The Weekly Squeak

  • 200,000 dowloads for Seaside

    Stephane Ducasse notes that Seaside downloads on SqueakSource have crossed the 200,000 downloads threshold. Rick Flower adds that this figure does not include the downloads of the VisualWorks port of Seaside, which is hosted on the Cincom public repository.

  • Squeaksource.com down on Friday

    Marcus Denker announced that due to a planned power outage, the Squeaksource server will be down from 4:00 pm GMT to 7:00 pm GMT.

  • CurlPlugin – call for testing

    Danil Osipchuk has created a new version of the CurlPlugin. This is a plugin that wraps the libcurl library, a multiprotocol file transfer library. Danil is now looking for people interested in testing his plugin. For this plugin there’s also a bounty offered by Avi Bryant.

  • Squeak’s Path To Security

    We are very pleased to announce the addition of a new Cryptography Team member. Krishna Sankar is joining our team as the new Squeak Cryptography Certification Validation Officer.  The goal of this position is to set a path for the cryptography team to ensure that the Squeak Cryptography code meets the NSA common criteria http://niap.bahialab.com/cc-scheme/cc_docs/index.cfm…

  • An explaination of continuations

    Ramon Leon has written a good description of what continuations are in the context of the Seaside framework. Lukas Renggli later chimed in with a Zen-like example useful for understanding what continuations are.

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