The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Squeak on Android

    Andreas Raab has announced a new home for some work he’s been doing recently to port Squeak to the Android platform: http://code.google.com/p/squeak-android-vm/ He’s aware that lots of things are still missing that would be required to support a full port (including text input and network support). But he’s still interested to hear if (and how…

  • Cincom Smalltalk World Tour under way

    Cincom are starting 2010 with their Smalltalk Technology Conference 2010 World Tour. This is a chance to learn more about how Smalltalk helps companies around the world reduce costs, improve efficiency, and get to market faster. The Cincom team of Suzanne Fortman, James Robertson, Arden Thomas and Andreas Hiltner will be joined at the venues…

  • Smalltalks 2009 videos and photos available

    Hernan Wilkinson wrote to the squeak -dev mailing list that the Smalltalks 2009 presentations are available now at the Smalltalks Conference site under the “Talks” tab. Given that the speakers included such well-known figures as Dan Ingalls, Stephane Ducasse, Alex Warth, Tim Mackinnon, James Foster and Travis Griggs, there should be some fascinating viewing to be…

  • Scratch featured in “Communications of the ACM”

    Scratch is the cover story of the November 2009 issue of CACM, the monthly magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery. Scratch is a visual programming language, developed in Squeak, that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share these creations on the web. Aimed at children between…

  • Return To Smalltalk

    The NYC Smalltalk group manages an active programme of talks and presentations, and this month’s talk looks to be very interesting. Daniel Antion, Vice President of Information Services at American Nuclear Insurers, discusses why his company began planning to migrate away from Smalltalk, and the evolving circumstances that caused them to take the difficult decision…

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