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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am living in Austria now and my German is very basic, so I use online translators to cope with the occasional e-mail in German that I can't decipher. I am using the mutt mail user agent, and in the past I have configured it to open HTML attachments in Firefox. However, with plain text messages manual copy & paste became tedious, so I decided to write a little script that opens them in Firefox....
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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The second batch of chapters is ready for public consumption.
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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Thanks to CL-GTK2 's author Dmitry Kalyanov for his help and patience and also thanks to several #lisp residents for testing some of my builds. Go to http://www.aerique.net/software/okra-gtk-demo/ for the downloads. This post should be treated more as a work-in-progress report 1 than as the blog I hoped I could publish, which would have had a title like: "Easy cross-platform executable delivery...
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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
I am very excited that I can finally annouce a public release of filtered functions , an extension of generic functions that Charlotte Herzeel, Jorge Vallejos, and myself have developed some time ago and that we are very excited about because it seems to be quite powerful in a number of very different scenarios. It took a while to release filtered functions, because it is a quite non-trivial extension...
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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Today Vitaly Mayatskikh announced the inclusion of his Common Lisp ZeroMQ bindings into the ZeroMQ 2.0 source tree . ZeroMQ 2.0 is a high-performance messaging system, which is great news if you are trying to build distributed systems in Common Lisp. Previously, available Free Software alternatives for Common Lisp messaging included CL-XMPP (XMPP client only) and CL-RABBIT (Lispworks only). Note that...
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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Some more emacs lisp for interacting with launchpad by email (specifically, with Gnus ). Previously, I wrote some code which allowed for easy transfer of a bug report by e-mail to launchpad; I've since adapted that to add a Cc to the original reporter, so that they know the bug has been filed (sadly too late for any of the reports that I have actually filed; maybe this blog can serve as a heads-up...)...
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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
I released sbcl-1.0.33 last week; there's a good amount of new stuff in there, including support for NetBSD on the x86-64, some new introspection and tunable functionality, and also a whole chunk of Unicode and external-format work that I meant to do some months ago. Today I got round to giving SBCL's website a little bit of an update; not only does it reflect the most recent release – something...
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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Shaneal Manek writes about a new startup Postabon , which uses CL for its backend (for real ): I just wanted to talk about a few of the high level technical decisions that I've made - in the hopes that it could help other people starting new projects out (and that I can get some feedback and learn something myself). This post is going to be pretty tightly focused on the language I chose. I have a...
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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
I think this is the first real Clojure job posting I’ve seen. Check it out: 3 years experience required (in Lisp and other languages, natch).
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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
There seems to be a recurring misconception about writing .asd files. It is not necessary to start your asd with (defpackage :foo.system ...) (in-package :foo.system) to "avoid polluting the package asdf loads your system in". Every time an .asd file is loaded, ASDF creates a fresh package to load it in. The relevant code from ASDF is: (defun make-temporary-package () (flet ((try (counter)...
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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
http://fare.livejournal.com/149685.html A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday, December 14th 2009 at 1800 at NEU WVH 366. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt with talk about Typed Scheme . Additionally, we will have two 5-minute Lightning Talks, each followed by 2-minute Q&A. Speakers to be announced. Also, there will be a buffet offered by ITA Software. Registration is not necessary but appreciated....
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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Fancy hosting the next ILC in your home town? It is time to begin preparing for ILC-2011, the International Lisp Conference 2011. As a first step, the ALU is soliciting bids for locations to host this conference. Right now, the ALU is looking for plausible venues. Bids should show what the conference might look like, but not specify how to actually run it. A few phone calls may be helpful in getting...
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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Following the announcement of the source+throw away binaries route for uploading packages I've had a brief discussion with our FTP team. The implications of the new method would be that if you upload a package it will automatically be recompiled from source by using the packages already in the system. For cmucl which needs cmucl to recompile itself it means that we can only use the previous version...
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