Archive for the ‘Lisp’ Category
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Thanks to everyone who attended or helped with the Chicago Lisp User Group's Intro to Lisp Workshop! We had a great turnout (41 people!), a great facility (thanks to IIT's Institute of Design), food and prizes (thanks to Obtiva), plus there was some Lisp too! This page will (eventually) ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
This is an HTML version of the slides from my "Lisp Basics and Idioms" presentation at the Chicago Lisp User Group's Intro to Lisp Workshop. It's also videotaped but it will take a while to transfer it to digital, edit it, etc. It was a good presentation (IMHO) ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
[UPDATED 6/3/2008: I fixed a duplicate, found some more registration forms, and updated the stats.]
We're blogging live from the Chicago Lisp User Group's Intro to Lisp Workshop, and (now that my presentation is done - whew!) here are some statistics on the attendees, based on our ghetto paper signin ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
My recent install guide for CLISP, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP was a big hit - it has had about 2000 hits and 5 sincere thanks in the comments (it even got praise from a troll!). In it I promised a similar guide for SBCL, and here it ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
My math joke in the recap of the previous meeting turned out to be too conservative: this month, we had 22 people, double the turnout from last month! The meeting was held at the offices of CashNetUSA, and they were generous enough to provide pizza and drinks (for ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Emacs has an ancient (predating hypertext), simple, powerful documentation program called Info. It's very difficult to find info about it online (try searching for "Info"), so here's my beginner's guide.
Info is an output format for the Texinfo typesetting syntax. Texinfo is used for writing documentation that can be ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Until this week, I had been putting off setting up a CL/Emacs/SLIME environment from scratch ever since I had trouble getting ASDF to work with Lispbox. Every time I tried, I ran into some will-sapping problem like needing to find a good Windows program for .tar.gz files, or finding ...
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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 :).
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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 ...
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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 ...
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