[squeak-dev] Squeak News Team Report - June 2008

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[squeak-dev] Squeak News Team Report - June 2008

Michael Davies-2
Oops, I've now corrected the subject line.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Michael Davies
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> This is your monthly News report for June 2008.
>
> First, I must apologise for the lack of a report for May. I was in the
> process of moving from Scotland to Switzerland, and things got a bit
> hectic last month!
>
> The purpose of the News Team is to publish news regarding Squeak and
> Smalltalk development and use. It aims to provide a service to the
> Squeak community, highlighting anything which Squeak users may find
> interesting in The Weekly Squeak newszine. It will also try to promote
> Squeak and Smalltalk outside its own community, by submitting articles
> and news items to mainstream websites such as Slashdot and OSNews.
>
> We had 17,545 direct page views for the month of June. This is
> substantially up from May's figure 14,836, and twice as many page
> views as for the same month last year!
>
> In total, eleven articles were posted. Our top three articles were
> (figures includes RSS views):
>
> Squeak on the iPhone! - 7,588 hits
> http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/11/squeak-on-the-iphone/
>
> JSqueak - Smalltalk interpreter written in Java - 3,992 hits
> http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/21/jsqueak-smalltalk-interpreter-written-in-java/
>
> Qwaq developing new fast Smalltalk VM - 3,472 hits
> http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/07/qwaq-developing-new-fast-smalltalk-vm/
>
> If you have any news that you think that others may find interesting
> or useful, please feel free to drop the News Team a line. If you're
> planning any publicity for new releases, book launches, we can work
> with you to co-ordinate publication. If you're bursting with ideas for
> interesting posts, why not join the News Team and start posting?
>
> Happy Squeaking,
> Michael Davies
> Squeak News Team Leader.
>