The Weekly Squeak

Mozilla:  “There is no data. There is only XUL!” Pavel Krivanek has released Phobos for Squeak. Xul is a technology from Mozilla to create native GUI applications. Pavel has created a server back end based on Seaside that connects to the Xul created applications. The regular Phobos framework can be downloaded from the Google Code…

The Squeak project aimed at creating a tiny kernel has released a new version. Double clicking the application starts the tiny image, which broadcasts a webpage on localhost. The web page presents a link to start the development image environment, which provides an open browser window for inspecting the classes of the tiny running image.

David T. Lewis has released a build script for the Unix virtual machine. You feed it into a starting image, things happen, and a vm is produced. It’s a great time saver and reading the script is a super way to learn the basics of vm compilation.

Squeak took possession of a new Virtual Server from Gandi.net provided courtesy of our legal home, the  Software Freedom Conservancy. The existing Jenkins server will be moved over to the new location and expanded to manage more jobs. Those jobs will not just be for running tests on the trunk image, but for virtual machine compilation.…

Summer’s over, so it’s time to see what the Google Summer Of Code has produced. The projects and their completed source code can be found at this Summer Of Code page. As with the ESUG Technology Innovation Awards there are some browsers, profilers, and visualization tools. The Hazelnut project aims to create a tiny kernel…