The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Qwaq developing new fast Smalltalk VM

    Eliot Miranda has posted some exciting news – he is working at Qwaq to develop Cog, a fast Smalltalk VM for Croquet. The VM will dynamically compile Smalltalk bytecodes to machine code transparently to the programmer, and execute this machine code instead of interpreting bytecode. He expects to have an initial release within a year which…

  • Smalltalk Solutions 2008 – two weeks to go!

    The Smalltalk Industry Council’s annual Smalltalk Solutions conference is coming up on 18-21 June 2008 in Reno, Nevada. Smalltalk Solutions brings together Smalltalk users, developers, and enthusiasts as well as those interested in the latest Smalltalk technology. This year’s agenda has a host of fascinating topics and speakers lined up, with keynote presentations from Gilad Bracha comparing Newspeak…

  • Gemstone’s MagLev presented at RubyConf

    Avi Bryant joined Gemstone’s Bob Walker at RailsConf last week for a presentation (summarised here) describing MagLev, a Ruby VM built on the same technology as Gemstone/S, offering transparent persistence, and so the possibility of massive scalability, to Ruby applications. Despite only being under development for three months, with the initial focus being on scalability rather than speed, MagLev is already able…

  • Dan Ingalls Interview on FLOSS Weekly

    Randal L. Schwartz writes that: “Dan Ingalls graciously granted me a 90-minute interview for my FLOSS “Weekly” show.  We talked about the early days at Xerox PARC, the birth of Squeak, and the Lively Kernel.”   Dan Ingalls has been the principal architect of five generations of Smalltalk environments. He designed the byte-coded virtual machine that…

  • New Yorkers’ chance to see Squeak-based education tools

    The Mid-Hudson Valley Linux User Group will get the opportunity on 4th June to hear about a range of educational tools running on Squeak, including: Seaside, Scratch, Croquet and Etoys. Joe Apuzzo will discuss his experience teaching 60 kids from 3th grade to 5th math and science (all within 15 minutes per group). Find out more at the website.

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