First Lisp meet at Chennai.rb, goin to foss.in/06
November 20th, 2006Hey all. I guess it’s been a while since I posted, trust me, I’ve been busy. Immediately after cl-migrations‘ release, it’s time for me to get busy with preparing for foss.in. If you guys haven’t been to foss.in before, you should definitely consider going there. It’s probably India’s biggest foss-related event. I’ve been going there since the last 3 years, (and I even spoke at the last one). The foss.in folks have selected my talk again, and I’ve been busy preparing for that. It’s always a pleasure to attend foss.in, so I am looking forward to the experience.
I also promised Chennai.rb folks that I will give the same talk here, so I was seriously pulling my hair out until 1pm on Saturday to make everything work :). Finally, I went to the venue and was pleasantly surprised to see so many folks turn up for the talk, in spite of the incessant rain. I think I didn’t screw it up, and I had a good time talking about Common Lisp. Only problem is, I had to concentrate on high-level web development concepts, and resist the temptation to launch into Lisp syntax, because none of them seem to know too much about it. It’s a challenge to do a language-intro-to-web development talk in 2 hours.
I showed them the demo app I was building for showing off for the foss.in tutorial, what are the semantics I used, how I am actually porting some of the nice Rails concepts into CL web development. Trust me guys, I’ve been having a blast working on this little project. I’m so attached to it now. There are certainly some frustrating moments when you get caught up in some obscure library bug or a macros-related concept that I didn’t understand yet. But yeah, it’s so much fun. Here are my slides for the talk. Be warned, they are in no way complete, and a little short on detail. They just give you a flavor of how the talk will be. They might change a bit by the time I get to foss.in. So see you there! Anyways, I had a blast on Saturday explaining this stuff to people, probably I will have much more on the 24th. Can’t wait 