PEAR File_MARC 0.1.0 alpha officially released

Posted on Tue 14 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, PHP

Just a short note to let y'all know that I received the thumbs-up from my fellow PEAR developers to add File_MARC as an official PEAR package.

What does this mean? Well, assuming you have PHP 5.1+ and PEAR installed, you can now download and install File_MARC and …


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It's Hallowe'en, baby!

Posted on Thu 02 November 2006 in Family • Tagged with Amber

No candy for Amber this year... just unbearable cuteness!

Amber

Her first tooth is poking through her gums, and it was a bit of a tough process for her, but she always has lots of giggles and smiles for us.


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Belated Access 2006 notes: Saturday, Oct. 14th

Posted on Tue 31 October 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding

Final entry in publishing my own hastily jotted Access 2006 conference notes--primarily for my own purposes, but maybe it will help you indirectly find some real content relating to your field of interest at the official podcast/presentation Web site for Access 2006. Contents include:


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Getting the Goods: Libraries and the Last Mile

Posted on Fri 20 October 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding

In my continuing series of publishing my Access 2006 notes, Roy Tennant's keynote on finishing the task of connecting our users to the information they need is something to which every librarian should pay attention.

If you don't understand something I've written, there's always the podcast of Roy's talk. In …


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Serendipity (s9y) blog: Security release

Posted on Thu 19 October 2006 in misc • Tagged with PHP

Folks, if you use Serendipity, I thought you should know they just released a security update to fix an XSS issue in the administration backend. Unfortunately, s9y.org itself appears to be very ill at the moment: I kept getting 500 - Internal Server Error.

However, the new release with the …


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Access 2006 notes: October 12

Posted on Thu 19 October 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding

My continuing summaries from Access 2006. Thursday, October 12th was the first "normal" day of the conference featuring the following presentations:


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Library Geeks in human form

Posted on Wed 18 October 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding

So, I think I read somewhere on #code4lib that Dan Chudnov, the most excellent host of the Library Geeks podcast, refused to make human-readable links to the MP3 files for the podcasts available in plain old HTML because he had bought into the stodgy old definition of podcasts (hah! "stodgy …


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Double-barreled PHP releases

Posted on Wed 18 October 2006 in PHP • Tagged with Coding, PHP

I'm the proud parent of two new releases over the past couple of days: one official PEAR release for linked list fans, and another revision of the File_MARC proposal for library geeks.

Structures_LinkedList

A few days ago marked the first official PEAR release of the Structures_LinkedList. Yes …


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Feeling sorry for our vendor

Posted on Mon 16 October 2006 in misc • Tagged with Coding

So I'm here in rainy Alabama (the weather must have followed me from Ottawa) taking a training course from our ILS vendor. I'm getting some disturbing insights into the company that are turning my general state of disbelief at the state of the system that we're paying lots of money …


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Backlog of Access 2006 notes

Posted on Mon 16 October 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding

Following on my plea for access to Access presentations, I'm in the process of posting the notes I took at the CARL instutitional repository pre-conference and Access 2006. I probably should have posted these to a wiki so that others (like the presenters) could go ahead and make corrections/additions …


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