The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • OmniBrowser Roadmap

    Colin Putney has published on the SETools mailing list a roadmap for OmniBrowser. OmniBrowser is a ground up rewrite of the classical system browsers provided in Smalltalk. It’s designed to be flexible and extensible, so as to encourage experimentation with new types of development tools, language extensions, and runtime environments. Colin’s roadmap includes: improve the…

  • self vs. super

    On the Beginners mailing list, Lukas Renggli explains the difference between self and super. This is nothing esoteric, but it’s always useful for a beginner.

  • An optimization example

    In a recent discussion on the Squeak-dev mailing list, a Squeak implementation of the Sieve of Eratosthenes was compared with a Java implementation. Andres Vallous took the original code submitted to the list and produced an optimized version of it. His message to Squeak-dev details the step of this optimization. Together with Andreas Raab’s MessageTally…

  • Recent package releases and announcements

    Here’s a list of the releases recently announced on the Squeak-dev mailing list: Michael van der Gulik announced MessageCapture, a wrapper class that allows interception of all the messages sent to an object instance. Keith Hodges has created an installer system which allows a developer to create scripts to automagically install a set of packages…

  • Call for release team volunteers

    The Squeak Foundation board has issued a call for volunteers to create a release team to guide the development of the next version of Squeak, following the guidelines set up during the last board meeting. The board is […] looking for people who have available time, the diligence to complete a release, and a good…

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