Learning Ruby, and Ruby vs. Lisp

The company I work for has a lot of legacy Ruby code, and as Ruby has become kind of a mainstream language, I decided to get a book about it and learn how it works. As my learning resource, I chose The Ruby ...

Global Day of Code Retreat with Lisp

Last Saturday, I attended the Global Day of Code Retreat. I found out about the event in my Twitter stream, and when I signed up for the event, I did not have much of an idea of what it would be about, except code....

Hunchentoot v1.2.0 released

After over a year of no releases, Hunchentoot v1.2.0 is out. It incorporates a large number of changes from various people and is the first release that I have made as the maintainer of Hunchentoot. There have been a...

Finding Changes to Quicklisped Software

In my current project, I'm working with Allegro CL in modern mode. Modern mode is a non-standard mode supporting mixed-case symbols in the reader. This means that in modern mode, the two literal symbols :foo and :FOO are...

Ediware moving to github

I have been more or less the primary maintainer for the Hunchentoot web server written in Common Lisp for several years now. Its primary Author, Edi Weitz, has been doing Lispworks related work and release engineering,...

Orphaned (?) projects on common-lisp.net

common-lisp.net has moved to a new (virtual) box and in the process, we are cleaning up a little. One particular thing came to my attention: The maintainers of a number of projects can no longer be reached under the email...