Posted on Sun 22 April 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Due to a sad event, Art Rhyno asked me to be his co-presenter at the OLITA Digital Odyssey 2007. Our broad subject was Evergreen, more specifically introducing the Evergreen ILS to an audience that was aware of Evergreen's existence but wanted to know more about it from both a technical …
Posted on Wed 18 April 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Many of you know that I have been working on step-by-step instructions for installing Evergreen on Gentoo on the official Evergreen documentation wiki. At the same time, I have been working on using that documentation to create a VMWare image of Evergreen -- this avocation dates all the way back to …
Posted on Thu 15 March 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Python
For the past couple of days, I've been playing with Casey Durfee's code that uses Solr and Django to offer a faceted catalogue. My challenge? Turn a dense set of code focused on Dewey and Horizon ILS into a catalogue that speaks LC and Unicorn. Additionally, I want it to …
Posted on Wed 28 February 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, PHP
I gave a lightning talk at the code4lib conference today on “File_MARC for PHP” introducing the File_MARC library to anybody who hasn't already heard about it. I crammed nine slides of information into five minutes, which was hopefully enough to convince people to start using it and provide …
Posted on Thu 01 February 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
The second of tonight's wild conjecture-based predictions.
One of the things that I was thinking about as I was shovelling the snow off our driveway on Monday (other than yes! finally some snow... one of these days Amber is going to go rolling around in it) was the position that …
Posted on Wed 03 January 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Libraries
A little over a week ago, I made the following prediction following the extremely under-the-radar press release on December 22nd that Vista Equity Partners was investing in SirsiDynix:
I'll go out on a limb and say that a merger or acquisition of SirsiDynix in 2007 is unlikely (33% confidence), but …
Posted on Fri 17 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I managed to corner Mike Rylander after Brad Lajeunesse waved his hands in surrender and offered Mike up as a sacrifice to my questions about Evergreen's support for internationalization. If you're travelling to Canada to tout a piece of (or multiple components of) software, you can be sure that somebody …
Posted on Fri 17 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
After the Future of the ILS Symposium wrapped up, Beth Jefferson walked some of us through the current state of the BiblioCommons mocked-up Web UI for public library catalogs; the project grew out of a youth literacy project designed to encourage kids to read through the same sort of social …
Posted on Fri 17 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
I headed down to Windsor early on Tuesday morning for the Future of the ILS Symposium hosted by the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor. It was a good thing I decided to take the 12 hours of bus + train approach to getting there, as Sudbury's airport was completely …
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 …