Comments on: ToDo This Summer http://www.nickpeters.net/2008/05/09/todo-this-summer/ Tue, 11 May 2010 11:09:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nick 2.0 http://www.nickpeters.net/2008/05/09/todo-this-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-11862 Nick 2.0 Sat, 17 May 2008 06:10:21 +0000 http://www.nickpeters.net/2008/05/09/todo-this-summer/#comment-11862 I fail at reading your email address! strategic what? parse? panic? e-mail me! but regardless, here's the rambling: Bunches of things follow in response to conversations today. turbogears, python competitor to django: http://turbogears.org/ practical common lisp, a common lisp book available in print or free online http://gigamonkeys.com/book/ and of course there's paul graham's onlisp if you're really into macros http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html (I need to get sbcl installed and working with SLIME in aquamacs.... it's a lot easier to just install gnu clisp and lisp in a box in windows which will set up your .emacs...) the erlang book I have: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang/programming-erlang "lol together" on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5fxBtZ8YrU Erlang's "database" is a dictionary-like lookup table. The module is called ETS, and there is a version that saves to disk and is very stable called mnesia or DETS. Amazon's EC2 database is supposedly pretty much the same as a DETS table, I should probably look into it more too. I'll have to play with erlang more and look into couchdb. So, what was that database schema with 7 tables you were talking about? My interruption was essentially that building such a thing on top of a relational database essentially breaks everything a relational database gives you... That said, I'm still interested in hearing. I fail at reading your email address!

strategic what?
parse? panic?

e-mail me!

but regardless, here’s the rambling:

Bunches of things follow in response to conversations today.

turbogears, python competitor to django:
http://turbogears.org/

practical common lisp, a common lisp book available in print or free online
http://gigamonkeys.com/book/
and of course there’s paul graham’s onlisp if you’re really into macros
http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

(I need to get sbcl installed and working with SLIME in aquamacs…. it’s a lot easier to just install gnu clisp and lisp in a box in windows which will set up your .emacs…)

the erlang book I have:
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang/programming-erlang

“lol together” on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5fxBtZ8YrU

Erlang’s “database” is a dictionary-like lookup table. The module is called ETS, and there is a version that saves to disk and is very stable called mnesia or DETS.

Amazon’s EC2 database is supposedly pretty much the same as a DETS table, I should probably look into it more too.

I’ll have to play with erlang more and look into couchdb.

So, what was that database schema with 7 tables you were talking about? My interruption was essentially that building such a thing on top of a relational database essentially breaks everything a relational database gives you… That said, I’m still interested in hearing.

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