In a keynote speech at NECC, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, explains what he hopes to achieve through the project–and educators offer their reactions.
Source: Bert’s blog
Just found a nice video on youtube about the $100 laptop at NECC 06, including a cameo of our very own Kim Rose (at 3:21) while the speaker is mentioning “creativity” – very apt, I’d say.
Howard Stearns recently replied to a question from Mathieu. I thought I’d reproduce his response here. Howard gives a lot of very good information about Croquet support for third party tools….
Bryce Kampjes: Exupery Talk from Brussels2006 Smalltalk party
Handout: Exupery Design.
This is a very informative video exploring Exupery for those of you following compiler and VM developments. The video ends a few minutes before the talk is finished. Our thanks to Göran Krampe for filming it.
SqueakSource is a web based repository for versioning and storing Squeak code. The subject of creating a squeakSource image came up on the beginners list.
Franz Josef Konrad posted a very nice “how to create your own SqueakSource image” response. By running your own squeakSource you can share code with other developers or use it just to keep track of your own stuff. Here are the steps to create a squeakSource image:
See Göran Krampe’s Gjallar demo at OOPSLA 2006, Tim’s pointer update, board information and a License update.
What are my options on a Linux Server?
This question came up reciently on Squeak-dev. I found this answer on wiki. I figured I’d post it here since it provides a complete answer for all platforms. (more…)
Avi Bryant has asked for help with Image Segments. He is offering to compensate anyone that can help to move some image segments to a file instead of increasing the size of the image itself. Please contact Avi if you would like to help with this latest community bounty project.
The VM group reciently had a discussion about a proposal to add Callback support to Squeak. It appears that some people have missed the discussion. Speaking as one that was Squeaking without Callback support I would encourage the VM group to carefully review Andreas proposal and I’m looking forward to seeing this very much needed feature on our future VM’s.
– Ron Teitelbaum
The lesson here is watch which key you press! Dale Henrichs from Gemstone accidentally posted his GemStone code to the Seaside Repository. It looks like we can expect Seaside to work with Gemstone coming soon.
In Dales own words: We’ll make an announcement to this list when all of the pieces are in place (including information about downloading non-commerce/trial versions). Our target date for having everything ready is Smalltalk Solutions 2007. If things continue to go smoothly, we are likely to be ready sooner.
Remember you heard it here first! Ok well you heard it first on the seaside list, but you heard it here second!
The Weekly Squeak 