The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Can your book do this?

    As the sun rose somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, the dark fading away, and the cold of over a month starting to thaw, on the west coast of North America it is still dark and John M. McIntosh has only a deep and tired yawn as thanks and a simple form of celebration marking the…

  • Getting Lost in a Virtual World

    It’s much harder to get lost in a virtual world. Qwaq poked its head out of hiding today and released its first product: A virtual forum that enables collaborators to interact in real time. It’s not hard to imagine what an impact this new technology will have on business collaboration.

  • Minding Your Business With Smalltalk (part 2 of 4)

    In our last article we spoke with Michael Rueger. Today we talk with Steve Hunter. Steve started with OO languages way back in 1985 at General Electric. He used Eiffel, C++, and Objective-C which were the “hot” OO languages at the time. Steve says that he was strongly influenced by Bertrand Meyer’s OO Software Construction…

  • Squeak Foundation Board 2007 Election Results

    All, Thank you again for voting. Our percentage of votes was higher then last year. We had 182 votes from 392 ballots that were sent out. The winners are: (in alphabetical order) Andrew P. Black Cees de Groot Stéphane Ducasse Bert Freudenberg Craig Latta Yoshiki Ohshima Tim Rowledge You can see more details about the…

  • Smalltalk Considered Unfriendly

    Is it true that Smalltalk is too isolated and suffers from extreme shyness? Do we need to learn to play, reach out and integrate better with other languages and tools? Check out Alan Lovejoy‘s article: Smalltalk Considered Unfriendly

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