Getting your little bitty Common Lisp Project working quickly

So, you have a Common Lisp program that is just one file and you want to load it without mucking too much with asdf? And you also want to include a few of your asdf-installed packages? Man, you are asking for a lot! Okay, well, here is what I do:

(eval-when (:load-toplevel :execute :compile-toplevel)
  (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :cl-who)
  (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :hunchentoot))

 
 
 (defpackage :my-project-package
  (:use :common-lisp :cl-who :hunchentoot))

 
 
 (in-package :my-project-package)

 
 
 (format t "hello, world")

Load, compile, etc. In SLIME (I assume you are using SLIME) type in:
CL-USER> (in-package :my-project-package)

This works for me with small CL programs.

Voting In Texas

Okay - I need to post this information somewhere so that if someone is voting in Texas and is unsure where to find info he/she will get this in google.

Call this number to check voter registration: (713) 368-VOTE

Check this address to find out where to vote (this is for Harris County in Houston):

http://scotthochberg.com/ziplist.html

Thanks. Hope this helps someone in the future.

Jabberd 2

I have written two patches to Jabberd 2. One for imap auth and the other for sqlite support. Sqlite support is currently kind-of borked but as soon as I finish a big project I promise to finish it up. Promise.

Python

I have been reading the threads on Python/Mono/Java. I have been learning Python and it is refreshing. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like the one language that actually considers itself a tool and not the one-and-only-true-language. In the book that I have been learning from it shows how to write extensions in C - and it seems simple and natural.

Plus, the idea of every file being a module is pretty darn beautful. Still trying to get my head around the syntax, though. Years of programming in c-like languages has really retarded my ability to grow.

Ltunes, Lphoto

I downloaded and ran Linspire's Ltunes and Lphoto on my Gentoo box. They do not really live up to the hype. The interfaces of Ltunes looks like Rhythmbox/Juke and the interface of Lphoto looks like just about any photo management application out there. I am not sure why they are spending the time developing these two products when the alternatives are more mature.

RHAS 3

I finally got RHAS 3 in for my Itanium 2 box. HP might not be high on my list, but Red Hat rocks. I love up2date and the whole rhn.redhat.com site. Not sure if it is the Itanium 2 or RHAS but the box is really, really fast. Have not had time to really do benchmarks, but we are going to get in a few running HP-UX (uhh) so I will have a better idea in a few weeks.

Hewlett Packard Itanium 2 and Red Hat Advanced Server 3

Okay, I am getting frustrated. Red Hat Advanced Server 3 was supposed to be released for HP Itanium 2 last Friday and I just found out it is now (maybe) going to be released this Friday (maybe). I keep getting different answers and I am fed up. I have a server sitting in the back collecting dust and I am stuck with it.

I should have gotten a Sun Opteron.

This was just a test system to see how the Itanium 2 servers are, and after a few months of dicking around I have no clue how well the Itanium 2 works. We are not going to be ordering any more, though, due to the crappy quality of HP customer service. I wish that I could just get a clear answer. I would use Advanced Server 2.1, but I am being told that 3 is coming out "real soon".

Plus, the box was supposed to come with raid installed, and it came in another box. The card hardly fit in the server.

My advice to anyone looking at the Itanium 2 - unless you have a direct phone to Carly, look elsewhere.

company I think that the biggest hurdle GNOME has is the poor state of developer documentation creates a high level of entry. There is not one place that I can go to find current documentation.

By the way, I am not trolling. This has been confirmed - for me at least - when I did the KDE KDevelop tutorial this morning. The KDE docs are fantastic - second only to the PHP docs. I avoided KDE for years, not liking Qt's pseudo C++, but it is too well written and well-integrated to pass up.

Yea, I know that I am not a big-time developer around here. I have posted patches here and there where I have found problems. I still like Free Software development and I really wish that GNOME would stop worrying about C#/Java and just write good documentation. The GNOME language bindings are great, but there is no consistant way to develop Python/C/C++/Perl GNOME programs. Anjuta is very cool, but every time I developed applications with Anjuta/libGlade I would find out that Glade was using deprecated widgets.

Please, someone correct me. I would like to know that I am wrong.