LCS & GBML Central Gets a New Home

Today I finished migrating the LCS & GBML Central site from its original URL (http://lcs-gbml.ncsa.uiuc.edu) to a more permanent and stable home located at http://gbml.org. The original site is already currently redirecting the trafic to the new site, and it will be doing so for a while to help people transition and update bookmarks and feed readers. I have introduced a few changes to the functionality of the original site. Functional changes can be mostly summarized by (1) dropping the forums section and (2) closing comments on posts and pages....

Jun 4, 2010 · 1 min · 208 words · Xavier Llorà

Fast REST API prototyping with Crochet and Scala

I just finished committing the last changes to Crochet and tagged version 0.1.4vcli now publicly available on GitHub (http://github.com/xllora/Crochet). Also feel free to visit the issues page in case you run into question/problems/bugs. Motivation Crochet is a light weight web framework oriented to rapid prototyping of REST APIs. If you are looking for a Rails like framework written in Scala, please take a look at Lift at http://liftweb.net/ instead. Crochet targets quick prototyping of REST APIs relying on the flexibility of the Scala language....

Jan 21, 2010 · 2 min · 375 words · Xavier Llorà

LCS & GBML Central back to production

LCS & GBML Central exploit has been fixed. The site is restored and back to fully functional. Please do not hesitate to ping me if you see something missing.

May 14, 2009 · 1 min · 29 words · Xavier Llorà

LCS & GBML Central under inspection

It is very common that NCSA machines get continual attacks over the net. Today I got a note from the security team that LCS & GBML Central may have been compromised. We are looking into it. As a precaution the automatic measures has been fired, that means, that the box is currently unroutable. Hope it can be fixed soon. I’ll keep you posted about the progress.

May 13, 2009 · 1 min · 66 words · Xavier Llorà

LCSweb + GBML blog = LCS & GBML Central

LCSweb was designed to allow researchers and those seeking to use Learning Classifier Systems within applications access to material on LCS and discussion between members of the LCS community. The site served this community since its was started by Alwyn Barry in 1997. Enhanced and maintained later by Jan Drugowitsch, LCSweb became a valuable community resource. The site was completely community-driven and allowed members to contribute to the content of the site and keeping it up to date....

Mar 27, 2009 · 2 min · 245 words · Xavier Llorà