Posted on Wed 11 July 2012 in misc • Tagged with Evergreen, evergreen
Continuing my path of new problem to solve = opportunity to try something new, I opted to give web.py a shot as a Web front-end for an existing script I had put together to provision users in our Evergreen library system based on their LDAP entry. The goal was to …
Posted on Wed 11 July 2012 in misc • Tagged with Evergreen, evergreen
Continuing my path of new problem to solve = opportunity to try something new, I opted to give web.py a shot as a Web front-end for an existing script I had put together to provision users in our Evergreen library system based on their LDAP entry. The goal was to …
Posted on Sun 20 May 2012 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, PostgreSQL, evergreen, postgresql
On Friday, May 18th I gave a talk at the PGCon 2012 conference on the use of PostgreSQL by the Evergreen project. My talk fell in the case study track, which meant that I had been asked to describe to PostgreSQL developers what Evergreen was, why it was a project …
Posted on Sun 20 May 2012 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, PostgreSQL, evergreen, postgresql
On Friday, May 18th I gave a talk at the PGCon 2012 conference on the use of PostgreSQL by the Evergreen project. My talk fell in the case study track, which meant that I had been asked to describe to PostgreSQL developers what Evergreen was, why it was a project …
Posted on Mon 30 April 2012 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
On Thursday, April 26, I was part of The State of Evergreen talk, organized by Grace Dunbar, that also included sections by the dynamic combo of Kathy Lussier, Ben Hyman, and Tara Robertson. We opened the Evergreen 2012 conference and lead into the day's featured keynote speaker Mr. Jono Bacon …
Posted on Mon 26 December 2011 in Software Freedom • Tagged with Evergreen, FSOSS
A few days ago I made a small donation to the Software Freedom Conservancy, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. There are many organizations to which I could have donated, and indeed Lynn and I have donated to a number of charities again this year …
Posted on Thu 08 September 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, evergreen
One of the relatively frequent questions that I run into with Evergreen is "Does Evergreen have an academic reserves module?" And the answer is: well, yes, and no. There is no official academic reserves module that is part of the standard Evergreen package that you download and install from http …
Posted on Thu 08 September 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, evergreen
One of the relatively frequent questions that I run into with Evergreen is "Does Evergreen have an academic reserves module?" And the answer is: well, yes, and no. There is no official academic reserves module that is part of the standard Evergreen package that you download and install from http …
Posted on Thu 02 June 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Back in early May, I was in San Francisco for Google I/O. I had booked an extra day with the hopes of either doing some site-seeing or meeting up with the OpenLibrary team. After firing off an email to find out if anyone there was interested on working on …
Posted on Mon 23 May 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
If you have been through an Evergreen upgrade, you know that the days after the upgrade can be painful. Users complain that the catalogue doesn't work right, there are mysterious glitches that happen on some machines and not others (even though the browser and operating systems are identical on each …