Artful Code

I am in the process of updating my module repository for newlisp 10.  In the process, I am refactoring each module and doing some updates. I am paying shockingly little attention to backward compatibility, so if you want to use the new modules, be prepared to do update your own code.

A couple of notable changes are a complete replacement of the mysql module, functional has been renamed to matching, and the addition of the Element module, which provides utilities to write XML (or any structured markup) quickly and efficiently.

As modules are updated, I am making a note of it in their descriptions.

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The Mysql module has been written from scratch utilizing some of the more recent features of newLisp, such as FOOP and reference returns. One of its major design goals was to simplify use as well as broaden the features of the standard MySQL module, while at the same time allowing the creation of new, anonymous instances at run-time. Read more…

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One of newLisp’s out-of-the-box features is its foreign function interface. It is simple to use, requiring only a minimal knowledge of C and a willingness to read documentation. Read more…

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For the moment, I am stuck on Django 0.96 on one of our servers at work, but needed the formset functionality from the newer forms module.  It is a common problem and easily dealt with by prepending keys with a common token to group forms’ values together.  I ended up writing a little derived class that makes things simple. Read more…

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I’m old enough that I remember when email happened on the local university’s VAX system or by dialing into some yahoo’s computer running Angelfire BBS with four phone lines.  I remember just how blazingly fast a 9600 baud modem seemed.  I’m even old enough to remember typing ATDT into Telix :).  Alright, I’m only 30, but even at my age I sometimes feel confounded by current trends and am just beginning to have that urge to shoo youngsters off my lawn.  Not that they are ever on my lawn.  They are generally at home, on MySpace or Facebook. Read more…

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