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I blog here on Common Lisp topics, mostly about things I encountered while
building a production grade web application.
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Although Verbose is one of few logging libraries that work with threaded
applications (See Comparison of Common Lisp Logging Libraries), I had
some trouble getting it to work in my application. I have a Hunchentoot web
application which handles each request in a separate thread that is built as a
standalone executable. Getting Verbose to work in Slime was trivial but once I
built the standalone, it kept crashing.
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Sometimes it may be necessary to execute an external command that takes a long
time to complete, long enough that the user needs visual feedback while it is
running to show that the process is still alive.
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How to process sub-command style command line arguments is a question that
arises more and more. Many of the basic option handling libraries can not
handle this at all, or they make it very difficult to do so.
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