(You may want to read part one if you have not already done so.)
November 26th, 2009
OSX, SBCL and FFI, Part 1.
This is the first post in the quest for a better understanding of how SBCL and its FFI (foreign function interface) mechanism allows it to dynamically load any qualifying library and then be able to wrap it and call it. This is an extremely powerful feature that pretty much every modern LISP has and it [...]
November 26th, 2009
Stranger In A Strange Land, Welcome to FFI and LISP!
Time to stop running form the internals of CFFI/UFFI and SBCL. I think I just chose the red pill!
November 20th, 2009
Making search_cron() and drupal_goto() work harmoniously together for World Peace.
Does your Drupal cron seem to have stopped working for no apparent reason? Read on!
November 13th, 2009
Ubuntu 9.10, Slime, Emacs and CLC not found. A Solution.
“package ‘CLC’ not found” I recently upgraded a VirtualBox installation of Ubuntu to 9.10 and after all was said and done my existing LISP environment had broken. To cut a long and irritating story short, I found myself faced with an error in the debugger, the crux of which was: “package ‘CLC’ not found” during [...]
November 11th, 2009
StumpWM: You *must* add this to .stumpwmrc *now*
I found this today, and all I can say is I like it even more!! I know that it is supposed to be a keyboard-driven thing but just nudging the mouse around makes it easier to get your head around the rest of the system instead of just fighting to remember to shift the focus [...]
November 11th, 2009
Self-rescue! What to do if you changed stumpwm prefix key to something dumb!
Having used ratpoison quite a bit in the past on days when I get sick and tired clicking and dragging this window out of the way of that window to make room for the other window, I found StumpWM, a tiling window manager. Amongst certain parts of the hacker community, these are gathering more and [...]
November 3rd, 2009
Why I Hate LISP So *MUCH*
Why do I hate LISP so much? Because it makes me think so damned hard. I cannot remember who said that compared to most other languages used to solve problems, LISP is more akin to DNA that allows you to build a language to solve problems. Maybe it was me a second ago. I think [...]
October 28th, 2009
Creating Movies from Still Images
Building on a previous article, learn how to create playable movies (with ffmpeg) from a collection of previously grabbed images.
October 27th, 2009
Getting ffmpeg for OS X 10.5.8 from Subversion.
Having struggled with ffmpeg on and off over the years, I can only say that the current subversion build is chuffing awesome and not only that, for what I wanted to be doing with it, it has the WMV3 (Windows Media player 9) codecs apparently included out of the box! So read on to find [...]