Posted on Thu 15 March 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Python
For the past couple of days, I've been playing with Casey Durfee's code that uses Solr and Django to offer a faceted catalogue. My challenge? Turn a dense set of code focused on Dewey and Horizon ILS into a catalogue that speaks LC and Unicorn. Additionally, I want it to …
Posted on Wed 28 February 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, PHP
I gave a lightning talk at the code4lib conference today on “File_MARC for PHP” introducing the File_MARC library to anybody who hasn't already heard about it. I crammed nine slides of information into five minutes, which was hopefully enough to convince people to start using it and provide …
Posted on Fri 23 February 2007 in misc • Tagged with Personal
In a post on the priorities of Canadian academic insitutions on academics vs. sport, Ted Schmidt wrote a number of words that I agreed with, among which were:
200 spectators watching a beautifully coached University of Toronto team take on the Laurentian Voyagers in the biggest city in Canada. 200 …
Posted on Fri 16 February 2007 in Software Freedom • Tagged with Coding
Google just announced that they will start accepting applications in March for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2007. In 2006, over 100 organizations participated in the GSoC, and Google expects to have a similar number participating in 2007. There are no lack of potential open-source development projects in the …
Posted on Wed 14 February 2007 in misc • Tagged with Libraries
I made a mistake, or several mistakes, a few weeks back.
Yes, shocking to hear me admit that, I know.
Here's the set up: one night a week, I'm the LibrarianTM on reference duty. In practice, this means that I continue to sit in my office working on library …
So here's the first of two posts based on purely wild conjecture. In a lengthening chain of trackbacks, Ryan Eby mentioned Christina's observation that Springlink has started displaying Google ads, presumably to supplement their subscription and pay-per-article income. Ryan goes on to wonder:
Will vendors continue with the subscription model …
Posted on Thu 01 February 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
The second of tonight's wild conjecture-based predictions.
One of the things that I was thinking about as I was shovelling the snow off our driveway on Monday (other than yes! finally some snow... one of these days Amber is going to go rolling around in it) was the position that …
Posted on Wed 03 January 2007 in misc • Tagged with Coding, Personal, PHP
2006 was a year full of change - wonderful, exhausting change. Here's a month-by-month summary of the highlights of 2006:
Posted on Wed 03 January 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Libraries
A little over a week ago, I made the following prediction following the extremely under-the-radar press release on December 22nd that Vista Equity Partners was investing in SirsiDynix:
I'll go out on a limb and say that a merger or acquisition of SirsiDynix in 2007 is unlikely (33% confidence), but …
One of my favourite online publications, the Linux Weekly News, recently published an article called The state of PHP security. Given Stefan's departure, the great taint debate, the addition of ext/filter in 5.2.0 and all of the associated security changes in both the 5.2.x and …