The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Capturing Debug

    Giles Bowkett sparked a bit of controversy. There have been some interesting responses from James and Avi. I figured I would just stay out of it, and I did a pretty good job resisting. Until now. Giles is right. Tools do not make good programmers. Coding in a debugger has the tendency to create lava…

  • New Seaside Tutorial By Hasso-Plattner-Institute

    Michael Perscheid announced that the Hasso-Plattner-Institute has just finished a new Seaside Tutorial. Thanks for your hard work! Great Job! From Michael: Dear list, We proudly present a new Seaside tutorial (for Squeak 3.10 and Seaside 2.8). This tutorial was produced by the Software Architecture Group at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (University of Potsdam). In ten chapters…

  • See Bert and OLPC on German TV (in German)

    Check out Bert and Olpc on the tagesschau.de. The video is in German. Notice the link on the left “100-Dollar-Laptop” that will take you right to the clip. Feel free to skip the computer salesman’s comments. Who knows where they got this guy from! The project must be looking up if this is the best…

  • Preview of new Seaside Visual Interface Builder

    Hernán Morales and his colleagues have been working for a while on an interface builder tool to generate Seaside components (pages) dynamically, and they have just released a video showing their work so far. The ideas are based on a visual programming tool for Windows called WindowBuilder Pro. The tool, called Seaside Builder, has support…

  • Smalltalk to the rescue? Microsoft EX-execs sue Red Hat

    Some Microsoft EX-exec’s sue Red Hat for patent infringement. How “EX” you say? Well the last one arrived Oct 1st. The patent is for a windowed GUI. Hummm that’s a good one. Wait didn’t Dan do that? Smalltalk to the rescue?? Help is on the way!

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