I’ve recently come to an obvious conclusion: chart layout is really hard, and not in a fun way. Luckily, Google has clarified the terms of use on their charting service, which is a RESTful API that returns png files based on some arc-ish querystring parameters. No google API key is required, the 300,000 pixel image […]
Category Archives: lisp
What learning lisp taught me about other languages
Sunday, March 30, 2008
For the last few years I’ve been learning and using Lisp more, and here is a disorganized, poorly-worded dump of how Lisp changed my opinion about other languages. Static Types (as implemented by C# and Java) are oppressive. I spend most of my time in C#, and it always feels like I’m toiling in the […]
Practical Lisp 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
more adw-charting paperwork complete
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Made another release tonight, but there are no new features, this is just tying up some loose ends: added a LICENSE file and license headers in each file. removed cl-vector-chart.lisp, which I had looked at for inspiration, but ultimately decided not to use. added a lisp file and shell script to automate making a release. […]
adw-charting 0.7
Monday, January 28, 2008
I finally got some time to employ the adw-charting library in my intranet app, and the increase in data sets revealed a lot of bugs. Tonight I finally put together a release. Some changes: Pie chart slices are made much more intelligently, resolving some bad rendering with some datasets. x-axis label locations are decided in […]
adw-charting is available for download
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Someone on #lisp started talking about making line charts using vecto, so I went ahead and got setup a common-lisp.net project: http://common-lisp.net/project/adw-charting/ Now I’m somewhat flooded with digital paperwork: Get my darcs repository onto common-lisp.net Update the documentation to point to common-lisp.net (removed all the damn lies, so only vague untruths remain) Get access to […]