The Weekly Squeak

How many calls have you missed since 2009? For Childline, a child-crisis-hotline service in South Africa, that number has been zero. Squeak Oversight Board member Chris Muller developed a GIS module to provide real-time regional call routing for 4Dst’s “Awareness Engine” product. Explore the presentation he made at this year’s Smalltalk Industry Council convention. Squeak Smalltalk — good…

Physical Etoys 2.0 has been released with lots of new features: 1. First of all, it’s based on Etoys 5.0 so it incorporates all the bug-fixes and new features from the Etoys release. 2. It focuses on the two main hardware platforms: Arduino and Lego Mindstorms Nxt. 3. An Argentinian version of Arduino is now supported called…

The leadership team for 20 April 2012 to – 20 April 2013 (approximately) has been announced after the regular voting period. The order reflects the ranking from the election using default Condorcet completion rules (Beatpath/Schulze/CSSD). As usual, the rules actually give the same top 7 choices in the same order. The is year’s Squeak Oversight Board is composed of:…

Cuis 4.0 has been released. This is a big release for Cuis, as it has been ten months since the last version. Lots of new features are available including a StyledTextEditor by Bernhard Pieber. All the details are available at the Cuis website at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisReleaseNotes.html.