Scoble is investigating collaborative tools – primarily chat and wiki tools. Seaside and Squeak are powering some really cool new capabilities. Like LogoWiki, a wiki that allows people to embed executable Logo programs. Useful for making educational sites about geometry and introductory programming. LogoWiki is built upon Pier, a wiki so rich in features that it approaches the level of a content management system. Given that the wiki was invented by a Smalltalker, this seems like a return to wiki’s roots.
Archive for the ‘squeak’ Category
Wikis – The new generation.
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006BadPage.info has a new purpose?
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006Scoble claims that the MS Word team finally generates clean html. I’ll believe it when it passes checks at http://badpage.info with no warnings or errors.
It will be nice for people to actually care about web standards. The web 2.0 people have to because bad dom’s leads to broken javascript. But so many large websites are still awful.
One more day
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006and I’ll have my job automated to the point where I can do it in 15 minutes a week. Thanks to Squeak, Seaside, a bunch of code I have laying around, and good old fashioned focused laziness, I expect I’ll have my current function fully performed by a little web app and 15 minutes of manual updating.
You can’t touch this kind of thing in Java.
Intel native Squeak VM for Mac OS X
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006I’ve finally figured out how to build an intel version of the Squeak VM for Unix. Thanks to some generous help fromJohn M McIntosh I’ve managed to get the Unix VM running faster than usual. I stick to the Unix VM to avoid any compatibility surprises as I develop on my Mac, but deploy to a Linux box in a hosting facility. The Unix VM has some advantages for interfacing with command line tools as well. If you’d like a copy, go ahead and grab it.
On the other hand, if all you are doing is playing on the Mac, then the Carbon based VM that John maintains is about 20% faster. It is also a universal binary. The Unix build I provide is Intel only.