Franz Tech Corner News
August, 2011
In this issue
Solr Text
Searching Utility
Solr is an open-source freetext indexing/searching platform from the
Apache Lucene
project. There is a new Allegro CL interface to Solr which is
available on the
Franz Inc. Github site. This package allows
Allegro CL applications to communicate with a running Solr server, add
and delete documents, and run queries to retrieve indexed records.
Downloading instructions and other documentation
are available here.
AllegroGraph - Sets Trillion Triple Record
Following closely on our June announcement at the SemTech conference of 310 Billion triples, we are proud to announce that we have achieved the industry's first load and query of 1 trillion RDF triples. We believe this is a major milestone for scalability of Semantic Web Projects.
Total load was 1,009,690,381,946 triples in just over 338 hours for an average rate of 829,556 triples per second.
See the full press
release here.
Mac OS X Lion - Support Update
Allegro CL for the Mac needs to be updated (with new
library files)in order to work with the new Mac OS X Lion operating
system (version 10.7). Doing a standard update
with
sys:update-allegro
or with the
Download Patches dialog in the IDE will prepare you
to run on Lion. Unfortunately, if you upgrade to Lion before doing an
update, Allegro CL will not work. In that case, you must download and
install the necessary files by hand. The files are
available
here
on our current patch LOG page. (Installation is done by moving the
downloaded files to the Allegro CL directory.) Note there are
different files for the 32-bit Lisp and the 64-bit Lisp (2 each) and
for Allegro CL Express (one
file).
See this FAQ
item for details.
OASIS for the Dept. of Defense - Recorded Webcast
View the recently recorded session conversation and presentation of Mr. Glenn House as he
describes the use cases and applications for 2Is' Common Lisp based
products.
About 2Is Inc. 2Is designs and develops logistics decision support
and Independent Verification and Validation enterprise systems that
have demonstrated tens of millions of dollars in reduced total cost of
inventory ownership for the military and OEM supply chain. 2Is
applications have been proven under multiple DOD Test and Evaluation
contracts. 2Is applications are provided to external customers in a
Software as a Service (SaaS) model and are served securely over the
Internet. The development process is monitored by internal Quality
Assurance staff and externally registered and audited to CMMI Level 3
standards.
Watch the video here.
European Common Lisp Meeting, Amsterdam, October 23
The place and time have been set.
See the
conference web site to subscribe to the ECLM mailing list.
.
New deflate module compresses text; used by AllegroServe
AllegroServe now compresses and uncompresses files on the fly. It does
this using the new deflate module (Note this module depends on a
system Library which may not be available on all platforms. If that
library is missing, things will still work but files will not be
compressed.) Inflation of compressed files was already supported. What
is new is the deflation of files. Both inflation and deflation are
done by special streams which work as text is written or read.
For additional information, see here.
Common Lisp Foundation - New
The Foundation aims to promote the use and development of the Common Lisp programming language.
For additional information, see
here.
NoSQLNow - August 23-25, San Jose, CA
NoSQL Now! is a new conference covering the dynamic field of NoSQL
technologies (Not Only SQL). It is a vendor-neutral forum celebrating
the diversity of NoSQL technologies and helping businesses develop
objective evaluation processes to match the right NoSQL solutions with
the right business challenge.
Follow @Franzinc on Twitter for a chance to win a free conference
registrations.
We are presenting - "When Relational Technology Can't do the Job"
For additional information and $300 Discount, use the "FRANZ" coupon code when registering. here.
Practical Semantic Web - Applications, Common Lisp Edition
This new book is intended to be a practical guide for using RDF data in information processing, linked data, and semantic web applications using both the AllegroGraph commercial product and the Sesame open source project.
For additional information and to purchase, see here.
Lispix - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Lispix is a public domain image analysis program and is
useful for processing and analyzing images, and stacks of images or
data cubes. Image pixels can be bit, integer, real, complex and
color. While including basic image processing functions found in NIH
Image, ImageJ, and in some commercial programs, it features a
collection of special purpose research tools for electron microscopy
and spectral imaging at NIST. Many of the tools incorporated into
Lispix have been useful for other researchers.
For additional information, see here.
Training Schedule
BECOME ALLEGRO CERTIFIED - To obtain your Allegro CL
Certification enroll in our LIVE Program which offers developers an
opportunity to learn and improve their Lisp programming skills from
the comfort of their home or office while interacting with the Franz
instructor.
Lisp Programming Series Level I: Basic Lisp Essentials - October 12, 19, and 26
Lisp Programming Series Level II: Specialized Components of Lisp - November 2, 9, and 16
For additional information and to register, see here.
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