On the road again: Evergreen acqfest

Posted on Wed 18 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

So I'm taking off tomorrow for Atlanta to spend four days deeply immersed in discussing, designing, planning, and implementing Evergreen's acquisitions and serials support. At least that's the plan. In our spare time (heh), we're going to tackle the internationalization infrastructure as well. The spirit of the event is modelled …


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Evergreen 1.2.0-rc1 is out! And so is the Gentoo VMWare image...

Posted on Sat 07 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

So, yesterday afternoon Mike Rylander from the Evergreen (a.k.a Open-ILS) project pushed out the first release candidate of Evergreen 1.2.0. Hurrah! If you tried installing Evergreen before, but got hung up on some of the build, install, or configuration steps, I think you'll find this release …


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SNO? Bah. How about SCO?

Posted on Sun 24 June 2007 in misc • Tagged with Personal

You've heard of the SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory) before. This morning we were treated to the SCO (Sudbury Comedian Observatory) project; while walking through the Farmer's Market, Lynn spotted a familiar face at a table. It turned out that this single table had Deb McGrath, Robin Duke, Teresa Pavlinek, Jayne …


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Know your sources: Evergreen / Koha comparisons

Posted on Sun 24 June 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Correction update: 2007/06/26Wow. I am incredibly embarassed. Somehow, I made a very stupid mistake in my summary of the State Library

of Ohio ILS Options Discussion Meeting Minutes - April 24, 2007. The mistake was that I incorrectly attributed Joshua Ferraro of LibLime with making statements about Evergreen …


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Amber's first birthday

Posted on Wed 09 May 2007 in Family • Tagged with Amber

Amazing. 365.25 days have flown past and Amber is now a walking one year old featuring approximately six teeth, fuzzy / curly hair, and an extremely expressive personality. We held a party for her on her birthday and were lucky to have family and friends visit and call to share …


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Evergreen VMWare image available for download

Posted on Wed 25 April 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding

After much iteration and minor bug-squashing in my configuration, I am pleased to announce the Evergreen on Gentoo VMWare image is available for download. The download itself is approximately 500MB as a zipped image; when you unzip the image, it will require approximately 6GB of disk space. (1)

Basic instructions …


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Evergreen and the business case for choosing an open source ILS

Posted on Sun 22 April 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Due to a sad event, Art Rhyno asked me to be his co-presenter at the OLITA Digital Odyssey 2007. Our broad subject was Evergreen, more specifically introducing the Evergreen ILS to an audience that was aware of Evergreen's existence but wanted to know more about it from both a technical …


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Evergreen VMWare image -- oh so close!

Posted on Wed 18 April 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Many of you know that I have been working on step-by-step instructions for installing Evergreen on Gentoo on the official Evergreen documentation wiki. At the same time, I have been working on using that documentation to create a VMWare image of Evergreen -- this avocation dates all the way back to …


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In which I make one apology, and two lengthy explanations

Posted on Sat 31 March 2007 in misc • Tagged with Coding

I recently insulted Richard Wallis and Rob Styles of Talis by stating on Dan Chudnov's blog:

To me it felt like Talis was in full sales mode during both Richard's API talk and Rob's lightning talk

I must apologize for using the terms "sales mode" and "sales pitch" to describe …


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Milestones: walking

Posted on Sun 18 March 2007 in Family • Tagged with Amber

Our baby is growing up so fast. Near the end of February she tottered a couple of tentative steps from me to Lynn.

Last weekend, she walked right across Jason and Kelly's kitchen floor. You can see for yourself if you don't believe me!

Update:

By popular demand, I've posted …


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