Again an argentinian project won the Innovation Technology Awards

This time in the 21th International Smalltalk Conference in Annecy, France, the winner of the Innovation Technology Awards is the project Oz Recovery Tools by Guillermo Polito.

Oz is an open source (experimental) platform for object spaces in Pharo. An object environment can be completely manipulated from another one, in the same process.

The second price is for Amber Smalltalk from Nicolas Petton and the third one is for Phratch from Jannik Laval.

Congratulations to the winners!

Some pics of the winners here, here and here in the ESUG 2013 album from Stephane Eggermont.

Note: BTW, beautiful jacket Guillermo, the glorious CABJ also winning in ESUG!

ESUG 2013 Conference is almost here!

The 21th ESUG conference will be held in Annecy, France 9-13 September 2013 with the Camp Smalltalk 8 September.

You can check here the conference schedule plenty of interesting talks related with Smalltalk technology. 

The conference will also includes an international workshop aimed to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchange of ideas.

Finally, the exciting challenge know as Innovation Technology Awards, with these titles for compete this year.

Esug 

The European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) is a non-profit users organization that supports all kinds of Smalltalk initiatives, especially free-open source ones that benefit the whole Smalltalk community. For example ESUG does:

• Link all users of the Smalltalk programming language and environments in Europe, individual and corporate
• Promote the use of Smalltalk
• Support local users groups and establish new ones
• Support Smalltalk projects and initiatives such as the Free Seaside Hosting Server

Se viene Smalltalks 2013

La noticia aquí.

PasswordsPro and SpiderOak Hive

As lot of people, I use several different computers and devices, then I need a way to maintain my passwordspro files synchronized with no effort.

The simple way is use SpiderOak Hive (available even in the free SpiderOak accounts).

SpiderOak Hive is a new feature of the super online backup SpiderOak that permit to maintain a folder synchronized between different devices.

The only requirement is have a SpiderOak account with SpiderOak running in your device.

In the video is possible to see the following sequence:

• In a Computer A, a Test record (of a secure note) is modified to TestZZZ.
• In the Computer B, after a few instants, the PasswordsPro file get updated (synchronized)
• In the Computer B, the Test record is deleted.
• In the Computer A, after a few instants, the PasswordsPro file get updated (The Test record don't exist anymore).

The backup service of SpiderOak has tons of nice features as backup history, sync data between multiple devices, access from anywhere, including the web, store data from any number of computers and different operating systems, share data by ShareRooms, etc but the feature that I like more is the Zero Knowledge privacy.

Taken from SpiderOak site, Zero Knowledge Privacy means that the server has zero knowledge of your data. In non-technical terms it means that your data is 100% private and only readable to you.

And, if this data, are passwordspro encrypted files, then the privacy is at least 200% !

Enjoy!