"There has been a new wave of interest in Common Lisp over the last few years. This paper is a November, 2007 survey of Common Lisp implementations that are currently being actively maintained. It also provides references to writings about why Lisp is interesting and important, Lisp textbooks, and useful Lisp resources including repositories of available libraries. I hope it will help you find the right implementation for your project or product..."

"While I’m talking about Ruby in Emacs, here’s a handy emacs function I wrote way back when..."

"A new development build of Elive, version 1.2.3, is ready for testing..."

"A new stable version of Litrix Linux, a Brazilian desktop distribution based on Gentoo Linux, has been released..."

I've been using and advocating free software for around six years. When studying and then working as a freelance writer, migrating an office seemed so simple -- draw up a list of comparable programs and, over a reasonable period, move your staff across. But over the past few weeks I've been trying to use Ubuntu Gutsy on my desktop PC in a Windows-based office, and whilst most things work just fine, it's far from the seamless integration I was hoping for.

"Perl 5.10 will be out soon — within a week — and pumpking Rafael Garcia-Suarez will likely release a final release candidate for final testing and polishing. If you have Perl code you care about, it’s worth downloading RC3 to see how well things run with the new version..."

What has happened in the year since Sun Microsystems released the source code for Java? While end users might be starting to wonder, those most involved in the building of the free Java community describe a thriving community that, after one year, is still working hard to reinvent itself.

"...Aside from Weblocks, three frameworks I know of do a good job dealing with control flow - Seaside, UCW, and PLT. Proper control flow management is difficult to implement - it requires continuations, which most languages don't support. Because frameworks with good control flow management are so rare, most people don't understand what they're missing. In this article I'll describe the problem and how it is solved in Weblocks using continuations. A live Weblocks demo that showcases a practical implementation of these concepts is available here...'