tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20883263079850353252011-11-28T02:02:03.077+01:00The idea behind Dragonfly is to speed up web application development with newLISP.Hiltihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02075299162981313559noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088326307985035325.post-11269096045683558002009-11-06T11:34:00.004+01:002009-11-06T11:39:13.072+01:00It's been a long time since my last post, but I think it was worth. The Dragonfly project now got two core members. Greg Slepak contributed a lot of code, especially did some great routing stuff in the core.<div><br /></div><div>Dragonfly is now more flexible than before, needs less memory and is blazing fast! That's why we call it a major upgrade.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It's Dragonfly version 0.50 and it's <a href="http://www.rundragonfly.com">new home runDragonfly.com</a></span></b></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2088326307985035325-1126909604568355800?l=dragonfly-newlisp.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hiltihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02075299162981313559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088326307985035325.post-14759105077197568962009-08-15T12:59:00.006+02:002009-08-15T13:08:36.177+02:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CFrdlmy-B-I/SoaVmAk5BaI/AAAAAAAAAH8/le4GbZ-qbvU/s1600-h/Bild+3.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 39px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CFrdlmy-B-I/SoaVmAk5BaI/AAAAAAAAAH8/le4GbZ-qbvU/s400/Bild+3.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370144085908194722" /></a>The current version autodetects an iPhone. Look at this extract of my HTML head section.<div><br /></div><div>It's very easy to use - just call (Dragonfly:autoload-css) in Your view, in my case it's a partial view.</div><div><br /></div><div>E.g.: (Dragonfly:autoload-css "screen" "/css/screen.css" "/css/iphone.css")</div><div><br /></div><div>The function is called "autoload-css", the following parameter is used for writing a css screen TAG and then just specify two locations for Your stylesheets. One css for the iPhone users and another one for any other device.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly-newlisp/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Get Dragonfly version 0.19 now!</b></span></a></div><div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2088326307985035325-1475910507719756896?l=dragonfly-newlisp.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hiltihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02075299162981313559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088326307985035325.post-83807950294391259282009-07-25T11:26:00.002+02:002009-07-25T11:30:39.024+02:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CFrdlmy-B-I/SmrQGIPBE2I/AAAAAAAAAH0/Ece94VoTE74/s1600-h/Bild+3.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 253px; height: 245px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CFrdlmy-B-I/SmrQGIPBE2I/AAAAAAAAAH0/Ece94VoTE74/s400/Bild+3.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362327110046258018" /></a>Dragonfly 0.17 provides some cool functions for auto-loading modules and custom helpers. Just put them into the specified directories "helpers-active" or "modules-active" and Dragonfly loads them on startup.<div><br /></div><div>This way the Dragonfly web framework keeps small and efficient. You just load what You need.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly-newlisp/downloads/list">Download it now and have fun!</a><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2088326307985035325-8380795029439125928?l=dragonfly-newlisp.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hiltihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02075299162981313559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088326307985035325.post-60429490527999480762009-07-24T18:17:00.003+02:002009-07-24T18:21:54.057+02:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CFrdlmy-B-I/Smnen5R_49I/AAAAAAAAAHk/sBM2lJ5WkpU/s1600-h/Bild+1.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CFrdlmy-B-I/Smnen5R_49I/AAAAAAAAAHk/sBM2lJ5WkpU/s400/Bild+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362061608333861842" /></a>In the previous post I wrote about the speed of newLISP. Well - I also love the memory consumption of it. Look at this image: 129 KB of memory.<div><br /></div><div>Connecting two Commodore C64 via a serial cable and we'll use them as a newLISP server. ;-)</div><div><br /></div><div>Currently I'm doing a lot of work on connecting Dragonfly with c<a href="http://unbalanced-parentheses.nfshost.com/simpledatabasesecondattempt">ormullions newLISP Database</a>. It's a flat file database, seems as fast as SQLite and easy to use.</div><div><br /></div><div>Have fun testing out Dragonfly 0.15</div><div><br /></div><div>P.S.</div><div><a href="http://unbalanced-parentheses.nfshost.com/">One blog is running Dragonfly - check it out!</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2088326307985035325-6042949052799948076?l=dragonfly-newlisp.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hiltihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02075299162981313559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088326307985035325.post-89586870970868888022009-07-09T18:22:00.003+02:002009-07-09T18:29:15.277+02:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CFrdlmy-B-I/SlYZfEHzm_I/AAAAAAAAAHc/kEK85rccpAE/s1600-h/Bild+3.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 196px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CFrdlmy-B-I/SlYZfEHzm_I/AAAAAAAAAHc/kEK85rccpAE/s400/Bild+3.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356496828276906994" /></a>Dragonfly rendered this page in 2 milliseconds on a shared host, because it's running newLISP!<div><br /></div><div>Dragonfly version 0.10 is coming soon with new features - check out the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly-newlisp/">Google Code</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2088326307985035325-8958687097086888802?l=dragonfly-newlisp.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hiltihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02075299162981313559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088326307985035325.post-88977615572326994642009-06-26T22:18:00.003+02:002009-06-26T22:24:19.413+02:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CFrdlmy-B-I/SkUuDK0lmvI/AAAAAAAAAHU/cbVZMG0Cs7c/s1600-h/Bild+2.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 297px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CFrdlmy-B-I/SkUuDK0lmvI/AAAAAAAAAHU/cbVZMG0Cs7c/s320/Bild+2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351734364179110642" /></a>Dragonfly's twitter search function.<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CFrdlmy-B-I/SkUtUqcxBXI/AAAAAAAAAHM/or9f8-C5xQk/s1600-h/Bild+3.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CFrdlmy-B-I/SkUtUqcxBXI/AAAAAAAAAHM/or9f8-C5xQk/s320/Bild+3.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351733565215278450" /></a>Table generation by lists is almost final.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2088326307985035325-8897761557232699464?l=dragonfly-newlisp.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hiltihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02075299162981313559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088326307985035325.post-15843921675175728892009-06-22T08:46:00.002+02:002009-06-22T08:52:13.289+02:00Currently I'm working on the Dragonfly table functions. It's going to work like that<div><br /></div><div><div><i>(Dragonfly:table_open (list "This" "is" "pretty" "cool"))</i></div><div><i>(Dragonfly:table_footer "You can do cool things with lists.")</i></div><div><i>(Dragonfly:table_data (list "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6" "7" "8") )</i></div><div><i>(Dragonfly:table_close)</i></div><div><br /></div><div>The first line opens the table with a table-head definition. </div><div><br /></div><div>Next it defines the table footer, e.g. a short summary about your tables data. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then (hopefully) the magic begins: we pass a list containing all elements of the table. The function <i>table_data</i> will split this list into appropiate rows and columns, from left to right and top to down.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally a <i>table_close</i> will do the rest :-)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2088326307985035325-1584392167517572889?l=dragonfly-newlisp.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hiltihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02075299162981313559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088326307985035325.post-48881465225789408362009-06-19T13:59:00.001+02:002009-06-19T14:00:16.187+02:00<span><span>Please nominate newLISP here.</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2088326307985035325-4888146522578940836?l=dragonfly-newlisp.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hiltihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02075299162981313559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088326307985035325.post-26925096973549718342009-06-19T13:36:00.000+02:002009-06-19T13:44:58.932+02:00This is the official blog to Dragonfly - a newLISP web framework.<div><br /></div><div>I started this small web framework after reading about a web-based library from Jeff from <a href="http://www.artfulcode.net/">artfulcode.net</a></div><div><br /></div><div>His library includes a base of cool functions for writing web-based applications with newLISP. </div><div><br /></div><div>Dragonfly aimed to be an extension to his library. You'll find my first approach (code thoughts) in <a href="http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly-newlisp/">Google Code</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2088326307985035325-2692509697354971834?l=dragonfly-newlisp.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hiltihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02075299162981313559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088326307985035325.post-52247825928914050052009-06-17T11:49:00.000+02:002009-06-19T14:13:08.830+02:00<div>newLISP is a Lisp-like, general-purpose scripting language. It has all the magic of traditional Lisp but is easier to learn and use. newLISP is friendly, fast, and small. Most of the functions you will ever need are already built in. newLISP runs on most OS platforms.</div><div><br /></div><div>newLISP is developed by Lutz Mueller. <a href="http://www.newlisp.org">Get the fun back to programming!</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2088326307985035325-5224782592891405005?l=dragonfly-newlisp.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hiltihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02075299162981313559noreply@blogger.com0