The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • OLPC – The $100 Laptop – Goes into Production

    Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production. Check out the BBC Article.

  • More eye-candy coming soon to your Squeak desktop

    Gary Chambers recently announced the imminent release of an add-on package for Morphic that brings more eye-candy to your Squeak desktop. This package offers TrueType font support (via the FreeType Plus package), desktop theming and a whole collection of standard widgets. While waiting with impatience for the release of the package, you can look at…

  • New Seaside website

    Phlippe Marshall wrote to the Seaside mailing list: After too many delays the new Seaside homepage has finally gone online. Since we switched hosts it might take a moment until the DNS update propagates to you. The first thing you’ll notice is the updated look for which we no longer have to excuse. We cleaned…

  • A Squeak 3.9 development tutorial

    Steve Wessels has recently published a complete development example for Squeak 3.9. In this tutorial, he guides the reader towards the creation of a simple solitaire-style game. From the Introduction: An activity I enjoy is writing simple games in Squeak. I also enjoy sharing this powerful development environment with interested developers. This is one of…

  • SqueakFest ’07 – Register Now!

    Register for SqueakFest ’07. From Kim Rose, Viewpoints Research Institute: Greetings — Online registration is now available for SqueakFest ’07! http://imamp.colum.edu/eceim/squeakfest07/index.php We’re putting together a great three day program including hands-on workshops, panels, presentations, casual sharing time and fun social events. Alan Kay will give a talk about the One Laptop Per Child Initiative, the…

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