LTk at the ILC09

One highlight was taking part at this years ILC which took place in Cambridge MA. The ILC had a full day of tutorials on Sunday and I was happy to be accepted with a tutorial about LTk. Full four hours were allocated, so plenty of time to talk. Actually a frightening large amount of time to talk and to prepare. 

There were several parallel tutorial sessions on that day, especially the Clojure talk was very well filled (I have to confess, I left it only as I had to attend my own talk...). So my audience endet up a bit on the small side, but that also meant that the talk turned out to be very interactively. 

There were plenty of questions and contributions from the audience. So about half of the presentation was interactive with the audience and at the REPL. This is much more enjoyable than to run through a set of fixed slides. While I initially had feared only to have material for about 2 hours, at the end of the allocated time I even had skipped a few slides. I hope, the video recording of the talk becomes available for download at some time. Altogether a very enjoyable experience.

Peter

The road to 1.0

It is a long time since I posted here, but I will try to push the post frequency beyond 5/decade. The last months I have been very busy working with and at LTk :). Slowly the time comes near when a mayor new release can be published. This release should be close to what I always imagined should be the 1.0 version. 

Considering the history of LTk, 1.0 does not mean the first useful version. LTk has been used by me and many many others for years despite never hitting 1.0 as a version number. Rather, 1.0 marks a really feature-complete version. Of course, this does not mean the stop of development either.

In the next days, as time allows, I will post here about the things that happened in the LTk world recently and what the mayor things to come with the next LTk release are, so keep watching!

Peter

Ltk - the blog

Here it is: Ltk - the blog. Its my first step into blogging, but I think this might be a good additional resource for all the Ltk users and especially all out there who are not Ltk users yet.

While there is the Ltk mailing list (http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ltk-user), this block is planned to be a very accessable public announcement bord for any Ltk related news, as well as a genereal resource. So I plan to publish any "interesting" stuff for people who work with Lisp GUIs, be it Ltk tips or all other related useful things I encounter.

Peter