I found this through The Weekly Squeak. Randal Schwartz demo’d the current Squeakland version of Squeak/EToys on Leo Laporte’s show, “The Lab” (video link). I just think it’s neat it’s getting some mainstream recognition.
Schwartz and Laporte gave a quick history of Smalltalk at the start, and they told it pretty accurately. For the uninitiated it may go by too [...]
Archive for March, 2008
The Joy of Squeak
Posted in Education, Programming, Squeak on March 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Squeak by Example 2.0 is out
Posted in Programming, Squeak on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The 2nd edition of Squeak by Example is out now (h/t to The Weekly Squeak for this). Like the first edition, it’s a book released as a PDF under the Creative Commons Share-Alike license. You can also get a hardcopy edition of it for $20.10 USD. They also welcome donations. Another tidbit of news is that the [...]
What happened to the PC vision?: My guest post on ZDNet
Posted in History, Information Technology, Technology and Software on March 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Hi guys. Just FYI, a little more than a week ago I wrote a comment on one of Paul Murphy’s blog postings, called “The worst PC myth of all”. Murphy is a blogger on ZDNet. He liked my comment a lot, and he and I agreed to have it as a guest post on his blog, called “Managing L’Unix”. I changed it a bit [...]
Java: Let it be
Posted in Analysis, Programming, Technology and Software on March 6, 2008 | 31 Comments »
Joshua Bloch, Chief Java Architect at Google, gave a talk entitled “The Closures Controversy” at Javapolis in December 2007. I found it online through reddit, and it intrigued me, because I think it illustrates a disconnect between what we as an industry are doing and the goals we have. Bloch also makes what I think [...]
