<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Just a reminder of tomorrow's lispvan meeting. As I've noted in my updated blog entry (<a href="http://bc.tech.coop/blog/080904.html">http://bc.tech.coop/blog/080904.html</a>), we won't be able to use the "new" venue and will instead have to hold the meeting again at Calhoun's coffee shop:</div> <div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://vancouver.wifimug.org/?Calhouns" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none; z-index: 3; color: rgb(0, 119, 170); ">Calhoun's</a>, 3035 West Broadway, Vancouver</span><br> </div><div><br></div><div>See you there!</div><div><br></div><div>- Bill</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Bill Clementson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billclem@gmail.com">billclem@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi all,<br> <br> We've had a few presentations on web application development<br> environments/frameworks at lispvan. For our September lispvan meeting,<br> Hans Hübner will be flying over from Berlin (actually, he's coming for<br> the ICFP conference in Victoria, but has graciously agreed to come<br> over to Vancouver for the evening while he's in the area) to give us a<br> presentation on BKNR. BKNR is neat in that it provides it's own object<br> persistence layer as part of the web application development<br> environment. It's nice to be able to hear about different web<br> application development frameworks from the authors/users of those<br> frameworks and it will be interesting to be able to compare/contrast<br> BKNR with the others we've seen at lispvan meetings.<br> <br> We are planning to have the meeting at our new location (with a<br> projector and a special meeting room!) as the owner of the new cafe<br> (which is located right next door to the Mac Market) expects the<br> construction work to be completed by our meeting date. I'll update<br> this post closer to the meeting date with any changes (in the event<br> that the new meeting venue isn't ready in time).<br> <br> Here's the "official" meeting notice:<br> <br> Topic: The BKNR Common Lisp web application development environment<br> Presenter: Hans Hübner<br> Date: Thursday, September 25th, 2008<br> Time: 7pm - 10pm (or whenever)<br> Venue: no-name cafe next door to the Mac Market, 2774 West 4th Avenue<br> (at MacDonald Street), Vancouver<br> Summary: BKNR is a collection of Common Lisp packages used to develop<br> and deploy web applications. It consists of a number of open source<br> Lisp modules and adds several framework level modules. The goal is to<br> have a one-stop repository for all base software to aid in easy<br> deployment and configuration reproducability.<br> <br> The major component in the BKNR framework is the pure Lisp<br> transaction-based persistence layer. It provides for in-memory object<br> persistence and delivers high performance with small development<br> overhead. The web components of BKNR make it easy to serve persistent<br> objects using HTTP in XML, HTML or other formats.<br> <br> The presentation shows the guiding principles for BKNR, architectures<br> and features of the data store and web components, current<br> applications and future plans.<br> <br> The presenter: Hans Hübner has been a hacker for over 20 years. Coming<br> from an object oriented and system programming background with<br> extensive commercial development experience in C++ and Perl, he<br> discovered Common Lisp as his favourite programming language in 2001.<br> He is currently a freelance consultant with Clozure Associates and ITA<br> Software. His research interests include persistence systems and<br> hardware to support dynamic programming.<br> <br> Some links:<br> <a href="http://bknr.net/" target="_blank">http://bknr.net/</a><br> <a href="http://vaxbusters.org/workshop/secd.xml" target="_blank">http://vaxbusters.org/workshop/secd.xml</a><br> <a href="http://headcraft.de/" target="_blank">http://headcraft.de/</a><br> <br> Join us for a beer/coffee and a chance to see/discuss the BKNR Common<br> Lisp web application development environment.<br> <br> Any updates (and a copy of this notice with additional links) will be<br> posted on my blog: <a href="http://bc.tech.coop/blog/080904.html" target="_blank">http://bc.tech.coop/blog/080904.html</a><br> <br> --<br> <font color="#888888">Bill Clementson<br> </font></blockquote></div><br></div></div>