One of the perks of being unemployed are that I have a reasonable amount of downtime again, so I've been spending some of it updating libraries which are under my care.

CL-FTP, which is pretty stable and incredibly niche (who uses FTP anymore, anyway?), has recently had a flurry of activity. Thanks to Kambiz Darabi for finding and fixing a bug ( Read more... )

• The Basic Problem
• The Method
• Inheritance Is… Uh… Missing?
• Clojure
• Go

Apologies for the short notice--I've been rushed just trying to get the darn thing ready--but I will be giving a talk at Iowa Code Camp on Saturday, November 1st.

If you can't attend, or want to review my talk before/after I give it, you can find it here. Feel free to offer any feedback. It's much too late to make major changes at this point, ( Read more... )

Controller Methods

What we call a “controller method”, at least, is simply a function which is called on the web side via AJAX and returns some value back (generally either JSON or a snippet of HTML).

When I started at my current employer, controller methods looked like this:

class MyController extends Controller { function f() { if (!$ ( Read more... )

(Why yes, I am still alive. Just very bad at writing lately. :'()

Much to my surprise, the FTP protocol has managed to not die yet, and I recently received a patch from Rafael Jesús Alcántara Pérez to get cl-ftp running on ABCL.

So thanks to Rafael's patch, I've finally taken the time to convert cl-ftp from darcs to git, and tossed it up on ( Read more... )

Or: burgled-batteries isn't dead or forgotten, I've just been busy.

One of the downsides of liberally relying on CFFI internals is that changes to those internals can easily result in breakage, and some of the cffi-libffi changes did so. It took me entirely too long to get around to it, but I've finally updated burgled-batteries so it will ( Read more... )

Earlier this week I discovered Libravatar, a federated Gravatar clone. "Neat.", I said to myself in a very Bender-like tone.

Then I found myself in need of a GitHub account and repo to play with BountyOSS's progressing GitHub integration. A test repo would be boring, so I thought to myself "Hey, this federated avatar stuff is pretty neato, I'll ( Read more... )

(This will be my last post on this talk, I promise!)

You can now watch my talk on Youtube, if you are so inclined.

Sadly, the first 22 minutes have an echo which makes it...awkward to listen to. Due to being very nervous, I stuck more closely to the script than in my rehearsals, though, so if you've read the talk you can skip the video. Q&A ( Read more... )

I will be giving my talk on embedding CPython into Lisp (burgled-batteries) at Pyowa, on Tuesday, July 10th. The meeting is scheduled to start at 6PM CDT.

If anybody wants to show up and heckle me in person, the address is 4445 Corporate Drive, West Des Moines, IA (Google maps). But I understand if nobody wants to drive hours on end for that. :)
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My local Python users group has expressed some interest in my giving a talk on burgled-batteries. I figured "hey, why not?".

They happen to be pretty good about recording presentations and doing Google+ hangouts and posting the videos to YouTube and so forth, so once I have a date for the talk and know where any of that stuff will be I'll mention ( Read more... )