LiberLab and Squeak

Looks like this project is using Squeak and EToys:

Swing Bugs

Yet another stupid Java bug in the Swing UI library. But the best is that one has to wait until Java 7 to get it fixed, no backport to version 6.

In Smalltalk fixing bugs in old versions has never been a problem: anything is open and changeable. If the vendor doesn fix it you are able to modify the code yourself. This is what makes customers and developers happy ...

Swazoo for Squeak

Janko Mivšek announced the Swazoo web server 2.0 beta release for Squeak.

Swazoo (Smalltalk Web Application Zoo) is an open source, vendor agnostic, dialect neutral Smalltalk HTTP server with resource and web request resolution framework, a fruit of a first Camp Smalltalk 2000 in San Diego.

Smalltalk Game Engine

Looks like there is a new game engine for 2D games written completely in Smalltalk. See

      http://www.unstdio.com/



Jeffrey Massung (author of unstdio) talks about this project in his blog.

Swim across the Atlantic Ocean

Ever tried to find an easy way from New York to Paris?
Then try these steps from Huw Collingbourne in Google Maps.

VASmalltalk Forum photos

The Instantiations site now points to photos from the VASmalltalk Forum in Frankfurt

Seaside Marketing

After Giles Bowkett posts about Seaside's "Marketing Problem" there is a nice reaction from Kurt Schrader.

I totally agree with Kurt. Seaside rocks compared to other web technologies.
I can show it to other people, they are all fascinated but go back and use file editors and other primitive tools and frameworks. They restart the web server after each major refactoring and read many books and specs about predefined behavior and XML configurations. Sometimes I'm amongst them to make a living ;)

But I dont care. I know and use Smalltalk since many years - it still is my secret weapon. I'm always a step ahead and much more productive with it.

Here is an example: I once created an applications using Seaside and finished it within a month. It took an external team (3 people) nearly one year to recreate it using Java technology for the same functionality.

The reason is simple: in Smalltalk I can keep the focus on the problem. Especially web development with Java is bloated with very specialized frameworks these days. If you ever worked with JSP/JSF/Struts/CF/EJB/... you know what I'm talking about.

Only a few people looking for Rails and other dynamic alternatives ...

Magritte/Seaside based model editor

Pavel announced a small flash demo of the Magritte based model editor (based on the seaside web framework) with direct code generation.

See

http://comtalk.net/public/tmp/shorebase1.htm

Smalltalk Books again

Have a look at Google Books:

http://books.google.de/books?q=Smalltalk

Smalltalk-ish at Microsoft

Jon Udell talks with Alan Wirfs-Brock (who is now at Microsoft) about Smalltalk and dynamic languages. Really interesting talk ...

Scratch on BBC

There is an article (including a video) about Scratch on the BBC news site. Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group using Squeak Smalltalk.



The weekly squeak also reports that Scratch unleashed new projects website

Interviewing Avi on Seaside

Found another interview with Avi about Seaside and his presentation from ETECH 2007. You should also read this writeup if you are interested in the topic.

Machu Picchu in Croquet

The arts metaverse web site includes a video about "Machu Picchu in Croquet". See

http://artsmetaverse.arts.ubc.ca

Croquet is based on Squeak Smalltalk.

Arts Metaverse

Tim Wang is currently working with the Croquet Consortium (Julian Lombardi, David Smith and Mark McCahill) on a project called Arts Metaverse, which in short is to use high quality 3D models inside of Croquet to teach arts related topics (Art History, Archeology, Classical Studies etc...).

He has an e-learning related blog at: http://blog.loaz.com/timwang with some nice videos about the things they do with OpenCroquet.

Software Architecture Group Games for OLPC

Looks like Robert's Software Architecture Group developed small projects running in the Squeak/Etoys image for the One Laptop per Child initiative:

GLASS - Gemstone, Linux, Apache, Seaside and Smalltalk

From Ians blog: After LAMP/WAMP stacks for web development we now have GLASS for the Smalltalk community:

G - Gemstone/S Object Server
L - Linux
A - Apache
S - Seaside
S - Smalltalk

http://seaside.gemstone.com

FreeType Plus release for Squeak

Andrew Tween announced the FreeType Plus release for Squeak. More infos are available at the swiki.

Sudoku Solver in Seaside

Martin J. Laubach has created a Sudoku Solver in Seaside.
It shows how easy it is to create web applications with the Smalltalk web application framework.

If you want to learn more read his blog.

OmniBrowser docu

Alexandre Bergel announced a new paper on Omnibrowser:

http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Berg07cOmnibrowser.pdf

OmniBrowser is a browser framework started by Colin Putney that supports the definition of browsers based on an explicit metamodel. A first implementation is available for Squeak.

UI patents

Found a nice summary on the history of user interfaces and how Smalltalk has influenced user interfaces we know from modern operating system today.

Looks like Apple is sued by a user interface patent today. The patent was originally filed by Xerox.

What if the first cave man would have patented how to start a fire ...