The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Call for papers for IWST in Edinburgh

    Alain Plaintec has published the call for papers for the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies which will be held on 23rd August during the ESUG 2011 conference in Edinburgh. The goal of the workshop is to “create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas”. Participants are…

  • Squeak 4.2 final now out!

    Squeak4.2-10966.zip is now available at http://ftp.squeak.org/4.2. This is intended to be the actual-released 4.2 image, unless, as Chris Muller says, “we find some problem, which we won’t!”. Some of the new features in this release are: Preparation for adoption of Cog VM Significant class-library and IDE improvements, with many speed improvements High-precision Clock (microsecond precision)…

  • Welcome to the Real World – Kinect in Squeak

    The newly-launched Microsoft Kinect has been causing a lot of excitement in hacker circles since its recent launch, due to its open interfaces, and the Smalltalk community has already got some great uses of this device. The Kinect is a device, intended to be used as an accessory for the X-Box, which interprets 3D scene…

  • Cuis 3.0 released

    Juan Vuletich has just announced the release of version 3.0 of Cuis. Cuis is a free Smalltalk-80 environment originally derived from Squeak by Juan with a vision of creating a simple and powerful environment by stripping out the layers of complexity that have accreted as Squeak has been developed over many years. In particular, this…

  • Bringing Multimedia (back) to Squeak

    Sean DeNigris has been doing some great archaeology recently, and with help from some of the original Sophie team, he has managed to get some of Sophie’s rich multimedia capabilities working in mainstream Squeak images. Sophie is a multimedia editing environment that was originally written in Squeak, although more recently it has been rewritten in…

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