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Squeak Roundup 10/8/2008

2008-10-08T14:10:28Z

Squeak Roundup #10
October 8, 2008

Here you will find a quick summary of announcements and related items
from recent weeks that never quite made it to the Squeak Announcements
mailing list. See the end of this message for more meta-information.

Squeak Leadership Meeting Minutes 2008-09-03

Craig Latta reports on the early September Leadership meeting.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131253.html

Squeak-Dev Images for September 2008

Damien Cassou announces the availability of the newest releases of his
collection of customized Squeak releases.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131354.html

Squeak iPhone Port Now Available

Michael Rueger announces that a release of Squeak is now available for
the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131374.html

Squeak-Dev Image Fixes

Damien Cassou reports that new versions of his Squeak-Dev images have
been released to address a font problem.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131383.html

SqueakSVN

Michael Perscheid announces a project to provide access to Subversion
within Squeak.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131436.html

Call For Participants: Smalltalk Superpowers (Their Uses for Good or
Evil)

Travis Griggs calls for participation in a day-long workshop at OOPSLA
2008 for stories about the power and responsibility that goes along with
the use of Smalltalk.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131448.html

MemoryAccess Slang Alternative to sqMemoryAccess.h Macros

David T. Lewis announces "a small addition to VMMaker that provides a
Smalltalk Slang implemention of the memory access macros (or static
inline functions) that are normally defined in sqMemoryAccess.h."

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131547.html

Squeak Leadership Meeting Minutes 2008-09-17

Craig Latta reports on the second of the two meetings for the month of
September.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131548.html

Lisp50@OOPSLA -- Celebrating the 50th birthday of Lisp at OOPSLA 2008

Robert Hirschfeld invites the Smalltalk community to participate in the
50th Birthday of Lisp.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131550.html

Smalltalks 2008 Latest News

Andres Valloud reports the latest news regarding the Smalltalk
conference to be held in Argentinia in November.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131557.html

New BabyIDE version

Trygve Reenskaug presents the latest version of BabyIDE.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131592.html
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131593.html

Pier 1.0.17

Tudor Girba announces the release of Pier 1.0.17, a one-click image, and
a new website for Pier.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131633.html

DrGeo II Universal One-Click Distribution

Hilaire Fernandes announces the availability of a one-click image with
DrGeo II, "an interactive geometry framework integrating with
Smalltalk".

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131698.html

Representing Matrices as Two Dimensional Arrays in Slang

Ramiro Diaz Trepat announces his Numerics package "that adds Vector
and Matrix classes that can solve LU decompositions, linear equations,
determinants, normal multiplication, kronecker multiplication and a few
other things."

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131706.html

Squeak-Dev Images for October 2008

Damien Cassou comes through like clockwork with the latest releases of
the Squeak-Dev customized images.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131760.html

Smalltalks 2008 Coding Contest Has Begun

Andres Valloud notes that the coding contest for Smalltalks 2008 has
started and that the problem is available.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131761.html

Squeak Website Now Runs on Aida/Scribo

Janko Mivšek announces that the community website http://www.squeak.org/
has been replaced with a new version implemented using Aida/Scribo.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131762.html

Yet Another Objective-C Bridge

John M McIntosh announces a new Objective-C bridge related to his work
with Squeak on the iPhone.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131794.html

Monticello 2.0.22

Colin Putney announces the release of a new version of Monticello 2.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131795.html

iPhone Squeak VM 1.0.5b4

John M McIntosh announces the availability of a new VM for the iPhone.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131799.html

Summary of FreeCAD/Croquet for GSOC 2008

Phua Khai Fong summarizes the current state of his GSOC 2008 project to
implement a CAD system within Croquet.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131865.html

Configuring a SqueakSource Repository?

In response to a question Philippe Marschall reports on the availability
of a new version of SqueakSource and the start of a new version to work
with Monticello 2.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131850.html

Leadership Team Changes

Randal L. Schwartz reports on roster changes within the Squeak
Leadership Team.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131871.html

Dependency Browser

Hernán Morales Durand announces a new Dependency Browser for packages.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131878.html

Join the Smalltalk Group on LinkedIn

Janko Mivšek invites all Squeakers to join the LinkedIn group he
created.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131883.html

This periodic publication is meant to capture those Squeak related
announcements which appeared on public mailing lists but were not sent
to the Squeak Announcements mailing list. Ideally there would be no
need for this publication but use of the Announcements mailing list has
not quite settled in the community's unconscious. So if you have an
announcement and do not wish to suffer the fate of my terse summaries I
suggest you Cc announcements@... .

Ken Causey

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Squeak: http://squeak.org/
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Squeak Roundup 9/3/2008

2008-09-03T10:22:21Z

Squeak Roundup #9
September 3, 2008

Here you will find a quick summary of announcements and related items
from recent weeks that never quite made it to the Squeak Announcements
mailing list. See the end of this message for more meta-information.

SqueakGTK

Gwenaël Casaccio announces an early release of his SqueakGTK
improvements funded kindly by Google through Google Summer of Code.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/130759.html

Monticello 2.0.17

Colin Putney reports on his progress on Monticello 2 and provides a URL
to access the latest release.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/130775.html

Squeak Leadership Meeting 6 Aug 2008

Tim Rowledge reports on the early August meeting of the Squeak
Leadership team where the new website proposals and licensing issues
were discussed.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/130748.html

Monticello 2.0.20

In a flurry of progress Colin Putney reports a new release of Monticello
2 little more than 24 hours after his earlier release.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/130846.html

DrGeo Screencasts

Hilaire Fernandes has 'produced more than 60 DrGeo screencasts
demonstrating most of the DrGeo features.' And he provides a link.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/130923.html

Looking for PHD Candidates with Smalltalk Background

Oscar Nierstrasz is 'looking for PhD candidates with strong background
in OOP, dynamic languages, and especially Smalltalk.'

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/130954.html

Smalltalks 2008 Call for Papers

Leandro Caniglia calls for the submission of papers to the second annual
Smalltalk conference to be held in November in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/130976.html

SqueakDBX

Esteban Lorenzano announces the release of an initial beta version of an
OpenDBX plugin for Squeak.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/130985.html

Monticello 2.0.21

Again Colin Putney announces progress on the development of Monticello
2.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/131045.html

Monticello Converter 1.1.31

Colin Putney announces the availability of 'a simple utility for
converting MC (Monticello) 1.x repositories into MC 2.0 repositories.'

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/131046.html

UK Smalltalk Website

Giovanni Corriga links to a newly created website/blog for the UK
Smalltalk users group.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/131089.html

ESUG 2008 Conference Started

Noury Bouraqadi announces the opening of the European Smalltalk Users
Group 2008 Conference in Amsterdam.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/131098.html

Chalten 2.0

Maximiliano Taborda announces the availability of an 'implementation of
the Time Domain' for both VisualWorks and Squeak.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/131109.html

ESUG 2008 Awards Results

Noury Bouraqadi announces the results of the ESUG 2008 Innovation
Technology Awards.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/131126.html

BabyUML Has Reached Its Goal

Trygve Reenskaug announces that BabyUML now 'bridge(s) the chasm between
the code we write at compile time and the networks of communicating
objects that do the work at runtime.'

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/131131.html

SqueakGTK

Gwenaël Casaccio follows up his report from earlier in the month to
announce another new version of SqueakGTK.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131197.html

First Public Test of SqueakLightII-dev.7201

Edgar J. De Cleene announces the availability of a new release of
SqueakLightII.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-September/131218.html

This periodic publication is meant to capture those Squeak related
announcements which appeared on public mailing lists but were not sent
to the Squeak Announcements mailing list. Ideally there would be no
need for this publication but use of the Announcements mailing list has
not quite settled in the community's unconscious. So if you have an
announcement and do not wish to suffer the fate of my terse summaries I
suggest you Cc announcements@... .

Ken Causey

_______________________________________________
Announcements and News from the Squeak Community
Squeak: http://squeak.org/
Announcements@...
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[ANN] Seaside 2.8.3

2008-08-24T04:18:20Z

Seaside 2.8.3 is the third maintenance release for Seaside 2.8. It
includes small fixes and improvements. For more information see the
changelog below.

You can get it from SqueakMap, Package Universes or Monticello
(Seaside2.8a1-pmm.573). There you'll also find updated, matching
versions for Scriptaculous, Comet, Magritte, Pier and RSRSS. The
OneClick image has been updated as well.

Changelog:
- a cross site scripting flaw in the default not found handler has
been fixed, thanks Martin Holst [1]
- the default expired session handler did no take the application
configuration into account , thanks Marcus Denker
- #iframe is no longer deprecated
- the version uploader had been updated (Squeak)
- the functional tests have been polished

OneClick changelog:
- All packages (Magritte, Pier, Kom, ...) have been updated to their
latest versions.
- Slime has been added [2]

We recommend this upgrade to anyone currently using any version
Seaside 2.8 regardless of the Smalltalk dialect.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/seaside/issues/detail?id=85
[2] http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/blog/slime

Cheers
The Seaside Team
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AIDA/Web 6.0 and Aida/Scribo 1.0 beta on Squeak released

2008-08-22T07:17:08Z

Dear Smalltalkers,

We are happy to announce that AIDA/Web Smalltalk web application server
version 6.0 and AIDA/Scribo CMS 1.0 are ready for beta testing on Squeak.

A preconfigured one click experience image is available:

http://bioskop.fr/AIDA6.0-beta1.zip

Aida/Web is a Smalltalk web framework for the component based
development of complex web applications. Aida is a mature and proven
framework, yet on pair with other modern web frameworks. Aida main
characteristics are REST-like, nice and bookmarkable Urls, strong
internationalization, seamless integration of Ajax, integrated security
with user/group/role management, low memory footprint, ability to serve
many web applications and web sites from the same Smalltalk image,
reliable serving (with help of Swazoo Smalltalk web server) directly to
Internet and more. See http://www.aidaweb.si for additional info.

This version is also the base for AIDA/Scribo, a powerful CMS (Content
Management System), with several plugins: wiki, website, forum, blog.

AIDA/Web 6.0 beta release notes

* better scriptaculous integration
* improved internationalization support (like full japanese support)
* important bug fixes and major refactorings
* cross-dialect file support using Sport
* LightBox support

AIDA/Scribo 1.0 beta important features

* Multilingual support
* Security and access control
* Document versioning
* Document Locking
* Workflow (States during document's life)
* Scriblets (Scribo components embeddable into the text)

Best regards,

Janko Mivšek and Nicolas Petton

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The Weekly Squeak Summary No. 19: May 4 - Aug 16, 2008

2008-08-18T00:54:12Z

Dear Squeakers,

welcome to this edition of The WeeklySqueakSummary, an irregular
traffic-dependent report on what's going on in the world of Squeak
based on the WeeklySqueak blog. It's been a rather long time since the
last issue because I've been on parental leave for two months...
anyway, here we go again with a slightly longer e-mail than usual.

Highlights of the past weeks:

First, some updates. Monticello 2 is out [36], and so is Swazoo 2.2
[32]. The former is essentially a complete re-write with an all-new
core versioning mechanism. The latter especially features faster
uploads. The popular "Squeak by Example" book has also been updated -
updated to be available in another language: French [4]!

Some interesting new projects have emerged: at Qwaq, Eliot Miranda is
building an improved Squeak VM called Cog [14]; and what started as a
coursework assignment at HPI to improve some of the functionality of
JSqueak [20] has been turned into a SourceForge-hosted project called
Potato [25]: a Squeak VM implemented in Java. Also an, albeit
different, VM, MagLev supports Ruby on top of GemStone/S [12].
SandstoneDB [28] is a simple OODBMS based on ideas from ActiveRecord
and Prevayler. Algernon [2] helps navigating the Squeak image.

The native widgets side of the universe has interesting news. After a
long time, wxSqueak has been updated [27] - let's hope it's come fully
back to life! SeasideXUL [5] uses the Firefox XULRunner to support
building GUIs, and one of this year's Squeak-related GSoC projects
[26] is SqueakGTK.

Squeak has been ported to two more platforms: the iPhone [16], and WiFiBots [7].

Last but certainly not least, congratulations to the CMSBox team for
winning an UI usability award [35]!

The past weeks' news items:

[1] Seaside: your next web framework
http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/05/seaside-your-next-web-framework/

[2] Algernon: your personal assistant for Squeak
http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/07/algernon-your-personal-assistant-for-squeak/

[3] Squeak Etoys - Students Build Their Own Games In Four Days
http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/09/squeak-etoys-students-build-their-own-games-in-four-days/

[4] Squeak by Example now available in French
http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/11/squeak-by-example-now-available-in-french/

[5] Native look and feel apps with Firefox XULRunner
http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/13/native-look-and-feel-apps-with-firefox-xulrunner/

[6] 16th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions
http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/16/16th-international-smalltalk-joint-conference-call-for-contributions-2/

[7] Driving WifiBots with Squeak
http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/18/driving-wifibots-with-squeak/

[8] S3 Highlights: Lively, COLA, Huemul, Squeak on Python and more
http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/20/s3-highlights-lively-cola-and-more/

[9] German Squeak Association Meeting: Demos
http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/22/german-squeak-association-meeting-demos/

[10] New Yorkers' chance to see Squeak-based education tools
http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/24/new-yorkers-chance-to-see-squeak-based-education-tools/

[11] Dan Ingalls Interview on FLOSS Weekly
http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/29/dan-ingalls-interview-on-floss-weekly/

[12] Gemstone's MagLev presented at RubyConf
http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/03/gemstones-maglev-presented-at-rubyconf/

[13] Smalltalk Solutions 2008 - two weeks to go!
http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/05/smalltalk-solutions-2008-two-weeks-to-go/

[14] Qwaq developing new fast Smalltalk VM
http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/07/qwaq-developing-new-fast-smalltalk-vm/

[15] Randal Schwartz to join Smalltalk podcast (warning, some
recursion involved)
http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/09/randal_schwartz_podcast/

[16] Squeak on the iPhone!
http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/11/squeak-on-the-iphone/

[17] Conference News: Smalltalks 2008 in Buenos Aires
http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/13/conference-news-smalltalks-2008-in-buenos-aires/

[18] Conference news: C5-09 in Kyoto
http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/16/conference-news-c5-09-in-kyoto/

[19] ESUG Awards for innovative software
http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/18/esug-awards-for-innovative-software/

[20] JSqueak - Smalltalk interpreter written in Java
http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/21/jsqueak-smalltalk-interpreter-written-in-java/

[21] Conference News - Libre Software Meeting, 1-5 July, France
http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/24/conference-news-libre-software-meeting-1-5-july-france/

[22] One stop shop for Smalltalk jobs
http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/28/one-stop-shop-for-smalltalk-jobs/

[23] Smalltalk Solutions 2008 - slides now available
http://news.squeak.org/2008/07/01/smalltalk-solutions-2008-slides-now-available/

[24] Conference news: ESUG 2008 - more information
http://news.squeak.org/2008/07/04/conference-news-esug-2008-more-information/

[25] Potato - version of JSqueak from HPI
http://news.squeak.org/2008/07/07/potato-version-of-jsqueak-from-hpi/

[26] Squeak's Google Summer of Code projects
http://news.squeak.org/2008/07/10/squeaks-google-summer-of-code-projects/

[27] WxSqueak reaches 0.5
http://news.squeak.org/2008/07/14/wxsqueak-reaches-05/

[28] SandstoneDb - Simple ActiveRecord-style persistence in Squeak
http://news.squeak.org/2008/07/16/sandstonedb-simple-activerecord-style-persistence-in-squeak/

[29] Get recording your Squeak videos now!
http://news.squeak.org/2008/07/19/get-recording-your-squeak-videos-now/

[30] Plopp featured in MacWorld
http://news.squeak.org/2008/07/23/plopp-featured-in-macworld/

[31] Avi Bryant Interview
http://news.squeak.org/2008/07/28/avi-bryant-interview/

[32] Swazoo 2.2 beta with fast file upload released
http://news.squeak.org/2008/08/01/swazoo-22-beta-with-fast-file-upload-released/

[33] Volunteers wanted for Squeak project
http://news.squeak.org/2008/08/06/volunteers-wanted-for-squeak-project/

[34] New Video Tutorial - Squeak Bug/Fix Reporting
http://news.squeak.org/2008/08/11/new-video-tutorial-squeak-bugfix-reporting/

[35] CMSBox wins top usability awards
http://news.squeak.org/2008/08/13/cmsbox-wins-top-usability-awards/

[36] All new Monticello 2
http://news.squeak.org/2008/08/15/all-new-monticello-2/

You can find this and much more on The WeeklySqueak blog, the newsblog
dedicated to the world of Squeak:http://news.squeak.org/

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Happy squeaking,

Michael
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Squeak Roundup 8/6/2008

2008-08-06T16:49:38Z

Squeak Roundup #8
August 6, 2008

Here you will find a quick summary of announcements and related items
from recent weeks that never quite made it to the Squeak Announcements
mailing list. See the end of this message for more meta-information.

SqueakLightII Sunday News

Edgar J. De Cleene announces advances in the development of his
SqueakLightII images.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/129972.html

Paid Open Source Project Position Available

Bèrto ëd Sèra looks 'for someone with good Squeak AND peer2peer
experience for a paid Open Source project.'

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/130081.html

Leadership Meeting July 2, 2008 Minutes

Tim Rowledge reports on the latest Squeak Leadership meeting.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/130098.html

ESUG Awards New Record

Noury Bouraqadi announces that as of July 9th ESUG had received 22
submissions for the ESUG Innovation Technology Awards, a new record.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/130101.html

Squeak-dev Images Revival

Damien Cassou discusses the results of two polls designed to influence
the evolution of the Squeak-dev set of images and requests additional
opinions.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/130109.html

Namespaces, Packages: Image Available for Download, Screencast

Michael van der Gulik announces the availability of a download of his
'Namespaced image' and a video where he explains and demonstrates his
concepts.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/130204.html

SqueakGTK News

Gwenaël Casaccio reports on the progress of his Squeak GSOC 2008 project
to significantly improve the SqueakGTK system.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/130310.html

Leadership Meeting July 16, 2008 Report

Tim Rowledge reports on the latest Squeak Leadership meeting.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/130334.html

SqueakLightII Winter News

Edgar J. De Cleene announces the availability of a new version of his
SqueakLightII image.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/130338.html

HydraVM Win32 Update

Igor Stasenko reports on changes in HydraVM for Win32.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/130370.html

Swazoo 2.2 Beta With Fast File Upload

Janko Mivšek announces the availability of the beta for the latest
version of Swazoo with improved file uploading efficiency.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/130418.html

Release of FreeCAD/Croquet Version 0.2

Phua Khai Fong announces the availability of a new version of his 2008
Squeak GSOC project to implement a computer aided design engine inside
Croquet.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/soc/2008-July/000477.html

Exupery 0.14 is Released

Willem Bryce Kampjes reports on the improvements in the latest version
of his Squeak dynamic native code compiler.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/130507.html

Squeak-dev Images August 2008 Versions

Damien Cassou announces the availability of the latest squeak-dev
images.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/130614.html

This periodic publication is meant to capture those Squeak related
announcements which appeared on public mailing lists but were not sent
to the Squeak Announcements mailing list. Ideally there would be no
need for this publication but use of the Announcements mailing list has
not quite settled in the community's unconscious. So if you have an
announcement and do not wish to suffer the fate of my terse summaries I
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Squeak Roundup 7/2/2008

2008-07-02T11:39:17Z

Squeak Roundup #7
July 2, 2008

Here you will find a quick summary of announcements and related items
from recent weeks that never quite made it to the Squeak Announcements
mailing list. See the end of this message for more meta-information.

Call for Content: ESUG DVD 08

Marcus Denker requests comments and additions prior to the production of
the 2008 edition of the ESUG DVD.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129179.html

Save the Date: C5-09

Bert Freudenberg announces the dates (Jan 19-22, 2009) and location
(Kyoto, Japan) for the Conference on Creating, Connecting and
Collaborating through Computing for 2009.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129227.html

ESUG 2008

Noury Bouraqadi reminds everyone that the ESUG 2008 event will be held
in Amsterdam.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129260.html

New Release of Prolog

Stéphane Rollandin announces the availability of the latest release of
his implementation of Prolog.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129359.html

JSqueak, the erstwhile Potato, is out!

Dan Ingalls announces the availability and renaming of the Java
implementation of the Squeak virtual machine.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129367.html

Squeak/Smalltalk at LSM 2008

Hilaire Fernandes invites everyone to attend the 9th Libre Software
Meeting in Mont de Marsan, Landes in southwest France from the 1st to
the 5th of July where Squeak/Smalltalk will have be represented.

http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire/index.php?post/Squeak-Smalltalk-LSM-2008
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129374.html

ESUG Seeking Organizers for 2009 Smalltalk Conference

Noury Bouraqadi notes that 'ESUG is seeking organizers for its 17th
conference on 2009.'

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129402.html

SqueakLightII.7188 is ready

Edgar J. De Cleene announces the availability of the latest release of
SqueakLightII.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129559.html

Prolog Home Page

Stéphane Rollandin announces a new home for his Prolog implementation on
the web.

http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/prolog.htm
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129577.html

AMB

Stéphane Rollandin announces his implementation in Squeak of 'the
"ambigous", "nondeterminist", "angelic" operator aka amb'.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129601.html

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

Tim Rowledge announces the first in a series of articles on his ideas on
future directions for Squeak.

http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/89.html
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129607.html

Squeak-Dev - About the Different Flavors

Damien Cassou solicits opinions on the continuation of the 3.9 versions
of his squeak-dev images and the inclusion of packages.

http://www.doodle.ch/5u67s53greapfdu6
http://www.doodle.ch/9y9r6nr2imci8g38
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/129703.html

Squeak-Dev - Images for July 2008

Damien Cassou announces the availability of the latest releases of his
customized images.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/129721.html

This periodic publication is meant to capture those Squeak related
announcements which appeared on public mailing lists but were not sent
to the Squeak Announcements mailing list. Ideally there would be no
need for this publication but use of the Announcements mailing list has
not quite settled in the community's unconscious. So if you have an
announcement and do not wish to suffer the fate of my terse summaries I
suggest you Cc announcements@... .

Ken Causey

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[ANN] Seaside 2.8.2

2008-06-08T11:19:07Z

Seaside 2.8.2 is the second maintenance relese for Seaside 2.8. It includes
small fixes and improvements. For more information see the changelog
below.

You can get it from Universes, SqueakMap, or Monticello
(Seaside2.8a1-lr.563). There you'll also find updated, matching versions
for Scriptaculous, Comet, Magritte, Pier and RSRSS. The OneClick image
has been updated as well.

Changelog:
- fixed a bug introduced by a fix in Seaside 2.8.1 for the
WAKom/Encoded* when the port is given as a command line argument
classes.
- fixed a bug with cache headers pointing to the wrong day of week
- fixed WAFlowTest
- improvements to WASnapshot
- reworked some functional tests
- fixed WAApplication class >> #description is case the root component
is not set
- backported Roger Whitney's class comments from VW
- some fixes to #submitFormNamed:
- added #submitFormNamed: to radio buttons and select
- includes a backport of a patch to WAExternalId, reduces lock
acquisition time and lock
contention for WAExternalId.

We recommend this upgrade to anyone currently using Seaside 2.8 or
2.8.1 regardless of the Smalltalk dialect.

Cheers
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Squeak Roundup 6/6/2008

2008-06-06T10:04:17Z

Squeak Roundup #6
June 6, 2008

Here you will find a quick summary of announcements and related items
from recent weeks that never quite made it to the Squeak Announcements
mailing list. See the end of this message for more meta-information.

New Releases of Squeak-dev images for May

Damien Cassou announces the latest in his regular monthly releases of
squeak-dev and related customized images.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-May/128423.html

Traits Reading Material

In response to a discussion of Traits Damien Cassou provides links to
papers and other material on the subject.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-May/128641.html

Squeak on WikfiBot Robots and Open PhD Student Position on Robotics

Noury Bouraqadi announces a new robotics platform on which Squeak is
running and that he is seeking a PhD student to contribute to the
project.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-May/128653.html

ESUG Awards 2008

Noury Bouraqadi invites submissions to the 5th ESUG Innovation
Technology awards.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-May/128655.html

New Download URL for Squeak-dev

Damien Cassou announces a change in the location to find squeak-dev and
related images.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-May/128705.html

S3 Recordings Available Online

Robert Hirschfeld announces the availability of vides from the recently
held Self-sustaining Systems conference.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-May/128749.html

SwaLint

Tobias Pape announces the availability of a new developer utility 'in
the spirit of (C) Lint or SmallLint.'

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-May/128778.html

Dan Ingalls on FLOSS Weekly

Randal L. Schwartz invites listeners to a recent interview with Dan
Ingalls.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-May/128806.html

Haru PDF Library Binding for Squeak

To quote Torsten Bergmann: '"HARU is a free, cross platform,
open-sourced software library for generating PDF" - so why not use it
from Squeak?'

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-May/128897.html

FunSqueak 6

Edgar J. De Cleene invites evaluation of the latest version of the
FunSqueak version of Squeak.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-May/128969.html

Squeak-dev Images for June

Damien Cassou announces the availability of the latest version of
squeak-dev and squeak-web customized images.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129141.html

Smalltalks 2008

Andres Valloud announces Smalltalks 2008, a conference to be held in
Buenos Aires, Argentina in mid-November.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129142.html

This periodic publication is meant to capture those Squeak related
announcements which appeared on public mailing lists but were not sent
to the Squeak Announcements mailing list. Ideally there would be no
need for this publication but use of the Announcements mailing list has
not quite settled in the community's unconscious. So if you have an
announcement and do not wish to suffer the fate of my terse summaries I
suggest you Cc announcements@... .

Ken Causey

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Squeak 3.10.1 Released

2008-05-27T10:16:35Z

Squeak 3.10.1 is a release meant to correct a handful of problems found
in 3.10 soon after it was released. This was a quick release completed
in just over two weeks and includes 16 updates addressing issues related
to Date and Time, Morphic, Fonts, Tests, Streams and Collections, and
improving the Welcome window. This release includes 2252 tests of which
all but one now pass. The release along with related files can be found
at

http://ftp.squeak.org/3.10/

I want to give special thanks to Edgar J De Cleene, Keith Hodges, Jerome
Peace, Nicolas Cellier, Andreas Raab, Dave Lewis, Yoshiki Ohshima, and
Randal Schwartz.

Ken Causey

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[ANN] Haru PDF Library binding for Squeak

2008-05-27T01:18:37Z

Hi,

"HARU is a free, cross platform, open-sourced software library for generating PDF" - so why not use it from Squeak.

[1] includes a first rough version of a binding for the free Haru PDF library [2]. It's not fully complete but usable to start printing.
Use at your own risk and feel free to help moving it forward
(MIT License). The squeaksource repo is read/write.

See examples in class PDFDocument to get started. Since it uses
FFI an external library for your platform is required [2].
Place it next to your SqueakVM.

Happy printing

Bye
Torsten

[1] http://www.squeaksource.com/HPDF.html
[2] http://libharu.sourceforge.net
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Squeak Roundup 5/7/2008

2008-05-07T13:08:28Z

Squeak Roundup #5
May 7, 2008

Here you will find a quick summary of announcements and related items
from recent weeks that never quite made it to the Squeak Announcements
mailing list. See the end of this message for more meta-information.

GStreamer Progress

John McIntosh reports on the status of the GStreamer implementation for
OLPC and 32bit Linux systems.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-April/127311.html

Monticello 1.5's Raison d'etre

Colin Putney and Andreas Raab asked about the purpose of Monticello
version 1.5. Matthew Fulmer responded with his understanding.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-April/127308.html

Hackontest

Markus Gälli invites the Squeak community to participate in Hackontest
in Zurich in September.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-April/127331.html

Squeak-dev Images for April 2008

Damien Cassou announces new versions of squeak-dev and squeak-web once
again like clockwork.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-April/127393.html

Sake/Packages

Keith Hodges provides and example of the use of Sake.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-April/127598.html

Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008 | Call for Participation

Robert Hirschfield invites the participation of the Squeak community in
S3 2008.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-April/127739.html

SeasideXUL

Pavel Krivanek announces SeasideXUL a system to enable the generation of
XUL code in Seaside 2.9.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-April/127757.html

Mac Carbon VM 3.8.13b3

John McIntosh announces the availability of the newest beta version of
the Mac Carbon virtual machine.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-April/127775.html

rSTAdd-ons

Sebastian Sastre announces the first release of his addons package for
rST (Remote Smalltalk).

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-April/127783.html

Job Offer for Seaside Developer in Switzerland

Adrian Lienhard announces the availability of a position to work at
Cmsbox using Seaside.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-April/127892.html

"An Introduction to Seaside"

Michael Perscheid announces the publication of a Seaside book "An
Introduction to Seaside."

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-April/127895.html

ESUG 2008 Call for Contributions

Stéphane Ducasse calls for presentations for ESUG 2008 in Amsterdam.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-May/128227.html

Algernon: Your Personal Assistant for Squeak

Joey Hagerdorn announces the availability of Algernon: "keyboard-based
launcher that provides lightning quick access to categories, classes,
morphs, and global variables in your image."

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-May/128241.html

Squeak by Example in French

Serge Stenkwich announces the availability of the Squeak by Example book
in the French language.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-May/128274.html

This periodic publication is meant to capture those Squeak related
announcements which appeared on public mailing lists but were not sent
to the Squeak Announcements mailing list. Ideally there would be no
need for this publication but use of the Announcements mailing list has
not quite settled in the community's unconscious. So if you have an
announcement and do not wish to suffer the fate of my terse summaries I
suggest you Cc announcements@... .

Ken Causey

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The Weekly Squeak Summary No. 18: Mar 23 - May 3, 2008

2008-05-04T23:27:18Z

Dear Squeakers,

welcome to this edition of The WeeklySqueakSummary, an irregular
traffic-dependent report on what's going on in the world of Squeak
based on the WeeklySqueak blog. This is, by the way, the first edition
that is also sent to the AIDA mailing list - thanks for the
invitation!

Highlights of the past weeks:

Hilaire Fernandes is writing a series of blog entries that introduce
Squeak specifically to educators [10]. Material of this kind is
extremely welcome and much needed!

Two announcements have come true: first, Gilad Bracha's talk on
Newspeak, which he gave at HPI in Potsdam, is now available online [7]
(some trouble with viewing have been reported, but with a recent
player and no over-zealous firewall, viewing should be no problem).
Second, the Seaside tutorial hosted at HPI has been turned into a
book, which is finally available (the first book on Seaside, yay, and
please forgive the author his personal pride) [8].

Finally, there's three technical items.

Squeak is now available on yet another platform, namely the Syllable
OS [4]. At the time of posting, only headless images were supported,
but it ran Seaside.

JavaConnect and JNIPort [12] are two projects that support
Smalltalk/Java interoperability in very elegant ways. While they are
currently available only on VisualWorks (and, as for JNIPort,
Dolphin), they set standards in terms of language/platform
connectivity.

SqueakFS [13] allows for browsing the Squeak image as a mounted file
system (on Mac OS X and Linux, using the FUSE library). The top-level
directory supports looking at the image along one of three axes: along
the class hierarchy, grouped by class category, and as a flat space
containing all classes. At present, it's read-only, but future
extensions are already being planned.

The past weeks' news items:

[1] Seaside startup snapped up
http://news.squeak.org/2008/03/28/seaside-startup-snapped-up/

[2] What's the difference?
http://news.squeak.org/2008/03/31/whats-the-difference/

[3] The Year of Smalltalk
http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/02/the-year-of-smalltalk/

[4] Squeak ported to Syllable
http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/07/squeak-ported-to-syllable/

[5] Free Smalltalk books
http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/10/free-smalltalk-books/

[6] Waveplace in the US Virgin Islands
http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/16/waveplace/

[7] Video of Newspeak lecture now available
http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/19/video-of-newspeak-lecture-now-available/

[8] "An Introduction to Seaside" now published
http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/21/an-introduction-to-seaside-now-published/

[9] Squeak Project in Google Summer of Code 2008
http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/25/squeak-summer-of-code-2008/

[10] Using Squeak in Education
http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/26/squeak-in-education/

[11] New Dabble DB Demo Debuts
http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/28/new-dabble-db-demo-debuts/

[12] Using Smalltalk with Java: JavaConnect and JNIPort
http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/30/using-smalltalk-with-java-javaconnect-and-jniport/

[13] Squeak and the filesystem
http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/02/squeak-and-the-filesystem/

You can find this and much more on The WeeklySqueak blog, the newsblog
dedicated to the world of Squeak:http://news.squeak.org/

Subscribe to the WeeklySqueak RSS feed: http://news.squeak.org/feed/

Happy squeaking,

Michael
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[ANN] Diff tools

2008-04-18T15:58:30Z

Was from squeak-dev, guess the [ANN] tag should be superflouous here!

Diff Tools are now available via the dev Universe and/or SqueakSource.

Excerpt:

"The Diff Tools consist of a set of morphs designed to present differences
between versions of methods in a presentable manner. Generally two methods
are presented side-by-side with highlighting, by lines, additions, removals
and changes.
Where there is a change, further highlighting is employed to identify the
changes within the affected lines."

Details can be browsed here: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6046

Regards, Gary.

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[ANN] Seaside 2.8.1

2008-04-17T13:58:07Z

Hi

Seaside 2.8.1 is a maintenance realese for Seaside 2.8. It includes
small fixes and improvements. For more information see the changelog
below.

You can get it from Universes, SqueakMap, or Monticello
(Seaside.lr-541). There you'll also find updated, matching versions
for Scriptaculous, Comet, Magritte, Pier and RSRSS. The OneClick image
has been updated as well.

Changelog:
- backported "enable the use of #with: in WATextInput and
WASubmitButton as a synonym to #text:, what is much more consistent"
- WAKomEncoded and WAKomEncoded39 startup issues fixed in Squeak 3.9.1 and 3.10
- WAKomEncoded and WAKomEncoded39 class comments improved
- some protability issues fixed
- implemented Downlevel-revealed Conditional Comments
- allow not in conditional comment
- fixes a nasty bug when backtracking an OrderedCollection
- some default action fixes
- immediately close the <link> tag if it is empty (some browser require that)
- added #with: to WAHtmlElement
- avoid that the dispatcher assigns the seaside logo to <h1>

Cheers
The Seaside Team
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Squeak Roundup 4/1/2008

2008-04-01T13:22:26Z

Squeak Roundup #4
April 1, 2008

Here you will find a quick summary of announcements and related items
from recent weeks that never quite made it to the Squeak Announcements
mailing list. See the end of this message for more meta-information.

Newspeak Programming Language

Robert Krahn provides th3e abstract for a talk by Gilad Bracha on the
new dynamic language Newspeak he has been working on.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126402.html

ESUG 2008 Call for Contributions

Stéphane Ducasse sends a reminder about the call for submissions to the
16th International Smalltalk Joint Conference.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126429.html

Squeak by Example Second Edition

Stéphane Ducasse announces the availability of the second edition of the
book for new Squeakers.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126459.html

3.10 is Done

Ralph Johnson announces the eminent completion of the 3.10 release of
Squeak.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126482.html

PhD Thesis

Stéphane Ducasse provides information about an opening to pursue a PhD
related to Squeak and dynamic languages.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126477.html

New KernelImage

Pavel Krivanek announces the availability of the newest version of
KernelImage.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126534.html

Monticello Backport to Squeak 3.4

Germán Arduino announces the availability of a backport of the
Monticello versioning system to Squeak 3.4.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126605.html

Squeak in Google Summer of Code 2008

Giovanni Corriga announces that the Squeak project has been accepted as
an organization within the Google Summer of Code event for 2008. (If
you are interested in participating as a student but haven't signed up
yet then you are in luck because Google has extended the student
application deadline until April 7th. But now is the time to act so
don't wait any longer.)

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126663.html

New News Team Leader

Ron Teitelbaum announces his retirement as the leader of the News Team
and his replacement by Michael Davies.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126679.html

Squeak Board Meeting Minutes 2008-03-19

Craig Latta reports on the discussion within the Squeak Board meeting
for March 19, 2008.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126722.html

OmniBrowser Enhancements

David Röthlisberger announces the availability of a package enhancing
the OmniBrowser collection of tools.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126950.html

FunSqueak 6

Edgar J. De Cleene announces the availability of his newest customized
Squeak image focussing on fun.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126980.html

New Release Team Mailing List

Matthew Fulmer announces a new mailing list for the discussion of future
releases of Squeak.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/127243.html

Stable 3.10 Universe Finished

Lex Spoon announces the availability of the completed Package Universe
for Squeak 3.10

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/127273.html

This periodic publication is meant to capture those Squeak related
announcements which appeared on public mailing lists but were not sent
to the Squeak Announcements mailing list. Ideally there would be no
need for this publication but use of the Announcements mailing list has
not quite settled in the community's unconscious. So if you have an
announcement and do not wish to suffer the fate of my terse summaries I
suggest you Cc announcements@... .

Ken Causey

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The Weekly Squeak Summary No. 17: Jan 13 - Mar 22, 2008

2008-03-24T01:58:10Z

Dear Squeakers,

welcome to the Easter edition of The WeeklySqueakSummary, an irregular
traffic-dependent report on what's going on in the world of Squeak
based on the WeeklySqueak blog.

Highlights of the past weeks:

There is a whole bunch of very interesting (not just software)
releases... Squeak 3.10 [23], Sophie 1.0 [24], a multi-threaded Squeak
VM called Hydra [14], the Squeak by Example book's second edition
(nowadays, people tend to call such things 2.0 or the like... I prefer
to stick with the old-fashioned word "edition") [19], and a very
extensive book covering the (much more relevant than you might think)
topic of hashing [15].

The Squeak Foundation has a new board [17] - congratulations to all
board members (and to the community for their choices)!

Last time, I accidentally posted a "link" to a demo video of the
Lively kernel - it was just a link to an announcement. This happens if
you don't read carefully. :-) The actual video has since been released
[20].

Two notifications of acceptance: there will be more Google Summer of
Code projects related to Squeak [22], and the Squeak VM is now
officially deemed open source by the Debian maintainers [21].

That last topic (licensing issues) directly relates to the last "hot"
topic: the Software Freedom Law Center has released a guide to legal
issues as occurring in the context of open-source projects [11]. It's
an interesting read, but unfortunately very much focused on the legal
situation in the United States of America - well, you probably can't
blame them.

The past weeks' news items:

[1] Qwaq is Hiring!
http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/16/qwaq-is-hiring/

[2] Squeak now running on Nokia N810
http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/18/squeak-now-running-on-nokia-n810/

[3] Self-Sustaining Systems *Call for Papers*
http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/21/self-sustaining-systems-call-for-papers/

[4] Brought to you by ESUG!
http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/23/brought-to-you-by-esug/

[5] Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) 2008 - Call For Papers
http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/25/dynamic-languages-symposium-dls-2008-call-for-papers/

[6] Learn Smalltalk And See the World!
http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/26/learn-smalltalk-and-see-the-world/

[7] Immersive Education Summit Ad-Hoc Meeting
http://news.squeak.org/2008/02/03/immersive-education-summit-ad-hoc-meeting/

[8] The Golight: Tool Support for Test-Driven Development
http://news.squeak.org/2008/02/07/the-golight-tool-support-for-test-driven-development/

[9] XO in the US Virgin Islands
http://news.squeak.org/2008/02/12/xo-in-the-us-virgin-islands/

[10] 16th International Smalltalk Joint Conference *Call for Contributions*
http://news.squeak.org/2008/02/14/16th-international-smalltalk-joint-conference-call-for-contributions/

[11] IANAL - But they are! SFLC Guide to FOSS Legal Issues
http://news.squeak.org/2008/02/15/ianal-but-they-are-sflc-guide-to-foss-legal-issues/

[12] International Squeak Live Video Conference Between Nepal and Japan
http://news.squeak.org/2008/02/17/international-squeak-live-video-conference-between-nepal-and-japan/

[13] Randal Schwartz Talks With Leo about Squeak, EToys and OLPC
http://news.squeak.org/2008/02/20/randal-schwartz-talks-with-leo-about-squeak-etoys-and-olpc/

[14] Qwaq releases Hydra multi-core Squeak VM
http://news.squeak.org/2008/02/21/qwaq-releases-hydra-multi-core-squeak-vm/

[15] Hashing in Smalltalk
http://news.squeak.org/2008/02/25/hashing-in-smalltalk/

[16] Don't forget to vote!
http://news.squeak.org/2008/03/06/dont-forget-to-vote/

[17] The Squeak Foundation Board 2008
http://news.squeak.org/2008/03/09/the-squeak-foundation-board-2008/

[18] Talk on "Newspeak" today
http://news.squeak.org/2008/03/11/talk-on-newspeak-today/

[19] Squeak by Example, 2.0!
http://news.squeak.org/2008/03/12/squeak-by-example-20/

[20] Dan Ingalls demos Lively at Google
http://news.squeak.org/2008/03/14/dan-ingalls-demos-lively-at-google/

[21] Squeak VM now in Debian distro
http://news.squeak.org/2008/03/17/squeak-vm-now-in-debian-distro/

[22] Squeak accepted into Google Summer of Code 08
http://news.squeak.org/2008/03/18/squeak-accepted-into-google-summer-of-code-08/

[23] Squeak 3.10 now released!
http://news.squeak.org/2008/03/21/380/

[24] Sophie multimedia authoring environment hits 1.0
http://news.squeak.org/2008/03/22/sophie-multimedia-authoring-environment-hits-10/

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Happy squeaking,

Michael
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[ANN] New version of NamespacesBrowser, not announced.

2008-03-21T15:51:21Z

Hi all.

I would like to announce a newer version of the NamespacesBrowser with a Namespaces implementation for Squeak.

However, this is not a real announcement. I can't get the package to load in 3.10. It's available from the UniversesBrowser in 3.10, but a bug somewhere, possibly in Monticello, means that classes in ToolBuilder-Kernel are not being properly recompiled so that bytecodes refer to the wrong instance variables. So... it's released, but it doesn't work :-). If you want to have a crack at getting it going, try recompiling all classes in ToolBuilder-Kernel.

This release introduces the concept of a versioned Package. This Packaging mechanism has been designed to ensure that code will be loaded and run in exactly the same environment that it was written and tested in. This is achieved by making inter-package dependencies based on exact versions of packages, and allowing multiple versions of the same package to be concurrently usable in an image.

This Namespaces implementation is a part of my SecureSqueak project. SecureSqueak is a project to create a Smalltalk environment based on Squeak which allows untrusted remotely loaded bytecodes to be executed in a secure sandboxed environment. SecureSqueak in turn is a component of my Unnamed Grand Project.

More information is available in the form of a brain dump at:
http://gulik.pbwiki.com/Unnamed+Grand+Project

Gulik.

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[Election 2008] The results are in!

2008-03-08T09:22:36Z

Hi all Squeakers!

Ok, the Squeak Foundation Board Election 2008 ended 19 minutes ago -
promptly at 18.00 UTC, 8 March.

For this year we had 437 authorized voters of which 178 voted, that is
slightly more than 40% voting - a bit disappointing IMHO since we had
157 voting of 347 last year which gives above 45%.
On the other hand 178 is more than 157, so we had more voters and thus a
growing community, which of course is the most important aspect!

And without further ado I bring you the board for the following year
starting from NOW. The order reflects the ranking from the election:

1. Dan Ingalls
2. Craig Latta
3. Bert Freudenberg
4. Yoshiki Ohshima
5. Tim Rowledge
6. Randal L. Schwartz
7. Igor Stasenko

And thus the candidates left out are the following (also in ranked
order):

8. Giovanni Corriga
9. Edgar J. De Cleene
10. Andrew P. Black
11. Matthew Fulmer
12. Tansel Ersavas

For excrutiating details see:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_d38cc
27709a65b64

This also means that we say THANK YOU to Andrew Black, Cees de Groot and
Stéphane Ducasse for having served on the board the previous year.
Thanks guys!

And we also say welcome Dan, Randal and Igor to the board!

And thank YOU for voting and all the best to the new board! Viva la
Squeak!

regards, Göran Krampe

PS. And to you guys that didn't get on the board - hey, we all know that
the REAL WORK is done in the teams, right? :)
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