The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Squeak Apps help push App Store over 50,000

    Phil Schiller led the keynote presentation today at Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference. One of the many causes for celebration he had was the phenomonal success of the iPhone App Store, which now has 50,000 applications available for download. Although he was careful to be even-handed in giving credit to all iPhone developers for helping Apple…

  • The Revenge of Smalltalk

    Despite recent discussions over what killed Smalltalk, there continues to be lots of interest in the language and in Seaside in particular. Anyone based near London will be able to find out more about both topics at a talk dramatically titled “Seaside: The Revenge of Smalltalk“. This “Geek Night” is going to cover how Smalltalk…

  • Magic Words goes Open Source

    Mikael Kindborg and colleagues at comikit.se have announced that their Magic Words application is now available as Open Source software. Magic Words gives children (of all ages!) the ability to create interactive animated worlds. It has been used to allow its users to make their own friendly non-violent computer games and explore the meaning of…

  • Squeak applications now on the App Store

    Following his success in getting Squeak running on the iPhone last year, John M McIntosh has announced on the Squeak-dev mailing list that he has had two applications approved for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch App Store. The two SqueakDocs electronic books, based on Squeak and Seaside, allow users to explore the code and…

  • Deploying a Seaside Application

    Andreas Brodbeck has written an interesting blog post detailing his experiences developing, configuring and deploying a Seaside application. He seems to have found it a positive experience; indeed he writes that “Some months ago I decided myself to work with Seaside, and to develop all my upcoming web applications with it, if possible. If not…

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