white@scs.carleton.ca (Paul White) (04/24/91)
The Smalltalk Report
An International Newsletter for Smalltalk Programmers
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The Smalltalk Report is a new international newsletter targeted towards all
members of the Smalltalk community. Published nine times annually, each
issue will present articles and columns covering a wide range of topics
with a particular focus on the practical application of Smalltalk in
engineering and commercial environments. Materials are written both
for and by "Smalltalkers".
Topic areas covered include programming techniques, language issues,
analysis and design methodologies, project management, training and education,
class libraries, reusable design frameworks, application case studies and
experience reports. Coverage includes all dialects of Smalltalk.
The Smalltalk Report is targeted towards project leaders, programmers,
software engineers, educators, researchers, and students involved in developing
software with Smalltalk. The newsletter caters to the entire Smalltalk
community; from beginner to expert, from programmer to manager, and from
researcher to commercial developer.
Our objective is to support the successful wide-spread implementation and
growth of Smalltalk as a development vehicle for object-oriented systems,
and to disseminate the latest information and news to the Smalltalk
community in a concise and timely fashion.
The Smalltalk Report accepts articles under the following classifications:
Feature
Article
Series
Column
Personality Profile
Book Review
Product Review
Laboratory Report
The Smalltalk Report will also feature highlights of Smalltalk Bulletin
Board conversations, reports from Smalltalk user groups, product
announcements and press clippings.
Suggested Submission Topics
The following is a list of suggestions for topics and is not intended to be
exhaustive. Overlap among topics does occur and topics are not mutually
exclusive. Potential contributors are encouraged to suggest alternative topics.
Source code is encouraged and will be published subject to space limitations.
APPLICATIONS:
- Commercial, engineering, and scientific applications
- Application frameworks
- Project management
- Vertical (application) and horizontal (system) class libraries
- Portability issues
- Object library management
- Object-oriented design and analysis techniques
LANGUAGE ISSUES:
- Inheritance
- User interface paradigms
- Concurrency
- Persistent Objects and Databases
- Distributed Smalltalk issues
- Performance issues
- Typing
- Meta-level programming
- Garbage collection
- Interfacing Smalltalk with other languages
- Interfacing Smalltalk with other applications
- Education and training
- Metrics
TOOLS:
- User interface builders
- Object editors
- Application development tools
- Project management tools
- CASE tools
PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
- Rapid prototyping
- Version management
- Application management
- Team organization
- Organizing for reuse
- Introducing Smalltalk into an organization
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- Teaching/Learning Smalltalk
- Novel approaches
- Teaching object-oriented design
- Educating management
- Research laboratory reports
For a copy of the Guidelines for Contributors:
The Editors:
John Pugh and Paul White
91 Second Ave.
Ottawa, Ontario
CANADA, K1S 2H4
Phone: 613-230-6897
Fax: 613-235-8256 (from Wed April 24th)
E-Mail:
Bitnet: streport@carleton.ca
CompuServe: 70524,3613
The Smalltalk Report will be published by SIGS Publications Inc; the
publishers of the Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, Object Magazine,
and the C++ Report.