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

Update: I now use this code for JSON which is based on Alex’s Rosetta Code example, the below should just be seen as a programming exercise.... 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

As you might know already Pico has a GUI system similar to for instance Haml. That’s all very well and fine, the problem is that as opposed to Haml a typical Pico GUI script contains a lot of logic as well, I shudder to think having designers poking around in there to output the HTML just like they want it. And we are not quite yet at the point where we are doing completely CSS controlled designs, it’s a goal though.... Read More

This is another step towards explaining how a registration form in Pico Lisp can work, I promise you we will get there but there is a lot of ground to cover still.... Read More

In this tutorial I will assume you’ve already glanced at the documents I linked to in the prior article. I hope you still have cms.db intact.... Read More

This time we will examine some more complex relationships with a common scenario, the CMS.... Read More

Let’s walk through a simple and usual example, what would constitute a user table in MySQL:... Read More

Let’s first look at a simple single inheritance example:... Read More