Planet Lisp

Luke Gorrie: San Francisco - June 30, 2008

I'll be in San Francisco from July 5th to 14th. I have a feeling that a lot of online acquaintances and people with similar interests (Erlang, Lisp, Smalltalk, etc) are based there. Let's meet up! Please tell me about any fun meetings, user groups, pub nights, etc that I should try to make it to.
http://lukego.livejournal.com/13928.html

Zach Beane: New vecto - June 30, 2008

I pushed out Vecto 1.3.1. New in this version: stroke-to-paths will convert stroke outlines of the current path to a new set of paths you can fill string-paths will add paths for a string in the current font, instead of painting the text set-gradient-fill will let you fill paths with a simple axial gradient. It's not much, but it's a start... Many thanks to Ben Deane for providing a functional fill patch that made adding gradients much easier, and for suggesting the...
http://xach.livejournal.com/176308.html

Gary King: Announce: geohash version 0.1.0 - June 30, 2008

I came across geohash.org while browsing the Semantic Web last night. This site uses a simple latitudelongitude encoding to convert locations into short strings. Here, for example, is the URL for my house. http:geohash.orgdrs3nbcszvze The nice thing is that strings with common prefixes are geographically close to one another. I saw that there were several ports of the algorithm to Ruby, Perl, PHP, etc. but no Common Lisp love. The geohash system on Common-Lisp.net fixes that! Enjoy
http://metabang.com/unclogit/?p=345

Gary King: Announce: simple-http version 1.2.0 - June 30, 2008

Simple-HTTP is a fork of Brian Mastenbrook&8217;s trivial-http. If you need a serious HTTP client with all the trimming, you should look at Edi Weitz&8217;s Drakma. On the other hand, if all want is a some basic HTTP support and don&8217;t want to deal with lots of other dependencies, then simple-http may be something that meets your needs. (P.S., the website needs a bit of love&8230; Well to be honest, all my websites need some work but simple-http&8217;s needs tough love!).
http://metabang.com/unclogit/?p=344

Finding Lisp: LispForum, open for business - June 28, 2008

The other day, I realized that there wasn't a great place to discuss Lisp that was using a post-Y2K sort of interface. Sure, comp.lang.lisp has been around forever, and through Google Groups it has an HTTP interface, but when you post to Usenet you become an instant spam magnet. And new users think an all text-mode interface with no markup is just so 1985. And yes, there's always lisp on Freenode.net IRC, which is great for realtime, but bad for searching for coherent answers. So, I created...
http://www.findinglisp.com/blog/2008/06/lispforum-open-for-business.html

Finding Lisp: Forth Timelessness, a Redux - June 27, 2008

The other day, I discussed languages which I thought were timeless. Among them, I listed Lisp, C, and Forth. After writing that posting, I spent some time playing with Forth again. Today, while browsing Reddit, I stumbled on this interview with Charles Moore, the creator of Forth. Forth is one of those languages, like Lisp, that I'd recommend that everybody study at least for a time. Even if you don't walk away believing it's the Language to End All Languages, you'll be better off for the...
http://www.findinglisp.com/blog/2008/06/forth-timelessness-redux.html

Tamas K Papp: changes in cl-cairo2 - June 26, 2008

Johann Korndoerfer kindly submitted a patch that adds patterns to cl-cairo2, and also includes some code cleanup. Here is the example Johann contributed to the tutorial, a rainbow created with patterns:Thanks for the nice work, Johann! I am happy that others also find cl-cairo2 useful.cl-cairo2 still suffers from the elusive floating point bug (possibly in libcairo), I am still working on that. In the meantime, you can work around that by not generating PS files directly, but converting them.
http://tkpapp.blogspot.com/2008/06/changes-in-cl-cairo2.html

Tamas K Papp: announcement: minpack package - June 26, 2008

I have been using a simple solver (based on Broyden's method) to finds roots of systems of nonlinear equation, but I encountered an ill-behaving 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 mustard when it comes to more difficult situations (eg when you don't have a good initial guess, your function looks like.
http://tkpapp.blogspot.com/2008/06/announcement-minpack-package.html

Lispjobs: Network security jobs, Qualsys, Redwood City, CA - June 25, 2008

There are several network security jobs that require &8220;understanding of LISP&8221; in the job descriptions. link
http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/network-security-jobs-qualsys-redwood-city-ca/