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[toronto-lisp] Clojure success story
by Vishvajit Singh 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/4e2b193812c59bd… http://www.infoq.com/articles/flightcaster-clojure-rails This is an inspiring story of the use of Clojure along with many other technologies to build a flight delay prediction tool (flightcaster.com) Read it through.. it's quite the hacker's dream: Hadoop + Cascading + Amazon EC2/S3 + Ruby on Rails (Heroku) + Clojure Who wouldn't love to work on something like this? I wonder if Clojure is superseding Common Lisp as the "handyman's Lisp". I've been using it recently to toy around with various AI ideas I've had for a while, and I'm rather enjoying the elegance and clarity of the language. Has anyone else been working with Clojure this month? Regards, Vish

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[toronto-lisp] Meeting minutes added to website (lisptoronto.org)
by Vishvajit Singh 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Fellow Toronto Lispers, I've cleaned up our website a little bit, and put up summaries of the last 4 meetings. I tend to braindump these things into a text file when I get home, but I haven't had the time to put them up until now. I hope you find them useful. If you attended a meeting, and your name is not there (or we only got your first name), feel free to correct it. Either contact Telman Yusupov to obtain permission to edit the site, or send me a quick e-mail. The next thing I'd like to do (soon) is set up a repository for our club on GitHub. Right now I mainly envision it as a place to play around with fun projects as a means of learning about Clojure. But we'll see how it goes. In the long term, it would be great if parts of it evolve into something worth contributing to clojure-contrib. With best regards, Vish Singh

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[toronto-lisp] Toronto Lisp Users Group Meeting Tuesday August 4th @ Linux Caffe
by Vishvajit Singh 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hello everyone! Our next meeting is coming up soon. Toronto Lisp Users Group, August Meeting: Tuesday August 4th, 6pm, at the Linux Caffe Directions: walk south of Bloor from Christie Station, until you hit Harbord Street. Here's a map to the Linux Caffe from Christie Station: http://tinyurl.com/linuxcafe-lisp-meet We're looking for volunteers for talks, discussion, and tutorials. We'd love to hear about your current projects, proposals for projects, libraries you like, tutorials or related LISPy languages, issues relevant to Lisp, etc. Work is very busy, so I may not be able to show up. I will do my best, however. http://www.lisptoronto.org/ Come on out! Vish

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[toronto-lisp] Code Retreat Toronto 2009 (August 8th)
by Michael DiBernardo 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Code Retreat Toronto Hosted by J.B. Rainsberger and Novell/PlateSpin Canada August 8, 2009 J.B. Rainsberger and Novell/PlateSpin Canada will be hosting a code retreat on August 8th, 2009. What is a code retreat? - It is an event where we "[bring coders together to code], and then discuss only the things that emerge from that code." [1] - For more details, see http://tinyurl.com/lr395d Where is it? - The event is at the Novell/PlateSpin office in Toronto. - The address is 340 King Street East, Suite 200, Toronto, ON. - See the map at http://tinyurl.com/platespin When is it? - We'll start with breakfast at 8:30am. - We expect to go until around 5pm, at which point we'll head over to a local pub to unwind a little. How much does it cost? - Nothing but your time. What do we bring? - We can't supply machines, so please bring your laptop. That's about all you'll need. What do we get? - Breakfast and lunch will be supplied. - There will also be free coffee, soft drinks, and snacks available. Do I need to RSVP? - YES. If you are going to attend PLEASE EMAIL MIKE DIBERNARDO at mikedebo(a)gmail.com. - Use the subject "Code Retreat 2009". - We may be overbooked, so the RSVP is required to determine headcount. Who is the host, exactly? - J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger is a Canadian software development consultant and technology writer. [2] - He is the author of JUnit Recipes : Practical Methods for Programmer Testing, and was the recipient of the Gordon Pask Award in 2005. Anything else? - You can view J.B.'s video invite at http://www.vimeo.com/5429547 I have a question! - Please send any questions you might have to mikedebo(a)gmail.com. We'll see you on August 8th! [1] http://coderetreat.ning.com/profiles/blogs/what-the-heck-is-coderetreat [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Rainsberger

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[toronto-lisp] Event that you guys might be interested in
by Michael DiBernardo 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hey all, I've only attended one meetup of this user group, sometime last summer. I remember we talked a bit about Let over Lambda, and some reasoning engine that had been written in CLISP or something. Anyhow, despite my lack of attendance, I'd still like to invite you guys to this event that I'm running on August 8th over at Novell/PlateSpin. It's a code retreat, hosted by J.B. Rainsberger (http://jbrains.ca) where you pair up with another developer and work on some problems together, basically. I think it would be great to have a few Lispy 'representatives' in attendance, because I think you guys have a lot of ideas that you could present in such an venue that would be really new to the other folks, but at the same time would probably be well-received. (So far the people who've agreed to come are pretty open-minded, knowledge-hungry folks.) I'm going to forward the invite to the list in a subsequent email. Hopefully I'll see some of you there! Thanks, -Mike

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[toronto-lisp] Transactional Programming with Antiweb
by doug＠hcsw.org 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Hey all, Good meeting yesterday, as usual. Like I said, here's a "paper" I've been writing over the past few weeks that explains Antiweb's Berkeley DB interface: http://hoytech.com/transactional-programming.html It's still a draft so please send along any comments or suggestions. Best, Doug

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[toronto-lisp] So the next meeting is Tuesday July 7th?
by Abram Hindle 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Just to confirm, our next meeting is Tuesday July 7th? abram

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[toronto-lisp] A lisp job in canada, job posting.
by Abram Hindle 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/auphelia-technologies-erp/

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[toronto-lisp] CL Ants in comp.lang.lisp
by Paul Tarvydas 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

In case anyone missed it, Rich Hickey responded at length about the purpose of his Ants example in this thread on comp.lang.lisp: http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/1d014c846… pt

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[toronto-lisp] The speed, size and dependability of programming languages
by Mark Bolusmjak 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Great to see you all again. Here is the article I mentioned: http://gmarceau.qc.ca/blog/2009/05/speed-size-and-dependability-of.html -mark

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