There’s been a lot of discussion on whether Python, Ruby or insert your favorite dynamic language, is a good lisp.... Read More

On many occasions it’s preferable to convert PicoLisp on the client side instead of on the server, here’s an attempt.... Read More

Currently I’m simulating trading strategies on historical stock data. Yes I know according to Nassim this is complete bullshit but I might beg to differ. At least I feel the need to determine if it’s bullshit on my own than just take his word for it ... Read More

This Saturday I had a small presentation. It wasn’t really well prepared so I’ll try and make up for it here instead.... Read More

I just set out to duplicate the Doctrine for dummies example, but this time for real, with a real OODB system, not some silly ORM Thanks goes to Alex for helping me out with the queries.... Read More

The heart of the problem with making jQuery.post work with the PicoLisp server is simple once found (thanks to Alex for helping me find it). Apache seems to use the Content-Length header to determine the length of the argument sent by XMLHttpRequest.send(), the Pico server doesn’t bother with determining the the length. It looks for a newline at the end instead.... Read More

I give up. There you have it, the confession. Too much basic stuff is lacking from Pico, as you might know we’ve covered both a way of matching a la PHP’s preg_match and JSON. I’ve realized however that I’m never gonna be finished creating a proper application doing it in 100% Pico.... Read More

Yet again I have to do some documenting so I know what the hell I’m doing since I’m all over the place at the moment. Doing something here and then moving over to do something over there and then coming back to coding this and that. If you’re this unstructured you need crutches and this documentation is that, it will enable me to get back to this and do easy debugging in the future, it will trigger memories.... Read More

Today I felt like extending the html function that is responsible for rendering the bare bones of a HTML document in the GUI framework.... Read More

Finally, the registration form! Not really for beginners but anyway…... Read More