• Stepping down with GUI toolkits

    I write a small application which works with Festival speech synthesis system. As Festival modules I use are written in Scheme, I started to write the application in Common Lisp and McCLIM. But I had to step back from this decision soon. McCLIM is an excellent GUI toolkit, but it lacks support for Czech, which […]

  • Tramping in Emacs

    Why to use separate terminal applications for remote connections when one can use Emacs? Why to run remote Emacs of different version, in different configuration, with echo delays, without your customizations, etc.? Why to pollute your desktop with another window and why to switch between it and Emacs all the time? Why to run multiple […]

  • Lisp Blosxom

    There’s an interesting project for us running their weblogs on Lisp servers. Too bad I’ve got absolutely no time to contribute now. 🙁

  • Portable AllegroServe in action

    So this site runs on Portable AllegroServe now. The main problem with AllegroServe was it couldn’t run CGI scripts on SBCL, but I succeeded in porting the corresponding code. It’s not ready for submitting a patch, but if you’re interested in it, tell me. I’ve chosen Portable AllegroServe because it’s highly and easily configurable and […]

  • Web server software

    It’s amazing how difficult it is to find a good web server other than Apache. I tried to find any web server which is regularly maintained, provides basic functionality (serving static pages, CGI scripts with arguments in the form of path, providing index files and virtual servers), actually works, is sufficiently documented, performs reasonable logging […]

  • Vega Strike

    A few days ago I dreamed about flying a space ship. Now I’ve found it’s actually possible thanks to the Vega Strike game. Although Vega Strike doesn’t run on my computer very well and I don’t have time to actually play it, it’s nice to see another high quality Free Software project.