The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Is Javascript the SmallTalk 2012?

    There is a lot of hype surrounding JavaScript. Years ago Google started the developing of V8, a super Just in time compiler for its Chrome Browser. The V8 compiler revamped competition: Microsoft and Mozilla foundation strike back optimizing their JavaScript interpreters. On these days, a strong community is growing using Node.js, a web server “Evented I/O…

  • Hard at work at Camp Smalltalk

    Camp Smalltalk is well under way in the bright and modern School of Informatics building at the University of Edinburgh. Stéphane Ducasse got proceedings off to a flying start yesterday with an intensive introduction to Smalltalk for newcomers. Today, work continues on a number of projects including SUnit, Seaside, Pier, Gofer, SLAPS (an LDAP server implementation)…

  • A Seaside for every size

    There have been a couple of interesting pieces of news about Seaside in the last few days. Sebastiane Sastre and colleagues at flowingconcept.com have brought their new airflowing.com application out of private beta, and are now accepting new commercial subscriptions. Airflowing is an online tool for managing your creative business, including contacts, tasks and finances.…

  • Smalltalks 2011

    Worried that you won’t be able to come to Edinburgh for ESUG 2011? Well how about joining your fellow Smalltalkers in Argentina in November for Smalltalks 2011? The Smalltalks conference brings together more than 200 people from both academia and industry to discuss Smalltalk-based software over three days. Smalltalks conferences have included many high-quality presentations…

  • 19th International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Edinburgh

    The 19th International Smalltalk Joint Conference is being held in Edinburgh, Scotland this year on 20-26 August 2011; with Camp Smalltalk running on 20-21 August and the main conference continuing on 22-26 August. As usual, it will also play host to the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies, a forum to trigger discussion and exchanges ideas around…

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