I imagine you've heard about the Just Solve the Problem month already,
but if not, I thought Chris Rusbridge's email to the
digital-preservation list was a good call for participation in the
project ...
//Ed
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From: Chris Rusbridge c.rusbri...@googlemail.com
Nth-ing Stack Overflow.
Also, the O'Reilly Head First books.
On 11/1/2012 9:16 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
Bohyun Kim k...@fiu.edu wrote:
Hi all code4lib-bers,
As coders and coding librarians, what is ONE tool and/or resource that you
recommend to newbie coders in a library (and why)? I
+1 to web-hosting as it gives the ability install one's own software on
one's domain (which feels great) *and* easy access to shell.
And when web-hosting feels like too much of a barrier to access, sites like
jsfiddle where you can immediately start adding *and* sharing code is key.
IMHO the
On Nov 2, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Mita Williams wrote:
+1 to web-hosting as it gives the ability install one's own software on
one's domain (which feels great) *and* easy access to shell.
And when web-hosting feels like too much of a barrier to access, sites like
jsfiddle where you can
That reminds me of how I got started with Drupal. I was so scared of
botching up an install on a server that I ran XAMPP and ran my first
Drupal install on a USB key!
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Joe Hourcle
onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.govwrote:
On Nov 2, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Mita Williams
We do a lot of our development within virtual machines.
So VirtualBox is a great free solution in that area
www.virtualbox.org
and then to make new VM setup and deployment easier we use Vagrant
http://vagrantup.com/
-Joseph
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Digital Repository Manager
Brown University Library
On
Um...how is this better/different from already existing sites/efforts
around this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats
http://www.wotsit.org/
http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
http://www.fileformat.info/
At the very least, this new effort shouldn't start from
You also missed this one...
http://gdfr.info
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Roy Tennant
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 3:49 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Just Solve the File Format Problem
Well, duh, so I did. My (big) bad. Thanks for pointing out the obvious...
Roy
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Huwig,Steve huw...@oclc.org wrote:
You also missed this one...
http://gdfr.info
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It's OK, I think the project is now part of UC's udfr.org. But that one
didn't have the big ol' OCLC logo at the bottom. :)
-- Steve
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Roy Tennant
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 4:04 PM
To:
Kernighan and Ritchie's The C Programming Language. A keeper for life, and
surprisingly readable and directed to the newbie. Also The Pragmatic
Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas.
-Original Message-
From: Bohyun Kim k...@fiu.edu
Sent: Nov 1, 2012 3:24 PM
To:
On 11/2/12 3:57 PM, Huwig,Steve wrote:
You also missed this one...
http://gdfr.info
Did you actually find anything useful there? That project died without
really accomplishing anything.
I was one of the people working on it and have to share some of the
blame. There were communication
I joined OCLC on the team that implemented it, just as the project was winding
down. I brought it up more as a cautionary tale rather than a serious
suggestion; the problem isn't that no one has looked into the file format
problem -- the problem is that too many have approached it, without
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 03:43:12PM -0500, Peter Schlumpf wrote:
Kernighan and Ritchie's The C Programming Language. A keeper for life, and
surprisingly readable and directed to the newbie. Also The Pragmatic
Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas.
I recall listening to a talk by the
On Nov 2, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
Um...how is this better/different from already existing sites/efforts
around this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats
http://www.wotsit.org/
http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
http://www.fileformat.info/
At the
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