Posted on Thu 28 January 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Given the the awards that Project Conifer will be presented with at the OLA SuperConference, this might be a good opportunity to mention the Customizing and Extending Evergreen: a guide for geeks workshop that I'll be giving on Wednesday, February 24th. The workshop description promises:
Together, we will break OpenSRF …
Posted on Thu 28 January 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
The Ontario Library Association (OLA) announced its 2010 OLA and OLA Divisional Award winners today, and to my great surprise Project Conifer was named the winner of two awards:
Marshall Breeding published the results of his 2009 International Survey of Library Automation a few days ago. Juicy stuff, with averages, medians, and modes for the negative/positive responses on a variety of ILS and vendor-related questions, and some written comments from the respondents. One would expect the library geek …
The next time you bash your brains against autotools for a while wondering why your perfectly good PKG_CHECK_MODULES() macro, as cut and paste directly from the recommended configure.ac entry for the package you're trying to integrate (in this case libmemcached), and you get the error message PKG …
Posted on Wed 09 December 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
C# isn't in my go-to list of programming languages, but I can understand why others would be interested in developing applications in C#. So it's good news to the C# community of library developers (it would be interesting to find out how many of you are out there) that there …
Posted on Tue 17 November 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2010-05-31 Running through the process again, I found a few typos in the pg_dump commands, so I fixed those up.
I'm working on a project to compare our electronic journal holdings with our print journal holdings. This is probably a task …
Posted on Tue 10 November 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
There must be other people who have much more intelligent things than me with the TXT dump of SFX holdings that you can generate via the Web administration interface, but as I've gone through this process at least twice and rediscovered it each time, perhaps I'll save myself an hour …
Posted on Tue 10 November 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2009-11-24 James Forrester of the Ontario Academy of Art and Design has posted a short video (Internet Archive) of the presentation. Thanks, James!
On Friday, October 30th, I presented a status update on Project Conifer at the Free Software Open Source Symposium (FSOSS). This was a follow-up to the …
Dear Dan:
You felt pretty pleased with yourself for jumping on the latest Ubuntu release back in the alpha stages on your virtual machine, then having it running on your laptop and Lynn's Asus EEE 701 the day after the final release came out.
But did you ever have to …
Posted on Fri 30 October 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update 2009-11-24 Robert Soulliere has also made the videos available via the Internet Archive - thanks again, Robert!
Update 2009-11-09 As promised, Robert Soulliere has posted the video recordings he made of the workshop - thanks, Robert!
Yesterday, I lead a three-hour Evergreen development workshop at the Free Software Open Source Symposium …