I'm here! Not working on any project at this time, but have been working on my CL skills. Have a rough but working podcast aggregator, but it needs some polish before I can make it available for comment.
I actually had to change the design a bit. While I managed to use some libraries to pass the RSS file, I found there are a *lot* of badly formed RSS feeds out there. In the end, I dropped using an xml parser to extract the enclosure information in favor of just using PPCRE - this is workinig quite well, but additional error handling is required and its a bit harder to extract some of the useful info which was readily available with a full XML parsing of the RSS file. My current plan is to have it first attempt to parse the RSS file as XML and then if that fails, fall back to a regexp processing of the file. So far, the system doesn't use any implementation extensions. I'm using the http client functions from aserve to retrieve the content, ppcre and one of either x-xml, xmls or cxml, not decided which yet. Once it is working well as a 'command line" utility, the plan is to do a simple LTK GUI interface. However, GUIs are not my strong point and personally, I prefer command line as it easily allows incorporation into other things such as scripts and cron jobs etc. For work, I'm about to start on a fairly large identity and access management project for the University I work at. The project is quite large and will involve a number of different technologies, probably including things like SAML, LDAP, AD, some sort of federated identity support, meta-directory etc. I'm hoping to be able to use a bit o CL for some of the prototyping and more experimental aspects of what we are planning, but as yet, this is just a vague notion. Tim _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
