The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Scratch featured in “Communications of the ACM”

    Scratch is the cover story of the November 2009 issue of CACM, the monthly magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery. Scratch is a visual programming language, developed in Squeak, that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share these creations on the web. Aimed at children between…

  • Return To Smalltalk

    The NYC Smalltalk group manages an active programme of talks and presentations, and this month’s talk looks to be very interesting. Daniel Antion, Vice President of Information Services at American Nuclear Insurers, discusses why his company began planning to migrate away from Smalltalk, and the evolving circumstances that caused them to take the difficult decision…

  • Etoys 4 released

    Following his announcement of the release candidate last month, Timothy Falconer of Squeakland has now announced the full release of Etoys 4, which you can now download from their website. The Squeakland Fall newsletter has the Etoys 4 release notes which detail the changes you’ll find, in English and Spanish. The newsletter also has some thoughts…

  • Smalltalk Party in Paris

    Noury Bouraqadi wrote to the squeak-dev mailing list with news that French Smalltalk users are holding their eighth annual SmalltalkParty in Paris on Saturday 28th November 2009. The empahsis is on short presentations, so there promises to be plenty of interesting presentations. Items already planned for discussion include: Speed dating with Smalltalk—Smalltalk in 15 min…

  • SqueakDBX news

    The SqueakDBX team have been very busy recently working on their OpenDBX plugin which allows Squeak users to perform relational database operations (including DDL and DML as well as SQL) through an open source library. Their new release, Version 1.1, now supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sqlite3, Oracle and MSSQL on Windows, Linux and Mac, as well…

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