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[boston-lisp] DevDoc video
by Mark J. Dulcey 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Video of the DevDoc presentation is available for downloading at http://www.buttery.org/DevDoc.mp4 -- be warned, it's a 71MB file. You can play it with QuickTime on Windows or Mac, or with various players on Linux. I don't recommend trying to play it inside your web browser -- you'll have to wait a long time before it begins to play. This location is TEMPORARY -- hitting my home connection with 71MB downloads won't fly long-term. I would like at least a couple of group members to check it out, however, and let me know what you think. In the future, I will try to use an off-camera microphone that is closer to the presenter, but the sound is intelligible. I would like to either have these hosted on the group web site in the future, or upload them to YouTube or other similar video hosting service. Technical details for the curious: it is encoded as MP4 video at 384Kbps ABR, and AAC audio at 128Kbps. The video is 320x240 pixels with a frame rate of 29.97fps, the native frame rate of NTSC video. It was edited with Sony Vegas 6 (I haven't upgraded yet) and encoded by the Main Concept MP4 encoder. The original source material was NTSC MiniDV video.

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[boston-lisp] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Tuesday April 22nd 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B
by Faré 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

http://fare.livejournal.com/121355.html Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Tuesday April 22nd 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (full disclaimer: they employ me), has kindly offered to sponsor a dinner for our Monthly Boston Lisp Meeting. Please send mail to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net with a list of attendees so I may order the correct amount of food. No registration, no food. Peter Dillinger will give a 25' talk about Theorem proving with ACL2s. ACL2, "A Computational Logic for Applicative Common Lisp", was recognized with the 2005 ACM Software System Award for its power and usefulness in verifying safety-critical applications. New users, however, found it difficult to use for a variety of reasons. ACL2s < http://acl2s.peterd.org/acl2s/ > is an Eclipse-based development environment we have made to make ACL2 easier to learn and use. Peter C. Dillinger is a Ph.D. Student at Northeastern University, Panagiotis Manolios, advisor. Hans Hübner will give a 50' presentation of The BKNR Common Lisp web application development environment. BKNR < http://bknr.net/ > is a one-stop repository of open source Common Lisp modules used to develop and deploy web applications, featuring a pure Lisp transaction based persistence layer. Hans Hübner has been a hacker for over 20 years, and has discovered Common Lisp as his favourite programming language in 2001. He is a freelance consultant whose research interests include persistence systems and hardware to support dynamic programming. Please note that the meeting is taking place at an unusual date, to accomodate for the availability of the main speaker, who is coming from Berlin (Germany) to talk to us. The Lisp Meeting with take place at MIT, room 34-401B. As the numbers indicate, this is in Building 34, on the 4th floor. MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?selection=34 Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50+Vassar+St,+Cambridge,+MA+02139,+USA PS: The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on March 31st was a big success, with over 70 attendants. Thanks a lot to all those who came. I hope we'll meet again and have more of those interesting conversations. PPS: We're still looking for speakers. We have a lot of potential speakers, but not enough confirmed speakers at scheduled dates. The call for speakers and all the other details are at < http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html >. PPPS: Please forward this information to people who would be interested. Please accept my apologies for your receiving this message multiple times. For posts related to the Boston Lisp meetings in general, follow this link: http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] - "If you're so smart, how come you're not rich?" - "If you're so rich, how come you're not smart?" -- narrated by Steven E. Landsburg, "The Armchair Economist"

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[boston-lisp] lisp job in MA
by Sam Steingold 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

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[boston-lisp] volunteers to take photos or write
by Bruce Lewis 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

If you can take pictures at a Boston Lisp meeting, do brief writeups, or even just add hyperlinks to a writeup that's already there, please go to this page: http://ourdoings.com/boston-lisp/ Click on the "Edit" tab and volunteer for management of the site. This site is simply an archive of our doings, and doesn't preclude another boston-lisp web site for other purposes. It's implemented in BRL, of course.

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[boston-lisp] March 31 meeting
by brlewis＠ourdoings.com 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

MON, MAR 31: ALEXEY RADUL ON WHY I HATE SCHEME; RAHUL JAIN ON DEFDOC (Bruce Lewis) About 70 people showed up to hear Alexey Radul speak on why he hates Scheme and what he's doing about it, and to hear Rahul Jain's presentation on DefDoc, a lisp-based document description and processing system. Illustrated at http://ourdoings.com/boston-lisp/2008-03-31 This message was put together in 29 seconds from ourdoings.com. http://ourdoings.com/

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[boston-lisp] Recordings of presentations
by mark 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Firstly, thank you to the presenters tonight. And thanks to ITA for the food. Secondly, since i know i will be missing the next meeting on the 22nd due to a business trip and i saw some persons taping the presentations, i am curious when/if those will become public somehow? Thanks Mark Simpson

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[boston-lisp] (Bruce Lewis) setting up photo news for Boston Lisp Users
by ourdoings.com 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

If this is a moderated list, do not approve this message; just use the link in it. If this is an unmoderated list, please ignore this message unless you sent it. This automated message is being sent by brlewis(a)ourdoings.com (Bruce Lewis) to confirm that photo email should be sent to this list from the following site: Boston Lisp Users http://ourdoings.com/boston-lisp/ Here is the confirmation link: https://ourdoings.com/boston-lisp/accept.html?v=ua9r4hen8yh6qb5j If you have questions about this site, mailto:brlewis@ourdoings.com These email updates will use little space. There will be no attachments. Technically speaking, they will be multipart/alternative MIME messages with a text/plain part and a text/html part.

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[boston-lisp] Boston Lisp Meeting THIS MONDAY March 31st
by Faré 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday March 31st 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B PLEASE REGISTER FOR FOOD! ITA Software has kindly offered to sponsor a dinner for our Monthly Boston Lisp Meeting. Please send mail directly to me fare at tunes (dot org) with list of attendees so I may order the correct amount of food. No registration, no food. Alexey Radul will speak about What I hate most about Scheme and what I'm doing about it. Alexey Radul is a graduate student at MIT. He uses the Scheme programming language, for which he has written an extension for probabilistic programming. Rahul Jain will present DefDoc. DefDoc is a lisp-based document description and processing system. Both macros and object-orientation are available so that the description of a document can be focused as much as possible on content and structure. Rahul Jain is a New York based consultant who programs in Common Lisp for fun and profit. The Lisp Meeting with take place at MIT, room 34-401B. As the numbers indicate, this is in Building 34, on the 4th floor. MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?selection=34 Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50+Vassar+St,+Cambridge,+MA+02139,+USA PS: The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on March 3rd was a big success, with about 40 attendants. Thanks a lot to all those who came. I hope we'll meet again and have more of those interesting conversations. PPS: We're more than ever looking for speakers. We have a lot of potential speakers, but few confirmed speakers at scheduled dates. The call for speakers and all the other details are at < http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html >. Please forward this message to any interested party. Please accept apologies for multiple copies received. [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] To authorize all commercial relations between consenting adults.

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[boston-lisp] Meeting on Monday
by David Schneider-Joseph 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hi everyone, Has there been an official venue and time selected for this Monday's meeting? Thanks, David

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[boston-lisp] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday March 31st 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B
by Faré 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

See the announcement on my blog (copied below): http://fare.livejournal.com/120778.html Send suggestions to the mailing-list: boston-lisp-organizers at common-lisp.net [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] When my time on earth is completed, I want to go quietly in my sleep, like my grandfather ... not screaming in terror, like his passengers. Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday March 31st 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B Alexey Radul will speak about What I hate most about Scheme and what I'm doing about it. Alexey Radul is a graduate student at MIT. He uses the Scheme programming language, for which he has written an extension for probabilistic programming. Rahul Jain will present DefDoc. DefDoc is a lisp-based document description and processing system. Both macros and object-orientation are available so that the description of a document can be focused as much as possible on content and structure. Rahul Jain is a New York based consultant who programs in Common Lisp for fun and profit. The Lisp Meeting with take place at MIT, room 34-401B. As the numbers indicate, this is in Building 34, on the 4th floor. MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?selection=34 Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50+Vassar+St,+Cambridge,+MA+02139,+USA I haven't found a sponsor for food yet, but whether we find one or not, I'll organize something for those hackers who wish to have dinner together after the conference. Please send email to fare at tunes (dot org) to register if you're interested, so I may have a head-count and make according preparations. PS: The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on March 3rd was a big success, with about 40 attendants. Thanks a lot to all those who came. I hope we'll meet again and have more of those interesting conversations. PPS: We're more than ever looking for speakers. We have a lot of potential speakers, but few confirmed speakers at scheduled dates. The call for speakers and all the other details are at < http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html >.

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