Squeak Roundup #12

Our first anniversary!  This is the 12th monthly issue of this report of announcements related to Squeak.

Squeak Carbon OS-X VM 3.8.19beta2U Ships

John McIntosh pushes out an update to the Squeak virtual machine implementation for the Apple Macintosh family.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132403.html

An Update on NXTalk

Michael Haupt sends out a short message with a link to an update on his NXTalk project working on a Smalltalk implementation for the Mindstorms NXT robotics platform.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132406.html
http://haupz.blogspot.com/2008/11/its-alive.html

Squeak Win32 VM 3.10.9

Andreas Raab links to a new release of the Squeak Virtual machine for the Microsoft Windows platform.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132432.html

Squeak Win32 VM 3.10.10

Andreas quickly follows up with a new release of the Squeak virtual machine for the Microsoft Windows platform addressing a couple of issues.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132444.html

Lightweight Classes

Hernán Morales Durand announces the availability of "an implementation of Lightweight Classes for Squeak that follows the original paper "Debugging Objects" of Hinkle et al."

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132465.html

Sparkle Automatic Update Framework for Squeak OS-X

John McIntosh announces the availability of "a plugin to enable the use of Sparkle to receive update information about the macintosh carbon VM.  This lets you auto-update your Squeak based application by pushing
update notifications via rss to users."

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132505.html

Leadership Team Meeting Notes for 2008-11-19

Craig Latta reports on the mid-November meeting of the Squeak Leadership Team.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132513.html

Second Call for Feedback on Naiad Design

After receiving little response to his earlier email linking to the Naiad design notes Craig Latta decides to email the notes directly to the list.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132514.html

Lightweight Class Browser

Hernán Morales Durand follows up his earlier announcement with one about a new code browser based on Omnibrowser.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132690.html

Alien FFI

John McIntosh reports on the porting of his Alien FFI project to Pharo.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132715.html

Alien FFI Documentation

John McIntosh follows up with a link to documentation for Alien FFI.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132735.html

Mac Carbon VM Squeak 3.8.20beta1U.app Ships for Testing

John McIntosh announces the availability of a new testing release of the Squeak virtual machine implementation for the Apple Macintosh platform.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132817.html

Logging Improvements

Keith Hodges announces a new release of his Logging framework.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132853.html

Graduate Position (Smalltalk Involved), Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Mathieu van Echtelt announces the availability of a research position that includes work using Smalltalk.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132891.html

Logging Updated

Keith Hodges follows up announcing further updates to his Logging framework.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-December/132923.html

Sake-Packages New Feature

Keith Hodges reports on a new feature found in the latest releases of his package management framework.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-December/132924.html

Leadership Team Meeting Notes for 2008-12-03

Craig Latta reports on the early-December meeting of the Squeak Leadership Team.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-December/132953.html

This periodic publication is meant to capture those Squeak related announcements which appeared on public mailing lists but were not sent to the Squeak Announcements mailing list. Ideally there would be no need for this publication but use of the Announcements mailing list has not quite settled in the community's unconscious. So if you have an
announcement and do not wish to suffer the fate of my terse summaries I suggest you Cc announcements@lists.squeakfoundation.org.