Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting for July 2008 - Web development with Lisp and UCW
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
I've written about the web development framework
UnCommon Web (UCW) a bit in the past (see
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here). Also, we've had presentations about
lisp-on-lines (which uses
UCW) by Drew Crampsie at a few previous
lispvan meetings (see
here,
here,
here). However, we've never actually had a UCW presentation! Well,
this will no longer be the case after our July meeting. Ryan Davis has
been using UCW to develop web sites in Florida (I'm sure it must be a
hardship to have to take your laptop to the beach 365 days of the
year! ;-) ), and he will be giving a presentation at the July
lispvan meeting recounting his experiences.
Although we were hoping to be moving to a new location (with a
projector and a special meeting room!) for this month's meeting, the new location is still
under construction (hmmm,
I think I've said this for each of the past 3 meetings; however, Vancouver is
experiencing a continuous building boom and everyone is finding it
difficult to get contractors to complete jobs). Therefore, we will be meeting again this month at
Calhoun's Coffee House and Restaurant. There won't be a projector,
so we'll have to VNC a couple of laptops so that we aren't all crowded
around one laptop. We've done that in the past, so this shouldn't
be a problem (so long as some people remember to bring laptops! ;-) ).
Here's the "official" meeting notice:
Topic: Web development with Lisp and UCW
Presenter: Ryan Davis
Date: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 (note that the meeting is on
a Wednesday and not a Thursday this month)
Time: 7pm - 10pm (or whenever)
Venue:
Calhoun's, 3035 West Broadway, Vancouver (see
map)
Summary: Representing a small enclave of Lisp in Florida,
Ryan Davis will demonstrate and review two UCW-based applications:
- Gainesville-green.com: a google-maps website displaying energy usage. This site is mostly straight content generation from a postgresql database, with a little bit of AJAX and some extra caching handlers
- Wedding-rsvp: a simple website to handle RSVPs to my wedding. This site is basically a wizard, and uses some AJAX and UCW continuations
- HTML generation using ucw-buildnode, an unreleased library based on cxml
- UCW basics
- Deploying lisp websites using SBCL cores
