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Pointers, arrays, and string literals
A recently posted question on Stack Overflow highlighted a common misconception about the role of pointers and arrays held by many programmers learning C.
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Custom session storage with newLISP Web
The Web module’s default session storage engine uses serialized contexts in the /tmp directory. The advantage of this method is that, apart from the directory (which is customizable), it is reasonably platform independent and has low overhead. The disadvantages of this are numerous. Files are stored unencrypted, so anyone with access to the server may view them. It is therefor advantageous to design a custom storage module for sessions. Read more »
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A better newLISP web library
One problem from which newLISP suffers is the lack of a really useful library for web-based applications. The official CGI module has serious enough problems to justify an entirely new library. After some thought, I decided moreover that the request and response modules that I designed were neither practical nor sufficient. To that end, I have designed a new, monolithic library to provide the essential functionality required for web programming. Read more »
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Updated Json module for newLISP
Thanks to Andrew Pennebaker for pointing out where the decoder was broken. This update includes a complete rewrite of the JSON decoder. It is now slightly more forgiving and much more accurate. You can download it here or upgrade using nl-install.
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PHP is a framework
Rails, Django, Spring – application frameworks like these are now ubiquitous in the development of web-based applications. This is part of a trend in many general purpose languages of building toward the web. For these, the application framework is not just a buzzword; it is the abstraction used to build the language up to the browser. Read more »
Tags:framework, html, php, web design