Author: Ron Teitelbaum

Job in San Jose, California

Cadence Design Systems, the leader in Electronic Design Automation, is seeking outstanding software engineers for a novel technology project at its San Jose, California campus.

We are seeking developers with the following qualifications: Object Oriented design and modeling Advanced degree in Computer Science Working experience with Smalltalk/Squeak desirable Exposure to formal methods Exposure to system design languages (UML, Mathlab/Simulink, System- C, Esterel), and system design flows an advantage Ability to work in a fast paced industrial environment Current US work permit.

Interested parties should contact Gilad Bracha (Gilad@Cadence.com).

26 October, 2006
RESTFull URL

Andreas asked the question can http://www.squeakSource.com support RESTFull URL’s

26 October, 2006
Removing EToys?

There has been an interesting debate about removing EToys from the main squeak image. The debate is around the fact that Squeakland appears to be a permanent fork and if the community wants to decouple Etoys from Morphic there may be more of an opportunity to improve Morphic. Not everyone agrees with this path and its implications read more here.

26 October, 2006
Efficient Thread-local shared variables

Andreas looking for help started a very interesting discussion about Efficient thread-local shared variables

26 October, 2006
IPOD anyone?

[ANN] Gjallar competition! (or “How to win an Ipod”)

goran at krampe.se

26 October, 2006
Image Freezing

Your help is needed. There appears to be some trouble with new images that freeze up. This week there was some discussion about how to diagnose and solve this problem http://tinyurl.com/y6kxgl

http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=4882

Your help is needed!

See Fix to Delay by Andreas: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2007-July/118942.html

See Fix Suggestion by Adrian:

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2007-July/119023.html

26 October, 2006
Minnow Wiki

So what’s going on with Minnow WIKI? http://tinyurl.com/tbyz5

It’s moving? It’s changing? It’s staying the same? See if you can follow the tread.

26 October, 2006
Squeak’s Path To Security

We are very pleased to announce the addition of a new Cryptography Team member.

Krishna Sankar is joining our team as the new Squeak Cryptography Certification Validation Officer.

The goal of this position is to set a path for the cryptography team to ensure that the Squeak Cryptography code meets the NSA common criteria http://niap.bahialab.com/cc-scheme/cc_docs/index.cfm which a first step on the path to FIPS certification. (more…)

11 October, 2006
The Fight for Open Source

Open Source vs. Private Development

By: Ron Teitelbaum * Ron@USMedRec.com

It’s an important question: Where does the advantage lie? When private development funds projects, full time and very talented people can be attracted by money and the potential financial rewards that come from private ownership. Open source development has the advantage of larger numbers of part time development resources.

This article focuses on the benefits of open source vs. private development, what the limitations are, real or imagined, and where is this all leading.

(more…)

7 October, 2006
Cryptography On The Move

The Cryptography Team released the first version of Squeak SSL! http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/announcements/2006-October/000050.html . There is still much to be done, but it’s nice to see the team on the move. Come join the team http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/cryptography .

The code can be found at www.squeaksource.com/Cryptography . Special thanks to everyone that helped make this possible and espically Rob Withers for pulling it all together. Rob’s code is really beautiful.

There is still plenty of work to be done so please stop by and volenteer to help!

Ron Teitelbaum * Cryptography Team Leader

3 October, 2006