The Weekly Squeak

  • Squeak Foundation Board meeting notes – September 20th, 2006

    Craig Latta posted to the Squeak-dev mailing list the notes for the Squeak Foundation Board meeting which occurred on September 20th. The Squeak Foundation Board meets twice a month via IM on the first and third wednesday, and Craig has been appointed to speak for the board. During the last meeting the following topics were…

  • Recent Squeak packages releases

    In the past days, some developers have released new versions of their packages: Ruben Bakker has recently released version 3.0 of eCompletion, the autocompletion package for Squeak. Milan Zimmerman, Edgar J De Cleene and Serge Stinckwich have announced the first version for Squeak 3.9 of MathMorphsRevival, a project to collect MathMorphs and related projects and…

  • Exupery News

    Looks like Exupery’s development is going full steam: Bryce Kampjes, Exupery’s developer, recently released version 0.09, which includes bug fixes and dynamically inlined primitives. Patrick Mauritz announced a port of the Exupery VM to Solaris, while Andrew Tween ported the VM to Windows. And just today John M McIntosh, mantainer of the Mac Squeak VM,…

  • ESUG 2006 – Friday’s presentations

    Since I had to catch a plane to get back home, I couldn’t attend the session on Friday morning. The last day of the conference saw three presentations. The first was delivered by Norm Green of Gemstone, who talked about the state of Gemstone 64, the 64-bit version of their database system. After that, Mathieu…

  • Niall Ross – Testing for Real

    As the last presentation for Thursday, Niall Ross paused his incessant (and absolutely useful) note-taking to deliver a talk on how to use real domain objects in your tests. This objects can be created by leveraging the rewrite engine of the Refactoring Browser in order to create readable and easily-modifiable tests which nonetheless manipulate complex…

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