Peter Seibel is the writer of the book Practical Common Lisp which is a magnific introductory tutorial to Lisp or specifically Common Lisp. I have read it from cover to cover and I can’t be more satisfied. Moreover, the book is freely avalaibe on internet. What can you ask more? Some months ago he pleased to make a linking bombing of his tutorial in order to appear the first hint in Google when you look for “Lisp tutorial”. Now is already on the top, but anyway is my little contribution to him. So, again, the link of the book: Common Lisp tutorial.

P. Seibel is currently writting Coders at Work where we’ll can see how think and program masters like D. Knuth, Peter Norvig, Frances E. Allen or Ken Thompson. Hope having it soon!

And to finish this bomb-post I see me in the must to copy one of his big fun posts:

Yesterday I was taking my 10-month old daughter to our parent/infant swim class at the Berkeley YMCA. She happened to be wearing a blue shirt. The woman riding down with us in in the elevator from the parking garage asked how old she was and said, “Oh, what a cute little boy.”

“Girl,” I said.

“Oh, sorry!”

“No worries. It’s the shirt. And the short hair.”

“I know, we’re all so color coded.”

As we were getting out of the elevator she said, “You know, I should be the last person in the world to do that … I teach feminist theory.”

Theory and Practise

I am a newbie lover of this language and I learned it in Windows. Now I wan to use it in my Linux and it is supposed to be more tools in this system but I don’t find nothing useful for me. Everybody says, emacs, emacs! but what the crap fucking editor is this? All key shortcuts are different, you can’t use the mouse, and holy shit, you can’t open a file searching it in your explorer. May be it was powerful when you have got used to it but really it is not simple! I just want and colored editor, nothing more, I don’t want to learn the bible of any bastard editor! :(

Anyway, I’ll try to manage it, and have a good .emacs configured for me. Someone could help me? I’ll write my experience about this.

By the way, one of my favourite editor, but not IDE, is notepad++ for Windows, learn of this one! With colored syntax for any language, tabs, a good finder tool, a function defined index… very recommendable (my english is really improvable but I learn using it)

List to do: an editor/IDE with plugins for any language and for any system.

Valid Flash XHTML:

<object
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="movie.swf"
width="400" height="300">
<param name="movie" value="movie.swf" />
<p>Optional Description (kind of alt)</p>
</object>

donde “movie.swf” se substituiría por el enlace deseado y sí, hay que incluirlo en los dos items, data y value. La etiqueta <embed> no lo acepta la w3c, así que se ha de eliminar (google video y youtube la tienen escrita en sus enlaces) y luego, y ni idea de porqué, si no escribes el data, en Netscape/Firefox no sale nada, y si no añades la segunda referencia, IE no te muestra el vídeo hasta que no se lo ha bajado entero.

Obtenido del gran tutorial Flash Satay: Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards.