{"id":217,"date":"2008-04-17T14:26:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T20:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/chicago-lisp\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T12:37:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T17:37:53","slug":"chicago-lisp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/chicago-lisp\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Lisp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagolisp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">official site<\/a> is forthcoming, I&#8217;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&#8217;s a little history of the group, plus notification of the next upcoming meeting.  Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Meeting announcements and updates are sent out using <a href=\"http:\/\/coordinatr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coordinatr.com<\/a>.  I manage the list there so if you&#8217;d like to be on it, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/contact-me\/\">send me your email address<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/coordinatr.com\/feeds\/rss\/vcwxbvdrepk2blkbtwctez\" target=\"_blank\">feed announcing new meetings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEXT MEETING<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN<\/strong>:  Friday, June 20th at 7pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cashnetusa.com\/contact-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">CashNetUSA<\/a> offices.  200 W. Jackson Blvd, 14th floor, Chicago.<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6x24co\" target=\"_blank\">Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Post-mortem on the Intro to Lisp Workshop<\/li>\n<li>Kurt S. &#8211; implementing interpreters<\/li>\n<li>Steve Githens &#8211; Scripting a Java SOA system using Kawa and Clojure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>INTRO TO LISP WORKSHOP (held May 31, 2008)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(more info at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagolisp.org\/wiki\/doku.php?id=lispworkshop\" target=\"_blank\">chicagolisp.org wiki page<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO: <\/strong>Programmers interested in learning more about Lisp.  There were 41 total attendees &#8211; see more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/chicago-intro-to-lisp-workshop-attendee-stats\/\">detailed statistics here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW MUCH<\/strong>:  The low, low price of <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">3ish<\/span> 4.5 hours of attention span.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN<\/strong>: Saturday, May 31st from 3pm-<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">6pm<\/span>7:30pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE<\/strong>: Institute of Design, 350 N. LaSalle St, 2nd floor, Chicago.  <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4rbmd3\" target=\"_blank\">Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong>:  A hands-on introduction the the Common Lisp programming language<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESENTATIONS: <\/strong>(more updates, videos, and recaps as they are written)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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:\n<ul>\n<li>Linux: <a class=\"wikilink1\" title=\"start_linux\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagolisp.org\/wiki\/doku.php?id=start_linux\">Getting started on Linux<\/a><\/li>\n<li>OSX: <a class=\"wikilink1\" title=\"start_macosx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagolisp.org\/wiki\/doku.php?id=start_macosx\">Getting started on MacOSX<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Windows: <a class=\"urlextern\" title=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"..\/articles\/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp\/\">Installing SBCL, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/lisp-basics-and-idioms-presentation-from-intro-to-lisp-workshop\/\">Lisp Basics and Idioms<\/a> (Peter Christensen): Lisp history, basics, idioms, and the proper mindset to have when developing in Lisp.<\/li>\n<li>Macros (Craig Luddington): How Lisp lets you write code that writes code that writes code &#8230; and why you&#8217;d want to do that.<\/li>\n<li>Interactive demo (John Quigley): Live development on a chat server while people are chatting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/recap-of-intro-to-lisp-workshop\/\">See the full recap here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0596510047\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:4px;border:0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41gMIrC%2BDrL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))\" width=\"122\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0521692695\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:4px;border:0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41rwtENNgBL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"Programming in Haskell\" width=\"123\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1590592395\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:4px;border:0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51kJaXsi6hL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"Practical Common Lisp\" width=\"115\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Raffle Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Luke Orland, Janet Kirsch, and (should have written down the third name) who won the following books in our registration raffle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obtiva.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-268\" style=\"border:0px;\" title=\"obtiva\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/obtiva.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/obtiva.png 967w, http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/obtiva-300x81.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008 Archive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/recap-of-5162008-chicago-lisp-meeting\/\">Recap of May 2008: A Simple Object System Using Macros<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/recap-of-4182008-chicago-lisp-meeting\/\">Recap of April 2008: Combined Object-Lambda Architectures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/chicago-lisp-meeting-friday-418\/\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/recap-of-321-chicago-lisp-meeting\/\">Recap of March 2008 and Basic Group Information<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although an official site is forthcoming, I&#8217;ll also keep track of Chicago Lisp User Group meetings here. 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