[bknr-devel] Lisp web development book proposal for O'Reilly

[Vladimir Sedach]

Hi,

At ILC 2009, O'Reilly Media released a statement that they were
soliciting proposals for books about Lisp. This is a reversal of their
previous policy that explicitly stated that they were not interested
in publishing Lisp books. I'm planning to put together a proposal for
a book about web development in Lisp and am looking for contributors.

Here is the description of the project:

The book is going to be the "Lisp Web Development Cookbook," with many
authors contributing chapters/recipes. It makes sense to break it down
into several larger sections, for example one on using frameworks and
Hunchentoot, one on generating and transforming JavaScript, one on CPS
transformer tools, and a section on Clojure, and possibly Scheme. The
focus is going to be on advice and techniques from people who have
built public or commercial web systems in Lisp, and to demonstrate
Lisp techniques that aren't possible using other tools.

I want this book to really show how Lisp can be used to build up
abstractions to program in the problem domain directly in ways that
are not possible in other languages, with techniques and examples from
real-world Lisp web systems.

If you are interested in contributing a chapter or recipe (doesn't
matter how short it is, half a page is ok if it does something cool),
please let me know what you'd like to write about. If you know someone
who might be interested in contributing, please pass this on.

I'm going to be soliciting potential contributors for the next two
weeks. Once I have a list of prospective contributors, I'll put
together a list of the subjects covered and an outline of the sections
of the book, and send a proposal to O'Reilly.

Thank you,
Vladimir Sedach