The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Smalltalk Solutions 2008 – slides now available

    Most of the slides from the presentations at this year’s Smalltalk Solutions conference are now on line. The material available includes Gilad Bracha’s talk on Newspeak, James Foster’s guide to building a Seaside application using GemStone/S, Michael Rueger’s introduction to Sophie, Arden Thomas demonstrating WebVelocity in action, and Randal Schwartz’s double-header keynote: Seaside – Your Next…

  • One stop shop for Smalltalk jobs

    Randal Schwartz is very keen that there should be one community-supported site for collating and finding Smalltalk-related job postings. He says: It’s been very helpful to the Perl community to get one place for all serious Perl jobs: jobs.perl.org. Because then all the smart people look there, and all the clueful employers post there, and it’s also free.…

  • Conference News – Libre Software Meeting, 1-5 July, France

      Hilaire Fernandes wrote to tell the Squeak-dev mailing list that the 9th Libre Software Meeting will be held at Mont de Marsan, Landes, in SW France, on 1 – 5 July. LSM is an international free software event taking place in July each year, in a French town; the first event took place in 2000 at…

  • JSqueak – Smalltalk interpreter written in Java

    Dan Ingalls has released JSqueak, a Squeak interpreter written in Java.  JSqueak (formerly known as Potato) is less than 5000 lines of code, available under the MIT licence. It runs the Mini2.1 image, which is included for convenience. This image contains a complete Smalltalk development environment, including: Rich text and Text editor File browser (no…

  • ESUG Awards for innovative software

    Noury Bouraqadi wants to  remind all Smalltalkers that the deadline for entries in the ESUG Innovation Technology Awards is in two weeks time. The Innovation Technology Awards, to be awarded at the 16th International Smalltalk Joint Conference in Amsterdam, are intended to make public part of the innovative software built using Smalltalk. The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will…

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