http://www.franz.com/support Support news from Franz Inc. en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:45:00 GMT Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:45:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss A Lisp Program, of course! webmaster@franz.com http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#ilc042109 urn:uuid:fc70ab7f-a06e-ca84-86c0-000e7f3016e8 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. Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:45:00 GMT http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#gruff031909 urn:uuid:c014360b-b42f-b384-703a-000e7f3016e8 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. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:45:00 GMT http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#ssoap021209 urn:uuid:a21deee5-8add-bc34-14af-000e7f3016e8 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. Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:20:00 GMT http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#plot-widget012009 urn:uuid:87330c01-fdbf-4014-ffa3-000e7f3016e8 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. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:40:00 GMT http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#ec2-121011 urn:uuid:3f6b6b61-c3ab-a674-a6d5-000e7f3016e8 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. Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:47:00 GMT http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#project-enhancements-121011 urn:uuid:3522646d-4767-4c54-a34b-000e7f3016e8 The project system allow users to organize applications. Projects can contain subprojects but until now, editing subprojects from the superproject has not been supported. A recent update changes that. The update provided additional minor enhancements. Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:45:00 GMT http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#mail-ssl-091608 urn:uuid:c61d84fd-3a75-81d4-bd18-000e7f3016e8 SMTP support has been enhanced to allow for SSL connections and STARTTLS negotiation ('TLS' stands for Transport Layer Security and is another name for SSL.) The enhancement is implemented by allowing information to be included in the value of the mail-server argument to send-smtp, send-smtp-auth, and send-letter. Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:45:00 GMT http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#object-editor-081208 urn:uuid:518b42d8-52b0-1d24-de8c-000e7f3016e8 The Class-Grid allows viewing the instances of a class, with selected slot values displayed. The Object-Editor displays information about individual instances of a class. Both allow slot values to be modified. Examples show how these tools can be used. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:58:00 GMT