I just saw a very nice thread on the Seaside mailing list about deploying a seaside application. I thought I’d summarize the suggestions for this article. (more…)
Category: Squeak
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Magma Interview with Chris Muller
ODBMSJournal did a nice interview with Chris Muller about Magma. Magma is an object database writtne entirely in Smalltalk. Chris discusses smalltalk in general and IDE’s both closed and open source. He also discusses aspects of Magma including commiting and setup, queries, standard SQL support for reporting tools through ODBC, reporting, Morphic persistence, performance optimizations and his expierences in developing Magma.
Thank you Steve Moffitt for pointing out the interview.
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Scratch!
Check out Scratch!
Scratch is a new programming language that lets you create your own animations, games, and interactive art. Scratch will be available for public release later this year.
The Scratch project has released the first beta version for public download. Scratch is based on Squeak, although there is apparently no way to reach through to the Smalltalk / Squeak core of it.To learn more, have a look at
http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/llk/scratch/about.htmland at the Getting started GuideScratch is being developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab, in collaboration with KIDS research group at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.
Thanks Matthias for submitting this article!
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Wiki: migrations…
There is a fair interesting thread on Minnow Wiki Migration, fired on the 18th of October.
Because Minnow is a very huge wiki, you can find advice and consideration on this topic: the new Pier wiki (which is covered) is fair interesting topic too.
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Squackers meeting – November
Craig Latta writes:
Hi all–
Every month I host “Squackers”, a meeting of Squeak hackers. It
happens near San Francisco, USA, on first Wednesdays from 8pm to 10pm
pacific time; the next one will be on 1 November 2006. We get together
to show what we’ve been doing and dreaming in Squeak. We also tie in
people from far away via AIM (for audio and video) and VNC (to share
screens).In November we’ll have an OOPSLA redux, I’ll show a timekeeping
system I wrote for consulting projects, and we’ll watch and discuss
other demos and topics that people have.Please let me know if you can make it (either in person or
virtually), if you need directions, and if you have something you’d like
to show or discuss. My AIM ID is “[deleted]”proceed for truth! 🙂
-C
Editor’s notice: I’ve decided not to publish Craig’s AIM id. If you’re interested in attending the meeting and need to contact Craig, please follow the link to the squeak-dev archive posting.
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Strongtalk VM for RUBY?
Many of you are following the latest developments in VM technology. The Strongtalk VM was release as open source by SUN. There is some discussion about using the Strongtalk VM for Ruby. Will Ruby be the first language to benefit from Strongtalk’s Type Feedback optimizations? Will the VM developers in the Smalltalk community step up to help Strongtalk? While a path is being forged it would be nice if we could steer it back towards support for Squeak. Please join the discussion at: http://groups.google.com/group/strongtalk-general
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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. -
Efficient Thread-local shared variables
Andreas looking for help started a very interesting discussion about Efficient thread-local shared variables
The Weekly Squeak 