http://franz.com/support Support news from Franz Inc. en-US Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:30:00 GMT Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:30:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss A Lisp Program, of course! webmaster@franz.com http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#xml-gen010710 urn:uuid:581151fe-6b61-b9f4-c106-000e7f3016e8 net-xml-generator is a new, open source XML generator module. It uses the Common Lisp pretty printer and a modified readtable to generate pretty-printed XML with intuitive indentation and line breaks. This note describes the module and provides a link to the down-loadable sources. Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:30:00 GMT http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#ensure-comp101409 urn:uuid:0de399c7-ff20-c494-a331-000e7f3016e8 The new ensuring-compiled-body macro is described in this entry. It works like progn except it ensures the body is compiled. Doing that is not trivial. This note describes how the compilation is done in the correct environment. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:40:00 GMT http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#github101409 urn:uuid:90c0372b-daf8-c7f4-e25b-000e7f3016e8 github is a public source code repository. Franz Inc. maintains a github repository (www.github.com/franzinc) as described in this item. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:30:00 GMT http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#ilc042109 urn:uuid:fc70ab7f-a06e-ca84-86c0-000e7f3016e8 The International Lisp Conference was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from March 22 to 25, 2009. A number of Franz people were in attendance. This Tech Corner entry is made up from the reports they sent back to Franz Inc. during the conference. Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:45:00 GMT http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#gruff031909 urn:uuid:c014360b-b42f-b384-703a-000e7f3016e8 Gruff is a graph-based browser for AllegroGraph. It can display various views of the data stored in an AllegroGraph set of RDF triples, including a graphical view showing links among data and a table view displaying information about specific objects. Gruff is available on Windows and Linux. A free trial version is available. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:45:00 GMT http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#ssoap021209 urn:uuid:a21deee5-8add-bc34-14af-000e7f3016e8 Doing even simple things in SOAP is often difficult because of SOAP's complexity. As part of a project, we wrote a Lisp program to write our interface code. This program, while specific to our project requirements, can be adapted to different needs and requirements and in any case shows how Lisp can be used to solve general programming tasks. The note includes the program and a worked out example. Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:20:00 GMT http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#plot-widget012009 urn:uuid:87330c01-fdbf-4014-ffa3-000e7f3016e8 The plot-widget is a facility for creating two-dimensional plots of X/Y coordinate pairs, such as scatter plots. It can be used to present static information or to dynamically monitor information as it changes. The widget will automatically lay out its axes and other parts (according to style properties that you can modify), and can also autocompute a rounded value range that encloses all of the data values. It is now available on platforms that support Common Graphics. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:40:00 GMT http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#ec2-121011 urn:uuid:3f6b6b61-c3ab-a674-a6d5-000e7f3016e8 There is a new Allegro CL module which provides an interface to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) API. The new interface works on all platforms that support SSH. The new module is part of an update released in early December, 2008. Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:47:00 GMT