Squeak

Tony Garnock-Jones reports that he has succeeded in getting Squeak running on the new FIC Neo1973 open-source GSM cellphone, which runs OpenMoko, based on OpenEmbedded. He used Squeak VM version 3.9, running a stripped 2.8 image (though he has also ... [More] had a 3.9 image running), and is now looking at accessing the phone’s hardware, including GSM modem, GPS, [...] [Less]

See IEEE Software September/October: Dynamically Typed Languages For a very nice article about Seaside.

Following Stéphane Ducasse’s announcement last week, the finishing touches were applied at a blistering pace, and Squeak By Example has now been published! You can order the book in hardcopy from print-on-demand specialists lulu.com. There is also an ... [More] accompanying website http://SqueakByExample.org, where you can download the book as a PDF. The book is intended as an [...] [Less]

The European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has organised the International Smalltalk Conference for the last 14 years, and this year, at Lugano in Switzerland, the program included a number of presentations interesting to Squeakers. These included: ... [More] Noury Bouraqadi on Bridging the Gap Between Morphic Visual Programming and Smalltalk Code Damien Cassou on Redesigning with Traits: The [...] [Less]

The squeak-dev mailing list is currently fired up with a debate that will be of great interest for students of the theory of language design - and for students of the politics of language design! It started with a question by Fabio Filasieno wondering why Squeak doesn’t have a “pipe” construct to the language to allow [...]

Last week at ESUG, co-author Stéphane Ducasse announced a new book will be available in mid-September entitled “Squeak By Example“. First released as a beta version, and totally free and open-source, you can find out more at the book’s website.

Gary Chambers released new UI Enhancements for Squeak. You can now access these changes from the Squeak Source Repository or through Package Universes. You can read more by following the following threads here and here. Also check out the new UI team. Our thanks to Gary and the UI Team!!

From: Michael Haupt, The German/Swiss/Austrian TV station 3sat has a weekly 30-minute show called “neues” (roughly translated “new things”) which deals with IT-related information. Yesterday’s show was focusing on bringing IT to isolated regions and ... [More] emerging nations as well as developing countries. The show featured an article on mesh networks in Ecuador and the Linux4Africa project. Linux4Africa [...] [Less]

When I was much younger then I am now, before I knew much about computers, except that I didn’t like them, I was given a copy of Symphony. The original owner didn’t really have much use for the spread sheet / database programming language. It was the first program that I’d ever seen. At [...]

The Weekly Squeak often highlights news of Squeak professionals. Today I’d like to focus on a programmer new to Squeak who said some darn nice things about it. As with most of us, Squeak seemed fascinating yet unreachable when we first approached the system that contained itself. Heck, unlike most languages and environments, you have [...]