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 Tue 02 October 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
I've been working on automating the delivery of electronic documents to our patrons; most of the work over the summer was spent in ensuring that we had our legal and policy bases covered. I read through the documentation for Ariel, our chosen ILL software, to ensure that everything we wanted …
Posted on Tue 02 October 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
Ooh, yes, I remember writing that now. Not about Evergreen, which has book bags and format limiters and facets and whiz-bangy unAPI goodness whose potential for causing mayhem has barely been scratched - but about Fac-Back-OPAC, the Django-and-Solr-and-Jython beast that Mike Beccaria and I picked up from Casey Durfee's scraps pile …
I returned from a week of vacation to land solidly in the middle of a discovery layer selection process -- not for our library, yet, but from a consortial perspective clearly having some impact on possible decisions for us further on down the road. As the systems librarian, I was nominated …
Posted on Wed 01 August 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
I had been getting anxious about the lack of news on the Access 2007 conference front, but just saw in my trusty RSS feed that the draft program schedule is now available. I'm already looking forward to Jessamyn West's opening keynote and Roy Tennant's closing keynote. They always bring …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …