[Newbies] The Weekly Squeak Summary No. 3: Oct 15 - Oct 21, 2006

2006-10-22 Thread Michael Haupt 

Dear Squeakers,

welcome to the The Weekly Squeak Summary, a weekly report on what's
going on in the world of Squeak based on the Weekly Squeak blog.

This issue is assembled by a not-yet jetlagged Michael who is looking
forward to meeting some Smalltalkers at OOPSLA in Portland, Oregon.

Highlights of the week:

Ian Piumarta's Pepsi [1] is an exciting environment for implementing
statically-compiled dynamic languages, possibly the foundation for a
future implementation of Squeak...?

The process for working on the planned release of the 3.10 image is
being actively discussed [2]. The discussion started out with Göran
Krampe's suggestion to make the development process more
community-oriented. Entailing the discussion, the Squeak Foundation
Board have decided to establish a release team [4], for which
volunteers are sought [5]!

Last week's news items:

[1] Dynamic messages: a tour of Pepsi
   
http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/dynamic-messages-a-tour-of-pepsi/

[2] Process Woes
   http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/process-woes/

[3] Squeak: toy or instrument?
   http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/squeak-toy-or-instrument/

[4] Squeak Foundation Board meeting notes - October 18th, 2006
   
http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/squeak-foundation-board-meeting-notes-october-18th-2006/

[5] Call for release team volunteers
   
http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/call-for-release-team-volunteers/

[6] Recent package releases and announcements
   
http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/recent-package-releases-and-announcements/

[7] An optimization example
   http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/20/an-optimization-example/

[8] self vs. super
   http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/20/self-vs-super/

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Greetings from Portland,

Michael
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[Newbies] Re: binary streams, how to

2006-10-22 Thread Klaus D. Witzel 

Hi Petr,

on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:02:28 +0200, you wrote:

Hi,

which methods shall I use for binary (fast) reads/writes to file
(stream)?
I need to write Boolean (1byte), Integers (4 or 8 bytes), Floats (?) and
Strings into big files, but standard way via storeOn: (text
representation) is inefficient for me.


You may want to look into the #'data get/put' messages category of  
PositionableStream, implementors of #int32: then alt-B


/Klaus


Thanks, pf



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