Posted on Tue 23 February 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Hey all - if you're coming to the Evergreen developer workshop at the OLA SuperConference 2010, there's one thing you can do to prepare. As this is a hands-on workshop (how else can you learn!), I'm hoping many or most of you will have laptops. And ideally, your laptop will have …
Posted on Sat 20 February 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I've been a bit quiet for the last two weeks, ostensibly because I've been on vacation. However, much of the time I was preparing to deliver a two-day introduction to SQL for Evergreen to the good people at Bibliomation. On Wednesday I flew down to Middlebury, CT - Bibliomation central - and …
Posted on Thu 28 January 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Given the the awards that Project Conifer will be presented with at the OLA SuperConference, this might be a good opportunity to mention the Customizing and Extending Evergreen: a guide for geeks workshop that I'll be giving on Wednesday, February 24th. The workshop description promises:
Together, we will break OpenSRF …
Posted on Thu 28 January 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
The Ontario Library Association (OLA) announced its 2010 OLA and OLA Divisional Award winners today, and to my great surprise Project Conifer was named the winner of two awards:
Marshall Breeding published the results of his 2009 International Survey of Library Automation a few days ago. Juicy stuff, with averages, medians, and modes for the negative/positive responses on a variety of ILS and vendor-related questions, and some written comments from the respondents. One would expect the library geek …
The next time you bash your brains against autotools for a while wondering why your perfectly good PKG_CHECK_MODULES() macro, as cut and paste directly from the recommended configure.ac entry for the package you're trying to integrate (in this case libmemcached), and you get the error message PKG …
Posted on Wed 09 December 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
C# isn't in my go-to list of programming languages, but I can understand why others would be interested in developing applications in C#. So it's good news to the C# community of library developers (it would be interesting to find out how many of you are out there) that there …
Posted on Tue 17 November 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2010-05-31 Running through the process again, I found a few typos in the pg_dump commands, so I fixed those up.
I'm working on a project to compare our electronic journal holdings with our print journal holdings. This is probably a task …
Posted on Tue 10 November 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
There must be other people who have much more intelligent things than me with the TXT dump of SFX holdings that you can generate via the Web administration interface, but as I've gone through this process at least twice and rediscovered it each time, perhaps I'll save myself an hour …
Posted on Tue 10 November 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2009-11-24 James Forrester of the Ontario Academy of Art and Design has posted a short video (Internet Archive) of the presentation. Thanks, James!
On Friday, October 30th, I presented a status update on Project Conifer at the Free Software Open Source Symposium (FSOSS). This was a follow-up to the …