The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Google buys (part of) Instantiations

    Instantiations, the company who took over IBM’s Visual Age for Smalltalk business, have now had the Java part of their operation snapped up by Google, who were reportedly interested in Instantiation’s Java and Ajax team, especially their GWT Designer product, which is slated to become part of the Google Web Toolkit infrastructure. In many cases…

  • Seaside 3.0rc – One Click Image

    Following on from the recent release of the Seaside release candidate for 3.0, a Squeak “One-Click” image has been put together to allow you to try out the new version with—er—one click! The new image is based on Squeak 4.1, and launches fully configured with Seaside running with Comanche on port 8080, so you can…

  • Smalltalk: the past, the present, and the future?

    Anyone with an interest in the continuing role and development of Smalltalk has had lots to chew on over the past few days. As part of  a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages, Computerworld Australia has published a conversation with Alan Kay about his role in the development of the “foundation of…

  • A newer, faster computer – for free!

    Eliot Miranda has announced that his new Cog VM is now available for download, bringing Just-In-Time compilation and massive speed-ups to Squeak and Pharo. If you’ve been following Eliot’s blog, you’ll know that he’s been working on this new VM for quite a few months now; well, it’s now ready for public consumption, and it’s…

  • Calling all Smalltalkers!

    Luc Fabresse invites all Smalltalkers to submit your Smalltalk based software to the 7th ESUG Innovation Technology Awards. The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, €500, €300 and €200 during an awards ceremony at the 18th International Smalltalk Joint Conference 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. No constraints are put on the…

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