http://franz.com/support Support news from Franz Inc. http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#xml-gen010710 net-xml-generator is a new, open source XML generator module. It uses the Common Lisp pretty printer and a modified readtable to generate pretty-printed XML with intuitive indentation and line breaks. This note describes the module and provides a link to the down-loadable sources. 2010-01-07T21:30:00Z http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#ensure-comp101409 The new ensuring-compiled-body macro is described in this entry. It works like progn except it ensures the body is compiled. Doing that is not trivial. This note describes how the compilation is done in the correct environment. 2009-10-20T19:40:00Z http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#github101409 github is a public source code repository. Franz Inc. maintains a github repository (www.github.com/franzinc) as described in this item. 2009-10-20T19:30:00Z http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#ilc042109 The International Lisp Conference was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from March 22 to 25, 2009. A number of Franz people were in attendance. This Tech Corner entry is made up from the reports they sent back to Franz Inc. during the conference. 2009-04-21T23:45:00Z http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#gruff031909 Gruff is a graph-based browser for AllegroGraph. It can display various views of the data stored in an AllegroGraph set of RDF triples, including a graphical view showing links among data and a table view displaying information about specific objects. Gruff is available on Windows and Linux. A free trial version is available. 2009-03-19T18:45:00Z http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#ssoap021209 Doing even simple things in SOAP is often difficult because of SOAP's complexity. As part of a project, we wrote a Lisp program to write our interface code. This program, while specific to our project requirements, can be adapted to different needs and requirements and in any case shows how Lisp can be used to solve general programming tasks. The note includes the program and a worked out example. 2009-02-18T19:20:00Z http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#plot-widget012009 The plot-widget is a facility for creating two-dimensional plots of X/Y coordinate pairs, such as scatter plots. It can be used to present static information or to dynamically monitor information as it changes. The widget will automatically lay out its axes and other parts (according to style properties that you can modify), and can also autocompute a rounded value range that encloses all of the data values. It is now available on platforms that support Common Graphics. 2009-01-20T23:40:00Z http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#ec2-121011 There is a new Allegro CL module which provides an interface to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) API. The new interface works on all platforms that support SSH. The new module is part of an update released in early December, 2008. 2008-12-11T22:47:00Z