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I wrote on this topic before but the landscape has changed a lot since then.

Although Verbose is one of few logging libraries that work with threaded applications (See Comparison of Common Lisp Logging Libraries), I had some trouble getting it to work in my application.

Sometimes it may be necessary to execute an external command that takes a long time to complete, long enough that the user needs visual feedback while it is running to show that the process is still alive.

How to process sub-command style command line arguments is a question that arises more and more.

I was searching for a command line option parser that can handle git-style sub-commands and found a whole bunch of libraries.

Index of picking libraries blog series To interact with a database system from your code requires some database driver library.

Index of picking libraries blog series It may be tempting at the start of a new project to create the first database tables manually, or write SQL scripts that you run manually, especially when you first have to spend a significant amount of time on sifti…

Index of picking libraries blog series A big part of a web development framework’s value is that it pre-selects a set of common libraries.

Index of picking libraries blog series Picking a database for your web application can be surprisingly time consuming.

When you make a standalone application intended as a command line tool you may want integration tests to exercise the application through the normal command line user interface.