The Weekly Squeak

Mondrian, by Tudor Girba, is simply a visualization tool. The cool thing about it is that it can be used to display graphs of any kind or size (classes with methods, methods invocations). Graph displaying may be obtained dinamically just by scripting the Mondrian engine, without ever manipulating the graphic engine: you just specify the…

The first presentation for Wednesday was delivered by James Robertson, who recounted his experiences in building and mantaining Silt, the blog server written in VisualWorks which powers the blogs on the Cincom Smalltalk website.

As the last presentation for Tuesday, Adriaan Van Os talked about optimizing your code. Adriaan started with the basic advices on profiling (“keep your design simple, worry about optimization later”, and “don’t rely on assumptions – use the profiler”). From there, Adriaan added lots of useful tips which are more specific to the optimization of…

Carsten Haerle delivered a presentation on a server system for continuously running tests. When the test in an application start to grow in number, it may become cumbersome to coordinate the execution of them suite and the repair of failing test cases. Carsten solutions delivers a highly parallelized test case execution environment and a self…

Michael and Grit from Impara delivered a presentation on how to build end-user oriented application using Squeak. They went into the design principles and the issues that they had to solve in order to build two applications: Plopp, a 3D drawing tool for children, and the Sophie multi-media authoring tool. Each tool was also demoed…