Posted on Thu 27 May 2010 in misc
I migrated from Ubuntu Karmic to Ubuntu Lucid a few weeks ago, but am looking to make the jump either to Debian Squeeze or Fedora. I haven't used Fedora for ages, so I thought I would give the latest release (Fedora 13 "Goddard") a try. I wanted to use a …
Posted on Sun 16 May 2010 in Software Freedom • Tagged with Android
For some reason, I keep having trouble finding this handy free-as-in-freedom list of Android applications when searching Google. So if I blog it for myself, I know I'll be able to track it down easily in the future. I'm sure there are more applications to add to that wiki, by …
Posted on Fri 23 April 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2011-04-24 Just noticed the link to the Laurentian detail file was broken - that's what I get for posting early in the morning under the influence of a cold, eh? All fixed up now, though.
This is a quick link to the updated version of the presentation (OpenOffice.org) (PDF …
Posted on Thu 22 April 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2010-04-22 16:24:56: Evidently, "in a few minutes" means tomorrow morning... avid Coffee|Code readers get the early scoop.
I'm going to give a lightning talk in a few minutes about the self-serve password reset mechanism that I added to Evergreen last month, that should see the light …
Posted on Fri 16 April 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Updated 2010-04-27: Fix corrupted characters introduced by copying from my GroupWise client. Thanks to Joe Atzberger for pointing that out.
I set up a secure SIP connection from our self-check machine to our Evergreen server located about 450km away, and thought I would put together a quick blog post on …
Posted on Wed 17 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2010-03-18 - I just realized that now that I have a separate keyword index for titles, I can assign a stronger boost in general to keywords that appear in the title for a keyword search; see update: index weight below.
One of my colleagues just asked me:
So, how does …
Posted on Wed 10 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
In June of 2009 I was moaning about how “Evergreen, by default, has no identifier index for limiting searches by ISBN / ISSN / LCCN / OCLCnum” and that “if [fixing this problem] requires work from me, it will probably be 2010 before any of it happens”. Due to some of the tools …
Posted on Fri 05 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
UPDATE 2010-03-05 I just backported Warren's patch for sorting Z39.50 servers to rel_1_6_0 (it counts as a bug fix), so expect to see it in the Evergreen 1.6.0.4 release. Yay!
In Evergreen 1.6, Z39.50 target server configuration (for copy-cataloguing targets) moves …
Posted on Thu 04 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Let's pretend your national library asked you to submit a set of records with holdings representing all of the various formats in your library system. Let's also pretend that you're really lucky and you're running Evergreen. Here's what you would do to get one example of each combination of item …
Posted on Mon 01 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
To summarize the results of the Evergreen developer workshop at the OLA SuperConference, I think things went pretty well. The primary focus this time was on the nuts and bolts of building a minimal OpenSRF service and I saw the lights go on in a number of faces as I …