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ESUG 2010 Live Streams

laza — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:17:39 +0000

As announced on the ESUG Wiki there is live video coverage of the tracks during ESUG 2010.

Update: Videos of the live streams will be available here

Update: The raw recordings of the live streams are available here

ESUG 2010 Impressions

laza — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 06:06:34 +0000

Thanks to Adriaan van Os there are impressions of this years Camp Smalltalk/ESUG 2010 Conference and the city of Barcelona avaiable.

Update: On Flickr are more pictures from Citilab-Cornellà

Update2: On Bert Freudenbergs summary of ESUG2010 are also some nice shots

Update3: There are also Graham McLeod pictures of the event

Graham McLeod

Bleeding Edge Squeak (aka The Trunk)

laza — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:07:58 +0000

Since last year the development of Squeak is done following the New Community Development Model, which was published by the Squeak Oversight Board.

Basically this means, that “Core Developers” can directly commit changes to The Trunk Monticello repository at source.squeak.org.

Any Squeaker can commit changes to The Inbox, so a Core Developer can pick them up and commit them to The Trunk and moving the packages to The Treated Inbox. The Inbox is also used for changes with drastic effects that should be tested before integration into The Trunk or need further discussion on the Squeak-Development mailinglist squeak-dev. Commit messages for The Inbox and The Trunk are also send directly to squeak-dev.

Any Squeaker (that is suscribed to squeak-dev) can send an e-mail to board at squeak.org and ask to become a Core Developer.

The Trunk is world readable, so anyone can update it’s image to the latest changes of Squeak development. You just have to tell Squeak to fetch it’s updates from The Trunk.

If you start from a fresh Squea 4.1 image (here is how to get it for Ubuntu) just open the Preference Browser and change the last part of the Update URL from squeak41 to trunk. After that all updates are fetched from The Trunk and your squeaking on the bleeding edge.

This video shows in detail how to do it:

Survey on Best Smalltalk Book

laza — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:53:08 +0000

Before the upcoming International Smalltalk Conference 2010 in Barcelona next week, ESUG asks [1] for participation on a survey in order to reward the best Smalltalk related publication from the last five years.

Just go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q2LKKDT to participate.

Further more, it can’t be mentioned enough: Thanks to Stéphane Ducasse of ESUG and others there are lots of free Smalltalk Books to download from [2].

[1] http://lists.esug.org/pipermail/esug-list_lists.esug.org/2010-September/000800.html
[2] http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html

Update: And the winner is: book.seaside.st. Congrats guys!

Getting Squeak 4.1 on Ubuntu

laza — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:05:13 +0000

Before you can run Squeak 4.1 on your Ubuntu System you must have a recent Squeak VM installed. In Squeak on Ubuntu reloaded I described a way how to easily achieve that.

Once you have a running VM you just need to go to Squeak.org at the unix-linux download folder for 4.1 and get Squeak4.1.zip .

Now it’s best to extract these files into the squeak folder in your home directory (this gets created when you start squeak from the Ubuntu menu for the first time)

After the files have been extracted you launch Squeak again from the menu and should have a running Squeak 4.1 on your Ubuntu system

If you further would like to track the very latest changes on Squeak development you could see how to be squeaking on the bleeding edge.

For a Squeak 4.1 image you just need to go to Squeak.org at the unix-linux download folder for 4.1 and get Squeak4.1.zip .

Now it’s best to extract these files into the squeak folder in your home directory (this gets created when you start squeak from the Ubuntu menu for the first time)

After the files have been extracted you launch Squeak again from the menu and should have a running Squeak 4.1 on your Ubuntu system

Squeak on Ubuntu reloaded

laza — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:28:33 +0000

A while ago I described how to get a working Squeak on Ubuntu. That was for Squeak 3.8 and Ubuntu 7.10. Now there is Squeak 4.1 and Ubuntu 10.04 and an updated article seems to be in order.

The first hurdle to take is to get an up to date VM. As far as I know there is no ready to use V4 VM packaged for Ubuntu yet. But we can use the one that has been assembled for Debian. You can find it here.

So the first step is to …

… and when asked to install it with the GDebi Package Installer.

Because we want to install an up to date VM we can ignore the dialog about the older version, which is available through the official Ubuntu repository.

Just hit install and wait until Squeak is installed.

After this you should be able to launch Squeak from the Programming menu

Now if this is the first time you install Squeak on this Ubuntu machine you will have no image files to chose from to run with Squeak.

Read on to see how to get Squeak 4.1 on Ubuntu

Colstme in September

laza — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:02:54 +0000

Please join us on the 30th of September for our fourth Cologne Smalltalk
User Meetup.

As always: Anyone interested in Smalltalk is invited, regardless if you only
recently discovered the magic of doing things the Smalltalk way, are a
die hard VM-Hacker, want to share your experience on web-development
in Seaside or like to chit-chat while enjoying a Kölsch.

There is no agenda yet, but I guess there will be much to talk about just after this years ESUG.

We’re gonna meet at 7pm at

Vision Factory GmbH
Sömmeringstr. 75
50823 Köln
(across the yard at the rear house)

Please send a short notice to laza@blobworks.com if you are planning to attend.

http://colstme.selfish.org

Squeak 4.1 released

laza — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:01:45 +0000

Squeak 4.1 was released.

Congrats!

Pharo 1.0 released

laza — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:16:36 +0000

Today the Pharo guys announced their first official release 1.0!

Congrats!

Squeak Graffiti

laza — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:31:52 +0000

Some of the artifacts relating to Squeak I’ve done over the years:

Very fresh 3.6 release with Squeak colors

3.7 as some kind of base for releases to come

A major step up the hill 3.8

First Croquet Release

Lure developers to the squeak bug tracking system

During some rough times on the Squeak-Dev mailinglist