Posted on Mon 01 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
To summarize the results of the Evergreen developer workshop at the OLA SuperConference, I think things went pretty well. The primary focus this time was on the nuts and bolts of building a minimal OpenSRF service and I saw the lights go on in a number of faces as I …
Posted on Tue 23 February 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Hey all - if you're coming to the Evergreen developer workshop at the OLA SuperConference 2010, there's one thing you can do to prepare. As this is a hands-on workshop (how else can you learn!), I'm hoping many or most of you will have laptops. And ideally, your laptop will have …
Posted on Sat 20 February 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I've been a bit quiet for the last two weeks, ostensibly because I've been on vacation. However, much of the time I was preparing to deliver a two-day introduction to SQL for Evergreen to the good people at Bibliomation. On Wednesday I flew down to Middlebury, CT - Bibliomation central - and …
Posted on Thu 28 January 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Given the the awards that Project Conifer will be presented with at the OLA SuperConference, this might be a good opportunity to mention the Customizing and Extending Evergreen: a guide for geeks workshop that I'll be giving on Wednesday, February 24th. The workshop description promises:
Together, we will break OpenSRF …
Posted on Thu 28 January 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
The Ontario Library Association (OLA) announced its 2010 OLA and OLA Divisional Award winners today, and to my great surprise Project Conifer was named the winner of two awards:
Posted on Tue 17 November 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2010-05-31 Running through the process again, I found a few typos in the pg_dump commands, so I fixed those up.
I'm working on a project to compare our electronic journal holdings with our print journal holdings. This is probably a task …
Posted on Tue 10 November 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2009-11-24 James Forrester of the Ontario Academy of Art and Design has posted a short video (Internet Archive) of the presentation. Thanks, James!
On Friday, October 30th, I presented a status update on Project Conifer at the Free Software Open Source Symposium (FSOSS). This was a follow-up to the …
Posted on Fri 30 October 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update 2009-11-24 Robert Soulliere has also made the videos available via the Internet Archive - thanks again, Robert!
Update 2009-11-09 As promised, Robert Soulliere has posted the video recordings he made of the workshop - thanks, Robert!
Yesterday, I lead a three-hour Evergreen development workshop at the Free Software Open Source Symposium …
Posted on Sat 10 October 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
On Friday, October, 9th, I had the pleasure of (along with Joe Lucia and Karen Coombs) speaking at the Lyrasis "Open Source in Your Library" conference at the Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA. First, a note about Olin College - it is a very modern campus that makes an …
Posted on Sun 04 October 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update 2009-10-04 Added a title to the post; oops!
A long time ago, when I discovered that Evergreen was chewing up and spitting out Apache backends at a furious pace because Apache was being used to serve up static content like CSS, JavaScript, and image files, I suggested that using …