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Pharo Sprint in Lille, France
Aoround 20 people attended the Pharo sprint in Lille, France, which took place from 17th to 20th October 2009. Our main target was to finish version 1.0. We managed to fix several long-standing problems and eventually the unit tests – over 7000 in total – all passed. As a result we published a first release candidate replacing the current beta version.
Another area of work was to start off 1.1-alpha. Since we are going to provide maintenance updates for 1.0 after its release, there are now two parallel update streams. For version 1.1 we defined the following milestones:
New preferences system
Integrate Alien
Improve code quality (e.g., make selected Lint tests pass)
Continuous integration system
It was a great sprint with many enthusiastic people who were eager to take Pharo one step further. Thanks to everyone, and especially to Stef and his group for the hosting and INRIA for the financial support.
Posted by Adrian Lienhard on Oct. 22, 2009
PhD thesis awarded the Ernst Denert-Stiftung Prize
My PhD thesis, Dynamic Object Flow Analysis, has been awarded the 2009 Ernst Denert-Stiftung Prize for Software Engineering. This renowned prize is awarded every year for the best dissertation and carries a value of €5000. I received the award during the annual GI conference (Gesellschaft für Informatik E.V) in Germany last week.
My thesis is available online and can be ordered as a book (see Publications).
Receiving the award from Prof. Dr. Ernst Denert during the annual GI conference.
Posted by Adrian Lienhard on October 8, 2009
