Re: Lisp user group culture

Robert Uhl wrote:
Well, you already known about the various free implementations, and see
my other post regarding web servers and HTML generation. CLSQL does a
pretty decent job interfacing with databases. Not certain what you mean
by image manipulation, but there are libraries for creating images, and
no doubt for editing/inspecting them as well.

Interfacing with Imagemagick would be sufficient. Actually, for my current needs, simply being able to invoke Imagemagick's convert command from within Lisp (e.g. backtick in Perl or Ruby) would be fine. I noticed a couple Imagemagick libs on the cliki.

Text manipulation is
simply handling strings, or see my post re. CL-PPCRE for regular
expressions if that's what you mean.

Yes, I believe CL_PPCRE would do nicely.

Authentication and encryption in a
web app should be handled by the webserver, no?

Some REST folks would say yes wrt having the web server handle authentication, I prefer to have the app handle it. The web server will handle encryption of traffic via SSL, but I need to encrypt data in the database, so a robust library for handling AES, SHA and other acronyms would be great. Ironclad seems to be the only thing providing AES on the cliki.

But if not, libraries
exist for encryption--simple authentication is too easy to worry about
(hash table of user names and passwords, no?).

Sure, add a pinch of salt and hash...

For packaging &
deployment see ASDF and ASDF-INSTALL.

I meant remote deployment - something like capistrano. Not a big deal, but would make things easier to update remote hosts with new code.

No idea about credit card
processing. You shouldn't need to worry about sockets when writing a
web app (that's for the web framework or Apache to handle),

On rare occasions, the web app needs to make requests on a socket.

but
obviously socket support is there. Not certain what you mean by 'web
service protocols.'

XML-RPC, SOAP (ugh!)


Hope my notes are useful to you.

Thanks
.

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