The Weekly Squeak Summary No. 2: Oct 8 - Oct 14, 2006

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:

For their bi-weekly meetings, the Squeak Foundation board are calling
for agenda item suggestions [3]. Suggestions can be made on a
dedicated web page.

David Griswold has called for a common Smalltalk VM summit [4]. Will
this be successful? In any case, it is a cause of lively discussions
on Squeak and Strongtalk mailing lists. Apparently, what is needed
most now is that experienced C++ hackers with some VM background
invest some effort.

Aside from VM hacking (but nevertheless causally connected), Exupery
is an important point of interest. Based on an interview with its
creator Bryce Kampjes, the 1.0 version of an Exupery FAQ has been
published as a news item, and some detailed information on Exupery has
been given on Squeak-dev [5,7].

Squeak is going portable! It runs on the Nokia 770, and Aaron Reichow
has posted some experience reports [13].

The crypto code in Squeak is heading for certification. The Squeak
Cryptography Team now has a Certification Validation Officer, Krishna
Sankar, who is taking care of this [15].

CONGRATULATIONS to Seaside and its creators for 200,000 downloads
[18]! This does not include VisualWorks-related downloads, mark you.
;-)

Finally, the second release candidate for the 3.9 image is out and
available for testing [19].

Last week's news items:

[1] New Releases in the Squeak world
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/new-releases-in-the-squeak-world/

[2] Spoon progress report - October 3rd 2006
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/spoon-progress-report-october-3rd-2006/

[3] A call for suggestions for the Foundation Board meetings' agenda items
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/a-call-for-suggestions-for-the-foundation-board-meetings-agenda-items/

[4] Common Smalltalk VM Summit
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/common-smalltalk-vm-summit/

[5] Exupery FAQ 1.0
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/exupery-faq/

[6] Squeak startup process, explained
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/squeak-startup-process-explained/

[7] More info on Exupery
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/more-info-on-exupery/

[8] The NewCompiler project
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/the-newcompiler-project/

[9] Squeak Foundation Board meeting notes - October 4th, 2006
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/squeak-foundation-board-meeting-notes-october-4th-2006/

[10] Alternative URL for The Weekly Squeak
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/alternative-url-for-the-weekly-squeak/

[11] Latest announcements in the Squeak world
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/latest-announcements-in-the-squeak-world/

[12] September team reports
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/september-team-reports/

[13] Using Squeak on the Nokia 770
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/using-squeak-on-the-nokia-770/

[14] An explaination of continuations
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/an-explaination-of-continuations/

[15] Squeak's Path To Security
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/squeaks-path-to-security/

[16] CurlPlugin - call for testing
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/curlplugin-call-for-testing/

[17] Squeaksource.com down on Friday
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/squeaksourcecom-down-on-friday/

[18] 200,000 dowloads for Seaside
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/200000-dowloads-for-seaside/

[19] Squeak 3.9 RC2
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/squeak-39-rc2/

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Happy squeaking,

Michael