The Weekly Squeak

Colin Putney is hosting some meetings with Google Plus open to anybody. The first is scheduled for Thursday 30th at 10 am Pacific Time. If you’d like to join a free floating conversation about Squeak things – questions, opinions, ideas – register and attend. http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-August/165572.html http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-August/165577.html The event is modeled on the biweekly meetings of…

The European Smalltalk Users Group holds its yearly convention beginning next weekend. This year it is held at the Vooruit arts center in Gent, Belgium. http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2012

Dmitry Golubovsky has done some great work making Smalltalk work on the Android mobile platform. Check it out! http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-August/165296.html

The Altitude web framework has reintroduced work done on a new streams library – Xtreams. Traditional Smalltalk-80 streams have served well for decades. Michael Lucas-Smith and Martin Kobetic started Xtreams as an attempt to distill some of their experience into a new implementation of streams. A great video of the 2010 ESUG talk is available…

Alan Kay gave a talk at the ACM’s Turing Centenary Celebration. He used VPRI’s Frank (as in “Frankenstein’s monster”) research prototype, which is a built on top of Squeak4.3. To see the twenty minuted video, choose “Extracting Energy From the Turing Tarpit” from the playlist at the ACM’s website. http://turing100.acm.org/index.cfm?p=webcast