The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • OLPC is not dead! Long live OLPC!

    Check out OLPC XO-4. I would hate to add to the speculation that OLPC is dead because it’s not.  Wayan Wota has been calling OLPC dead for 5 years. This is not news. He has not been involved with the project in a long time. His article is about the XO-1, apparently he doesn’t even…

  • 7-point summary of the Spur memory manager

    From Clément’s post to the pharo community: Hello pharoers, The new Cog memory manager, Spur, is simply *amazing*. I saw at FOSDEM that some of you were interested in it, but unfortunately you were lacking information about it. I wrote a one page article that sums up Spur’s new features so every one can know what…

  • Squeak 4.5 Release Candidate 1

    From: Chris Muller: It’s ready for your final testing and scrutiny! http://ftp.squeak.org/4.5alpha/Squeak4.5-13663.zip Please bang on this!  Test it with your apps.  Test it in Windows, iOS, Linux.  Interpreter and Cog. Unless we hit any show-stoppers, this will be the one we can call “done.” Thanks to this great community of brilliant developers for making 4.5…

  • Squeak needs you!

      It’s time to encourage our best community members to step up and serve.  Put your name in the race and get elected to the Squeak Oversight Board.  Talk to people – you know who they are – that really should run. From Tim: Being on the board is not an onerous job. It does…

  • Spur Memory Manager Object Format Explained

      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…

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