blogging has been light
I’ve started reading Universal Salvation?, edited by Parry and Partridge. I hope to post a brief review in a week or two.
I’ve also started learning to program in Common Lisp. One on the reasons I began this blog was to learn a bit about the technology that enables blogging. I have gotten a bunch of off the shelf technology to work, this WordPress site is one such. I also set up Apache, MySQL, php, and vsftp on a linux machine, and built a small static website from scratch, in valid XHTML and CSS with none of that old-school table-based stuff. The Leo text editor was a big help with the website.
The next step is to learn to write web apps. I’m thinking a small blogging engine to start. I considered Ruby as the implementation language, but I think CL is more to my taste. I’ll probably swap out Apache for a lisp based web server.
My first step in learning lisp was to set up a development environment. I settled on a standard open source setup on a Mac: Openmcl, SLIME, and Emacs. David Stueber’s site was instrumental in getting this system running.
Posted on October 26th, 2005 by pwyll
Filed under: General, books
Entries RSS