Squeak Roundup 11/11/2008

Squeak Roundup #11
November 11, 2008

Here you will find a quick summary of announcements and related items
from recent weeks that never quite made it to the Squeak Announcements
mailing list. See the end of this message for more meta-information.


External FT2Plugin Available

Andreas Raab announces the availablity of a Freetype-2 external plugin
and request feedback.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131889.html


iPhone VM Goes to 1.06b1

John McIntosh announces the availability of version 1.06b1 of the Squeak
Virtual Machine for the iPhone.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131910.html


iPhone VM 1.06b2 Goes Out

John McIntosh quickly follows up with a new minor revision of the Squeak
VM for the iPhone.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131919.html


Help with Font Rendering

Andreas Raab announces that Qwag is looking for a consultant familiar
with Windows and Mac native rendering for a short to medium term
engagement.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131923.html


Monticello 2.0.25

Colin Putney announces the latest release of Monticello 2.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131958.html


Magma Release 41

Chris Muller announces that latest release of the Magma object-oriented
database management system is available on SqueakMap.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131959.html


Documentation on Squeak VM API

John McIntosh has started some documentation relating to the virtual
machine level of Squeak and of particular interest to anyone interested
in porting the VM to a new platform.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131982.html


Leadership Team Meeting Notes for 2008-10-15

Craig Latta reports back on the mid-October meeting of the Leadership
Team.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/131998.html


Objective-C Bridge Documentation

John McIntosh continues to improve documentation for Squeak, this time
focusing on a new Objective-C bridge he has developed.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132043.html


Naiad Design Notes

Craig Latta links to documentation on his 'Name and Identity Are
Distinct' module system.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132044.html


iPhone Source Code Updates

John McIntosh provides a link to the changes he made to Squeak for the
iPhone.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132071.html


New iPhone VM 1.06b4

John McIntosh announces another minor update to the Squeak VM for the
iPhone.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132064.html


OOPSLA Smalltalk Superpowers Video

Keith Hodges provides a link to an online version of Göran Krampe's
vides from the Smalltalk Superpowers meeting at this year's OOPSLA.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132077.html


Community Server Report

Ken Causey reports on the latest downtime of the community server.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132082.html


Smalltalk Videos

Keith Hodges follows up with a notice that he has created a Veoh channel
for all Smalltalk videos.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132086.html


Relicensing Squeak

Yoshiki Ohshima reports on the progress and status of relicensing squeak
under the MIT license.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132089.html


IDE Implementation of Squeak/BabyIDE

Trygve Reenskaug links to a commentary on his Squeak Implementation of
the DCI part of BabyIDE.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132104.html


40th Anniversary of the Dynabook Event

Yoshiki Ohshima announces an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of
the Dynabook.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132140.html


Windows VM 3.10.8

Andreas Raab announces the availability of a new VM for the Windows
platform.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132144.html


Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing

Craig Latta links to an event celebrating Douglas Engelbart and his
seminal work.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132145.html


Botsinc Free

Stephane Ducasse announces that his BotsInc book is now freally
available.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132167.html


Monticello 2.0.26

Colin Putney announces the latest version of Monticello 2.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132184.html


iPhone VM 1.07

John McIntosh announces an update for the Squeak VM implementation for
the iPhone.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132199.html


Squeak Carbon OS-X VM 3.8.19betaU Ships

John McIntosh announces a new VM for Macintosh OS-X.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132223.html


Rio Now Supports FTP

Keith Hodges reports that his Rio streams library supports access over
FTP in a nearly transparent manner.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132329.html


Squeak-Dev November 2008

Damien Cassou announces the availability of the latest squeak-dev
images.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132342.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 [hidden email] .

Ken Causey

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