Update: More conventional versions of the slides are available from Google Docs or in on Speakerdeck (PDF)

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On August 10, 2013, I gave the following talk at the PyCon Canada 2013 conference:

I’m a systems librarian at Laurentian University.

For the past six years, my day job and research …

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Update: More conventional versions of the slides are available from Google Docs or in on Speakerdeck (PDF)

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On August 10, 2013, I gave the following talk at the PyCon Canada 2013 conference:

I’m a systems librarian at Laurentian University.

For the past six years, my day job and research …

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On August 10, 2013, I'll be giving a twenty-minute talk at PyCon Canada on A Flask of full-text search with PostgreSQL. I'm very excited to be talking about Python, at a Python conference, and to be giving the Python audience a peek at PostgreSQL's full-text search capabilities. With a twenty …

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On August 10, 2013, I'll be giving a twenty-minute talk at PyCon Canada on A Flask of full-text search with PostgreSQL. I'm very excited to be talking about Python, at a Python conference, and to be giving the Python audience a peek at PostgreSQL's full-text search capabilities. With a twenty …

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Update 2017-10-18: linked to gitlab instead of gitorious; thanks Petter Reinholdtsen!

I'm one of those people who actually keeps different passwords for every site and service I use. So far I'm up to over 400 passwords, so I'm dependent on a password manager. For a long, long time I have …

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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 …

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