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6 months ago

in Bootstrapping thumbnails for photo apps (Scripting News) on Scripting News
LINK isn't a free-for-all...only certain attributes are allowed, and HEIGHT and WIDTH aren't included. Maybe one of the supported attributes would work instead?
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dave Thanks -- that's a good point. I guess I'll try another approach. Stay tuned.

11 months ago

in impressive visualization of traffic sent from various social news sites on talk smack about redditall.com
Underneath it's some pretty generic layout code, points, boxes, glue, etc. The output to PNG/HTML was easiest, because of Vecto, but it'd be pretty easy to adapt it to output PDF or SVG or whatever, or to port/rewrite in some other language. I'm up for licensing the current code cheap if it'd shave some time off rewriting it in whatever language you prefer.

1 year ago

in Get motivated - motivational poster creation tools on Torley Lives
I worked really hard to make the fonts look right, but I'm not sure many people notice. I'm glad you did. :)

2 years ago

in All About The LOLcat on Webomatica
I got sick of making these in photoshop so I put together a generator:

http://wigflip.com/roflbot/

Enjoy!

3 years ago

in Common Lisp: First Impressions on Ben Atkin's Weblog
It's not commonly bad style to have a function and variable sharing the same name. If "list" is the best name for a variable, CL programmers don't hesitate to use it. When writing an automobile-related application, they wouldn't hesitate to use CARs all the time.

3 years ago

in The Reddit Scandal uncovers the Problems of the Lisp Community on Fred Brunel
I posted it originally under the title "Frederic Brunel circa 2003", and it was taken verbatim from a comp.lang.lisp post by a person named "Frederic Brunel". It was intended to present a humorous contrast between your current skeptical, pessimistic, and critical attitude of 2005 and your happy, optimistic, and happy-go-lucky attitude of 2003. I'm afraid the subsequent edit makes that less clear.

3 years ago

in The Reddit Scandal uncovers the Problems of the Lisp Community on Fred Brunel
Why do you want *another* new stuffs. There is still plenty of unused languages in this world. Did you try Common Lisp? It's a well-designed language and very complete. There is a lot of libraries to do all your day-to-day stuffs!

Concerning implementations, *all* commercials implementations are well supported and comes with a lot of recent features, like XML, RPC, graphics, GUI, etc...

Concerning the Common Lisp community, it's really amazing to be able to talk with the masters just about anything about computing. This is an exceptional opportunity to have such experimeted people here!
This is not the case with, say the Java community.

Concerning Free implementation, SBCL is a growing one. With a lot of refactoring and a lot of availables features. Working with a Debian system is a plus because every Common Lisp library is packaged within the system.

My suggestion. Start learning and using Common Lisp.
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