Category Archives: squeak

Application for GSoC is done!

Posted on March 10, 2012 by

So carla and Janko have just finished all that’s necessary to apply as a mentor organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code. As Janko states on the Squeak-dev mailing list: I think we have quite some chance, specially because we … Continue reading →

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New Seaside Application goes live: airflowing

Posted on August 9, 2011 by

If you still ask yourself if Smalltalk and Seaside are ready for real world web applications, there now is one more place to look at: airflowing.com. This online platform for small/medium businesses in the creativy industry has been in semi-public … Continue reading →

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Pharo: How to load a Metacello Configuration into an offline image

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

I just had a little, maybe weird sounding problem. I needed to get Seaside and some other stuff into a Pharo image on a machine at a place where there is very limited offline access. The network there is configured … Continue reading →

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Alan Kay will talk at Potsdam about “Next steps for qualitatively improving programming”

Posted on July 8, 2011 by

On July 21st, 2011, the Hasso-Plattner-Institute at the University of Potsdam, Germany, will give Alan Kay its HPI Fellowship Award (german). Kay is known as the father of object oriented programming and Smalltalk and the Dynabook vision and coined a … Continue reading →

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ESUG Day 2

Posted on September 16, 2010 by

ESUG is really the place to be. There’s so much to learn about what people do in Smalltalk and it’s good to see the energy being put into Smalltalk by young people. Tuesday started off with Colin Putney’s talk on … Continue reading →

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Seaside 3 and my first day at ESUG

Posted on September 14, 2010 by

I may be the last blogger in the Smalltalk arena to mention it, but Seaside 3 has finally been published here at Camp Smalltalk in Barcelona. You can read the full announcement on the Seaside home page. So what can … Continue reading →

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Smalltalk on iOS – again an option?

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

It seems like the growing demand in Android gadgets and the noise of App developers have finally made Apple rethink their rules (Press Release): In particular, we are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, … Continue reading →

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I want it for VA Smalltalk

Posted on August 4, 2010 by

To my readers, it is not a secret that I see a lot of room for improvement for the VA Smalltalk tools. One of the tools that really are nicely done in Eclipse, Squeak and Pharo is their diff tool, … Continue reading →

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