Squeak Turns 20!
31 October, 2016
Please Donate to Squeak!
Craig Latta writes:
Hi all–
Happy 20th birthday to us! It was twenty years ago that Dan Ingalls and the rest of Alan Kay’s team announced Squeak to the world. You really changed things with this run at the fence. 🙂 Thanks again!
Back to the Future
The Story of Squeak, A Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself
by
Dan Ingalls Ted Kaehler John Maloney Scott Wallace Alan Kay
CodeWeek – Squeak and Etoys – SAP Innovation Center
17 October, 2015
Check out the New Squeak Website
29 June, 2015
A lot of work has gone into the new Squeak.org website. Go check it out!
Nice work to everyone that worked on it, it’s beautiful and well organized!
[announcement on Squeak-dev]
Dear Smalltalkers
I am pleased to announce new look of the Squeak Website
Personally, I want to thank Fabio Niephaus, who invested a lot of effort into the new site.
Best regards
-Tobias Pape
Cool, Interesting – WAIT – is that SCRATCH!!
12 May, 2015
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer
The wildly popular C.H.I.P. comes pre-loaded with Scratch!
Nice play C.H.I.P.!
SqueakJS runs Etoys now
5 July, 2014
From Bert Freudenberg:
Hi all,
my SqueakJS VM has reached a major milestone. It is now sufficiently complete to run a full Etoys image (and possibly other non-closure images, too). It has support for most BitBlt modes, WarpBlt, even some Balloon2D rendering (for TTF fonts), a virtual file system, image saving etc.
Try it: http://bertfreudenberg.github.io/SqueakJS/etoys/
(Safari and IE are significantly faster than Firefox and Chrome, best is Safari Webkit nightly, works on iPad too, hopefully Android)
For more details, see my blogpost:
http://croquetweak.blogspot.de/2014/07/squeakjs-runs-etoys-now.html
Feedback and contributions welcome 🙂
– Bert –
Squeak 4.5 Released!
21 March, 2014
From Chris Muller:
So! Let it be known! Squeak 4.5 is released!
Home page is here: http://www.squeak.org
4.5 release notes are here: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6193
Excellent Job Everyone!! Can you tell we are excited!
Spur Memory Manager Object Format Explained
19 January, 2014
Clément Béra just posted an excellent article explaining the new Spur Object format. Definitely worth a read!
Eliot Miranda has also mentioned that Spur is coming to life in Newspeak as we speak and then Squeak 5.0.
Find out more about the Squeak VM called Cog and the new memory manager called Spur at Eliot’s Cog Blog.
Cog Development Welcomes Clément Béra
5 October, 2013
Word has it that Clément Béra is working With Eliot Miranda on Cog. Göran pointed out Clements excellent blog: here, to me a few weeks ago after meeting him at ESUG.
From Eliot: Clément Béra is, amongst other things, working on Cog performance, looking at adaptive optimization/speculative inlining (Sista in Cog, for Speculative Inlining Smalltalk Architecture).
I just wanted to welcome Clément Béra and to say thank you to everyone working on the VM for both communities, you know who you are (and we do to) and especially Eliot for working on Cog and keeping the advancements coming! Hip Hip … and all that.
A Spur gear for Cog
5 September, 2013
Moving the Squeak GC forward in COG.
http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/2013/09/05/a-spur-gear-for-cog/
Etoys at Maker Faire in Hannover
6 August, 2013
Etoys, children, a funny hat and a handmade Smalltalk balloon. What more could you ask for! Looks like a great day for everyone.
Read more about it here: http://squeaklandnews.blogspot.de/
