-19 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For the UKSTUG 2023 holiday meeting, Simberon's David Buck will present Beagle Smalltalk. Over the past 8 years, David has been developing a Smalltalk virtual machine. He used it to release two Smalltalk Games written in VisualWorks to run on Andriod and iPhone devices. More recently, he's

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - 30 November 2022

2022-11-29 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For this month's UKSTUG meeting, Dave Mason will talk about Zag Smalltalk, a new Smalltalk VM written in Zig. Dave Mason ( http://sarg.ryerson.ca/dmason/ ) has been a professor of Computer Science at Toronto Metropolitan University (previously known as Ryerson) for 41 years. He has done research

Looking for presenters for UK Smalltalk User Group online meetings

2022-11-21 Thread Giovanni Corriga
Hi, The UK Smalltalk User Group is looking for presenters for the online events that we have been running since April 2020. If you have anything you'd like to share with the community - no matter how small! - please contact us at i...@uksmalltalk.org or giova...@corriga.net to discuss what you

Yoshiki Ohshima - Croquet Microverse - 26 April 2023

2023-04-20 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For this month's online presentation, Yoshiki Ohshima will demonstrate the Croquet Microverse ( https://croquet.io/ ), which is a 3D collaborative construction environment. It is an incarnation of Smalltalk-based Croquet but instead implemented in JavaScript. Microverse allows a group of users to

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday 29th March

2023-03-21 Thread Giovanni Corriga
This month's online meeting introduces a new format whereby we'll give space to commercial companies to discuss how they make use of Smalltalk and contribute to the Smalltalk community. The first of this series will be Mercap Software ( https://www.mercapsoftware.com/en/ ), represented by Gabriel

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - 22 February 2023

2023-02-14 Thread Giovanni Corriga
WebAssembly (WASM - https://wikiwand.com/en/Webassembly ) is an instruction format for portable high-performance code, run by a stack-based virtual machine. To Smalltalkers, this sounds very familiar. WASM is supported by the three most popular web browsers, and by other host platforms as well.

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - 31 May 2023

2023-05-30 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For our May presentation, Stephane Ducasse will present the vision behind Pharo and how that is been implemented incrementally across multiple releases. In Stef's words: "The vision of Pharo is based on three pillars: - First we want to make sure that Pharo is used to develop complex and robust

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting: Show'n'Tell - 26 July 2023

2023-07-26 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For this month's UKSTUG meeting, we'll open the floor to the whole audience and let people show what they are working on. If you have an interesting project to show, or if you'd like to get some help with some hard problem, just show up and be ready to present! This will be an online meeting

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting: David Buck - Beagle Smalltalk, 28 June 2023

2023-06-26 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For the UKSTUG June meeting, Simberon's David Buck will present Beagle Smalltalk. Over the past 8 years, David has been developing a Smalltalk virtual machine and image. He used it to release two Smalltalk games which ran on Android and iPhone devices. More recently, he's re-written the VM to use

UKSTUG Meeting - 29 November 2023 - Pierre Misse-Chanabier: Polyphemus

2023-11-28 Thread Giovanni Corriga
For the November UKSTUG meeting, Pierre Misse-Chanabier will talk to us about Polyphemus for the Pharo Virtual Machine ( https://github.com/hogoww/Polyphemus ).The presentation will focus on how to create Tooling on the Pharo Virtual Machine. (This does not require Virtual machine level knowledge)

UKSTUG Meeting - Pierre Misse-Chanabier: Polyphemus Take 2 - 31 January 2024

2024-01-26 Thread Giovanni Corriga
Pierre Misse-Chanabier will talk to us about Polyphemus ( https://github.com/hogoww/Polyphemus ) for the Pharo Virtual Machine. The presentation will focus on how to create Tooling on the Pharo Virtual Machine. (This does not require Virtual machine level knowledge). We will start by taking a

UKSTUG Meeting - Maximiliano Tabacman: Electronic Roleplaying Assistant - 27 March 2024

2024-03-19 Thread Giovanni Corriga
In this presentation, Maximiliano Tabacman will be presenting the main features, abstractions and design decisions behind ERA, the Electronic Roleplaying Assistant ( https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/137825/ERA-for-Rolemaster ). ERA is currently being used to create characters and