Today is the first birthday of the Common Lisp Directory!
First I want to thank all the people who have submitted
entries to it, with
special thanks to Paolo Amoroso who have submitted the
majority of them. So
thanks guys and please go on! 
As of today the CLD has 1017 entries including 522
libraries/software, 170
documents and 270 people. It also has 794 registered users.
The CLD is here: www.cl-user.net
Some bits of history:
The Common Lisp Directory started as a reaction to the
Reddit's failure to
use Common Lisp:
Reddit: Let's rewrite a better one in Common Lisp.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/
msg/c0159fbbc6496def
Then a few days later this evolved into what is now the CLD:
The Common Lisp Directory: Day 1
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/
msg/59d6bd23fc21f2f5
It is interesting to notice that one year later, it is still
the same Lisp
process that is running. The project has evolved from Linkit
to the CLD
without ever quitting the Lisp process. It has never
crashed, even though
the application and the CLOS classes have changed a lot of
times. In the
same time, I had to restart several times the Apache process
and reboot a
lot of time the 3COM firewall router in front of the server.
At the time I'm writing this, after one year and 7 days, the
same Lisp
process has served 111 977 267 HTTP requests.
For those interested, here is some information on the Common
Lisp Directory
server:
Hardware: 1GB Dual Intel Xeon 2.80GHz Debian box.
Software: Apache+mod_lisp+Lispworks 4.4.6
111 977 267 HTTP requests served by the same Lisp process
with a max at 930K
requests/day.
When I find some spare time, I will open the CLD to
modifications by anybody
but still with a validation process to avoid spam.
Improving the CLD usability would also be a good thing but
I'm not a
designer so alternative designs and/or styles are welcomed.
Any other suggestions?
Marc
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