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I blog here on Common Lisp topics, mostly about things I encountered while building a production grade web application.
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19 Dec 2018
Hunchentoot has a built-in session handling mechanism for dealing with web server sessions. The implementation appears to be quite thorough and it complies to most of the OWASP recommendations for secure session handling. Many of its properties are easily customisable and it should be sufficient for most situations but there are some properties which can only be customised by completely replacing the session mechanism.
26 Nov 2018
When you write a comprehensive test suite you will most likely need to repeat the same set up and tear down process multiple times because a lot of the tests will test the same basic scenario in a slightly different way.
28 Aug 2017
Are you trying to get started with Common Lisp but find it difficult to make progress? People keep on saying that there are plenty free resources available online. Maybe you have even found most of them … and yet the questions remain … What is the Lisp syntax? Are there any libraries and how do I find them? Can I compile my program into a binary or are users forced to install a compiler?