Mike Schaeffer's Blog

February 9, 2005

./blosxom.cgi: 444 lines, 16674 characters.

I've spent a little time doing some things to tweak Bloxsom so that it fits better into my website. So far, I've:

Changed the html flavour to refer to my CSS file and use it correctly.

Set up a simple hierarchy of post topics.

Gotten static rendering working (as a test, it's not in use now.)

None of this is all that earth shattering, but it was all trivial to do in Bloxsom. For a one-file, 16K Perl script, Bloxsom brings a lot to the table.

Next on the adgenda is getting a web form set up for posting and hopefully editing blog posts, and then setting up a web-based way to upload images into the blog. My current workflow for posting to the blog involves two levels of nested SSH logins and the use of vi. shudder.

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February 8, 2005

vCalc

vCalc is the other side project I have going on right now. It's a simple RPN style calculator written for Win32. Underlying vCalc is a Scheme interpreter that I talk about a little here. The ultimate goal for vCalc is to have a calculator that can be easily extended with Scheme functions, in addition to the keystroke sequences you might expect. As it turns out, there are a lot of interesting problems that crop up trying to make this work right. I hope to blog more on this in the future.

Like Noisemaker, vCalc is shareware available through IceGiant.

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February 8, 2005

Noisemaker

One of my side projects is a little tool called Noisemaker. NoiseMaker is a utility that runs in the background and generates white noise over the computer's speakers to mask out distractions like the TV, phone, annoying co-workers, etc... If you need it, you need it badly...

It's available as a shareware program at Icegiant Software

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February 8, 2005

A couple Lisp/Programming Language Blogs

One interest of mine is programming languages, and more specifically, Lisp and Scheme. Lately, the blogosphere has produced a couple interesting blogs that tie to this interest:

Lambda the Ultimate

Planet Lisp

Planet Lisp aggregates a bunch of Lisp-related blogs, while LtU is more general and more of a discussion site.

Related, I came to LtU via Eric Lippert's Blog over on Weblogs @ASP.Net. Eric is a developer at Microsoft who's done a lot of work on Windows scripting and the Windows script languages.

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