The Weekly Squeak

The awards ceremony for the ESUG 2006 Innovation Awards was held in the main Conference room right before lunch on Wednesday. This year’s awards saw 9 contestants and 62 voters. The competition was fierce, and the three winners were: Plopp, by Impara Mondrian, by Tudor Girba and Michael Meyer SqSquare, by Kazuki Minamitani, Masashi Umezawa…

The last talk for Wednesday’s morning session was delivered by Marcus and Stef, releasers of Squeak 3.9, and it was a quick recap on what happened in the world of Squeak in the last year. Here are the main points: The new SqueakFoundation is now working. It has 7 board members, and its role is…

Mondrian, by Tudor Girba, is simply a visualization tool. The cool thing about it is that it can be used to display graphs of any kind or size (classes with methods, methods invocations). Graph displaying may be obtained dinamically just by scripting the Mondrian engine, without ever manipulating the graphic engine: you just specify the…

The first presentation for Wednesday was delivered by James Robertson, who recounted his experiences in building and mantaining Silt, the blog server written in VisualWorks which powers the blogs on the Cincom Smalltalk website.

As the last presentation for Tuesday, Adriaan Van Os talked about optimizing your code. Adriaan started with the basic advices on profiling (“keep your design simple, worry about optimization later”, and “don’t rely on assumptions – use the profiler”). From there, Adriaan added lots of useful tips which are more specific to the optimization of…