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

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

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!

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.

You may have missed these the first time around...

Lots of stuff in this issue. Dig in.

Are you subscribed to the Announcements mailing list? If not I suggest that you subscribe immediately. However even if you were subscribed then you would not have received notice of the announcements I list below.

Have you registered for OOPSLA 2008 yet? Either way you should ensure you are up to date on the latest news.

It's time again for my roundup of submissions to the squeak-dev mailing list that probably should have also appeared on the announcements mailing list but did not.

Have you voted? If not take care of that first and then feel free to come back and read up on my selection of announcements from about the last month.

From a far away city...

I was asked by a few people what Squeak related work I have done so far. Here is a brief summary:

Are you attending ESUG 2008? Whether you are or not you might want to check whether you are up on the latest happenings...