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June 20, 2006

We Have Lift Off!

As we've been hinting on the blog our current project has been close to delivery. Truth is, once we got a new server set up the deadline passed without incident. We've been waiting a few days to ensure there are no problems, but it's been long enough so we're now happy to announce the project is complete.

This work has been done for the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. We have implemented a preregistration system for them: a website by which students can be registered for courses and modules, replacing a tedious and error-prone manual system. Unfortunately there is no publically available front-end so we can't show off our work. However we have a few projects that should be completed in the next months that will have publically visible components.

The whole site runs on PLT Scheme, with SQLite for the database. This is, to our knowledge, the first large site to run the PLT Scheme web server continuously for any length of time. Over the next few days we'll provide a few more details about the more intricate parts of our setup so other intrepid pioneers can learn from our work.

Posted by Noel at June 20, 2006 08:48 PM

Comments

cool, man! good work! :D

Posted by: rmalafaia at June 22, 2006 03:44 PM

Wonderful! After it has been running for a bit, I'd love to hear some usage details.

Posted by: Chris Dean at June 22, 2006 06:57 PM

Can you share details concerning project size (locs) and load levels (number of users, transactions per second, etc)?

Posted by: pp at June 22, 2006 08:16 PM

Congrats! I think this is very much what the Scheme community need. Good tools and success stories! :-)

Posted by: Paulo Matos at June 22, 2006 09:35 PM

Out of curiosity, what do you count as a "large site"? Because I've got a decent claim at prior art if your bar's set low enough: the psychology studies I did used the PLT Scheme web server, and they had 70 users and 270 users, respectively, and the latter got hammered considerably harder than that for a couple-week period. (I'm not sure if I've still got the logs to give you exact numbers, unfortunately.)

Posted by: Jacob Matthews at June 23, 2006 05:36 AM

Lisp and Scheme suck big time. Please use something normal such as PHP, ASP, Perl, C++ GCI, etc.

Posted by: Danger Derrick at June 23, 2006 07:39 PM