Well, finally we have been able to announce that Squeak is now officially Open Source. I still don’t know what triggered this - it seems that Steve Jobs was in a good mood or something , but finally finally there is a version of Squeak that is OSD-compliant, etcetera.
From here, there’s still a long […]

On SqueakPeople, Gerardo Richarte reports that the SqueakNOS - Squeak No Operating System - project is back on the move.
It turns out that since the last demo, some 5 years ago, some people have been silently working on the project, basically restarting from scratch, and ending up with a bit more. Not really […]

At my new company, Telegraaf, we have started running the Speurders project using Scrum last week. So it was excellent timing that Roots in Belgium got Joseph Pelrine over to Mechelen to give a Certificed Scrum Master training. So that’s where I spent the last two days.
Scrum is a nice process - extremely simple […]

The Register shows yet another example of university administrators striving to be politically correct (in this case revoking someone’s web access after he posted a discussion on why vegetarianism is misguided), ignoring centuries of very good reasons why universities must be places where there is freedom of speech and debate. I’d say “fire them”, but […]

It seems that Dr.Dobb’s has taken an interest into Smalltalk lately:

In April, a short note on Seaside;
This week, Georg Heeg noted that an article appeared based on his Smalltalk Solutions talk.

Smalltalk vendors are reporting more business; articles are popping up all over the place (Dobb’s is not the only rag that has noted lately that […]