http://www.franz.com/support Support news from Franz Inc. http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#ec2-121011 There is a new Allegro CL module which provides an interface to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) API. The new interface works on all platforms that support SSH. The new module is part of an update released in early December, 2008. 2008-12-11T22:47:00Z http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#project-enhancements-121011 The project system allow users to organize applications. Projects can contain subprojects but until now, editing subprojects from the superproject has not been supported. A recent update changes that. The update provided additional minor enhancements. 2008-12-11T22:45:00Z http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#mail-ssl-091608 SMTP support has been enhanced to allow for SSL connections and STARTTLS negotiation ('TLS' stands for Transport Layer Security and is another name for SSL.) The enhancement is implemented by allowing information to be included in the value of the mail-server argument to send-smtp, send-smtp-auth, and send-letter. 2008-09-18T19:45:00Z http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#object-editor-081208 The Class-Grid allows viewing the instances of a class, with selected slot values displayed. The Object-Editor displays information about individual instances of a class. Both allow slot values to be modified. Examples show how these tools can be used. 2008-08-12T23:58:00Z http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#ssl-081208 SSL (Secure Socket Layer) support has been enhanced to provide more control over the handshake protocol and to allow specification of the cipher to be used. 2008-08-12T23:55:00Z http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#express-062508 There is a new version of Allegro CL 8.1 Express available for download. Allegro CL Express is the free version of Allegro CL. Current users should just update their installed copy. The new version has a larger allowable heap size and the newlicense program now retrieves the initial license in addition to updating licenses. On Windows, the update.exe program now gets updates as well as (as before) updating existing images. 2008-07-01T21:45:00Z http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#agraph30-051508 Version 3.0 of AllegroGraph 64-bit RDFStore (TM) has been released. AllegroGraph is a tool for efficiently processing billions of RDF triples. Version 3.0 has numerous enhancements including support for federation, geospacial and temporal primitives, support for social networking analysis, and much more. 2008-05-20T00:50:00Z http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/?from=rss#lisp-heap-051508 Storage condition errors which indicate that the Lisp heap is unable to grow may be fixed by building an image with the locations of the Lisp and C heaps chosen in order to maximize available space. This note tells how to build such images. 2008-05-20T00:45:00Z