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Squeak Weekly: Etoys 4 released

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:46:35 -0600

Following his announcement of the release candidate last month, Timothy Falconer of Squeakland has now announced the full release of Etoys 4, which you can now download from their website.

Squeak Weekly: Smalltalk Party in Paris

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:25:58 -0600

Noury Bouraqadi wrote to the squeak-dev mailing list with news that French Smalltalk users are holding their eighth annual SmalltalkParty in Paris on Saturday 28th November 2009.

The empahsis is on short presentations, so there promises to be plenty of interesting presentations. Items already planned for discussion include:

Squeak Weekly: SqueakDBX news

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:04:59 -0600

The SqueakDBX team have been very busy recently working on their OpenDBX plugin which allows Squeak users to perform relational database operations (including DDL and DML as well as SQL) through an open source library.

Squeak Weekly: Squeak Etoys release candidate

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:50:23 -0600

Timothy Falconer wrote to the squeak-dev mailing list to announce the Squeak Etoys 4 release candidate, in preparation for final release on 21st October.

Squeak Weekly: Smalltalks 2009

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:39:13 -0600

Following on from their high-profile presence at ESUG this year, the Argentinian Smalltalk community are preparing to host their third annual domestic Smalltalk conference, Smalltalks 2009.

Squeak Weekly: New Development Model, two months on.

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:51:35 -0600

It has been two months since the Squeak Oversight Board first put forward their “New Community Development Model”. At the time the proposal caused a lot of heated debate on the squeak-dev mailing list, with concerns being expressed that similar efforts in the past had had little lasting impact, and had caused great frustration for those pushing those earlier efforts.

Squeak Weekly: ESUG 2009 wrap up – Best Ever?

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:58:44 -0600

Squeak Weekly: ESUG 2009 kicks off, VAST goes free, Technology Awards break records

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:11:51 -0600

ESUG 2009 has got off to a successful start, with a packed programme of events lined up for the next few days.

Squeak Weekly: Magma goes HA!

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:04:14 -0600

Squeak Weekly: Squeakfest a roaring success

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:27:25 -0600

The US Squeakfest finished last week, following on from the previous Brazilian event, and it was a great success. Perhaps the best way to give a flavour of the excitement of the events and the enthusiasm of the attendees is to quote Timothy Falconer’s report:

Squeak Weekly: Iliad web framework released

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:54:51 -0600

Squeak People: Squeak Roundup #11

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:18:42 -0700

I'm a little later than usual with this summary, so it's a bit long. Get to it.

Squeak People: Squeak Roundup #7

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:18:42 -0700

Yes it is summer (at least in the northern hemisphere) but progress proceeds despite the heat.

Squeak People: The Primitive: I am not a number- I am a named prim!

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:18:42 -0700

Numbered primitives are an affront to the natural dignity of a fine body of code. They're pointless, add complication and reduce extensibility. Kill them now!

Squeak People: Do you care about this site?

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:17:48 -0600

The server Squeak People runs on is going to be shut down in the near future. This site runs on mod_virgule which only works under Apache/1.x. We could certainly move this site to another server. But it's non-trivial.