Webteam January 2007

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wiki.squeak.org 502 proxy error
by Mike Watters 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Hello. Setting an X-Forwarded-For request header with any value (e.g., as done by Squid) seems to cause wiki.squeak.org to choke: telnet wiki.squeak.org 80 Trying 85.10.195.197... Connected to box2.squeakfoundation.org. Escape character is '^]'. get / http/1.1 host: wiki.squeak.org x-forwarded-for: 192.168.0.123 HTTP/1.1 502 Proxy Error Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:04:27 GMT Content-Length: 379 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 (response body snipped) Squeak.org doesn't appear to exhibit this issue.

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What's missing from the website
by Brad Fuller 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

I was thinking about this when I was reading Larry's "About" page. We have plenty of "technical" items on the site: how to download, what is squeak in a technical sense, what applications are developed in squeak, the cool features of squeak, the syntax of smalltalk, etc. But, there isn't explanation of what the real power of squeak could be and why it was developed out of the ST-80 ideals. The "personal computer" "powerful ideas" of the dynabook. Alan and Dan have plenty of literature from which to draw the philosophy of squeak and smalltalk that we could add to the site. For instance, the vision of the dynabook, how the environment can be personally changed to benefit the user's needs, how the personal computer is/can-be a medium for personal expression, Alan's "powerful ideas", maybe even active essays. I just think that this is really the more important part of squeak. To talk about how squeak is different and exciting and much more rewarding than the rest of the computing world - at least it's a very important part and it's being under represented. I think we need to work on how to highlight this perspective. Squeak/Smalltalk's design philosophy is powerful and I'd like the rest of the world to notice. -- brad fuller http://www.Sonaural.com/ +1 (408) 799-6124

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Feedback for "About" page integration
by Larry Trutter 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Here is the first draft of my attempt to integrate two different "About" page into one. I don't have access to the test web page so I post the text here. I did not make any attempt to rewrite the whole thing. So I have been conservative with the changes. If any of the information is out of date, let me know and I can update it. There are several sections that I did not modify so I did not include those texts. So any feedback on this are welcome. thanks, Larry Trutter The following sections were left intact: About What it is not A Brief History of Squeak Squeak is Free, with a Liberal License Squeak Support The following sections are changed/integrated: What is Squeak? When Smalltalk was created more than 35 years ago it defined the term object orientation and is the first language in which everything is built from objects. Smalltalk is deeply inspired by ideas from especially Simula, Sketchpad and Lisp and even today Smalltalk sets the bar for object oriented dynamically strongly typed interactive languages and environments. You may be familiar with other open source languages like Ruby or Python, but Squeak takes these concepts much, much further offering a true uniform fully reflective environment - real live objects. The Squeak kernel includes: · A largely Smalltalk-80 and ANSI Smalltalk X3J20 compatible language and base libraries · A fast virtual machine written in a subset of Squeak · A bit identical compact 32-bit direct pointer object memory · An efficient incremental hybrid generation scavenging mark and sweep garbage collector supporting bulk-mutation of objects · A virtual machine plugin system with plugins for most parts outside the core like networking, file I/O, sound and graphics · Bit-identical execution including graphics on all major computing platforms including most versions of Windows, MacOS and Unix/Linux, OS/2 Warp and RiscOS. And if your platform wasn't included in that list, Squeak is easy to port. On top of this there are class libraries and virtual machine plugins for very advanced multimedia including anti-aliased 2D and accelerated 3D graphics, real-time sound and music synthesis, MPEG2 video and much more. In addition, Squeak has one of the most advanced fully reflective development environments ever created with over 600 addon packages available for single click download and installation. Squeak is available for free via the Internet, at this and other sites. Each release includes platform-independent support for color, sound, and network access, with complete source code. Originally developed on the Macintosh, members of its user community have since ported it to numerous other platforms including Windows NT, XP Windows CE (it runs on the Cassiopeia and the HP320LX), all common flavors of UNIX, Acorn RiscOS, and a bare chip (the Mitsubishi M32R/D). What is Cool about Squeak "The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." - Alan Kay Our diverse and very active community includes teachers, students, business application developers, researchers, music performers, interactive media artists, web developers and many others. We use Squeak for a wide variety of computing tasks, ranging from child education to innovative research in computer science, or creation of advanced dynamic web sites using the highly acclaimed continuation based Seaside framework. Squeak extends the fundamental Smalltalk philosophy of complete openness -- where everything is available to see, understand, modify, and extend for whatever purpose -- to include even the VM. It is a genuine, complete, compact, efficient and robust Smalltalk environment. It is not specialized for any particular hardware/OS platform. Porting is easy -- you are not fighting entrenched platform/OS dependencies to move to a new system or configuration. It has essentially been put into the public domain - greatly broadening potential interest, and potential applications. The core team behind Squeak includes Dan Ingalls, Alan Kay, Ted Kaehler, and Scott Wallace. All of this has attracted many of the best and most experienced Smalltalk programmers and implementers in the world. Squeak stands alone as a practical Smalltalk in which a developer, researcher, professor, or motivated student can examine source code for every part of the system, including graphics primitives and the virtual machine itself. One can make changes immediately and without needing to see or deal with any language other than Smalltalk. Squeak runs bit-identical images across its entire portability base, greatly facilitating collaboration in diverse environments. Any image file will run on any interpreter even if it was saved on completely different hardware, with a completely different OS (or no OS at all!). Philosophy Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. To achieve practical performance, a translator produces an equivalent C program whose performance is comparable to commercial Smalltalks. The current Squeak interpreter combines a classical Smalltalk bytecode interpreter with a simple yet efficient 32-bit direct-pointer object memory and incremental garbage collector. It also includes a BitBlt graphics system that supports 1-, 2-, 4-, and 8-bit indexed colors, as well as 16- and 32-bit RGB colors, together with a "warp drive" that supports fast rotations and other affine transformations, as well as simple anti-aliasing. Other notable (and equally portable) capabilities of Squeak include 16-bit sound input and output, and support for sockets and general network access. The portability and sharability of Squeak, together with its malleability (since it is all in Smalltalk, a competent Smalltalker can change anything about it), has given rise to a lot of interest in the academic community, and what one might call the "independent" computer science community. By this phrase we mean to include people who are not so interested in one language over another, or one OS over another, but who have their own particular passion (numerical analysis, graphics, distributed computing, music synthesis, O-O education, etc) and who want a system that can provide the most flexible and immediate command over experiments in their field of interest. _________________________________________________________________ Turn searches into helpful donations. 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Re: Web Site Looks Great
by Brad Fuller 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Karl wrote: > Cédrick Béler wrote: >> - Also, the display of dates in the weekly squeak news rss is a bit >> heavy... I think a format like 12/12/2006 11:55pm would be clearer or >> even no information about dates... > I think it's the only date format we get from the feed. Having dates are > in my opinion good, it shows things are updated and maintained. We could modify the dates if we grab the code and run it on the squeak box. But, I'm just not that adventurous. If someone would like to take it on, go for it! (BTW: the time is in GMT) -- brad fuller www.bradfuller.com

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Suggestion for Squeak Website
by Geert Claes 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Can't seem to use the Wiki http://wiki.squeak.org/Squeak?

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CSS tool
by Karl 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Brad, did you see this tool on Digg? http://isnoop.net/tools/css.php I just tested, it reduced the size off the css with 28 % Karl

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Website on IE - Please Help!
by Brad Fuller 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Ron just sent me an image of the site on IE 6. Anyone know how to fix it for the idiosyncrasies of Microsoft? See attached! -- brad fuller http://www.Sonaural.com/ +1 (408) 799-6124

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wwwtest.squeak.org: I'm working on this right now
by Brad Fuller 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Someone is changing order, and I'm working on the css right now. I'm on IRC if you want to talk. -- brad fuller http://www.Sonaural.com/ +1 (408) 799-6124

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Suggestion for Squeak Website
by Sean McGrath 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Add Scratch to the list of noteworthy squeak applications. -- Sean McGrath sean(a)manybits.net

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Review Feed2JS script
by Brad Fuller 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Cees de Groot wrote: > On 1/16/07, Brad Fuller <brad(a)bradfuller.com> wrote: >> My personal opinion is to use feed2js.org to feed the news. If someone >> in the webteam wants to migrate the code over to our own box, that's >> fine with me. It is freely available on their site with instructions. I >> looked at it and it would take some work, though. >> > Don't forget that most PHP scripts are written by dorks who have to > look up the word "security" in a dictionary and then fail to > understand the explanation. So before putting third-party PHP scripts > on Da Box, we need someone knowledgeable to review the full code... Someone want to take this on? -- brad fuller http://www.Sonaural.com/ +1 (408) 799-6124

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