Archive for the ‘Lisp’ Category

Recap of 4/18/2008 Chicago Lisp Meeting

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I'm proud to report that the Chicago Lisp group is experiencing monthly membership growth of over 50%! If my math is correct, by this time next year we should have close to 2500 members. That should complicate venue planning :).

Chicago Lisp Meeting, Friday 4/18

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Announcing the next Chicago Lisp meeting! WHEN: this Friday, April 18th at 7pm. WHERE: 210 S. Clark St, 24th floor (map). Sign in at the front desk, take the elevator to the 24th floor. There is only one suite there and the door will be held open. WHAT: John Quigley ...

Recap of 3/21 Chicago Lisp Meeting

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Happy belated Chicago Lisp news! Two weeks ago (March 21st), we had our first meeting to bootstrap the new Chicago Lisp User Group.  We had 7 people show up for the initial meeting: Craig Luddington Eli Naeher Victor Kryukov John Quigley Shaneal Manek Dave Morrow Peter Christensen Items Covered: Future meetings - We decided on monthly meetings, the third Friday ...

How To Learn Lisp

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

In the spirit of my last post, I decided to turn one of my favorite long comments on Hacker News into a blog post in the hopes that someone would find it useful. There was a good discussion last week about how to learn Lisp, and since I was ...

Lisp is Great Because It’s An Ordinary Language

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Kenny Tilton just wrote a great article that I think cuts through a lot of the clutter that gets spoken about Lisp. Among the great quotes in the article, he says: "The first reason you should be using Lisp is a non-reason, an answer to an objection, a negation, a ...

Public Beta Open For “Ultimate N00b SLIME/Emacs Cheat Sheet”

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

On this Valentine's Day, give the gift people really want - complex key chords! In other news, I've got fans! Well, at least one anyway. A lot of the feedback I've received on this site so far has been from experienced Lispers who appreciate my enthusiasm and contributions for new users. ...

Reference for the SLIME/Lisp/Emacs Screencast

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Following up on my transcript/review of the UCW "Hello World" screencast, here is my review of Marco Barringer's SLIME movie. (Description, 150MB .mov, Torrent). This screencast was more difficult to annotate because: It was almost 3x as long (55 min vs. 20) It covered more topics (Linux, Emacs, Lisp, SLIME) I ...

Transcript of Marco Barringer’s UCW “Hello World” Movie

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I think one of the things that made Ruby on Rails so popular was the screencasts where you could write a blog site in 20 minutes, integrate with Flickr in 5 minutes, or setup database migrations in 20 minutes. It's hard to overstate how mindblowing those were in 2005 ...

Best Quote About Lisp (That’s No Longer Valid)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

As part of my year's learning goals, I've started reading Peter Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. I've gotten through the first few chapters (introductions to Lisp and a small sample program), and so far it's a great book. Now, since I'm a cover-to-cover kind of guy, I ...

Thanks Again, McCarthy

Monday, January 21st, 2008

I'm up at night watching Ice Age 2: The Meltdown and in the special features, there are set of fake 50s style documentaries on the different animals in the movie. The first one is called: Sloths: Natures Loveable Lisper Thanks to a wonderful naming idea from 50 years ago, we have ...