The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • OLPC on TV

    From: Michael Haupt, The German/Swiss/Austrian TV station 3sat has a weekly 30-minute show called “neues” (roughly translated “new things”) which deals with IT-related information. Yesterday’s show was focusing on bringing IT to isolated regions and emerging nations as well as developing countries. The show featured an article on mesh networks in Ecuador and the Linux4Africa…

  • Thinking Objects

    When I was much younger then I am now, before I knew much about computers, except that I didn’t like them, I was given a copy of Symphony. The original owner didn’t really have much use for the spread sheet / database programming language. It was the first program that I’d ever seen. At the…

  • Coder clears head… has fun…

    The Weekly Squeak often highlights news of Squeak professionals. Today I’d like to focus on a programmer new to Squeak who said some darn nice things about it. As with most of us, Squeak seemed fascinating yet unreachable when we first approached the system that contained itself. Heck, unlike most languages and environments, you have…

  • Yabba Dabble Do!

    Smallthought Systems, the authors of the Seaside-based online spreadsheet app Dabble dB, have a brand new application for the Facebook crowd: Dabble Do (no relation to Fred Flintstone, but “Yabba Dabble Do!” could be their tagline!) ToDo Lists are aplenty, but this one has a couple of neat features. Instead of a calendar popping up,…

  • Dynamic Language Symposium

    Call For Papers! Are you ready to OOPSLA!! The Dynamic Language Symposium is looking for participants. D L S 2 0 0 7 Dynamic Languages Symposium October 22, 2007 Palais des congres de Montreal Montreal, Canada co-located with OOPSLA 2007 sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls07/ The Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) is a forum for discussion…

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