The Weekly Squeak

What’s in a Comment?

16 April, 2007

There has been some talk recently around the Squeak / Seaside communities about putting comments in code. I thought I’d spend a few minutes talking about it.
Google Summer Of Code – Squeak’n style

16 April, 2007

Thanks to a lot of very hard work by Giovanni Corriga all the mentors and applicants, Squeak was selected for five projects in the Google Summer of Code.
Squeak meeting in Potsdam, Germany

11 April, 2007

Bert Freudenberg wrote to the Squeak-dev mailing list to announce a meeting of German-speaking squeakers. The meeting will take place on Saturday, May 12th at 17:00 in Potsdam, Germany, at the Hasso Plattner Institut.
Help improving the Smalltalk experience on the OLPC machine

11 April, 2007

As you may now, the XO laptops produced by the One Laptop Per Child project include a Squeak/Etoys image in the base software. The OLPC developers decided to hide the Smalltalk development enviroment and highlight the Etoys subsystem, since that’s the part that matters in a kids machine such as the XO. But the power…
Thot talks about Squeak, Etoys and V-Toys

11 April, 2007

Thot, a French-Canadian magazine on distance learning, has published a small article on Squeak and the Etoys, including the EToys-derivate V-Toys. The article, written in French, may be found here. Thot also provides a machine-translated English version of it, that may be found here.