The Weekly Squeak

MousePhone

11 January, 2007

How do you get the mouse to talk? Davide Varvello recently announced success using Skype Voip with Squeak.
Nicholas Negroponte discusses OLPC

2 January, 2007

In a keynote speech at NECC, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, explains what he hopes to achieve through the project–and educators offer their reactions. Source: Bert’s blog OLPC video from NECC Just found a nice video on youtube about the $100 laptop at NECC 06, including a cameo of our…
Croquet Edit and Create 3d Objects

31 December, 2006

Howard Stearns recently replied to a question from Mathieu. I thought I’d reproduce his response here. Howard gives a lot of very good information about Croquet support for third party tools….
Exupery Talk

29 December, 2006

Bryce Kampjes: Exupery Talk from Brussels2006 Smalltalk party Handout: Exupery Design. This is a very informative video exploring Exupery for those of you following compiler and VM developments. The video ends a few minutes before the talk is finished. Our thanks to Göran Krampe for filming it.
Sun Rise or Sun Set?

29 December, 2006

Was Sun deciding between using Smalltalk and writing Java? This question was reciently raised on Squeak-Dev. Eric Clayburg, V.P. of Development at ParcPlace-Digitalk in 1996, recalls discussions from that time. This discussion raises many questions about what might have been. The real question is where is Smalltalk going. I will be writing a few articles…