Failed Experiments

a Mr. Fleming wishes to study bugs in smelly cheese; a Polish woman wishes to sift through tons of Central African ore to find minute quantities of a substance she says will glow in the dark; a Mr. Kepler wants to hear the songs the planets sing.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Understanding cl-cont semantics without thinking about CPS

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Understanding the way that cl-cont transforms forms is one way to understand the sometimes counterintuitive behavior of that code. However...

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Saturday, October 11, 2008

A practical use for change-class!

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Previously only thought useful for metaprogramming, the amazing change-class finds a use in the hallowed realm of application programming. ...

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

What is cascading rebase?

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The problem of cascading rebase is a serious one, and should not be taken lightly. Though the idea of cleaning history may be appealing, i...

Monday, September 8, 2008

Blame release tarballs for the installation problem

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…plus love for distributed version control. Many have noticed the failure of ASDF-Install to make installing Lisp packages universally easy...

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Fixing weblocks test failures, try 1

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Here we commemorate the demise of the first test fixing branch of Weblocks, c6dc18-test-fixes . At its peak, it got the number of failures ...

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