News archive

Past front page news, in reverse chronological order.

2010

Benevol 2010 — December 16–17, Lille, France

I’m a member of the organizing committee of this two-day seminar on software evolution.

Smalltalks 2010 — November 11–13, Conceptión del Uruguay, Argentina

I’m a member of the program committee for the research track of Smalltalks 2010. Selected papers will be published in a special edition of the Elsevier COMLAN journal.

New intern

Benjamin Van Ryseghem is a student from the IUT joining us to hack on Pharo.

OSDC.fr 2010 — October 9–10, Paris, France

I attended the Open Source Developers Conference at at La Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, in Paris.

New PhD student

Nick Papoylias joined Noury, Luc, and Mariano in Douai.

ESUG 2010 — September 11–17, Barcelona, Spain

The whole team attended ESUG. I’m slowly uploading the photos Marcus and I took on Flickr.

New members

Nicolas Paez joined us with Gabriel Barbuto and Martin Dias to work on image minimizing and bootstrapping, as well as fast object loading.

Sattose 2010 — April 26–29, Montpellier, France

Four day Seminar on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution.

Seaside book

Dynamic Web Development with Seaside is a free online book announced by Lukas and Julian at ESUG. A PDF and a printed version will be available soon.

2009

BlockCamp — November 28, Paris, France

A one-day event co-organized by the Ruby-fr and Smalltalk-fr communities, and sponsorized by ESUG. More info here.

Squeak by Example on Amazon

It’s now possible to order the book on Amazon.com.

Post-doc arrival

Jean-Rémy Falleri joins RMoD during 2009–2010.

Pharo by Example

The book is out! Download the free PDF, or order a paper copy at Lulu or Amazon.

Pharo sprint — October 17–20, Lille, France

Four days of intensive bug fixing, finalizing the 1.0 release of Pharo, and preparing 1.1.

WCRE 2009 — October 13–16, Lille, France

We hosted the 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, for which I chair the workshops with Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc.

OSDC.fr 2009 — October 2–3, Paris, France

I attended the Open Source Developers Conference at at La Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, in Paris. Here are my few photos of the event.

New members

RMoD welcomes three new members in 2009: two permanent positions, Marcus Denker (Inria) and Nicolas Anquetil (USTL), and a new Ph.D. student, Jean-Baptiste Arnaud. Cyrille Delaunay, who just finished his masters internship, stays with us as a research engineer.

ESUG 2009 — August 31–September 4, Brest, France.

I attended the 2009 International Smalltalk Conference and joint workshop IWST’09, organized by ESUG. I presented Citezen to the Innovation Technology Awards. Here are my photos of the event; other photos, as well as talk slides, are available via the conference website.

Pharo 1.0 beta

Pharo has reached beta status! The first beta version was released on July 31, 2009; still lots of work ahead, but this certainly is a good milestone towards a full 1.0 release.

Pharo by Example

We’re adapting Squeak by Example to the new stuff in Pharo, and the book will also feature additional chapters. Release due soon.