Squeak

Some Microsoft EX-exec’s sue Red Hat for patent infringement. How “EX” you say? Well the last one arrived Oct 1st. The patent is for a windowed GUI. Hummm that’s a good one. Wait didn’t Dan do that? Smalltalk to the rescue?? Help is on the way!

Ramon Leon just announced on the Seaside mailing list that Answers.com has just launched a new hotel-booking widget that gives access to a site developed by reserve travel using Seaside. Searching for a city, eg ... [More] http://www.answers.com/Phoenix?cat=travel, shows the widget directly beside the city name. Doing a search in this widget launches the Seaside-based affiliate booking [...] [Less]

Georg Heeg, the Executive Director of The Smalltalk Industry Council, announced on the mailing list that STIC has a new website and is organising next year’s Smalltalk Solutions conference for 18-21 June in Reno, Nevada. For more details, check out ... [More] Georg’s blog. Hernan Wilkinson and Andres Valloud announced the first Smalltalk conference in Argentina, to be [...] [Less]

Dan Ingalls working at Sun Labs has just released their first version of Morphic implemented completely with JavaScript which they are calling the Lively Kernel. There is no plugin required, but your browser currently must support SVG. You should use your Safari browser for best results. It will work with Firefox [...]

David Pogue at NYTimes reviews the One Laptop Per Child computer.  Don’t miss the video clip, it’s very cool.

Simon Holland yesterday announced on the squeak-dev list the release of TUIO under the MIT licence. TUIO allows the rapid development of table-based tangible user interfaces (TUI) and multi-touch interactive surfaces. TUIO uses the reacTIVision ... [More] computer vision system to track physical objects in real time. This system is also used in reactable - the electronic music [...] [Less]

Pretty cool stuff!!

From Michael Lucas-Smith: Hi Everyone, Just a heads up that Industry Misinterpretations, our Smalltalk podcast, has three podcasts specifically about Seaside coming out over the next week. Podcast #1: Myself, James Robertson, Tamara Kogan, Martin ... [More] Kobetic, Arden Thomas Podcast #2: Myself, James Robertson, Michel Bany, Alan Knight, Arden Thomas Podcast #3: Myself, James Robertson, The entire Gemstone GLASS team The podcasts [...] [Less]

Ramon Leon’s blog, always a great resource for tips on Squeak and Seaside, has a nice post on how to build a simple file-based wiki using Seaside built with only one class and 98 lines of code. It’s intended as a learning tool, so it doesn’t make use of other useful resources such as [...]

For those of you who want to see Croquet in action, check out the keynote by Justin Rattner from Intel’s developer forum in San Francisco this morning: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/idffall_2007/webcasts.htm The topic is “The rise of the ... [More] 3D Internet” and Croquet is featured both in the talk in general (as an example of P2P collaboration environment) and live via [...] [Less]