Hi all,
A bit of a short notice, mainly because we hade to shove this in between today and StS , but please mark 11th March 2006 in your diary if you’re a Smalltalker within reasonable travel distance of Brussels.
The VUB Programming Technology Lab will host this day of informal chat, presentations (Bryce will […]

In Delay after Delay, Travis Griggs thinks that “Delay is a fun class to explore”.
That might be, until you hit a side of it that is less fun.
Kolibri relies heavily on processes and delays - and on terminating them, which is most probably the main cause of our problems. Andreas Raab pointed out that […]

John Hylands reports another milestone on his HUV project, the first autonomous trip of his MicroRover robot.
Using Squeak here makes a lot of sense - the very same environment powers both his mission editor software and the gumstix controlling the robot.
There are not many software development systems that will easily accommodate that range of […]

Just a quick note: ESUG’s 14th International Smalltalk Conference 2006 is in Prague, in the land of Pilsner Urquell and other good stuff .
Time to prepare a Kolibri talk…
Update: Giovanni Corriga pointed out a conference that might even be more interesting

Well, Squeak news keeps coming: Spanish Technology ministry the has published a tender for Squeak-based museum displays.
I haven’t been able to find the tender itself on-line, but the Regional Government of the Extremadura is an avid Open Source supporter, so this would be a great opportunity.
Any Spanish-speaking Squeakers up for setting up a consortium […]

James Savidge just posted an essay about Dabble - Dabble is one of the most exciting Smalltalk packages currently in an extended beta, and James has done his best to give a very balanced opinion on the package based on a real-world example, his database of open Smalltakl positions. Worth a read.

Well, even the NASA can’t do without Squeak these days. They are using Squeak as a testbed for new user interfaces (Andreas Raab adds in the thread that this is Tweak/Croquet-based).
Croquet has a Mars Rover demo, and I figure that stuff like this - a simulated 3D environment of a planet-to-explore where people from […]

Pimp my grave is the title of a campaign of one of my customers and last weekend that site went live.
It’s an interesting site - we managed to completely separate design and coding work with help of lots of CSS and a bit of Javascript (rewriting the DOM tree to replace a title with […]

Some people still like to spread the rumour that Smalltalk is bloated. From now on, I can point them to this snapshot of a running Squeak object memory, created by Craig Latta who is working on a minimal object system under the name Spoon.

Well, to many out there Smalltalk may be all but dead, but how many companies in the languages market can report an 88% revenue growth?
Nice to know that this is a sound business. Hopefully Instantiations will take notice and start some serious VA Smalltalk marketing - competition it good.
And for the open sourcy […]