The Weekly Squeak

As a social event, the attendants to the ESUG 2006 conference could take part in a three hours guided tour of the centre of Prague. The tour started in Wenceslaus Square under the statue of King Wenceslaus (which English-speaking readers will remember from the Christmas carol). From there the groups went to the Old Town…

In the only track of the afternoon, Noury Bouraqadi presented Ubiquitalk, a P2P system to connect disparate system, in order to create a network where different nodes can offer different services. Ubiquitalk has been built on top of Squeak, and relies on the rST (Remote Smalltalk system) for remote message sending. Ubiquitalk is a the…

The awards ceremony for the ESUG 2006 Innovation Awards was held in the main Conference room right before lunch on Wednesday. This year’s awards saw 9 contestants and 62 voters. The competition was fierce, and the three winners were: Plopp, by Impara Mondrian, by Tudor Girba and Michael Meyer SqSquare, by Kazuki Minamitani, Masashi Umezawa…

The last talk for Wednesday’s morning session was delivered by Marcus and Stef, releasers of Squeak 3.9, and it was a quick recap on what happened in the world of Squeak in the last year. Here are the main points: The new SqueakFoundation is now working. It has 7 board members, and its role is…

Mondrian, by Tudor Girba, is simply a visualization tool. The cool thing about it is that it can be used to display graphs of any kind or size (classes with methods, methods invocations). Graph displaying may be obtained dinamically just by scripting the Mondrian engine, without ever manipulating the graphic engine: you just specify the…