I kid.  Some of my best friends are Germans!*

Weitz is mostly cool because of cl-who and hunchentoot.  As I have let slip before whilst rambling about the internets, my friend John Watson and I are hard at work on a fun project involving Common Lisp.  While he fiddles with memcached, I am working on the beginnings of our site, which we plan to build using Common Lisp to dynamically generate HTML and skin it using CSS to make it look all pretty and WEB 2.0**.

This bold plan would be a hell of a lot harder if not for Weitz, and his wonderful libraries hunchentoot and cl-who.  Weitz, self-effacing devil that he is, is quick to admit that many other Lisp markup languages exist.  And they do.  But few work so seamlessly with his major accomplishment, hunchentoot!

hunchentoot is a hilariously named*** Common Lisp webserver.  Currently running on its own right now, it is serving me the very first test pages for our site.  I am extraordinarily pleased with it so far, and cannot recommend it highly enough.

This is a pretty short update for today (lacking even a lolcat!) because I have an electrical engineering exam to study for and some work to do for my day job.  I may throw some more up later tonight, but most likely I will just collapse somewhere.  The lazy is strong with this one.







*  Patently untrue.  I only know one, whom I met twice.  He dates my girlfriend's best friend.  Regardless, he is awesome, and has raised my opinion of Germans in general.

**  Rounded corners.  Lots of rounded corners.

***  I am forbidden from talking about it in public, due to the odd glances I have started to garner:  "Something smells fishy with hunchentoot!"