Re: [CODE4LIB] New books RSS feed / badge with cover images?

2010-04-09 Thread Alejandro Garza Gonzalez
Some ideas: 1) Use Feeds Imagegrabber (http://drupal.org/project/feeds_imagegrabber) along with Feeds to create nodes that include their enclosures (cover images) from the RSS feed. Once you have the items as nodes you can use Views and the plethora of Views carrousel-like modules to display

Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing

2010-02-09 Thread Alejandro Garza Gonzalez
If you are looking to build an application instead of getting an existing one, you can use Drupal and several modules to build it. There are several faceted search modules available (see http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/faceted%20search?filters=type%3Aproject_project). For a

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

2010-01-06 Thread Alejandro Garza Gonzalez
Well, I'll quickly run down why we chose Drupal (hence, PHP). I mention Drupal because to me it's more of a framework which just happens to have a CMS built on top of it =) Before Drupal, my team knew PHP. We had PHP books in the library, students were learning some PHP in classes, etc. We

Re: [CODE4LIB] yaoss4ll

2010-01-04 Thread Alejandro Garza Gonzalez
I second John Fereira's comment re: putting this information into a CMS =) For instance it'd be awesome to browse by language... And, Drupal actually has a series of library-related modules out there; you already mention the MARC module in http://infomotions.com/tmp/oss/discovery.html ...

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web analytics for POST data

2009-11-24 Thread Alejandro Garza Gonzalez
/2009 06:01 p.m.: Alejandro Garza Gonzalez wrote: 1) You *can* use GA and some Javascript embedded in your III pages to log events (as they´re called in GA lingo). The javascript (depending on your coding wizardry level) could track anything from hovers over elements, form submission, next page

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web analytics for POST data

2009-11-20 Thread Alejandro Garza Gonzalez
I see two ways to do this: 1) You *can* use GA and some Javascript embedded in your III pages to log events (as they´re called in GA lingo). The javascript (depending on your coding wizardry level) could track anything from hovers over elements, form submission, next page events, etc. 2)