Re: [CODE4LIB] next generation opac mailing list

2006-06-05 Thread Peter Schlumpf
of the the main interfaces to the library that all patrons use. How can we make that experience most productive? We need to pay lot of attention to that. Peter Schlumpf -Original Message- From: Michael Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jun 5, 2006 9:04 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re

[CODE4LIB] Avanti MicroLCS version 1.0.1 released

2006-09-25 Thread Peter Schlumpf
at http://www.avantilibrarysystems.com . Peter Schlumpf Avanti Project Manager

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens

2008-11-15 Thread Peter Schlumpf
to the level that satisfies their needs, and in the long run probably find it much easier to use. Peter Peter Schlumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.avantilibrarysystems.com -Original Message- From: Walker, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Nov 14, 2008 4:48 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU

[CODE4LIB] Something completely different

2009-04-05 Thread Peter Schlumpf
those things? Sometimes the biggest prison is between the ears. I am in a position to do this now, and that's what I have decided to do. I am getting busy. Peter Schlumpf

Re: [CODE4LIB] Something completely different

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Schlumpf
referencing another we increment a counter for that link by one. There are many ways to implement something like this, and I have one in mind, but this is sort of the theory behind it. It is going back to simple things. Peter Schlumpf -Original Message- From: Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net

[CODE4LIB] You got it!!!!! Re: [CODE4LIB] Something completely different

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Schlumpf
, but I will share a draft of it with y'all on here soon. Peter Schlumpf -Original Message- From: Bill Dueber b...@dueber.com Sent: Apr 9, 2009 10:37 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Something completely different On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Mike Taylor m

[CODE4LIB] Ten years

2009-04-18 Thread Peter Schlumpf
years? What about the next ten? Peter Schlumpf Avanti Library Systems http://www.avantilibrarysystems.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Alert!

2009-12-23 Thread Peter Schlumpf
. They are the containers into which we pour content. Peter Schlumpf www.avantilibrarysystems.com -Original Message- From: Glen Newton glen.new...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Sent: Dec 23, 2009 12:10 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Alert! Programming skills could transform librarians' roles

[CODE4LIB] Avanti!

2010-01-02 Thread Peter Schlumpf
you tell someone who has nothing better to do with his time than to build such a thing? Come January 4th, I will go to work. Best wishes, and good health to all in the new decade. Peter Schlumpf http://www.avantilibrarysystems.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP bashing (was: newbie)

2010-03-25 Thread Peter Schlumpf
never quite get itself out of. Peter Schlumpf www.avantilibrarysystems.com -Original Message- From: Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov Sent: Mar 25, 2010 11:00 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] PHP bashing (was: newbie) On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Brian Stamper wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?

2010-04-12 Thread Peter Schlumpf
? They certainly weren't inscribed on stone tablets. These things can become mind prisons. I think it's refreshing that there are those willing to look at databases beyond SQL. Peter Schlumpf www.avantilibrarysystems.com -Original Message- From: Thomas Dowling tdowl...@ohiolink.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] simple,flexible ILS for a small library.

2010-09-28 Thread Peter Schlumpf
Here's what I have done some time ago toward a simple flexible ILS for a small library: http://www.avantilibrarysystems.com/microlcs.html Peter Schlumpf www.avantilibrarysystems.com -Original Message- From: ... offonoffoffon...@gmail.com Sent: Sep 28, 2010 9:43 PM To: CODE4LIB

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP vs. Python [was: Re: Django]

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Schlumpf
or Django were handed down to us chiseled in stone tablets. All languages are arbitrary things anyway, and it doesn't matter how they are implemented. The point is to keep the layers of abstraction well defined. But otherwise, break down those walls. Peter Schlumpf

[CODE4LIB] Let's go somewhere [was PHP vs. Python...]

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Schlumpf
all got ideas. Fire up vi and get busy and make something happen, like a library domain-specific language. Start fresh. There is nothing wrong with that. What's wrong is how the library community goes about such things. Let's go somewhere. Peter Schlumpf www.avantilibrarysystems.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] He's Pro-Django (humour)

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Schlumpf
Bravo!! Well done! I guess I'm not the only one whose mind instantly played that song in his head when first reading about Django. -Original Message- From: Doran, Michael D do...@uta.edu Sent: Oct 30, 2010 2:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] He's Pro-Django

Re: [CODE4LIB] Let's go somewhere [was PHP vs. Python...]

2010-11-02 Thread Peter Schlumpf
but that's the way many things start. And besides, as far as doing it goes, what the heck? Peter Schlumpf www.avantilibrarysystems.com

[CODE4LIB] Nova

2011-05-01 Thread Peter Schlumpf
Hallmark with your distributed library system: keep up what you are doing. It is good. Peter Schlumpf www.avantilibrarysystems.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Programmer Orientation to Library/Lib Sci

2011-07-20 Thread Peter Schlumpf
science and work thereafter which turned into a positive cycle. For me, the one gives a reason to do the other. Peter Schlumpf -Original Message- From: Laura Smart laura.j.sm...@gmail.com Sent: Jul 20, 2011 11:04 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Programmer Orientation

[CODE4LIB] Avanti Nova version 0.1 released

2011-08-19 Thread Peter Schlumpf
to the version that was demonstrated at the Code4lib Midwest Meeting at UIC last month. Development on Nova will (really!) continue and any feedback, positive or negative, is welcome and appreciated. Peter Schlumpf pschlu...@gmail.com http://www.avantilibrarysystems.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread Peter Schlumpf
am pretty much on the fringes of anything right now. I am still shocked though, that LibLime would do something like this and actually persue it as a legal matter. As one who has been involved in and observed open source software in libraries from Day One, I am shaking my head here. Peter

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread Peter Schlumpf
booth to show off our work. There were only a few of us back then and Koha wasn't on the radar yet. LibLime is a Johnny-come-lately in this grizzled old person's mind. I am so disappointed in LibLime that they would sink to something like this. Peter Schlumpf http://www.avantilibrarysystems.com

[CODE4LIB] Avanti Nova web interface

2012-02-23 Thread Peter Schlumpf
server via its own application network protocol. Everything is clickable. Give it a try! And let me know what you think. A direct link to the application: http://www.avantilibrarysystems.com/nova/client/index.php?data=homecmd=1 Peter Schlumpf pschlu...@gmail.com http

Re: [CODE4LIB] one tool and/or resource that you recommend to newbie coders in a library?

2012-11-02 Thread Peter Schlumpf
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:

[CODE4LIB] Avanti Nova 0.2

2013-02-07 Thread Peter Schlumpf
component used in a real application. Download and documentation is up on the project web site: http://www.avantilibrarysystems.com This time I plan to really stick around awhile with this project, and I will share my progress with the code4lib community from time to time. Peter Schlumpf

Re: [CODE4LIB] souvenirs

2013-02-13 Thread Peter Schlumpf
Navy Pier, perhaps. -Original Message- From: Will Clarke clark...@wfu.edu Sent: Feb 13, 2013 9:56 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] souvenirs Can anyone recommend some good / cheap places to get some Chicago souvenirs and t-shirts?

Re: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?

2013-02-13 Thread Peter Schlumpf
If a person writes programs -- code, then one is a coder. It's as simple as that, whether one has a computer science degree or not. I have always been puzzled by the self-consciousness betraying a lack of confidence that librarians suffer about what they do. Is Librarianship a profession?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Video from the Conference

2013-02-15 Thread Peter Schlumpf
Thanks Francis and everyone else who made the conference available via streaming video for those of us who could not attend. It was great! Peter -Original Message- From: Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu Sent: Feb 15, 2013 4:56 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Video

Re: [CODE4LIB] You are a *pedantic* coder. So what am I?

2013-02-22 Thread Peter Schlumpf
Reminds me of the Zen saying: In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few. -Original Message- From: Justin Coyne jus...@curationexperts.com Sent: Feb 21, 2013 11:59 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] You are a *pedantic*

[CODE4LIB] Avanti Nova version 0.3

2013-02-27 Thread Peter Schlumpf
Peter Schlumpf Avanti Library Systems pschlu...@gmail.com

[CODE4LIB] Avanti Nova version 0.3.1

2013-04-05 Thread Peter Schlumpf
that interfaces a real DBMS, either MySQL or an embedded database solution. Peter Schlumpf Avanti Library Systems www.avantilibrarysystems.com

[CODE4LIB] test

2013-05-06 Thread Peter Schlumpf
This is a test. Please ignore.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Libraries and IT Innovation

2013-07-17 Thread Peter Schlumpf
I have come to believe that to really innovate, one has to stop thinking in terms of clouds (whatever the hell those things are) tables, relational database, MARC records, the technology du jour. Throw that all away. Don't even think about it. Even more important, don't worry about what

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

2013-07-29 Thread Peter Schlumpf
Somebody needs to invent one, throw it out there and see what happens. -Original Message- From: Ed Summers e...@pobox.com Sent: Jul 29, 2013 4:06 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

2013-07-30 Thread Peter Schlumpf
Real coders roll their own programming languages. -Original Message- From: Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu Sent: Jul 30, 2013 10:45 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:21:24AM -0400, Andreas Orphanides wrote: Whatever; if

Re: [CODE4LIB] free HTML text editors - a compilation of responses

2015-05-20 Thread Peter Schlumpf
vi On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Sarles Patricia (18K500) psar...@schools.nyc.gov wrote: Thank you to everyone who weighed in on free HTML text editors for my old Macs running 10.5.8. The only one that seemed to work is Thimble. My Macs at school are just too old - even for cloud-based