The Weekly Squeak

Strongtalk VM for RUBY?

30 October, 2006

Many of you are following the latest developments in VM technology. The Strongtalk VM was release as open source by SUN. There is some discussion about using the Strongtalk VM for Ruby. Will Ruby be the first language to benefit from Strongtalk’s Type Feedback optimizations? Will the VM developers in the Smalltalk community step up…
Job in San Jose, California

26 October, 2006

Cadence Design Systems, the leader in Electronic Design Automation, is seeking outstanding software engineers for a novel technology project at its San Jose, California campus. We are seeking developers with the following qualifications: Object Oriented design and modeling Advanced degree in Computer Science Working experience with Smalltalk/Squeak desirable Exposure to formal methods Exposure to system…
RESTFull URL

26 October, 2006

Andreas asked the question can http://www.squeakSource.com support RESTFull URL’s
Removing EToys?

26 October, 2006

There has been an interesting debate about removing EToys from the main squeak image. The debate is around the fact that Squeakland appears to be a permanent fork and if the community wants to decouple Etoys from Morphic there may be more of an opportunity to improve Morphic. Not everyone agrees with this path and…
Efficient Thread-local shared variables

26 October, 2006

Andreas looking for help started a very interesting discussion about Efficient thread-local shared variables