The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Magma 1.2 released

    Chris Muller wrote to the squeak-dev mailing list announcing that Magma 1.2 is now released for Squeak 4.2, Pharo 1.1 and Pharo 1.2. Magma is a high-performance, fault-tolerant, multi-user object database that provides transparent access to a large-scale shared persistent object model, supports multiple users concurrently via optimistic locking, and uses a simple transaction protocol.…

  • Voting is under way for the Squeak Oversight Board

    Voting is now under way in this year’s elections for the Squeak Oversight Board. After some prompting from their colleagues, the following people have thrown their hats into the ring: Chris Muller (announcement) Randal Schwartz (announcement) Edgar De Cleene (announcement) Bert Freudenberg (announcement) Jecel Assumpcao (announcement) Levente Uzonyi (announcement) Nikolay Suslov (announcement) Chris Cunnington (announcement)…

  • Google Summer of Code – Student Smalltalkers wanted!

    Janko Mivšek wrote to the squeak-dev mailing list that “we are preparing an application to this year’s Smalltalk Google Summer of Code under the ESUG umbrella, as last year”. Google Summer of Code is a global program sponsored by Google that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. The…

  • Call for papers for IWST in Edinburgh

    Alain Plaintec has published the call for papers for the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies which will be held on 23rd August during the ESUG 2011 conference in Edinburgh. The goal of the workshop is to “create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas”. Participants are…

  • Squeak 4.2 final now out!

    Squeak4.2-10966.zip is now available at http://ftp.squeak.org/4.2. This is intended to be the actual-released 4.2 image, unless, as Chris Muller says, “we find some problem, which we won’t!”. Some of the new features in this release are: Preparation for adoption of Cog VM Significant class-library and IDE improvements, with many speed improvements High-precision Clock (microsecond precision)…

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