Zach Beane asked what people are working on, here’s my contribution: Work: Web application managing all data for my employer, Acceleration.net Replaces an old C++ desktop app and an old ASP web app Tracks LOTS of random customer data Generates CSV exports for bulk credit card charging Uses CLSQL and a byzantine set of libraries […]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
adw-charting darcs repository moving
Monday, February 11, 2008
I apparently can’t follow instructions, and put my darcs repo in the wrong place on common-lisp.net, polluting their darcsweb. The new location is: http://common-lisp.net/project/adw-charting/darcs/adw-charting I’ll be deleting the old junk in a few days.
the beginnings of bar charts
Monday, February 11, 2008
Spent a ton of time today playing with adw-charting. I wanted to expand on the source contributor graphs from the other day, and ended up implementing some basic bar chart functionality. I’ve read a lot of complaints about the lack of lisp libraries, so whenever I sit down to do some random task, I try […]
clbuild on my eeepc
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Today and yesterday I got my eeepc setup for lisp development, using clbuild to get all the dependencies resolved for me. After some trial and error, here were my steps: Added xandros repositories and updates.xepc.org repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list, set updates.xepc.org to have the same priority as the asus repository in /etc/apt/preferences The version of git […]
compiling emacs22 on my eeepc
Friday, February 8, 2008
Tonight I took some time and compiled emacs22 for my eeepc. After a little trial and error, here were my steps: Download emacs Add non-asus package repositories sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev sudo apt-get install xlibs-dev (if you want to emacs to use X) unpack emacs tarball ./configure make (took about 6 […]
sbcl contributors over time
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
I took a break from the day-to-day work (maybe giving Visual Studio’s a timeout will solve it’s “Generation of designer file failed: Unknown server tag…” problem), and noticed jsnell posted a list of SBCL contributors to #lisp, and decided to do some graphing: Of course, since I’ve never graphed this before, I found 2 bugs. […]