The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Minnow Wiki

    So what’s going on with Minnow WIKI? http://tinyurl.com/tbyz5 It’s moving? It’s changing? It’s staying the same? See if you can follow the tread.

  • Serial port howto

    Ned Konz explains on the Beginners mailing list how to access the serial port from Squeak.

  • OmniBrowser Roadmap

    Colin Putney has published on the SETools mailing list a roadmap for OmniBrowser. OmniBrowser is a ground up rewrite of the classical system browsers provided in Smalltalk. It’s designed to be flexible and extensible, so as to encourage experimentation with new types of development tools, language extensions, and runtime environments. Colin’s roadmap includes: improve the…

  • self vs. super

    On the Beginners mailing list, Lukas Renggli explains the difference between self and super. This is nothing esoteric, but it’s always useful for a beginner.

  • An optimization example

    In a recent discussion on the Squeak-dev mailing list, a Squeak implementation of the Sieve of Eratosthenes was compared with a Java implementation. Andres Vallous took the original code submitted to the list and produced an optimized version of it. His message to Squeak-dev details the step of this optimization. Together with Andreas Raab’s MessageTally…

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