The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Minding Your Business With Smalltalk (part 2 of 4)

    In our last article we spoke with Michael Rueger. Today we talk with Steve Hunter. Steve started with OO languages way back in 1985 at General Electric. He used Eiffel, C++, and Objective-C which were the “hot” OO languages at the time. Steve says that he was strongly influenced by Bertrand Meyer’s OO Software Construction…

  • Squeak Foundation Board 2007 Election Results

    All, Thank you again for voting. Our percentage of votes was higher then last year. We had 182 votes from 392 ballots that were sent out. The winners are: (in alphabetical order) Andrew P. Black Cees de Groot Stéphane Ducasse Bert Freudenberg Craig Latta Yoshiki Ohshima Tim Rowledge You can see more details about the…

  • Smalltalk Considered Unfriendly

    Is it true that Smalltalk is too isolated and suffers from extreme shyness? Do we need to learn to play, reach out and integrate better with other languages and tools? Check out Alan Lovejoy‘s article: Smalltalk Considered Unfriendly

  • Minding Your Business With Smalltalk (Part 1 of 4)

    There has been a lot of talk about the future of Smalltalk. There are number of Object Oriented Languages that are candidates for replacing Smalltalk. Why has Smalltalk lasted so long? Why do business software suppliers still choose Smalltalk? Who are the people that still bet on the future of Smalltalk and how do they…

  • How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)

    Someone just recommend this video to me. I thought it was very interesting perspective about orgainizing and managing an open source project so I thought I’d share it with the community. Google Tech Talks January 25, 2007 ABSTRACT Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful. These people can silently…

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