The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Welcome to the Real World – Kinect in Squeak

    The newly-launched Microsoft Kinect has been causing a lot of excitement in hacker circles since its recent launch, due to its open interfaces, and the Smalltalk community has already got some great uses of this device. The Kinect is a device, intended to be used as an accessory for the X-Box, which interprets 3D scene…

  • Cuis 3.0 released

    Juan Vuletich has just announced the release of version 3.0 of Cuis. Cuis is a free Smalltalk-80 environment originally derived from Squeak by Juan with a vision of creating a simple and powerful environment by stripping out the layers of complexity that have accreted as Squeak has been developed over many years. In particular, this…

  • Bringing Multimedia (back) to Squeak

    Sean DeNigris has been doing some great archaeology recently, and with help from some of the original Sophie team, he has managed to get some of Sophie’s rich multimedia capabilities working in mainstream Squeak images. Sophie is a multimedia editing environment that was originally written in Squeak, although more recently it has been rewritten in…

  • An early Christmas present from Aida

    Janko Mivšek is delivering his Christmas presents early this year, with the announcement of  the first beta of the “Christmas edition”(6.2) of Aida/Web. Aida/Web is a Smalltalk web application framework with integrated Ajax support, a rich collection of web components, REST-like URLs, and integrated session and security management and much more. Among the many new…

  • The Return of the Connectors

    Chris Muller has recently updated Connectors to work with Squeak 4.2 images. Connectors gives you the ability to turn Morphic into a drawing environment for making connected diagrams. This tool was developed by Ned Konz many years ago and hasn’t been able to load in an up-to-date image for some time. A Connector is a…

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