The Weekly Squeak

http://box3.squeak.org:8624 The Altitude web framework with a Twitter Bootstrap HTML/CSS template has laid the foundation for a new homepage for Squeak. There are still lots of details to marshal. Not being an expert web site designer, it’s a good idea to throw the question open to the world. What change would you make to this…

Tim Rowledge is working on the Raspberry Pi. There are old sources for a RiscOS virtual machine at http://www.squeakvm.org. They have been obsolete for a while. With this new platform, Tim is going to bake an updated RiscOS virtual machine for Squeak that works on the Raspberry Pi computer. Pi will be served early in…

SqueakSource is winding down. If you have a project there, you need to start thinking about moving it to either SqueakSource3 or SmalltalkHub. In the near future SqueakSource will take a new shape. It may be read only. The files may be stored in a mirror site with a clunky web interface. Move your project…

David T. Lewis has created 64-bit images that run on the standard interpreter (non-Cog) virtual machine. He has written a script that instructs the SystemTracer to create a 64-bit image. Proof of the success of his experiment can be seen at the Squeak’s continuous integration server. The full announcement can be found here: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-November/166422.html

http://www.squeakci.org  Squeak has been experimenting with a Jenkins continuous integration server at a beta site for several months. With the assistance of the Sofware Freedom Conservancy, Squeak secured a virtual private server from Gandi hosting. This is now the new and permanent home of the Jenkins server.