Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

2010-01-06 Thread Sharon Foster
I'm glad someone mentioned maintainability. I used to work in embedded systems, where design, testing, and maintainability were of utmost importance, and coding is just the brief stage in between design and test. I lived by the adage, Code as if the person who will maintain your code is a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-05 Thread Sharon Foster
http://www.ed2go.com/nvcc/online_course/iph/detail/Introduction_to_PHP_and_MySQL.html?CategoryId=41 Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS Technology Librarian http://firstgentrekkie.blogspot.com/ Have you tried switching it off and on again? On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] c4l2010 T-Shirt Design Contest Extended to Jan. 6th

2009-12-23 Thread Sharon Foster
I don't think I have a vote--I'm just a lurker and unlikely to be going to the get-together--but I'd say the contest is over. This is excellent! Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS Technology Librarian http://firstgentrekkie.blogspot.com/ Have you tried switching it off and on again? On Wed, Dec 23,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Book recommendation

2009-09-09 Thread Sharon Foster
From my software engineering days, I like Steve McConnell's Code Complete and Software Project Survival Guide; The Mythical Man-Month, by Fred P. Brooks; Joel On Software by Joel Spolsky (who also has a blog); and The Elements of Programming Style, by Kernigan and Plauger. KR is directed at the C

Re: [CODE4LIB] Book recommendation

2009-09-09 Thread Sharon Foster
The best way to learn good code design and architecture is to work with code someone already wrote (open source, libraries, frameworks, etc) that uses good design and architecture. Or having to debug code that someone else wrote that *wasn't* written well. It's one thing to learn the good

Re: [CODE4LIB] Wolfram Alpha (was: Another nail in the coffin)

2009-05-25 Thread Sharon Foster
I wanted to find out how much my house would be worth today in a normal situation (if there is such a thing in the housing market). WolframAlpha helped me to formulate the query $96900 (1985 dollars) and then gave me the answer, adjusted for an average inflation of about 2.8% per year. Google

Re: [CODE4LIB] Something completely different

2009-04-11 Thread Sharon Foster
+1 Sharon M. Foster, 91.7% Librarian Speaker-to-Computers http://www.vsa-software.com/mlsportfolio/ On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Bill Dueber b...@dueber.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote: I'm not sure what to make of this except to say

Re: [CODE4LIB] Something completely different

2009-04-07 Thread Sharon Foster
Which is why the interface specifications are at least as important, if not more important, as the specs for each of the modules that you enumerated. If the interfaces are well-defined, then the components can be designed and developed with a minimum of further interactions among developers. In

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Web4lib] Library Staff Scheduler

2007-09-05 Thread Sharon Foster
libraries. I can see this type of application working for us in two ways: 1. Manage our courier schedule. 2. Manage library hours. With so many libraries, hours vary greatly. Is this the type of 'unique requirements' you're looking for from other libraries? Thanks, Deb Sharon

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Web4lib] Library Staff Scheduler

2007-09-05 Thread Sharon Foster
Sharon Foster wrote: Indeed! I hadn't even thought of multiple libraries in a system, since I haven't yet worked in a system with branch libraries. Is it ever the case that staff may be temporarily assigned to another branch, not their home branch? Are couriers thought of as assigned

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Web4lib] Library Staff Scheduler

2007-09-05 Thread Sharon Foster
I'm a part-timer myself, so scheduling in lunch time had not occurred to me. Thanks! We will include lunch and breaks. Travel time between branches seems to me to be a little out of scope, though. I think I'm going to leave that as a manual schedule tweak for now. On 9/5/07, Walter Lewis [EMAIL

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Web4lib] Library Staff Scheduler

2007-09-05 Thread Sharon Foster
] wrote: Sharon, Thank you. While our application may be different, I am interested in what you develop. Are looking at starting development immediately? Please let me know your progress or if I can help in any way. Deb Sharon Foster wrote: Gotcha! My library is in a consortium

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Web4lib] Library Staff Scheduler

2007-09-05 Thread Sharon Foster
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sharon Foster Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:18 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] [Web4lib] Library Staff Scheduler By publish, do you mean print to hard-copy, or something more? A swap board is an excellent feature

[CODE4LIB] Library Staff Scheduler

2007-09-04 Thread Sharon Foster
I've set up a wiki to collect software requirements for a Library Staff Scheduler. Initially it's intended for use by public libraries, because that's what I'm most familiar with, but I'd also like to incorporate any unique requirements from other kinds of libraries. I know there is at least one

Re: [CODE4LIB] code.code4lib.org

2007-08-14 Thread Sharon Foster
I'm one of those former software engineers, and I think there is a need for a repository of library-specific applications. For example, I've been thinking I'd like to develop a web-based personnel scheduling program. Library scheduling has some unique problems, as I'm sure you all know. There are

Re: [CODE4LIB] code.code4lib.org

2007-08-14 Thread Sharon Foster
, Sharon Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been thinking I'd like to develop a web-based personnel scheduling program. Library scheduling has some unique problems, as I'm sure you all know. ... Brigham Young University Library released open source scheduling software for their reference

[CODE4LIB] The path to becoming a Web guru?

2007-07-24 Thread Sharon Foster
I'm a former embedded software engineer and a current library student, trying to get up to speed on all this Web stuff. This question is not part of any class project, but just for my own curiosity. How did you all come to be so heavily involved in this aspect of librarianship? I don't think it's

Re: [CODE4LIB] The path to becoming a Web guru?

2007-07-24 Thread Sharon Foster
in programming PHP, but other than that it was a lot of learning by doing. I don't know if that was helpful - but that's the short version of my story. Nicole C. Engard http://web2learning.net On 7/24/07, Sharon Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a former embedded software engineer and a current library

Re: [CODE4LIB] The path to becoming a Web guru?

2007-07-24 Thread Sharon Foster
up the book - but that's just me. If you think you can learn that way then that's all that matters. On 7/24/07, Sharon Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been lifting bits of PHP code from various tutorial websites and playing with them...learning by osmosis, as it were. Likewise

[CODE4LIB] XML schema for describing software applications?

2007-07-17 Thread Sharon Foster
Please forgive the cross-posting. For my final project in the class Digital Libraries, I am bringing together a bibliography (appliography?) of open source software applications and free web services that would be useful in the construction of digital libraries. (How self-referential can you

Re: [CODE4LIB] the journal presence in online databases

2007-07-16 Thread Sharon Foster
I absolutely agree that reading articles online from a database is nothing like reading a magazine or a journal. But why must the experience be atomized? For example, I find reading The New York Review of Books online to be very nearly as satisfying as reading it in print was, and plus I don't

Re: [CODE4LIB] the journal presence in online databases

2007-07-16 Thread Sharon Foster
I agree with you that each format is better some purposes, worse for others. But rising postal rates may make the ultimate decision. And an online journal can simulate the print experience better than a print journal can simulate the online experience (if you just ignore the hyperlinks). I love