ESUG 2011 has finished and again argentinians smalltalkers have won prizes

We are very happy and proud to know that argentinian smalltalkers are again of the list of winners in the last edition of the Innovation Technology Awards that offers European Smalltalk User Group.
Congratulations to Mariano Martinez Peck and Martín Dias and the Group of LOOP (Guillermo Polito, Gisela Decuzzi, Carla Griggio, Germán Leiva and Nicolás Passerinni).

References

• http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2011

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Cuis 3.0 available

Juan Vuletich has announced the new version of Cuis. Download it from here.

New in Cuis 3.0

New Look!

• Themes. Several themes included, plus, you can add your own.
• A nice default theme, using gradientes, rounded corners, anti-aliasing, nicer buttons, embossed labels, desktop background.
• Anti-aliased halos
• Window icons (taken from Squeak)
• New, friendlier Shout color specs

New TextMorphs

• Real view - model separation
• Removed StringHolder
• Text model holds current text + optional text provider (for accept / cancel)
• Simpler code, easier to extend.

Enhancements to

• Color
• Layouts
• Misc minor tweaks and fixes
• Many fixes and enhancements from Squeak

Here are some opinions about Cuis:

"Yay, Juan. You GO, guy! ...a great example of malleable software (and a clever mind) at work." -- Dan Ingalls

"I like it... It's nice and clean and simple and pretty. Nice stuff!" -- Alan Kay


"I think you have a very elegant design aesthetic." -- John Maloney

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Smalltalks 2010 declared of provincial interest

Smalltalks 2010 is going to be held in Concepción del Uruguay in the Entre Rios province. Andres Valloud, who is part of the organization team at FAST, gives us more details at his blog about this news: 

The Smalltalks 2010 conference in Argentina has been declared of interest by the Science, Technology and Innovation Agency of Entre Ríos (ACTIER) on the grounds that:

• The main objectives of this event are to create an environment conducive to promote research and development, to integrate the Argentine and international Smalltalk communities, and to stimulate the publication of educative and research works;
• That the organization entities (namely: the FAST foundation and the Concepción del Uruguay Regional site of the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional) support the event with their reputation, guaranteeing the participation of programmers, students, faculty members and scientific researchers, and national and international experts who will present, give tutorials and courses which, because of the quality and precedent set by past editions of the conference, will have a large impact thus causing regional interest;
• That because of its charter to promote research, development and the spreading of technology, to provide technical assistance and to promote all innovative activities that emphasize the social importance of the work done by scientists, technologists and entrepeneurs, the Science, Technology and Innovation Agency of Entre Ríos (ACTIER) is competent to declare the Smalltalks 2010 an event of regional interest.

Many thanks to ACTIER's director Profesora Silvia Kupervaser and subdirector Licenciada Ana María Laffitte, as well as everyone involved in this official declaration and the ongoing success of the Argentine Smalltalk community and the Smalltalks conference. 

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NAMCO demands takedown of Pacman game created by kid using Scratch

Namco, the owner of the Pacman game, has sent a letter complaining that a kid has recreated the game using Scratch. Scratch it's a programming language based on Squeak for kids. Namco is complaining to the kid, that everyone can play Pacman for free. It's evident that if a kid could reproduce their patents or the playability using Scratch then they're commercially useless. We need to review our copyrights laws, this is absurd.
Here is the letter.

References

• http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100730/17081510430.shtml

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