Franz Tech Corner News: ILC09, Win ACL with Updates for The Next 50 Years

The Franz Tech Corner, 3/20/2009

In this issue:

1. ILC09 next week, Win Allegro CL with Updates for The Next 50 Years
2. The Gruff graph-based browser for AllegroGraph
3. AllegroGraph version 3.2 release, query optimizations & more
4. AGWebView - A Web Browser Server for AllegroGraph
5. 6th European Lisp Workshop, CFP - Deadline: April 08, 2009
6. Onward! Call for Essays - Deadline: April 20
7. 2nd European Lisp Symposium 2009 - May 27-29 Milan, Italy
8. Training Schedule

1. ILC09 next week - Win ACL with Updates for "The Next 50 Years"

Visit our display during the 2009 International Lisp Conference and
enter our contest to win a full Enterprise License to Allegro CL, with
AllegroCache, AllegroGraph, and 50 years of updates on the platform of
your choice. The winner with be announced the morning of March
25th. To enter, stop by our display at the Conference.

I'll see you in Cambridge next week.

http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2009/index

2. The Gruff graph-based browser for AllegroGraph

AllegroGraph is a persistent RDF graph database. Gruff, available on
Windows and Linux, is a grapher that displays information on data
stored in AllegroGraph in a variety of methods. There are free
downloads that allow users to try out AllegroGraph and Gruff.

For more information, see:
http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#gruff031909

3. AllegroGraph version 3.2 release, query optimizations & more

We released version 3.2 today. We are constantly working on the
performance of AllegroGraph, and this release is again faster. The
primary emphasis on this version was optimizing query performance - on
average, an order of magnitude faster. Some of the other areas with
performance improvements include RDFS++ Reasoning, get-triples,
client/server bulk loading, SPARQL, Jena and Sesame.

For a complete list of new features and improvements, see:
http://agraph.franz.com/allegrograph/

4. AGWebView - A Web Browser Server for AllegroGraph

AGWebView gives you access to your triple store data via from a Web
browser. Available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. For more
information and to download:

http://agraph.franz.com/agwebview/

5. 6th European Lisp Workshop, Call for Papers - Deadline: April 08,
2009

For details:
http://elw2009.bknr.net/home

6. Onward! Call for Essays - Deadline: April 20

An Onward! essay is a thoughtful reflection upon software-related
technology. Its goal is to help the reader to share a new insight,
engage with an argument, or wrestle with a dilemma. This year, the
conference committee is encouraging submissions from the Lisp
community. Reflections on reflection, dynamic languages, how Lisp has
affected other languages, the place for exotic (but lovable) languages
in our ecosystem, what programming is, how to create software, ... you
name it. Anything to do with software.

Onward! is co-located with OOPSLA in Orlando, Oct. 25-29, but they are
otherwise unrelated. OO is fine, but not required or even encouraged.

For more details on the essay call, and how to submit:
http://onward-conference.org/calls/foressays

7. Upcoming Conference: 2nd European Lisp Symposium 2009 - May 27-29
in Milan, Italy

The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion of all aspects of the design, implementation and
application of any of the Lisp dialects. We encourage everyone
interested in Lisp to participate.

For details:
http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/

8. Training Schedule

Allegro CL Certification Program - Basic and Intermediate courses
available. Next 3-day sessions in 2009:

- Basic, May 6, 13 and 20
- Intermediate, April 1, 8 and 15

Ask us about previously recorded programs that are available if you
are unable to attend the live course.

http://franz.com/services/classes

Make the most of your Allegro CL application by utilizing our
consulting services,

http://franz.com/services/consulting/

Lisp Jobs - http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/

For more information about other Franz products and services, please
contact your product application manager or email sales@franz.com.

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