Previously we spoke with Michael Rueger and Steve Hunter. From Michael we found out about the perspective of writing and supporting open source software. From Steve we found out what it is like being a consumer of open source software. Today we talk with Bert Freudenberg. From Bert we hope to learn what it is like being a Smalltalk programmer contributing to open source.
For those of you that couldn’t make it to Ian’s talk here is a video of the presentation. (more…)
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.
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
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
Andreas looking for help started a very interesting discussion about Efficient thread-local shared variables
The Weekly Squeak 