The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Seaside 2.8 Released!!

    After a beta phase of two months we release the final version of Seaside 2.8. Most bugs fixed during this period were either long standing (already in 2.7), minor or portability related, Together with the dozens of Seaside 2.8 applications already in production today this gives a pretty good feeling about this version. A special…

  • Wait for it! – The Little Book of Semaphores

    “The Little Book of Semaphores” by Allen B. Downey has been highly recommended on Squeak-Dev. This is a terrific source for understanding semaphores and learning how to apply them. The book includes puzzles and examples. Visit the Unisex Bathroom or help the Baboons crossing a canyon.

  • Recess!! Learning at play.

    Bill Kerr tells us about a really cool new project from Mark Shuttleworth’s Foundation called Kusasa. Check out Bills comments about learning from Play, and please be sure to follow the links on his post, they are very interesting.

  • Squeak BOF at OOPSLA – highlights + videos

    Alexandre Bergel and Göran Krampe reported on the mailing-list (1, 2) the highlights of the Squeak BOF session at OOPSLA 2007 on Monday: Jamie Douglass discussed CAT, an alternative to SmaCC Andrew P. Black showed “Squeak by Example” (and sold a few more copies!) Alessandro Warth showed how to implement a JavaScript interpreter in 300…

  • Capturing Debug

    Giles Bowkett sparked a bit of controversy. There have been some interesting responses from James and Avi. I figured I would just stay out of it, and I did a pretty good job resisting. Until now. Giles is right. Tools do not make good programmers. Coding in a debugger has the tendency to create lava…

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