The Weekly Squeak

  • Seaside being used with Answers.com

    Ramon Leon just announced on the Seaside mailing list that Answers.com has just launched a new hotel-booking widget that gives access to a site developed by reserve travel using Seaside. Searching for a city, eg http://www.answers.com/Phoenix?cat=travel, shows the widget directly beside the city name. Doing a search in this widget launches the Seaside-based affiliate booking…

  • Conference round-up

    Georg Heeg, the Executive Director of The Smalltalk Industry Council, announced on the mailing list that STIC has a new website and is organising next year’s Smalltalk Solutions conference for 18-21 June in Reno, Nevada. For more details, check out Georg’s blog. Hernan Wilkinson and Andres Valloud announced the first Smalltalk conference in Argentina, to…

  • Dan’s the Man! Check out Dan Ingalls work. Squeak in JavaScript.

    Dan Ingalls working at Sun Labs has just released their first version of Morphic implemented completely with JavaScript which they are calling the Lively Kernel. There is no plugin required, but your browser currently must support SVG. You should use your Safari browser for best results. It will work with Firefox but you should expect…

  • Pretty Cool NYTimes OLPC Review

    David Pogue at NYTimes reviews the One Laptop Per Child computer.  Don’t miss the video clip, it’s very cool.

  • Tangible User Interface for Squeak

    Simon Holland yesterday announced on the squeak-dev list the release of a Squeak client for TUIO under the MIT licence. TUIO allows the rapid development of table-based tangible user interfaces (TUI) and multi-touch interactive surfaces. TUIO uses the reacTIVision computer vision system to track physical objects in real time. This system is also used in…

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