From tonight's Kirin takeout: "You will be showered with good luck before your next birthday." Well, let's hope so anyway.

So, now that the presidential race is heating up, what, exactly does it mean to "play the race card"? The McCain camp is accusing Obama of doing this, but I don't know what this even means and everyone talks about it like it's obvious. What are they trying to say here?

This one is pretty funny:

Ok, after a couple of years... I've finally gotten around to incorporating (some of) my changes to the cl-jpeg library into the upstream sources. There's a new version (1.023) up on the common-lisp.net cl-jpeg site.

To go along with this, the latest git sources of ch-image now use cl-jpeg.asd instead of my hacked up jpeg.asd. My jpeg project will now disappear and should be replaced with the upstream sources.

I know, I know... Why on earth would you want to run CGIs from hunchentoot? Well, while it may seem counterintuitive, I've found a need for this as I want to run the gitweb cgi interface behind hunchentoot and don't feel like setting up apache as the front-end to an otherwise happy hunchentoot site (this one), so I rigged up a little CGI interface for hunchentoot.

To use, check out the hunchentoot-cgi::create-cgi-dispatcher-and-handler function.

Ok, so I've finally gotten around to moving (at least some of) my projects over to git. The good news, besides having the code in a modern version control system, is that the repos are now publicly accessible. The list of projects can be found at:

http://git.cyrusharmon.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi

SBCL recently removed the sb-ext:find-executable-in-search-path or whatever it was called function, so ch-util and ch-asdf were broken. The new ch-util and ch-asdf should fix that.

Ok, following closely on the heels of the last release, here are new releases of nuclblog, hunchentoot-vhost and hunchentoot-auth.

New features include:

• nuclblog now uses esc instead of str for textareas for editing blog entries so that, e.g., > doesn't get converted into > (thanks to Timothy Ritchey for the patch).
• the hunchentoot-vhost dispatch mechanism was simplified to remove the &optional vhost argument from dispatch functions, which means that standard hunchentoot dispatch functions can be used, allowing for the removal of create-virtual-host-folder-dispatcher-and-handler. Added the *virtual-host* special variable to replace the &optional vhost arg.
• Added some preliminary test code to hunchentoot-auth and exported some more symbols

The new releases can be found here:

• nuclblog 0.4.14
• hunchentoot-vhost 0.1.7
• hunchentoot-auth 0.0.11

Ok, a number of bugs and design flaws have been fixed. One can now be logged into multiple blogs on the same server with different user names and can log in and out of one without effecting the status of the other blogs. Also, some internal API cleanup for the blog handler functions. Oh, also the realm stuff in hunchentoot-auth was simplified and nuclblog now does a better job of keeping track of the information regarding which ports to use.

• nuclblog 0.4.12
• hunchentoot-vhost 0.1.4
• hunchentoot-auth 0.0.9