Persistent Lisp OBjects - Persistent Lisp Objects - current version, client-server architecture
Archive 21.9.2004 - 24.9.2004
Pg: a Common Lisp interface to PostgreSQL - PostGreSQL client entirely in Common Lisp
Projects at Common-Lisp.net - Yet another bunch of more projects in Common Lisp
py2app builds its first .app
Bob Ippolito has developed a tool for the simple creation of Python-based OS X applications to the point where it compiles its first Python application. The advantage of his method: no compiler is needed and you work entirely in Python - for small tools certainly useful, since the development environment is often simply overkill for that purpose.
Sam Ruby: Copy and Paste
A nice and detailed explanation of meta tags with character set specifications, the HTTP Content-Type header with character set specification, and what browsers do with it. I always say it: the web is a technical garbage heap that just happens to work amazingly well despite that.
SZOn - "Sammlung Cremer" goes to Münster
The painting "Monochrome bleu" by Yves Klein and the "Cremer Collection" with more than 180 works of Nouveau Réalisme and the Fluxus movement will now be on view in Münster. - so if you're looking for a reason to visit Münster, this stuff is hanging in the Landesmuseum
VIPS image processing library home page - Open Source Image Processing - an alternative to the usual suspects (Gimp, ImageMagick etc.)
AllegroServe - a Web Application Server - Homepage of the original AllegroServe web server - with documentation that is also relevant for Portable AllegroServe
Bavaria Abolishes Free Learning Materials
Another step towards denying or making education more difficult for those with little money. Because whoever has little money will think twice about whether to send their children to a gymnasium - paying 3 years more in book fees hurts.
Education is far too important to be prevented through cost-cutting measures. When you then look at what money is squandered on in Bavaria and how funds are lost through dubious dealings, something like this makes you even angrier.
But that was already clear from the discussion about elite universities: today elites are defined only by how much money the parents have.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Clean Corpus - Cleaning the Popfile (from 0.20) corpus to remove unnecessarily recorded words
Common Lisp Hypermedia Server (CL-HTTP) - the classic Common Lisp HTTP server
Common Lisp Opensource Center - diverse Allegro Open Source Projects - e.g. an FTP and an NFS server
Fall Hamilton: Vuelta B Test Positive
Sounds somehow like a career end.
At Radsport-News.com I found the original article.
Jenoptik Announces 22 Megapixel Eyelike eMotion²² Digital Back
Weird. Jenoptik is actually rather known for extremely cheap digital cameras that are preferably marketed through Aldi and similar retail chains. I associate high-end digital backs for medium format cameras much less with Jenoptik. But at least they love extremes
At PhotographyBLOG there's the original article.
Lisp news from Rainer Joswig
Very interesting. Unfortunately still no RSS feed, but I found quite a bit on it that wasn't on Planet Lisp or my other Lisp sources. For example, the fact that Loom is now open source (back then I had to put in considerable effort to get a license - though it was free). When I read through all this Lisp stuff, I'm really itching to do more with it. I just have no idea where I'm going to find the time...
Update: a friendly spirit dropped a link to the RSS feed in the comments
lisp tools for xml - Yet another XML parser - this one is very comprehensive, supporting common models. It also includes a SOAP parser.
LyX WikiWiki - LyX.Mac
Great – there's a native Mac version of LyX. One of the most interesting word processors – the structured text entered is converted to LaTeX or DocBook and then processed into print output with correspondingly powerful formatting tools. Installation is a bit fiddly though, due to the additional required software (teTeX, Ghostscript and a few other things).
OpenMCL-McCLIM-beagle-backend.jpg
Very cool! OpenMCL apparently will soon have a CLIM based on Cocoa — a prototype is already in CVS. Now if only the tools from Genera were ported to OpenMCL and I wouldn't need to turn on my Symbolics anymore
Portable AllegroServe - Compatibility layer for Allegro CL network and threading code for the AllegroServe web server
S-XML - Simple XML Parser for Common Lisp
S-XML-RPC - XML-RPC for client and server in Common Lisp
Statistical programming with R
Part 1: Dabbling with a wealth of statistical facilities
For all number crunchers.
Suchmaschinen-Eintrag & Optimierung - Everything about search engines
TeX on Mac OS X
A distribution of teTeX and various useful utilities for TeX as an installer. This makes the installation of LyX easier, since all the installers are GUI-guided.
woodshed productions: Dialogue between web designer and search engine robot
Great! Definitely worth reading!
woodshed productions: Consulting: Search Engine Optimization - Nice short explanation of what matters when it comes to search engines and websites
XML/HTML parsers - XML and HTML parsers in Common Lisp - for Allegro, but possibly portable?
Disgusting ...
... when you listen to arrogant officials talking about how a man detained in Guantanamo lost his residence permit because he failed to report within 6 months after leaving the country - even though he was imprisoned there where he couldn't report. Because contact restrictions apply there. And nobody knows what he's accused of - sometimes it's not even told to the detainees. Even if he is released without being charged or convicted, he cannot return to Germany to his family - because the German authorities do not consider detention in Guantanamo to be sufficient reason to suspend the reporting deadline. Long live bureaucratic pedantry and red tape.
Office Frustration
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that is the Joersch
No, he doesn't have a blog. That was just a demo of the camera in the Clie and the web browser (and moblogging). The camera quality is still terrible |:-)| ![139-400-300.jpeg][P1]
ImageWell - small utility for image editing and uploading
Inventory: you have no tea
Cool, the Hitchhiker Infocom Adventure as a Flash application. I'm not really into Flash, but that's a funny application.
I found the original article at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.
lispmeister: Assembler Guru: Randall Hyde
Yep - assembler knowledge is very useful. You can only understand certain optimization approaches if you know how the machine works internally. And understand why something is slower than perhaps expected at the abstract high-level language level. My first seriously used language was Z80 assembler and I absolutely don't consider that a waste. And yes, I love the disassemble function in Common Lisp and get annoyed every time again when other interactive environments don't offer something like that. Because with it you can very well check what the compiler actually created from the code - and with basic knowledge of the assembler used, you can definitely guide optimizations for time-critical routines. disassemble is like the scientist's microscope. At Planet Lisp there's the original article.
Make hard drives in to speakers
Crazy - using open hard drives as speaker replacements. Somehow cool
I found the original article on Engadget.
Microsoft announces MTP protocol
What a mess. There are already finished protocols for this. But Microsoft, of course, invents its own protocols again, so that end devices work as well as possible only with their garbage heap. And the users are the stupid ones again.
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) there's the original article.
Bicycle Parking House Münster
Bicycle Parking House Münster
One of the remnants from our 4 years of SPD mayoralty: a bicycle parking house with bicycle wash station and repair workshop. Not bad at all and certainly more sensible than the monstrous Ludgeri car park that the current CDU mayoralty came up with to waste taxpayer money ...
Odds and ends
Krimskrams
A small antique shop at the beginning of Wolbecker Strasse. Actually just a small exhibition room - I can't imagine how a salesperson could fit in there.
Fuzzy Sedge
Wuschel Segge
Yes, I've read Tad Williams' War of the Flowers. And I've got a new digital camera.
:: radiant data :: - replicating file system on P2P basis for Linux
Bosco HOWTO - Description of how to create OS X applications with OpenMCL
Hamilton Convicted of Blood Transfusion
Did he or didn't he? At Velonews it sounded quite different - nothing about a real conviction. And anyway: nothing is clear until after the B sample. And that's still pending. It would be a shame if it were true.
I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
Hesse CDU financed itself temporarily with black money
It would be so nice if at least a few of the CDU bigwigs in Hesse would stumble over it and get locked up ...
(hey, you're allowed to dream!)
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD I found the original article.
Microsoft: No License - No Patches
Great. Millions of pirated Windows junk systems will soon become even more junky. And the garbage heap won't be cleaned up. Sure, Microsoft is annoyed by the pirated copies - but do we really have to suffer on the entire net because Microsoft can't produce decent software and then also refuses to repair the damage? Honestly, I don't care whether someone paid for their Windows, I only care whether the computer is yet another virus and spam launcher, or whether it at least gets supplied with the necessary patches. Not that those help much ...
At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
NASA Awards Major Contract for Construction of Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft JIMO
But they haven't found any monolith on the moon yet
At heise online news there is the original article.
New version of PDA system OpenZaurus completed
Hmm. Should I dig out the Zaurus again and revive it?
At heise online news there is the original article.
Hack right-wing websites? Hack?
Full ACK.
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Voigtlander Bessa R2A R3A
Nice housing. Definitely a lot better than earlier Bessa versions - their rangefinder base (obviously excluding the Bessa T) was pretty much a joke, especially when you imagine it combined with the 1.2/35 ...