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http://lispdoc.com/ http://lispdoc.com/ Lispdoc, a search engine for Common Lisp documentation, is always going to be about as niche as a site can get. But it

http://lispdoc.com/ http://lispdoc.com/ Lispdoc, a search engine for Common Lisp documentation, is always going to be about as niche as a site can get. But it gives me something to hone my skills on and stops my brain from turning to mush while I wait for my Green Card. I've been putting some more effort into it recently. I'd be interested to know if people here have suggestions for what I could improve. Please feel free to consider no nit too small to pick. Some stats: Lispdoc responds to around 3000 searches per day on average. Its Google page-rank is 4/10 Alexa rank is 568,856 (three weeks ago it was 1,130,856. current 1 wk avg is 228,583) A Google search for 'lisp documentation' puts lispdoc in 7th place.

gibsonf1 20y ago
That is a sweet site. How did you make it? (Just the basic tech infrastructure)
- abstractbill 20y ago
  Thanks! I used the Hunchentoot web server, running on SBCL on an Ubuntu server (1GHz Athlon, 1GB ram, residential cable connection). The data-sources are html files, which are sucked into memory when lispdoc starts up. The various indexes are kept as hash-tables in memory - there's no need for a database since everything fits in ram.
  - gibsonf1 20y ago
    What is your experience with Hunchentoot so far? It sounds pretty impressive from the specs.
    - abstractbill 20y ago
      Hunchentoot is awesome - very comprehensive and very easy to work with. Web development has never been so easy (before I switched I was using Araneida for most things, and mod_lisp for a few others). I can't say I've tested it with huge loads, but it's been very stable so far.
nick_a 20y ago
hey bill :-) "I've been putting some more effort into it recently. I'd be interested to know if people here have suggestions for what I could improve. Please feel free to consider no nit too small to pick." cltl2? lispdoc is a great resource, btw
- abstractbill 20y ago
  hey nick, cltl2 is definitely a good idea - in fact I think that's what I should do next for sure. Thanks!
nick_a 20y ago
I have this in my .emacs file so I can easily search lispdoc from within emacs http://paste.lisp.org/display/40846 http://paste.lisp.org/display/40846

gibsonf1 20y ago

That is a sweet site. How did you make it? (Just the basic tech infrastructure)

abstractbill 20y ago
Thanks! I used the Hunchentoot web server, running on SBCL on an Ubuntu server (1GHz Athlon, 1GB ram, residential cable connection). The data-sources are html files, which are sucked into memory when lispdoc starts up. The various indexes are kept as hash-tables in memory - there's no need for a database since everything fits in ram.
- gibsonf1 20y ago
  What is your experience with Hunchentoot so far? It sounds pretty impressive from the specs.
  - abstractbill 20y ago
    Hunchentoot is awesome - very comprehensive and very easy to work with. Web development has never been so easy (before I switched I was using Araneida for most things, and mod_lisp for a few others). I can't say I've tested it with huge loads, but it's been very stable so far.

nick_a 20y ago

hey bill :-) "I've been putting some more effort into it recently. I'd be interested to know if people here have suggestions for what I could improve. Please feel free to consider no nit too small to pick." cltl2? lispdoc is a great resource, btw

abstractbill 20y ago
hey nick, cltl2 is definitely a good idea - in fact I think that's what I should do next for sure. Thanks!

nick_a 20y ago

I have this in my .emacs file so I can easily search lispdoc from within emacs http://paste.lisp.org/display/40846 http://paste.lisp.org/display/40846