Posted on Sun 20 May 2012 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, PostgreSQL, evergreen, postgresql
On Friday, May 18th I gave a talk at the PGCon 2012 conference on the use of PostgreSQL by the Evergreen project. My talk fell in the case study track, which meant that I had been asked to describe to PostgreSQL developers what Evergreen was, why it was a project …
Posted on Mon 30 April 2012 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
On Thursday, April 26, I was part of The State of Evergreen talk, organized by Grace Dunbar, that also included sections by the dynamic combo of Kathy Lussier, Ben Hyman, and Tara Robertson. We opened the Evergreen 2012 conference and lead into the day's featured keynote speaker Mr. Jono Bacon …
Posted on Tue 22 November 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
Preface: I'm talking to my daughter's kindergarten class tomorrow about my job. Exciting! So I prepped a little bit; it will probably go entirely different, but here's how it's going to go in my mind...
My name is Dan Scott. I’m Amber’s dad. I’m a systems librarian …
Posted on Thu 08 September 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, evergreen
One of the relatively frequent questions that I run into with Evergreen is "Does Evergreen have an academic reserves module?" And the answer is: well, yes, and no. There is no official academic reserves module that is part of the standard Evergreen package that you download and install from http …
Posted on Thu 02 June 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Back in early May, I was in San Francisco for Google I/O. I had booked an extra day with the hopes of either doing some site-seeing or meeting up with the OpenLibrary team. After firing off an email to find out if anyone there was interested on working on …
Posted on Mon 23 May 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
If you have been through an Evergreen upgrade, you know that the days after the upgrade can be painful. Users complain that the catalogue doesn't work right, there are mysterious glitches that happen on some machines and not others (even though the browser and operating systems are identical on each …
On the subject of the new Google Books API that was unveiled during the Google IO 2011 conference last week, Jonathan Rochkind states:
Once you have an API key, it can keep track of # requests for that key — it’s not clear to me if they rate limit you, and …
Posted on Fri 29 April 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I'm at the Evergreen 2011 conference in balmy Decatur, Georgia... which wasn't a sure thing yesterday, given that the day started with an eight hour delay at the Sudbury airport due to fog - not to mention having to fly through the storm that spawn a tornado in Alabama. After all …
Posted on Mon 14 March 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
tldr version: the Evergreen project now has a continuous integration server and build farm and needs testcases to make the best use of that infrastructure to help us provide higher-quality releases in the future.
Back in November 2009, Evergreen developer Shawn Boyette launched the Evergreen buildbot - a …
Posted on Fri 04 March 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
In the past couple of days, two people have written me email essentially saying: "Dan, this File_MARC library sounds great - but I can't figure out how to create a record from scratch with it! Can you please help me?"
Yes, when you're dealing with MARC, you'll quickly get all …