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Markus Gaelli | 1 Dec 2003 17:55
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[ANN] Advent Calendar

Hi folks,

I assembled a little advent calendar in Squeak.
You can download the 80 MBs (!) (movies included) from:

ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/squeak/ev/adventskalender.zip

Thanks to Marcus Denker for providing this space.

Some "doors" are in German, but most should be understandable
internationally.

Besides being an advent calender there is, like in most advent 
calendars btw.,
no Christian connotation.
Maybe we can do a calendar for the whole year and use Seaside or 
projects?
365 subscribers fills one door and off we go?

I think the calendar metaphor can work as a nice marketing vehicle for 
Squeak.

This one is old (based on 2.8) and exporting the projects gave some
problems so I just polished the whole thing a bit for a release.

Have fun and please tell me about any problems,

Markus
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Michael Rueger | 7 Dec 2003 23:24

Test, please ignore


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Miguel At Squeakland | 1 Dec 2003 15:48

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Greetings,

The crew here at Squeakland.org is looking for Squeak related sites to add 
to our ever expanding Links page.  Do you have a site with great Squeak 
stuff on it?  Do you know of a site with Squeak projects, tips and 
information?  Send the URL to miguel@... and we will see about 
adding it to our links page.

Thanks in advance for your help!

All the best,

Miguel Perez

"Squeak - The tool for inventing the future!"
http://www.squeakland.org
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Michael Rueger | 8 Dec 2003 18:58

Mailing list hickup


Hello Squeaklanders!

My sincere apologies, but we had some messages stuck in the mailing list 
queue and didn't find out until today. Some messages still came through, 
that's why we didn't notice.

Cheers

Michael
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José L. Redrejo | 8 Dec 2003 19:26
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Re:

If you speak spanish (as your name seems to say),  I proudly recommend you www.small-land.org. You will be surprised.
best regards

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 06:48:17 -0800
Miguel At Squeakland <miguel@...> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> The crew here at Squeakland.org is looking for Squeak related sites to add 
> to our ever expanding Links page.  Do you have a site with great Squeak 
> stuff on it?  Do you know of a site with Squeak projects, tips and 
> information?  Send the URL to miguel@... and we will see about 
> adding it to our links page.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Miguel Perez
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Squeak - The tool for inventing the future!"
> http://www.squeakland.org 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Squeakland mailing list
> Squeakland@...
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Ned Konz | 8 Dec 2003 19:58

Re: Crazy idea inspired by Leapster Multimedia Learning System

On Friday 21 November 2003 11:10 am, Ian Piumarta wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Dave Bauer wrote:
> > I had another idea. A handheld PC running Linux or Windows might be the
> > best bet.
>
> I saw one of those in Fry's (a PDA running Linux).  I can't remember what
> it was though.  (If Ned is reading this list, he was with me at the time
> and maybe he remembers?) 

I think it was a Sharp Zaurus SL-5600.

>> We tried for 5 minutes to get to a terminal so 
> we could see more about the h/w and s/w, before giving up.  But it might
> be feasible to bring Squeak up on such a machine with very little work.

I think that Yoshiki Ohshima has already done this for the SL-760; it may 
"just work":

http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/~ohshima/squeak/zaurus/squeak-sl-zaurus-e.html

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Ned Konz
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Dave Lowry | 9 Dec 2003 01:45
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Re: Squeak For a First Grader?

I only posted this once, back in November... what's going on?

-Dave

On Nov 7, 2003, at 1:58 PM, Dave Lowry wrote:

> I'd like to introduce Squeak to my six-year-old.  She reads very well 
> and enjoys mathematics games.  We tried the "drive the car" activity, 
> but the allure of controlling the car wasn't there; it was just as 
> much fun to just use the paint tool.  Could anyone suggest another 
> activity we might try?  Is six too young to Squeak?  Thanks.
>
> -Dave
>
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Dave Lowry | 9 Dec 2003 03:33
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Re: Squeak For a First Grader?

Thanks to everyone who replied.  What a neat bunch of people here!

Alan, we browsed the Exploratorium's illusions site and had lots of 
fun.  I'd be very interested in dynamic Squeak illusions.

Kim, the aquarium idea sounds great.  I purchased your book and am 
building my scripting skills.

William, thanks, I forgot the games!

Anonymous (forgot, sorry), we are having lots of fun just painting.

Despite being trained in Smalltalk by Tektronix in the late 80s, and 
dabbling on and off since, I didn't "get it" until I watched the 
Squeakers film.  Thanks to everyone involved for having the vision and 
persistence (persistence of vision?) for pulling all this off.

-Dave

On Nov 8, 2003, at 8:47 PM, Dave Lowry wrote:

> I'd like to introduce Squeak to my six-year-old.  She reads very well 
> and enjoys mathematics games.  We tried the "drive the car" activity, 
> but the allure of controlling the car wasn't there; it was just as 
> much fun to just use the paint tool.  Could anyone suggest another 
> activity we might try?  Is six too young to Squeak?  Thanks.
>
> -Dave
>
> _______________________________________________
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Jeffrey McGrew | 11 Dec 2003 19:11

Squeak vs. Python for this task on hand...

Hello all,

    I'm an Architect here in the S.F. Bay Area who has in mind a few programs I
would like to create. However, I haven't done any programming in a very long
time, and am pretty much starting from scratch.

    The programs I want to create pretty much fall into two different camps,
one is taking plaintext & ODBC output from a CAD program (AutoDesk Revit)
and doing various things to it, like parsing it to generate other documents, and the
other is making some tools to issue commands to and generate plaintext files for
Radiance, a command-line *nix rendering tool.

    I've been playing around with Squeak, and love how elegant and easy to learn
it is. However I'm concerned, for most of what I want to do is not so UI-orientated,
but more little auto-utilities and/or scripts, that will possibly become command-line
utilities. The intent is for these to become stand-alone tools that people could use
alongside of their CAD software. As such, I'm worried that Squeak's 'all-in-one'
image approach might not be the right way to approach generating these tools,
for I don't understand how one would make a stand-alone application using
Squeak. I also don't know how well Squeak deals with plaintext and ODBC
files that live outside of it's image. This is totally due to my general lack of
knowledge, and has nothing to do with any lacking in Squeak. :)

So my other thought is to learn Python; however the Architect part of me
just loves Squeak, loves everything being OO and everything being able to
be taken apart and modified on the fly- and the beginning programmer
part loves how much is taken care of for me 'behind the scenes' leaving
me to focus on the task at hand. However not understanding Squeak, and
seeing that Python is already used by people to do similar tasks as the
ones I'm thinking of, it makes me feel split between the two.
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Andreas Raab | 11 Dec 2003 23:14

RE: Squeak vs. Python for this task on hand...

Hi Jeffrey,

Much can be said for and against each system but it appears to me that this
discussion would be better taken care of on the general Squeak developers
mailing list. There are lots of people with varying backgrounds on it and
I'm sure several of them will be able to give you good advise on these
issues. For finding out more about the Squeak developers mailing list see:

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/listinfo/squeak-dev

See you there ;-)

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeakland-bounces@... 
> [mailto:squeakland-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Jeffrey McGrew
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 7:11 PM
> To: squeakland@...
> Subject: [Squeakland] Squeak vs. Python for this task on hand...
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
>     I'm an Architect here in the S.F. Bay Area who has in 
> mind a few programs I
> would like to create. However, I haven't done any programming 
> in a very long
> time, and am pretty much starting from scratch.
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