Posted on Sat 14 August 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, PHP
I've just released the PHP PEAR library File_MARC 0.6.0. This release brings two JSON serialization output methods for MARC to the table:
Posted on Mon 09 August 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
As a librarian who works at a library that primarily uses the Library of Congress classification scheme, I have been interested for a long time in teaching Evergreen to be aware of call number schemes other than Dewey. The problem, in a nutshell, is that Evergreen simply applies an alphabetical …
Posted on Mon 19 July 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
As part of the informal partnership between the International Institute of Social History (IISH) and Project Conifer, I was pleased to be able to spend the last two weeks in Amsterdam, working side-by-side with one of the Institute's developers, Ole Kerpel, on augmenting the support for MARC21 authorities in Evergreen …
Posted on Fri 02 July 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
As an Evergreen developer, I believe our project has a few significant gaps that projects like RSCEL might be able to help address for the overall good of the community by bringing in outside resources to the project. Or perhaps there are skills within the community that don't feel like …
Posted on Fri 02 July 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Occasionally I drop down to the database level to generate some reporting information. You could probably get the same information through the reporter but I like the precision of SQL. Here are a couple of queries that I've put together recently.
Posted on Sun 27 June 2010 in Software Freedom • Tagged with Android, FSOSS
This conversation on identi.ca has prompted me to publish the rough notes I had prepared for a proposed discussion on making the Android operating system experience more free-as-in-freedom at the Google I/O 2010 Conference Bootcamp "unconference". Unfortunately, my proposal was not one of the top vote-getters (it missed …
Posted on Tue 22 June 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Many of you have undoubtedly seen previous drafts of this article as I worked on it over the past three or four months, but I'm pleased to say that the Easing Gently into OpenSRF article has now been officially published by the code4lib Journal. The goal of the article is …
Posted on Fri 28 May 2010 in misc • Tagged with Android, Python
Update 2017-10-18: linked to gitlab instead of gitorious; thanks Petter Reinholdtsen!
I'm one of those people who actually keeps different passwords for every site and service I use. So far I'm up to over 400 passwords, so I'm dependent on a password manager. For a long, long time I have …
Posted on Thu 27 May 2010 in misc
I migrated from Ubuntu Karmic to Ubuntu Lucid a few weeks ago, but am looking to make the jump either to Debian Squeeze or Fedora. I haven't used Fedora for ages, so I thought I would give the latest release (Fedora 13 "Goddard") a try. I wanted to use a …
Posted on Sun 16 May 2010 in Software Freedom • Tagged with Android
For some reason, I keep having trouble finding this handy free-as-in-freedom list of Android applications when searching Google. So if I blog it for myself, I know I'll be able to track it down easily in the future. I'm sure there are more applications to add to that wiki, by …