The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Squeak Documentation Team forming

    Matthew Fulmer has announced the creation of a Documentation Team. The purpose of this new team will be the production and mantainance of Squeak releated documentation: tutorials, references and the like. The team will start by compiling an index of the existing documentation, and by starting a Squeak developer tutorial. We’d like to wish Matthew…

  • Strongtalking Squeak

    Dan Ingalls pointed out that Strongtalk is now open source. The community now has an important opportunity and decision to make. Should we work with Strongtalk to build a Strongtalk VM for Squeak. There are a number of potential advantages to this path (see http://www.strongtalk.org) . There could also be risks. As our community changes…

  • Squeak 3.9 enters RC stage

    Stephane Ducasse has released update 7061 of the 3.9g release, and proposed calling it final. Following the discussion on the proposal, it was agreed that to call it a release candidate and look for showstopping bugs which may have escaped release team’s attention. Also, Pavel Krivanek has prepared another version of his Kernel image based…

  • Profiling Squeak

    Andreas Raab has sent on the Croquet mailing list a short tutorial on how to use the MessageTally tool to measure the performance of your application or part of it. A little part of Andreas’ advices are related to the modifications introduced in the Croquet version of MessageTally, but most of the article may be…

  • Squeak.org is down

    Since yesterday, the servers hosting the various *.squeak.org and *.squeakfoundation.org service are offline. They soon will be online again, but unfortunately this may take a couple of days. Update 09/29: The servers should get back online in two or three days. Meanwhile, you can get the latest 3.9g image from here (courtesy of Goran Krampe)…

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