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Chicago Lisp

Although an official site is forthcoming, I’ll also keep track of Chicago Lisp User Group meetings here. I write the announcements and recaps on this site anyway, so why not collect and link to them now? It’s a little history of the group, plus notification of the next upcoming meeting. Enjoy!

Meeting announcements and updates are sent out using Coordinatr.com. I manage the list there so if you’d like to be on it, please send me your email address.

Here’s a feed announcing new meetings.

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NEXT MEETING:

WHEN: Friday, June 20th at 7pm.

WHERE: CashNetUSA offices. 200 W. Jackson Blvd, 14th floor, Chicago. Map.

WHAT:

  • Post-mortem on the Intro to Lisp Workshop
  • Kurt S. – implementing interpreters
  • Steve Githens – Scripting a Java SOA system using Kawa and Clojure

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INTRO TO LISP WORKSHOP (held May 31, 2008)

(more info at the chicagolisp.org wiki page)

WHO: Programmers interested in learning more about Lisp. There were 41 total attendees – see more detailed statistics here.

HOW MUCH: The low, low price of 3ish 4.5 hours of attention span.

WHEN: Saturday, May 31st from 3pm-6pm7:30pm.

WHERE: Institute of Design, 350 N. LaSalle St, 2nd floor, Chicago. Map.

WHAT: A hands-on introduction the the Common Lisp programming language

PRESENTATIONS: (more updates, videos, and recaps as they are written)

  • Setting up a Lisp Environment (John Quigley): A hands-on walkthrough of how to setup a Lisp environment, Emacs, and SLIME. These OS-specific setup documents had people up and running with only 3 problems out of 41 attendees:
    • Linux: Getting started on Linux
    • OSX: Getting started on MacOSX
    • Windows: Installing SBCL, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP
  • Lisp Basics and Idioms (Peter Christensen): Lisp history, basics, idioms, and the proper mindset to have when developing in Lisp.
  • Macros (Craig Luddington): How Lisp lets you write code that writes code that writes code … and why you’d want to do that.
  • Interactive demo (John Quigley): Live development on a chat server while people are chatting.

See the full recap here.

Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

Programming in Haskell

Practical Common Lisp

Book Raffle Winners

Congratulations to Luke Orland, Janet Kirsch, and (should have written down the third name) who won the following books in our registration raffle.

Sponsors

Special thanks to Kevin Taylor of Obtiva for sponsoring the food, drinks, gift DVDs, and the Practical Common Lisp prize book! Obtiva does on-site or outsourced development, and provides training in leading edge technologies.

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2008 Archive

Recap of May 2008: A Simple Object System Using Macros

Recap of April 2008: Combined Object-Lambda Architectures

Recap of March 2008 and Basic Group Information

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