BYOMS (Build Your Own Mobile Search)

End of May new search called BYOMS was launched by Kozoru Inc. Read the the press release, or the blog entry of the founder of kozoru about byoms.

• Search Engine Lowdown: Investigating BYOMS with Kozoru Founder John Flowers
• Geek.com Geek News – IM gets byoms from Kozoru
• WebKnowHow.Net News: Kozoru Launches Chat-Based Search Technology, Byoms
• TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Kozoru searches in your favorite sites by IM

The interesting fact is that Kozoru Inc. works with newLISP as stated here, here and here.

newLISP

• newLISP home page
  
• NewLISP – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What others wrote

• Eli Bendersky’s website » Blog Archive » newlisp – an intriguing dialect of Lisp
• newLisp: A better Lisp/Scheme Fusion… | Lambda the Ultimate
• Lemonodor: newLisp

You can read more about newLISP here

• newLISP Fan Club (Forum)

Users website’s

• Peter’s Free NewLisp Snippets
• GL4newLISP
• NewLisp Code Snippets
• newLISP goodies
• HPW’s newLISP page
• EnFeauTec : Site News / Newlisp Console

Blogs

• (newLISPer)
• Arons photo blog » newLISP

Practical Common Lisp – Google Video

Just came across this on Google Video. It's a recording of Google TechTalks May 10th, 2006.

LISP (libs CLX McCLIM wxCL) (tools Climacs Clim-Desktop)

I wanted to test and learn about the internals of some libraries on Gentoo

McCLIM
I had to fetch two additional libs ESA and SPATIAL-TREE which where missing on Gentoo. Then had to compile everything on plain SBCL without emacs/SLIME. But afterwards Climacs for example run just right away.

Clim-Desktop
This was next on my list, an interesting project integrating several apps to make a Common Lisp (development) environment. But I didn't get it working due to an error in SMGL compiling CLOSEAU.

wxCL
This GUI Toolkit was the last I wanted to test – for the moment. Although it's said that it works on Linux I didn't manage to.

The download from Sourceforge came with wrong access rights settings for files and directories. Then calling ./configuration stopped with errors and it took a while till I realized that the file was saved in DOS format. After hgaving corrected this it stopped complaining about some missing stuff. For the moment I gave up at this point.

Searching the Internet up and down didn't give me any further insights about how getting wxCL to work. But I'll keep trying.

Scrapbook and BasKet

Just came across this artical on NewsForge: The Online Newspaper for Linux and Open Source about the ScrapBook plugin for Firefox and BasKet.

I'm already using ScrapBook but didn't know yet how powerfull it is. And right away installed BasKet. (Just a pity that it installs a lot of KDE stuff, but have to live with that)

Hopefully I'm getting a bit better organized from now on.

Ideas for ScrapBook

• Collection of code snippets in blogs, usegroups etc
• Hints about configuration of tools, like Emacs  

LISP libraries on Gentoo Linux

It took me a while but I'm learning. On my server I run CMUCL and work on understanding Common Lisp Hypermedia Server (CL-HTTP), on my workstation I use SBCL playing around with a few libraries to learn more about their handling.
So far I understood

1. that in /usr/share/common-lisp/source all sources go
2. while in /usr/share/common-lisp/systems the ASD File coming along with most libs is symlinked
   Thes ASD files tell how files are compiled and loaded (ASDF-System)
3. As SBCL includes asdf (Another System Definition Facility) handling of libraries is quite easy

About 4 weeks ago I started with LISP and slowly but surely I can read sources and even understand what's done – when it's not too complex.

Edit: Getting errors on compilation of libs I thought "ok, my mistake". But re-compiling everything suddenly CLX/MCCLIM threw other errors. So I fetched current sources from CVS, but same result. Before giving up a last try from plain SBCL. Now everything worked. This drives me nuts, as I can't find the reasons for such different behaviour.

Learning LISP

On the Learning LISP page I publish a hopefully helpfull list of links.
I'll try to keep it up-to-date and add stuff

Screen – a very helpfull tool

Reading lots of blogs with topics about LISP I recently came across this entry Bill Clementson's Blog: Screen and the Benefit of a Change of Perspective.

I started at once using it, and must say screen – The Terminal Multiplexer is really a great and handy tool. I think most of you Linux users know it, but someone like me – with a long-term Windows relationship – has to dig quite a bit to find all those precious little nuggets inside Linux.

Other resources I found helpfull

• GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial || kuro5hin.org
• GNU screen: start
• TIP Using screen – Gentoo Linux Wiki

Allegro CL 8.0 Free Express Edition on Gentoo Linux

I finally got Allegro CL 8.0 working on my Linux workstation. GUI reminds me alot of Windows.
Another step further in my learning experience,  and so I have now very different working enviroments to choose from.

Just need enough spare time to work with all these fascinating tools … *sigh*

Sawfish – a LISPy WindowManager

It took a while till I realized that sawfish's script language is a LISP dialect.
Ok, it's not up-to-date but still working, small and fast. I like it

And I found a lot of some on the internet

• Sawfish Native Pager – sawfish.wm.ext.pager
• merlin's sawfish stuff
• code (mostly emacs lisp and sawfish)
• www.davep.org: sawfish
• Yann Hodique – Perso.Sawfish

More infos I'll add to my website.