The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • ESUG Innovation Technology Awards – Time is running out!

    The Innovation Technology Awards session is one of the real highlights of the annual International Smalltalk Conference organised by ESUG each year. Noury Bouraqadi has just posted to remind everyone that you only have until 1st July to nominate your work for an award. Put together a brief description of your work, which can be…

  • Back to the Future: Programming in Smalltalk

    More exciting conference news for Smalltalk aficionados: James Foster has announced on his blog that this year’s OOPSLA conference will include several tutorials with a Smalltalk theme including his “Back to the Future: Programming in Smalltalk” in which he will look at the “new” ideas from Smalltalk that are still influencing newer programming languages. He…

  • Squeak Apps help push App Store over 50,000

    Phil Schiller led the keynote presentation today at Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference. One of the many causes for celebration he had was the phenomonal success of the iPhone App Store, which now has 50,000 applications available for download. Although he was careful to be even-handed in giving credit to all iPhone developers for helping Apple…

  • The Revenge of Smalltalk

    Despite recent discussions over what killed Smalltalk, there continues to be lots of interest in the language and in Seaside in particular. Anyone based near London will be able to find out more about both topics at a talk dramatically titled “Seaside: The Revenge of Smalltalk“. This “Geek Night” is going to cover how Smalltalk…

  • Magic Words goes Open Source

    Mikael Kindborg and colleagues at comikit.se have announced that their Magic Words application is now available as Open Source software. Magic Words gives children (of all ages!) the ability to create interactive animated worlds. It has been used to allow its users to make their own friendly non-violent computer games and explore the meaning of…

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