Is it true that Smalltalk is too isolated and suffers from extreme shyness? Do we need to learn to play, reach out and integrate better with other languages and tools? Check out Alan Lovejoy‘s article: Smalltalk Considered Unfriendly
Category: Squeak
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Minding Your Business With Smalltalk (Part 1 of 4)
There has been a lot of talk about the future of Smalltalk. There are number of Object Oriented Languages that are candidates for replacing Smalltalk. Why has Smalltalk lasted so long? Why do business software suppliers still choose Smalltalk? Who are the people that still bet on the future of Smalltalk and how do they manage to succeed. (more…) -
Future Book, the Sophie Revolution
Sophie is out!! Sophie is open-source Squeak Smalltalk based software for authoring extreemly creative new eBooks. Sophie is licensed under a version of the new BSD license.
What is Sophie?
Sophie is a program for creating digital multimedia books. Sophie will let you make books that are impossible in print, with video and audio tracks, automatic actions, and shared feedback.
The word book can be widely interpreted: your book can resemble a regular book, with text and pictures, or it can be a book comprised completely of videos, or audio clips and images in a slideshow, or all of the above. Sophie books can even include other books, link out to the web, and allow reader interaction.
Sounds great! Get the Sophie Early Release Candidate 1 Now!
Check out these other useful links: http://www.futureofthebook.org/content/Mellon.pdf
https://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/oopsla-there-it-is-oopsla-2006/
The second one is a video that demos Sophie. The demo starts at: 23:32.The Sophie Team
Sophie is a project of the Institute for the Future of the Book. It relies on the talent and collaboration of people around the world.
- Germany: Impara, under the leadership of Michael Rueger and Bernd Eckardt
- US: Nick Matelan, Steve Riggins, Bob Stein, Dan Visel, Jesse Wilbur
- Canada: John McIntosh, Tim Rowledge
- Bulgaria: Astea
Principal funding for Sophie is provided by Research in Information Technology Program of the the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support comes from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Team reports – January 2007
Various team leaders has sent the monthly reports fro their team to the Squeak-dev mailing list:
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CIO Insight Interview with Alan Kay
CIO Insight magazine has published an interview with Smalltalk’s and Squeak’s father, Alan Kay. The interview, titled “Alan Kay: The PC Must Be Revamped—Now”, covers many topics such as the past, present and future of computing, Squeak and Croquet, the OLPC project and the other initiatives of ViewPoints Research Institute, and the need to reinvent the PC in order for computing to leap forward.
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Complete Computing System in 20K lines of Code
For those of you that couldn’t make it to Ian’s talk here is a video of the presentation. (more…)
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R U ‘N Love w/Dynamic Languages?
Spend Valentines Day with Ian.
4:15PM, Wednesday, Feb 14, 2007
HP Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B01
http://ee380.stanford.eduBuilding your own dynamic language is fun and easy!
First steps on the road to reinventing computingIan Piumarta
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OO programmers fall into two categories: Smalltalkers and those who don’t get it
As we previously mentioned Vassili Bykov recently left VisualWorks to join Eliot Miranda and Gilad Bracha at Cadence. Vassili was “the tools guy” at VisualWorks and contributed a huge amount to the current Smalltalk platform, from core frameworks such as Announcements to new or updated tools such as Trippy, a much enhanced inspector, and Parcel Browser–a wonderful tool for finding and browsing contributed packages. He also did much work on improving the appearance of the VisualWorks UI.
Previously Vassili worked for The Object People as an instructor and as a TOPLink developer. TOPLink is an object/RDBMS mapping software that significantly simplifies object persistence. It is similar to Glorp which is an Open Source project written by some of the same people.
I spoke with Vassili about Smalltalk. (more…)
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Team reports for October – December 2006
In the past months, various Squeak Teams have sent their reports to the Squeak-dev mailing list.
News team: October 2006.
Webteam: October, November and December 2006.
Box-Admins team: October, November and December 2006.
SETools team: October, November and December 2006.
Documentation team: October, November, December 2006.The News team also sent a report for January 2007.
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