Rob Warnock has a very good description on c.l.l. of how to deliver a Lisp app with CMUCL. He uses a neat trick to distribute much slimmer updates, and I wonder if it’ll work for SBCL as well.
Nick, signing my copy of Inside Out. Well, not my, it was somebody else’s copy, but he signed mine as well.
I have to admit, at first I didn’t understand the idea behind the Lisp dictionary. It just sounded weird. Then, I decided to give it a try and finally got it: it is a text search engine for online Lisp documentation and books. As far as I can see, it currently searches through the hyperspec, Practical Common Lisp and Successful Lisp.
So now, you can finally see what “car” means.
Tuning Apache is no easy deed. The first step is to understand what is going on and what all those options in the config files are all about. This article explains a few in the right way. Good stuff.
An interesting comment suggested to use thttpd to serve the static content and leave Apache do the dynamic.
And, the latest post in Virtual Threads describes the memory usage on a typical Linux system and why ps usually gets it “wrong”.
Of course, tuning Apache is only part of the problem. One of the bigger time eaters is the database and cdb looks like a nice alternative for the static part. Hopefully, I’ll have some time to evaluate it.
Now, this is great news! Pink Floyd’s drummer Nick Mason will be in Sofia on a book signing tour. I already read the book (translated in bulgarian) and I can’t wait to meat him in person.
Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands. I love all their albums (probably except The Division Bell, which was just OK). Unfortunately, I had never had a chance to go to their concerts and it seems that the rumours about them touring again are just that: rumours. Sigh.
There is a nice tutorial about building page layout with CSS.
Alan Shields took over the maintenance of Araneida some time ago and is doing a great job with it. Yesterday he created a new tutorial for it, which covers much more things than the previous one. It is in the test repository and you need this version to actually run it.
I’ll try the new stuff out and will post my comments here. And who knows? Maybe I’ll write a tutorial about it too.