the cliki domain is back up now. i was wondering whether we should leave it unavailable as that would perhaps accelerate the work on an alternative. but who knows how long that would take... a quick grep over my files showed that it is cheaper if i just pay the emergency renewal fee than to find and replace all links to it. now we have one year to figure out a permanent solutio....
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at the google research blog moshe looks posted about the plop project something to do with machine learning and i have no idea what it does. what did catch my eye though is that plop is implemented in common lisp . it includes an asdf system file bundles some thirdparty libraries like anaphora and even defines some of its own misguided utilities like def......
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emacsshellfm player last.fmyi gnu emacs iainden dinlemek iain ance shellfm i ubuntu depolaraenda mevcuttu ve ardaendan emacsshellfm i kurdum. ardaendan shellfm balatma fonksiyonu ile ilgili bir problem yaayaenca shellfm.el dosyasaenae biraz kurcalayaep bir deaeiiklik yaptaem ve artaek emacs iainden last.fm istasyonlaraema baaelanaep mazik dinleye......
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imagine qt4 bindings for lisp that are officially supported thoroughly documented with tons of examples c rossplatf orm consis tently uptodate keep dreaming right your first thought might be to check cliki for some common lisp bindings. there is indeed a qt project there. except at a glance its listed as working only for cmucl. and the last update was 2003. and the download ......
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i am glad to announce version 2.09 of my old piece of semiuseful software cllaunch an infrastructure to easily make your common lisp software launchable from a unix command line. the main novelty that justifies the announcement is that standalone executables are now supported with the newlyreleased sbcl 1.0.22 so you can deliver your lisp application as a one binary that only requir......
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ive just published zs3 a common lisp library for working with amazon s3 . i wrote it to support the alzheimers art quilt initiative virtual patch generator which stores the patches on s3. i first tried using cls3 but i couldnt get it working on sbcl for binary file uploads. there were some workarounds possible but it seemed like starting from ......
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its been a while since cffi s previous release almost two years. during this period a lot of development work happened and lots of cool new features were implemented. heres a brief highlight of some of the important changes foreign string encodings using babel . utf8 becomes the default encoding for foreign strings. improved foreign type system that takes......
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besides providing foreign friendly arrays my ffa package contained a lot of functions that implement commonly used array operations including elementwise algebra operations array minima and maxima etc. because these do not depend on cffi i decided i would put them into a separate package named arrayoperations which is also installable with asdfinstall . it contains a reim......
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ive long been an admirer of the clnetsnmp project which recently had a 3.0 release. but the author chun tian binghe hasnt slowed down. he recently sent me this email hi zach today i go another big step portable snmp server support tested on lw clozure cl and allegro cl. now i can run a snmp server in i.e. allegro cl and use snmpget to......
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i recently noticed that asdfinstall cant install clyacc because the yacc system puts its definition in yacc.asd instead of clyacc.asd the latter being where its supposed to go. the right fix for this is obviously to fix clyacc but it reminded me how it might be nice to have nicknames for systems the same way that we can have nicknames for packages. a......
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simplehttp is a fork of brian mastenbrooks trivialhttp . if you need a serious http client with all the trimming you should look at edi weitzs drakma . on the other hand if all want is a some basic http support and dont want to deal with lots of other dependencies then simplehttp may be something that meets your needs. p.s. the website needs a bit of love8......
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i have been using a simple solver based on broydens method to finds roots of systems of nonlinear equation but i encountered an illbehaving class of problems that required heavier artillery. numerical methods have made a lot of progress in the last 50 years. methods presented in introductory textbooks are quite straightforward and very simple to code but do not cut the ......
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this entry is mostly a late report on the european lisp sympo sium held a couple of weeks ago at the labri in bordeaux. i think both pascal costanza program chair and robert strandh local organizin g chair4 1 deserve a pat on the back or two because everything seemed to go off without a hitch an interesting programme plenty of things to do good food and best of all ......
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it went really well. we had the back room of the bloor fox fiddle with more than enough tables and it was much quieter than the rest of the place. i think the next meetup will take place there as well. what was discussed contextl cells art of the metaobject protocol someone mentioned they were replacing perl scripts with chicken scheme scripts. clojure was discussed in particular ......
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two days ago i went to the largest usergroup meeting of any kind i have ever seen. it was the boston lisp meeting although it should be called the cambridge lisp meeting imo. there were about 40 people in attendance and when i left at 2200 four hours after my arrival it still rivaled any usergroup in size. with 40 people the sittingar oundatab ledrinkin gbeer forma......
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ive been scratching up on common lisp and what better way to do that than to try building a few web applications. nothing complicated at the moment just following a few tutorials online but i did manage to pull together a simple guestbook in about a page of cl code. heres what ive done so far learned how to use swank as a server for slime so i know how to connect to ......
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im grappling with ruby. theres basically one big software project where i work and most of the code is written in ruby. im having a really hard time getting into it. heres a change in ruby 1.9 documented at eigenclass.org new syntax for lambdas very experimental a bc b c a.call12 3 note that this does not repla......
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it has been brought to our attention that asdfinstall is still thought to be the preferred way to install cool lisp software. i would like to use this space to advertise an alternative tool that too few people know about and that allows you to almost instantly ok as fast as your computer can install the required software and download build the packages get you up and running with ......
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spent this past week working on my site dynamictypingorg . i was planning on storing log entries and related data in flat files but kept putting it off. earlier this week the notsonovel idea of using some service to store posts and comments hit me. tumblr and disqus are now managing my log content. i wrote a little library cltumblr to pull data via tumblrs web api. it......
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googles summer of code 2007 is over so over the next few weeks ill be releasing the various stuff i worked on this summer. first up is trivialfeatures which ensures consistent features across multiple common lisp implementations. well it tries to patches for exotic lisps operating systems and cpus are welcome. comments and suggestions are welcome too. consult its cliki ......
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asdf reference manual is a fine piece of software i like to use it and find some of the design choices in it to be very good besides its the thing that has allowed things like clbuild and asdfinstall to grow. however it is now in wide enough use that people are looking at its internals and are scratching their heads when finding some notsoverygood design ch......
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last night on lisp someone was asking for advice because retrieving data with clsql was very slow. i had seen this kind of problem before with clsql and sbcl or cmucl. uffi uses sbalien directly without type declarations and that can become very slow indeed. so i suggested running clsql through cffi s ufficompat. wow it works and it is instant this kind......
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so i might be blogging a little bit about my common lisp projects now that blogger supports labels and more importantly perlabel feeds. lets see how long it takes for xach to find me.......
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