The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Squeakfest a roaring success

    The US Squeakfest finished last week, following on from the previous Brazilian event, and it was a great success. Perhaps the best way to give a flavour of the excitement of the events and the enthusiasm of the attendees is to quote Timothy Falconer’s report: As I write this, I’m flying home from Squeakfest USA.…

  • Iliad web framework released

    Nicolas Petton recently announced on the squeak-dev mailing list the first public release of Iliad, which is succintly described on the Iliad website as a “a flexible, lightweight but powerful Smalltalk web framework.” Originally developed on GNU Smalltalk, but ported to Squeak/Pharo, Iliad features: standalone stateful widgets nice urls with a simple routing system simple…

  • Pier 1.2 now out

    Lukas Renggli, Tudor Girba and colleagues have been working hard on their Pier web content management system for the past few months, and have now shared the product of their labours with the release of Pier 1.2. Pier is a lightweight web content management system, built on Seaside, and intended to be managed from the…

  • SOB lays an egg – what will emerge?

    Those of you who read the squeak-dev mailing list will know that the list is currently going through the annual frenzy of discussion about the nature and direction of Squeak, including much to-and-fro over such topics as: the original vision of the founders of Squeak; the tangled relationship between Etoys and the rest of the…

  • ESUG Innovation Technology Awards – Time is running out!

    The Innovation Technology Awards session is one of the real highlights of the annual International Smalltalk Conference organised by ESUG each year. Noury Bouraqadi has just posted to remind everyone that you only have until 1st July to nominate your work for an award. Put together a brief description of your work, which can be…

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