Archive for the ‘Lisp’ Category
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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
Posted in Lisp, Programming | 23 Comments »
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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