The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Physical Etoys 2.0 released

    Physical Etoys 2.0 has been released with lots of new features: 1. First of all, it’s based on Etoys 5.0 so it incorporates all the bug-fixes and new features from the Etoys release. 2. It focuses on the two main hardware platforms: Arduino and Lego Mindstorms Nxt. 3. An Argentinian version of Arduino is now supported called…

  • New Squeak Oversight Board elected

    The leadership team for 20 April 2012 to – 20 April 2013 (approximately) has been announced after the regular voting period. The order reflects the ranking from the election using default Condorcet completion rules (Beatpath/Schulze/CSSD). As usual, the rules actually give the same top 7 choices in the same order. The is year’s Squeak Oversight Board is composed of:…

  • Cuis 4.0 Released

    Cuis 4.0 has been released. This is a big release for Cuis, as it has been ten months since the last version. Lots of new features are available including a StyledTextEditor by Bernhard Pieber. All the details are available at the Cuis website at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisReleaseNotes.html.

  • Is Javascript the SmallTalk 2012?

    There is a lot of hype surrounding JavaScript. Years ago Google started the developing of V8, a super Just in time compiler for its Chrome Browser. The V8 compiler revamped competition: Microsoft and Mozilla foundation strike back optimizing their JavaScript interpreters. On these days, a strong community is growing using Node.js, a web server “Evented I/O…

  • Hard at work at Camp Smalltalk

    Camp Smalltalk is well under way in the bright and modern School of Informatics building at the University of Edinburgh. Stéphane Ducasse got proceedings off to a flying start yesterday with an intensive introduction to Smalltalk for newcomers. Today, work continues on a number of projects including SUnit, Seaside, Pier, Gofer, SLAPS (an LDAP server implementation)…

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