Dear Squeakers,

welcome to this edition of The WeeklySqueakSummary, an irregular traffic-dependent report on what's going on in the world of Squeak based on the WeeklySqueak blog. This is, by the way, the first edition that is also sent to the AIDA mailing list - thanks for the invitation!

Highlights of the past weeks:

Hilaire Fernandes is writing a series of blog entries that introduce Squeak specifically to educators [10]. Material of this kind is extremely welcome and much needed!

Two announcements have come true: first, Gilad Bracha's talk on Newspeak, which he gave at HPI in Potsdam, is now available online [7] (some trouble with viewing have been reported, but with a recent player and no over-zealous firewall, viewing should be no problem). Second, the Seaside tutorial hosted at HPI has been turned into a book, which is finally available (the first book on Seaside, yay, and please forgive the author his personal pride) [8].

Finally, there's three technical items.

Squeak is now available on yet another platform, namely the Syllable OS [4]. At the time of posting, only headless images were supported, but it ran Seaside.

JavaConnect and JNIPort [12] are two projects that support Smalltalk/Java interoperability in very elegant ways. While they are currently available only on VisualWorks (and, as for JNIPort, Dolphin), they set standards in terms of language/platform connectivity.

SqueakFS [13] allows for browsing the Squeak image as a mounted file system (on Mac OS X and Linux, using the FUSE library). The top-level directory supports looking at the image along one of three axes: along the class hierarchy, grouped by class category, and as a flat space containing all classes. At present, it's read-only, but future extensions are already being planned.

The past weeks' news items:

[1] Seaside startup snapped up http://news.squeak.org/2008/03/28/seaside-startup-snapped-up/

[2] What's the difference? http://news.squeak.org/2008/03/31/whats-the-difference/

[3] The Year of Smalltalk http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/02/the-year-of-smalltalk/

[4] Squeak ported to Syllable http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/07/squeak-ported-to-syllable/

[5] Free Smalltalk books http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/10/free-smalltalk-books/

[6] Waveplace in the US Virgin Islands http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/16/waveplace/

[7] Video of Newspeak lecture now available http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/19/video-of-newspeak-lecture-now-available/

[8] "An Introduction to Seaside" now published http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/21/an-introduction-to-seaside-now-published/

[9] Squeak Project in Google Summer of Code 2008 http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/25/squeak-summer-of-code-2008/

[10] Using Squeak in Education http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/26/squeak-in-education/

[11] New Dabble DB Demo Debuts http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/28/new-dabble-db-demo-debuts/

[12] Using Smalltalk with Java: JavaConnect and JNIPort http://news.squeak.org/2008/04/30/using-smalltalk-with-java-javaconnect-and-...

[13] Squeak and the filesystem http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/02/squeak-and-the-filesystem/

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Happy squeaking,

Michael