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The newlisp modules, including web.lsp, are now being maintained actively by Kanen Flowers on github. Thank you, Kanen. I have not had much time to work on any personal projects between family and work, so I appreciate his stewardship tremendously. You can check out his site at ScruffyThinking.com. Submit article

Vim has the potential to dramatically increase a programmer’s productivity if you have the time and wherewithal to learn it. And it is a challenge to learn because it is unlike any other text editor (leaving aside other vi clones). It takes work not only to learn the editor’s features and commands, but also to train yourself to use them effectively. Even experienced vim users will discover new, exciting features from time to time. And that is what makes Hacking Vim a real treat. It takes you on a brief tour of some of the coolest features of vim without getting bogged down in any one of them.

Just a few updates and some new projects. newLISP modules A Google Code project has been created for my newLISP modules. Anyone who would like to contribute is welcome. It can be found at http://code.google.com/p/actools-newlisp/. Phorms The Phorms library also has a Google Project page, located at http://code.google.com/p/php-phorms/. Contributions, as always, are welcome. PHP Pipeline [...]

One problem from which newLISP suffers is the lack of a really useful library for web-based applications. The official CGI module has serious enough problems to justify an entirely new library. After some thought, I decided moreover that the request and response modules that I designed were neither practical nor sufficient. To that end, I have designed a new, monolithic library to provide the essential functionality required for web programming

Thanks to Andrew Pennebaker for pointing out where the decoder was broken. This update includes a complete rewrite of the JSON decoder. It is now slightly more forgiving and much more accurate. You can download it here or upgrade using nl-install. Submit article