Over the past few months, I've been fortunate enough to participate in a few events that have been recorded and made available on the 'net for your perpetual amusement. Well - amusing if you're a special sort of person. Following are the three latest such adventures, in chronological order:
Okay, this is definitely a lame thing to be thinking about at midnight on a Saturday, but I was just playing with the shelf browser in the Evergreen representation of our 780,000 bibliographic records (okay, that is definitely the wrong thing to be doing at midnight on a Saturday …
Ramping up
This year, we hosted a small party focusing on the little ones in Amber's life: a few of her friends from day care, and a friend from up the street.
The amazing cat cake
Lynn used the same carrot cake recipe as last year (nice and …
Posted on Thu 10 April 2008 in misc • Tagged with Coding, Evergreen
Occasionally on the #OpenILS-Evergreen IRC channel, a question comes up what kind of hardware a site should buy if they're getting serious about trying out Evergreen. I had exactly the same chat with Mike Rylander back in December, so I thought it might be useful to share the strategy we …
Hmm. I think I'm in trouble if the support site itself is incapable of displaying accented characters properly.
Corrupted characters in a problem report about corrupted characters. Oh dear.
My analysis of the problem is that the content in the middle is contained within a frame, and is actually encoded …
Posted on Thu 17 January 2008 in misc • Tagged with Coding, PHP
PHP is getting a native doubly-linked list structure. This is fabulous news; when I wrote the File_MARC PEAR package, I ended up having to implement a linked list class in PEAR to support it. File_MARC does its job today (even though I haven't taken it out of alpha …
Posted on Wed 09 January 2008 in misc • Tagged with Personal
We don't watch a lot of TV; maybe four hours a week. But we noticed in the past year or two that a few of the shows we enjoy have muddy soundtracks due to speech being mixed over top of background music and various sound effects that makes the words …
Posted on Tue 08 January 2008 in misc • Tagged with Evergreen
My employer, Laurentian University, issued a press release today announcing that we have selected Evergreen as our future library system. I wrote more about this on the Evergreen blog, but what I didn't say was ... yay!
We still have a long road ahead of us, but knowing that we'll be …
What a night. I upgraded Serendipity, DokuWiki, Drupal, involving four different servers and three different Linux distros, and shifted one application from one server to another (with seamless redirects from the old server to the new) with close to no downtime. I think this is the first time I've completed …
Posted on Fri 16 November 2007 in misc • Tagged with Evergreen
Wow. Eileen R. Kontrovitz, a board member of CODI (Customers of Dynix, Inc.) wrote, as part of her summary of the recent CODI conference:
Many very nice things happened at the conference but the buzz, the thing everyone who was not there wants to hear about is the unannounced, invitation …
