Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Smalltalk in Nepal
The Open Learning Exchange Nepal has released a demo Squeak Smalltalk image. It's fascination who uses Squeak these days, so I'm glad the Smalltalk community continues to grow.
Here are some screenshots, click on the images to enlarge:
Here are some screenshots, click on the images to enlarge:
Monday, October 29, 2007
Squeak BOF at OOPLSA
There are first tapes from the Squeak BOF at OOPSLA:
Squeak-BOF-OOPSLA-2007-1-3
Squeak-BOF-OOPSLA-2007-2-3
Squeak-BOF-OOPSLA-2007-1-3
Squeak-BOF-OOPSLA-2007-2-3
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
ANSI Smalltalk
There is a call for getting involved into the ANSI Smalltalk process by Bruce Badger.
Looks like there is also a new ANSI Smalltalk mailinglist.
Looks like there is also a new ANSI Smalltalk mailinglist.
Friday, October 19, 2007
New Seaside tutorial
The Software Architecture Group at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut (University of Potsdam, Germany) announced a new Seaside tutorial:
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
OLPC in german news
EduSim3D, Greenbush and Croquet videos
Here is a new a video about a teacher adding a 3D virtual environment to her SMARTBoard.
The software is called Edusim3D and is based on Croquet which is done in Squeak Smalltalk.
Some more videos can be found on the Greenbush website:
The software is called Edusim3D and is based on Croquet which is done in Squeak Smalltalk.
Some more videos can be found on the Greenbush website:
- Your interactive whiteboard may never be the same again
- Bring in Video, Images, and Text onto your Whiteboard
- Using Croquet on a Smartboard - Croquet for kids !
- Ultra Mobile Devices & Internet in the "Air"
- Greenbush Labs: Exploring Tomorrows Educational Tech Today !
Monday, October 15, 2007
Seaside Builder
Hernán Morales points to a preview on the development of an interface builder for Seaside
The ideas of this package are based on WindowBuilder Pro. Right now they have support for most common web controls (TextField, Panel, RadioButton, TextArea, Label, Button, Anchor, CheckBoxGroup, RadioButtonGroup, ListBox, FieldSet).
Here is a screenshot (click on the image to enlarge):
He thinks the package would be available at the end of this year or first months of 2008. He also points to two preview videos:
http://smartware.com.ar/builder.avi
http://cs.hernanmorales.com.ar/SeasideBuilder.avi
The ideas of this package are based on WindowBuilder Pro. Right now they have support for most common web controls (TextField, Panel, RadioButton, TextArea, Label, Button, Anchor, CheckBoxGroup, RadioButtonGroup, ListBox, FieldSet).
Here is a screenshot (click on the image to enlarge):
He thinks the package would be available at the end of this year or first months of 2008. He also points to two preview videos:
http://smartware.com.ar/builder.avi
http://cs.hernanmorales.com.ar/SeasideBuilder.avi
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Active Book
Tim talkes about the "Active Book", a portable tablet like computer running Smalltalk.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Sun Labs Lively Kernel
Dan Ingalls announced on the squeak-dev mailing list that Sun Labs has published Lively Kernel.
Looks like they have implemented a small computing kernel for the browser in JavaScript and ported Squeaks Morphic on top of it.
Here is a first screenshot impression (click on image to enlarge):
Based on the tradition of Smalltalk and Squeak it also includes the IDE:
Would be interesting what could be possible if this is combined with the Seaside web framework on the server side.
Looks like they have implemented a small computing kernel for the browser in JavaScript and ported Squeaks Morphic on top of it.
Here is a first screenshot impression (click on image to enlarge):
Based on the tradition of Smalltalk and Squeak it also includes the IDE:
Would be interesting what could be possible if this is combined with the Seaside web framework on the server side.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Squeak By Example
Squeak on OpenSource Phone
Croquet interactive
Next generation of Smalltalkers ...
No postings for a while. I have a pretty good reason: welcome on earth little Elisa. ;)
