The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Squeak and Seaside BOFs at OOPSLA ’08

    Nicolas Chen has posted a very interesting report on the Squeak and Seaside ‘Birds of a Feather’ sessions at this year’s OOPSLA Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Speakers included Michael Lucas-Smith of Cincom talking  about their WebVelocity development tool for Seaside; Göran Krampe on Blackfoot, his lightweight SCGI-based KomHttpServer replacement for Seaside deployment; Dave Ungar (ex-Sun…

  • New Dependency Browser for Squeak

    Hernán Morales Durand recently announced a new tool he has developed, which allows developers to review the dependencies between the classes within their applications. His Dependency Browser includes an OmniBrowser interface (as shown above) allowing you to review and edit those dependencies. Hernán is continuing to work on the tool, and is looking at extending…

  • ‘Smalltalk is cool again’, says Gartner

    Mark Driver, an analyst at Gartner, has an just published an interesting article noting the resurgence of interest in Smalltalk. He says that developers owe a tremendous debt to Smalltalk but the language itself has been relegated to a small niche of technology elites for several years now. He reasons that this was because it…

  • Squeak BOF at OOPSLA 2008

    OOPSLA, the “original conference devoted to object-oriented programming”, is running this year on 19th-23rd October in Nashville. Göran Krampe wrote to the mailing list to let attendees know that he is organising a Squeak “Birds of a Feather” evening session on Tuesday at 18:00. Göran has had experience of organising these events in the past,…

  • Pier Content Management for Seaside

    As he demonstrated at ESUG, Tudor Girba has recently been working with Pier, the Web Content Management System built on Seaside, and has announced the release of a new version, with a number of new features. Pier CMS allows users to create and manage their own websites. It supports the development of plug-ins allowing the…

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