SBCL and Win32

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Jun 242009
 

Found something cute – Here is a ASDF interface of Win32 for SBCL, seems I can create Win32 application easily with it.

So, I’m kind of away from Ada now since the new GNAT 2009 did not solve the Win32 binding issue, my work on Ada became a interpretter, that is, reading C/C++ specification of Win32 APIs, and then use Ada to rewrite them, I’m pretty sure I was bored with it so I slowered down the development.

Lisp … seems like a different story, the community is a lot more active (based on discussion in USENET), also there are more than one compiler/interpreter providers vs. one from Ada (yes, GNAT is great, but it’s GNAT only), I can see SBCL and CMUCL are pretty promissing, while a lot other providers are coming up.

I may go write the PPCam program again, with Lisp, I know I’m stubborn, but I just want to get it done, with any non-Microsoft, and non-Borland software.

BTW, I gave up the idea of finding an IDE, I’ll work on command line to build a GUI application ๐Ÿ™‚

hmmm … php and apache are still much more easier

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Jun 242009
 

I have about 2,600 photos uploaded to one of my web sites, and I compose couple of quick PHP scripts to help me browse them. There is a img.php to resize the photo for different purpose (such as thumb view for listing page, medium size for view online, and full size for downloading), but whenever I try to download the photo, I found it’s tough as it always prompt to save as “img.php.jpeg”.

So, instead of doing any PHP stuff, I changed .htaccess under the folder, let apache do rewrite for me, in couple of minutes everything works like a chime.

These are really simple tasks, I guess it can be done with anything else (lighttpd, python, blar blar), but obviously I’m still familiar with PHP and Apache httpd, guess I should stick on that till something else can be this easy to me, just as years back I switched from qmail to postfix …