Smalltalk with James Robertson

A question came up on the VWNC list recently about teaching some simple physics modeling. Of course there's always EToys to look at as an example, but something else came to mind: ElastoLab, from Dave Buck:

ElastoLab is a fun program for kids that lets them play with sound, images and motion in a simulated physics environment. ElastoLab

It's a really cool simulator that lets you play with all sorts of variations on motion.

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Nikolay Suslov is hooking up a Squeak/Croquet image to Kinect:

Want to share my early experiments with the novel controller from Microsoft: Kinect, fine working in Krestianstvo SDK (based on Smalltalk dialect Squeak/Croquet).

Follow the link to see what he's up to, and get involved if it sounds interesting to you.

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The Frankfurt (Germany) Smalltalk group is meeting today - details at the link (in German)

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Interesting - the notion of a command line level REPL came up on the podcast I did with James Ladd recently (It'll be out Sunday) - and here's a Pharo project for just that.

Hat tip Torsten.

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Sean DeNigris gives us a nice explanation of the power of Smalltalk - when things go wrong, you can just pull out the wrench and get to work.

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Travis is looking for suggestions on method naming quandary,

The registration details for Smalltalk Solutions 2011 are out

Two strange things about the announcement, too:

• There's a charge for the speakers, which is not exactly the norm for tech conferences. Now that I'm "on the outside", I have to say - it's a bit of a hurdle. I'd need to take a week off (and not get paid during that week, mind you) just to go, so additional fees are a problem
• No word on how to register. Presumably that's coming soon, but you would have thought that a registration page would have been available with the announcement...

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A bug/patch release of Seaside 3 is out:

We are pleased to announce the release of Seaside 3.0.2. This is a bugfix release for Seaside 3.0. We recommend all users of Seaside 3.0 to update. A changelog is available

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There are ten days left in the proposal window for Smalltalk Solutions 2011

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Travis Griggs is now blogging over here.

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