The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Workshop on Self-Sustaining Systems 2010

    The Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) is a forum for discussion of topics relating to computer systems and languages that are able to bootstrap, implement, modify, and maintain themselves. One property of these systems is that their implementation is based on small but powerful abstractions; examples include (amongst others) Squeak/Smalltalk, COLA, Klein/Self, PyPy/Python, Rubinius/Ruby, and…

  • ESUG 2010 Conference – in Barcelona

    For the past 18 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has organised the International Smalltalk Conference, a lively forum on cutting edge software technologies that attract people from both academia and industry for a whole week. The attendees are both engineers using Smalltalk in business and students and teachers using Smalltalk both for research…

  • Squeak Video Tutorials, 74 and counting!

    Chris Cunnington reminded the Squeak-dev mailing list that for a while now he’s been creating video tutorials explaining aspects of Squeak. In fact he’s been working at this for so long that he now has over 70 videos available! The videos give snappy introductions to topics as varied as: using SqueakSource to download Squeak applications;…

  • Squeak 4.1 released

    Squeak 4.1 has now been released! This version combines the licence change occurring in the 4.0 release with the development work that has been going on while the re-licensing process took place. Much of the work in this release has been focused on fundamental improvements. Major achievements are the integration of Cog’s closure implementation, the…

  • Final preparation for 4.1 now under way

    Following the successful release of Squeak 4.0, which was the first version of Squeak to be cleaned of all non-open-source code, there was enthusiasm to quickly get the next release out of the door. This was driven by concerns that the long and difficult process of re-licensing and re-writing meant that many areas of the…

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