Squeak on university

Markus Gaelli has published a short report (german only) from the "Day of informatics 2006" on the university Erlangen-Nürnberg where he presented Squeak to students. He also published some pictures.

SqueakGtk

SqueakGtk is an attempt to port the Gtk+ GUI to Squeak - and it looks like the project makes some progress.

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VistaSmalltalk

Peter Fisk announced a demonstration of using Smalltalk classes instead of XAML to implement animations in the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). He expects Vista Smalltalk will shortly be capable of building online animated games and replacing Javascript for "Ajax" style applications.

Vista Smalltalk is built upon the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) classes and a bytecode runtime which depends only upon core WinFx classes.

14th International Smalltalk Conference 2006

The registration for International Smalltalk Conference organised by ESUG every year is now open.

The 14th International Smalltalk Conference 2006 will be held in Prague, Czech Republic.

SqueakNOS Mailinglist

There is a new mailinglist available for the Squeak NOS project.

SqueakNOS is trying to get rid of the OS under Squeak, and to implement all the operating system functionality in Smalltalk.

SqSquare collaboration software

Masashi Umezawa announced the SqSquare BETA release.

SqSquare is a new collaboration software built on Tweak. On a virtual broad desktop, you can freely add/edit objects, or even write eToys scripts. There is also a project swiki available.

SqueakNOS: A simple guide to writing HardwareDevices

The "Simple guide to writing HardwareDevices" for SqueakNOS
explains how to use Squeak Smalltalk to implement new
Hardware Devices.

Seaside, Baby dolls and high volume websites

Nevin Pratt shares some experiences about using Seaside for his web shop.