Software Map

Lisp Blosxom is a port of the Perl Blosxom
blogging engine to ANSI Common Lisp. Its goals are
extensibility and speed. It's a filesystem-based
blogging engine, which means that blog entries are
just flat files on disk, although plugins can be
written to extend or replace this behavior. The
first line in the file is the title, while the
remainder is the text of the body. Entry dates are
taken directly from the filesystem's modification
date for each entry. Furthermore, the structure of
the blog is taken directly from the hierarchy of
directories and files on disk.

A series is a data structure much like a sequence, with similar kinds of operations. The difference is that in many situations, operations on series may be composed functionally and yet execute iteratively, without the need to construct intermediate series values explicitly. In this manner, series provide both the clarity of a functional programming style and the efficiency of an iterative programming style. Series is the culmination of many years of design and use of this approach, during which some 100,000 lines of application code have been written (by about half a dozen people over the course of seven years) using the series facility in nearly all iteration situations. This includes one large system (KBEmacs) of over 40,000 lines of code. In a nutshell: Think "Efficient MAPCAR". SERIES translates functional-style expressions into efficient loops.

Lisppaste is a fully-featured pastebot that provides a Web
interface to submit pastes, and announces the URL
the paste is stored at to a channel of your
choice. It features multiple channel support,
paste annotation support, persistent pastes, a Web
interface to the list of pastes in the system, RSS
support in short and full varieties, XML-RPC support, and direct linking to meme IRC logs.

cl-pdb is a Common Lisp library that parses PDB files into CLOS classes for ease of handling inside of applications which need to read these files.

Design Center is a Web application that allows users to change the colour of different layers in a photo. In a photo of a bedroom, there could be layers for the walls, the ceiling, and for the floor. The application lets users change the colour of each and see how a new paint job would look. If used on a furniture store's Web site, different layers could be used for beds, chairs, lampshades, etc. to allow customisation by users.

STMX is a high-performance Common Lisp library for composable Transactional Memory (TM), a concurrency control mechanism aimed at making concurrent programming easier to write and understand. Instead of traditional lock-based programming, one programs with atomic memory transactions: if a memory transaction returns normally it is committed. If it signals an error, it is rolled back. Transactions can safely run in parallel in different threads, are re-executed from the beginning in case of conflicts or if consistent reads cannot be guaranteed, and effects of a transaction are not visible from other threads until committed. This gives freedom from deadlocks, automatic rollback on failure, and aims to resolve the tension between granularity and concurrency.

CL-Sack is a Common Lisp library for making and manipulating Sack files, which are data containers similar to WAD files for Doom.

Also included are the command line programs Sacked, a tool to create and edit Sack files, and Sackyhack, a tool to examine Sack files at a lower level.