Blog Archive: December 2024
Current thoughts
On November 15th, 2006
I had some problems with my colocated serve the other day so I
thought I'd try out one of the "VPS" server companies. These are
firms which sell "virtual linux", basically a virtual machine running
on their hardware. It's a good idea if the hardware is located at a
data center with backup power and multiple high speed
HTML from lisp
On November 12th, 2006 In Software
(aside: this is a pretty funny intro to lisp
casting spels in lisp)
Generating HTML from lisp is nothing new. Many people have done it
and there are lots projects on the web using it. There's also a lot
of interesting XML/HTML lisp code floating around. It turns out that
XML and HTML lend themselves rather well to symbolic processing.
I've
A quick Scheme / embedded-system example
On November 1st, 2006 In Software
Usually when I find myself fighting to prove a point it's usually becuase
it's a loosing battle and my ego just won't let go.
But let's assume you actually might be interesting seeing why a simple
lisp like scripting language might be intesting.
I wanted to change the behavior of a display terminal. I wanted it to
have a list of times (hours