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.
Re:How popular can Lisp documentation be?
by nick_a on Sunday May 06, 2007 @07:49PM
(#20035)
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."
Re:How popular can Lisp documentation be?
by abstractbill on Sunday May 06, 2007 @06:00PM
(#20017)
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.
Re:How popular can Lisp documentation be?
by abstractbill on Sunday May 06, 2007 @07:27PM
(#20028)
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.
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.
http://paste.lisp.org/display/40846
"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
cltl2 is definitely a good idea - in fact I think that's what I should do next for sure. 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.
I can't say I've tested it with huge loads, but it's been very stable so far.