I forked the cl-web-utils and oauth2 libraries and started work on a Twilio API.

You can check out the whole project here: https://gitorious.org/om-web-pack

As a change of pace I'm using LispWorks Personal Edition in Windows 7 (64-bit). I've already encountered a compilation error in cl-web-utils. It has to do with the helpers file which has some useful macros and functions, however most of them don't seem to be used and I feel like some of them can be inlined or replaced with functions from Alexandria or another library. We'll see what happens with that.

The changes I'm making to oauth2 are mostly improving the examples and documentation and testing it with a few more APIs like Twilio.

Since I got an ACM subscription, I have been interested in knowing what research papers have practical implications for web developers. There was a blog post by Ted Dziuba that blasted the hype surrounding Node.js, calling it a cancer on the developer community and suggesting that the performance is sub-par and the language used, JavaScript, contains flaws as bad as those found in PHP. He did a micro-benchmark and the amount of requests that Node.js could handle with the simplest function and with a modest load was tiny.