The Weekly Squeak Summary No. 1: Oct 1 - Oct 7, 2006

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The Weekly Squeak Summary No. 1: Oct 1 - Oct 7, 2006

Michael Haupt-3
Dear Squeakers,

welcome to the The Weekly Squeak Summary, a weekly report on what's
going on in the world of Squeak based on the Weekly Squeak blog.

Highlights of the week:

The open source release of the Strongtalk VM is causing quite a stir
in the Squeak community, having already spawned lively discussions on
the Squeak-dev mailing list. Should a new VM for Squeak (or a
generally applicable one for multiple Smalltalks) be built? Should
Squeak be ported to Strongtalk? [1]

A lack of consistent documentation for Squeak and its various facets
and offsprings has been observed for some time. Now that a
documentation team is being formed [2], the situation is hopefully
about to improve.

SSL is now available for Squeak [4] and still needs contributions from
avid community members!

The state that open source software development is in is analysed in
an article [11] that is not only interesting for the Squeak community
- spread the news!

Last week's news items:

[1] Strongtalking Squeak
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/03/strongtalking-squeak/

[2] Squeak Documentation Team Forming
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/03/squeak-documentation-team-forming/

[3] Seaside Announcements: SeasideTesting and RSRSS
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/03/seaside-announcements-seasidetesting-and-rsrss/

[4] Cryptography on the Move
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/03/cryptography-on-the-move/

[5] Squeak Tutorial for Java Programmers
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/squeak-tutorial-for-java-programmers/

[6] Etoys in OLPC Mailing List
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/etoys-in-olpc-mailing-list/

[7] A Seaside-Based Music Application
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/a-seaside-based-music-application/

[8] Upcoming Smalltalk Events in Europe and the USA
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/upcoming-smalltalk-events-europe/
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/upcoming-smalltalk-events-us/

[9] A Simple Squeak Testing Server
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/a-simple-squeak-testing-server/

[10] A New Format for CompiledMethods
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/a-new-format-for-compiledmethods/

[11] The Fight for Open Source
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/the-fight-for-open-soruce/

You can find this and much more on The Weekly Squeak blog, the
newsblog dedicated to the world of Squeak:
http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com

Subscribe to the Weekly Squeak RSS feed:
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Happy squeaking,

Michael