Code.muse

   1 #title Programming Projects
   2
   3 All of my current, and some not so current, projects are browsable via
   4 [[http://unknownlamer.org/darcsweb/browse][my darcsweb]]. You might want to take a look at my [[Lisp][Lisp related projects]]
   5 page.
   6
   7 * Common Lisp
   8
   9 ** UnCommon Web Related
  10
  11 *** [[darcsweb::golgonooza][Golgonooza]]
  12
  13 <verse>
  14 Fourfold the Sons of Los in their divisions: and fourfold.
  15 The great City of Golgonooza: fourfold toward the north
  16 And toward the south fourfold, & fourfold toward the east & west
  17 Each within other toward the four points: that toward
  18 Eden. and that toward the World of Generation.
  19 And that toward Beulah. and that toward Ulro;
  20 Ulro is the space of the terrible starry wheels of Albions sons:
  21 But that toward Eden is walled up. till time of renovation:
  22 Yet it is perfect in its building. ornaments & perfection.
  23 </verse>
  24
  25 Golgonooza is a set of utility components for [[http://common-lisp.net/projects/ucw/repos/ucw-core/][ucw-core]]. As of December
  26 2008 it is nearing a releasable state and is in use on
  27 [[http://bees-kneesfilms.com][one production site online]] (darcsweb::beesknees for source).
  28
  29 *** [[darcsweb::ucw-forms][ucw-forms]]
  30
  31 ucw-forms is a slightly enhanced and de-javascripted version of the
  32 forms library from ucw_ajax updated for use with ucw-core.
  33
  34 *** [[darcsweb::ucw-core_clinton][ucw-core branch]]
  35
  36 I maintain a personal branch of ucw-core with various work in progress
  37 patches that are intended to go into upstream. My primary task is
  38 filling in the ucw-standard library which was removed in the ucw-core
  39 fork.
  40
  41 ** [[darcsweb::trivial-timers][Trivial-Timers]]
  42
  43 [[http://retes.hu/~mega/git/?p=clon.git;a=summary][Clon]] is a nice library for scheduling tasks within a Lisp image, but
  44 it used the SBCL timer extension. I wanted to run something using Clon
  45 on [[http://trac.clozure.com/openmcl][Clozure CL]] and so I looked at the SBCL source and found that, after
  46 a bit of fairly straightforward editing, it was possible to write a
  47 portable version for any compiler supporting [[http://common-lisp.net/project/bordeaux-threads/][Bordeaux Threads]]. The
  48 SBCL timers internally use =sb-unix:setittimer=; Rather than using
  49 [[http://common-lisp.net/project/osicat/][Osicat]] to emulate this I chose to rework the scheduling loop to run in
  50 a dedicated thread that sleeps on a condition variable with a
  51 timeout. This seems *cleaner* to me than using POSIX lib calls, but
  52 requires a threaded Lisp.
  53
  54 [[http://release.unknownlamer.org/trivial-timers/][Releases are available]] with the usual [[darcsweb::trivial-timers][darcs repo]]. Currently there is a
  55 native SBCL implementation and a portable implementation relying upon
  56 [[http://common-lisp.net/project/bordeaux-threads/][Bordeaux Threads]]. Patches to export other Lisp implementations' timer
  57 interface are welcome.
  58
  59
  60 * Old Projects
  61
  62 I used to work on some programs in terrible languages like =C++= when I
  63 was a poor misguided youth. I still attempt to respond to bug reports
  64 and patches for any that are still in use (*Bobot++* appears to be the
  65 only one), but they are otherwise not being worked upon.
  66
  67 ** [[../code/bobot.html][Bobot++]]
  68
  69 A fancy little IRC bot that is extensible with Scheme. If you can
  70 figure out the scripting interface (which is [[../code/bobotpp-manual.html#SEC35][partially documented]]) it
  71 is fairly powerful. =dsmith= from =#guile= has a nicely featured bot
  72 written on top of Bobot++; if I find time I shall attempt to post the
  73 source.
  74
  75 There is now a [[darcsweb::bobot%2B%2B][darcs repo]] available with a few minor changes. I am
  76 sporadically working to make the internals of the bot fully threadsafe
  77 so that multithreaded Scheme extensions don't run into issues. I may
  78 potentially clean up the Scheme interface as well (as it was clearly
  79 not designed by a Schemer and I was not so well versed in proper style
  80 in 2002 when I did most of my work on Bobot++).
  81
  82 ** [[../code/guile-web.html][Guile-Web]]
  83
  84 A perhaps still useful library of web related utilities for
  85 [[http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html][Guile Scheme]]. Be warned that the serializer is inefficient, consy, and
  86 hacky as Hell, but the [[../code/guile-web-manual.html#SEC6][XHTML generation library]] might be useful.