Posted on Thu 28 February 2008 in Databases • Tagged with Coding
Well, the talk about CouchDB (an open-source document database similar in concept to Lotus Notes, but with a RESTful API and JSON as an interchange format) wasn't as much of a train wreck as it could have been. I learned a lot putting it together, and had some fun with …
Posted on Tue 26 February 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Yesterday morning we (Bill Erickson, Sally Murphy aka "Murph", and I ran an Evergreen workshop (rough agenda, presentation, and links to associated resources from that page) for the code4lib 2008 preconference session. My personal goals were:
Posted on Sat 02 February 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Well, despite getting less than four hours of broken sleep before my 9:00 am presentation, I think I successfully delivered an update on Evergreen:State of the Open ILS to approximately 45 people at the OLA Super Conference today. There were some great questions from the audience that kept …
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 …
Posted on Tue 06 November 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
Hey folks, if you're interested in working at Laurentian University, we've got a couple of tenure-track positions looking for qualified people who can stand the thought of working with me... (nothing like narrowing the field dramatically, ah well). The following position descriptions are straight out of the Employment Vacancies page …
Posted on Fri 12 October 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
This is slightly in advance of our official press release, which is currently in translation, but I will be giving / have given a lightning talk at Access 2007 on this subject and have decided to make the following materials available: