The Weekly Squeak

With a transition looming from 32-bit to 64-bit, the VM-dev mailing list had a discussion about what the new object format should be. One of the issues was whether the new object format should have an immutability bit. A wide range of opinions appeared and at times the debate became somewhat heated. It is an…

Cuis now has its own mailing list. Congratulations, Cuis!

What’s the best way to make a website with Smalltalk? Aida! Join the creator of the Aida web development framework in the Web Team mailing list two weeks from now for an online workshop between the 18th and 22nd. If you have never tried Aida before or are a power user and need tips on…

The Squeak evolution as a body of code allows anybody to submit a change to the Inbox. Only those who are core developers can move that code into the Trunk to become part of the next release. Owing to their outstanding contributions, the Squeak Oversight Board has invited four people to become core developers: Frank Shearar,…

The BeagleBone is a single-board computer from Texas Instruments for creating hardware projects similar to  Arduino. David Graham has installed Squeak on the BeagleBone and then connected to the running image with VNC. This is likely the easiest way to begin to make a working robot with Squeak. This project is similar to Physical Etoys,…