[ UK Smalltalk User Group ]

 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 purpose. One of challenges of data visualization is to identify the right abstractions that make a visualization reusable, composable, extensible, navigable, and produced at a very low cost. Roassal is a visualization engine for Smalltalk that leverage the experience of crafting and using data visualization. This talk will demo Roassal and presents non-trivial visualizations within the field of software visualization. Alexandre Bergel is Associate Professor and researcher at the University of Chile. Alexandre Bergel and his collaborators carry out research in software engineering. His focus is on designing tools and methodologies to improve the overall performance and internal ...

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, September 30th.  For this meeting, Niall Ross and Vlad Degen from Cincom will present AppeX , Cincom’s web application development framework. Together they will cover: The advantages of the AppeX design philosophy - lightweight, plays well with others How AppeX works in the Cincom Smalltalk IDE The advantages of WYSIWYG AppeX JavaScript development through debugging of running AppeX applications How you can use AppeX in the Cincom Smalltalk IDE to learn and improve your JavaScript, and to create and deploy JavaScript intensive modern web applications. The advantages of AppeX web development, using the Chrome DevTools in conjunction with AppeX for debugging. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, 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  to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks! Updat...

 The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, August 26th. In this meeting, Erik Stel will present his current project - CodeParadise. CodeParadise is a cloud based platform (to be) to learn to program using Object Oriented principles within a Smalltalk environment. CodeParadise is still in very early development, but some of its results have seen interest from the community. Therefore a presentation will provide insight in the design, current status, and possibilities of the results so far. The discussion afterwards can be used for both in-depth technical topics as well as the more philosophical topics about programming (as warmth and/or beer consumption will guide us). Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, 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  to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!   Update 1 January 2025 : The r...

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, July 29th. Peter Svensson will present his work on Cloudsdk-st. Cloudsdk-st is an experiment in ways to work with cloud deployment from a Smalltalk image. Traditionally cloud deployments run 'out of band' in separate build scripts or build/CI/CD systems. This project lets you define Docker images (using Dockerfiles) for Smalltalk, send them to the build system of a cloud provider directly and then choose what kind of service you want your image to be (cloud function or long-running VM). Currently it only supports Google Cloud and has a very rough UI. Future plans include support for AWS and Azure as well as better feedback and a Spec2 UI. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, 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 to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, June 24th. Fabio Niephaus  will talk to us about TruffleSqueak , a Squeak/Smalltalk VM and Polyglot Programming Environment for the GraalVM . He is a Ph.D. student within the Software Architecture Group  at the Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany. He has strong interests in dynamic programming languages, virtual execution environments, and software development tools. Fabio will talk about the motivation for his research in the field of Polyglot Programming. With a live demo, he will show how TruffleSqueak can be used as a polyglot IDE for other languages such as Java, Javascript, Python, R, or Ruby. He will also introduce us to the GraalVM ecosystem and discuss his experience in writing a Smalltalk VM in Truffle, GraalVM's language implementation framework. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, this will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advan...

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, May 27th. Alan Jackson will talk to us about Kyma , an object- oriented sound design environment built with Smalltalk technology. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, 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  to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, April 29th. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, 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 . Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!