Posted on Sun 24 December 2006 in Family • Tagged with Amber
Okay, okay... I've heard the complaints (which have been streaming in over the past couple of weeks). The general tone is something like this:
So I've been checking this site that is dedicated to celebrating all of the wonder that is Amber, and all I've seen is a bunch of …
Sirsi Corporation merged with Dynix Corporation in June 2005. Now SirsiDynix has announced that Vista Equity Partners is investing in their company.
Let's take a look at Vista's investment philosophy:
*We invest in companies that uniquely leverage technology to deliver best-of-class products or services.*
I wonder if Vista confused "most …
Posted on Tue 12 December 2006 in Databases • Tagged with Apache Derby
A quick little note to mention the official release of Java 6. Okay, Dan, but why do you care?, you might ask. Good question, oh person-who-does-not-read-headlines.
The reason I care is that Sun chose to bundle Apache Derby in this release -- take a peek in the /db/ subdirectory of the …
I gave up on trying to get Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) to run ejabberd today; it looks like there are some fundamental issues going on between the version of erlang and the version of ejabberd that get bundled together. That was a fairly serious setback to my "Evergreen on …
Posted on Fri 17 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I managed to corner Mike Rylander after Brad Lajeunesse waved his hands in surrender and offered Mike up as a sacrifice to my questions about Evergreen's support for internationalization. If you're travelling to Canada to tout a piece of (or multiple components of) software, you can be sure that somebody …
Posted on Fri 17 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
After the Future of the ILS Symposium wrapped up, Beth Jefferson walked some of us through the current state of the BiblioCommons mocked-up Web UI for public library catalogs; the project grew out of a youth literacy project designed to encourage kids to read through the same sort of social …
Posted on Fri 17 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
I headed down to Windsor early on Tuesday morning for the Future of the ILS Symposium hosted by the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor. It was a good thing I decided to take the 12 hours of bus + train approach to getting there, as Sudbury's airport was completely …
Posted on Tue 14 November 2006 in Databases • Tagged with Apache Derby, Coding
A while back I mentioned on the DSpace-devel mailing list that I was interested in adapting DSpace to use embedded Apache Derby as the default database, rather than PostgreSQL, as a means of lowering the installation and configuration barriers involved with setting up access to an external database. I haven't …
Posted on Tue 14 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, PHP
Just a short note to let y'all know that I received the thumbs-up from my fellow PEAR developers to add File_MARC as an official PEAR package.
What does this mean? Well, assuming you have PHP 5.1+ and PEAR installed, you can now download and install File_MARC and …
Posted on Thu 02 November 2006 in Family • Tagged with Amber
No candy for Amber this year... just unbearable cuteness!
Her first tooth is poking through her gums, and it was a bit of a tough process for her, but she always has lots of giggles and smiles for us.