Re: [CODE4LIB] Morae setup advice for screen recording

2016-04-08 Thread Andreas Orphanides
A couple other options: If you can keep each test under 5 minutes, you could use Jing -- you can even enable the microphone to capture think-aloud. I think on Macs, Quicktime is pretty good at doing screen capturing, though I don't know if it will capture audio at the same time. Camtasia would

Re: [CODE4LIB] Internet of Things

2016-03-31 Thread Andreas Orphanides
hrough them, but I'm ignoring them at the moment to see what people > are doing with the tech. > c. Andreas, if you haven't seen this before, I think you may enjoy Internet > of Shit https://twitter.com/internetofshit > > "Obviously the best thing to do is put a chip in it.&quo

Re: [CODE4LIB] Internet of Things

2016-03-31 Thread Andreas Orphanides
I'm not a technofuturist of any sort, so maybe I'm the wrong person to be commenting on IoT (or maybe I'm exactly the right person)... but stuff in IoT land is going to get utterly horrible before it gets good. I'd argue that it might already be horrible, but it just doesn't have the penetration

Re: [CODE4LIB] Don't Change Your Site Because of Reference Librarians RE: [CODE4LIB] Responsive website question

2016-02-09 Thread Andreas Orphanides
On the other hand, a typical user would expect an in-application feature called "zoom" to zoom. There's a tension between website behavior and application behavior that has yet to be resolved. I think this is the key element where responsive design faces a challenge. Not every use case with a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online statistics gathering tool

2015-11-15 Thread Andreas Orphanides
SUMA is about 80% of the way to what you describe. I don't know if it integrates with external data systems, but you can set up your own initiatives, it's web based, it's open source, and I'm pretty sure it's built on some PHP platform or another. If I recall there are also some clever one-click

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sorry for my last message

2015-09-04 Thread Andreas Orphanides
If you are otherwise in good health and spirits, but you need more money for ramen and textbooks, please send a watercolor painting of a box turtle by US Postal Service to Cary Gordon. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Suchy, Daniel wrote: > And if all is well, we expect a hand

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4libBC (Vancouver, BC) - save the date November 26/27. 2015

2015-08-31 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Will there be cod? On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Cynthia Ng wrote: > Code4lib BC is pleased to announce that another unconference is in the > works! Please save the dates - November 26 and 27, at the UBC Irving > K. Barber Learning Centre. > > Program and registration

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib chicago

2015-08-31 Thread Andreas Orphanides
I feel like a Cod4Lib event would be better located on the east coast for some reason. On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Aug 28, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Allan Berry wrote: > > > The UIC Library would be happy to host the Code4Lib event,

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib chicago

2015-08-31 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Is that really cod, or is it something like "lake perch", whatever that is? On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Matt Sherman <matt.r.sher...@gmail.com> wrote: > Then you aren't familiar with midwest fish fry. > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Andreas Orphanides &l

Re: [CODE4LIB] Meeting room reservations

2015-04-04 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Portland State has something called LibRooms that's got a pretty slick front-end, though I can't speak to back-end features: https://github.com/pdxlibrary/librooms On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Jason Griffey grif...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at Booked, formerly PHPScheduleIt:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Communications — conference and otherwise

2015-02-18 Thread Andreas Orphanides
wrote: My issue is not with the wiki, it is with having stuff in four places. Perhaps there is a wiki solution either in different software or a different configuration of Mediawiki that can consolidate it all. Cary On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Communications — conference and otherwise

2015-02-18 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Having been in the documentation-management mess before I don't think I can agree that it counts as bikeshedding, at least at the level we're currently discussing it. Given the amount of time that I spend in other settings trying to find a required piece of documentation over three (or four, or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference photography policy

2015-01-26 Thread Andreas Orphanides
One potential problem with ribbons is that there may be ribbon-fans who also don't want to be photographed, and a blank ribbon in the midst of a sea of others might get lost. One option might be to choose a bright color (red might be a good mnemonic) and have participants who don't want to be

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference photography policy

2015-01-26 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Not to complicate things: shall (or *how shall*) we accommodate requests from presenters who might have a no photo preference vis-a-vis conference webcast? Is webcasting incompatible with the photo policy? Do presenters tacitly consent to being filmed/broadcast as presenters? On Mon, Jan 26, 2015

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference photography policy

2015-01-26 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Sounds like we've got an established practice in place, then. Awesome. Wouldn't hurt for us to clarify any policy we decide on to state that presenters are welcome to not consent to webcast. On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:41 PM, William Denton w...@pobox.com wrote: On 26 January 2015, Andreas

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference photography policy

2015-01-26 Thread Andreas Orphanides
and record. It would be good practice to have presenters sign a consent form agreeing to this. Tara On 26/01/2015 10:42 AM, Andreas Orphanides wrote: Sounds like we've got an established practice in place, then. Awesome. Wouldn't hurt for us to clarify any policy we decide on to state

[CODE4LIB] Allies bingo card

2015-01-23 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Can I just say how much I love this Tech Diversity Bingo Card that was posted on Geek Feminism recently: http://www.maleallies.com/ The website is Male Allies but the bingo card is designed to be applicable to allies of any historically marginalized group in tech. I also like that -- unlike many

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plagiarism checker

2015-01-23 Thread Andreas Orphanides
My first thought was something like programatically doing a pairwise diff of the files, 5500 times. I was surprised I couldn't find a utility that just does this. But i did find something called diffuse [1], that allows you to graphically compare any number of text files in a diff-like fashion.

Re: [CODE4LIB] lita

2015-01-06 Thread Andreas Orphanides
: Based on previous experience, I doubt this truly captures whether someone thinks of themselves as a librarian. I've always found those categories arbitrary (an MLS does not a librarian make) and sometimes divisive. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] lita

2015-01-06 Thread Andreas Orphanides
There's a different dues schedule for librarians (-slash-certification required-slash-managerial) and support staff, so along that dimension it presumably gets tracked, at the very least. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Cindi Blyberg cindi...@gmail.com wrote: Honestly, I don't know if ALA

Re: [CODE4LIB] what good books did you read in 2014?

2014-12-09 Thread Andreas Orphanides
I had fun with both the Southern Reach trilogy (Jeff VanderMeer) and The Expanse series (James S. A. Corey). If you're into sci-fi-ish stuff. On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Heather Rayl 23e...@gmail.com wrote: While I've done a lot of re-reading this past year (something that I do when I'm

Re: [CODE4LIB] what good books did you read in 2014?

2014-12-09 Thread Andreas Orphanides
, with a fantastic expansion pack! .m On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote: I had fun with both the Southern Reach trilogy (Jeff VanderMeer) and The Expanse series (James S. A. Corey). If you're into sci-fi-ish stuff. On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:46 PM

Re: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland Oregon is NOW OPEN!

2014-12-08 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Can someone from the conference check with the hotel about our room block? It seems weird that we've got a link to a special event page but that it's returning no results on the day of registration On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Dana Jemison dana.jemi...@ucop.edu wrote: Looks like the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland Oregon is NOW OPEN!

2014-12-08 Thread Andreas Orphanides
˛, and it allowed me to select dates and get a room. On 12/8/14, 1:00 PM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote: Can someone from the conference check with the hotel about our room block? It seems weird that we've got a link to a special event page but that it's returning no results on the day

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting for Code4Lib 2015 Prepared Talks begins today!

2014-11-11 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Is anyone else not seeing the titles of the presentations in the diebold-a-tron? On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Chris Beer ch...@cbeer.info wrote: The Code4Lib 2015 Program Committee is happy to announce that voting is now open for prepared talks. To vote, visit

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting for Code4Lib 2015 Prepared Talks begins today!

2014-11-11 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Signing in... that's worth a try. On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Benjamin Florin benjamin.flo...@gmail.com wrote: I can only see them after logging in. On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote: Is anyone else not seeing the titles

[CODE4LIB] Job: Visualizing syllabi to help understand how teaching works

2014-10-21 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Hi folks, The following job ad came out on journalism blogger Jonathan Stray's website. I have no affiliation with the blog (other than that it's in my RSS feed) or Mr. Stray, but it looked like the kind of thing that was right up C4L's alley:

Re: [CODE4LIB] [WEB4LIB] Interactive content for digital signage

2014-07-18 Thread Andreas Orphanides
We did one with a mac mini and a commodity touchscreen, plus a custom plain-old-php-and-javascript interface: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5832 Incidentally, the newest version of our plain-old-php-and-javascript interface looks way better (and is more ADA compliant!) than the one

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: From Demos@HASTAC | The Trust Challenge: The fifth HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition

2014-07-17 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Hi Code4Libbers, Someone at HASTAC passed on this information about a grant-writing challenge that HASTAC is holding in conjunction with the MacArthur Foundation. I thought it might be of potential interest to the C4L community. The topic is trust in educational and collaborative settings, and

[CODE4LIB] mediaelement.js and responsive design -- helpful hints

2014-07-10 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Hey all, Our web team has been incrementally migrating our website over to a responsive design based on foundation.js, and it's presented lots of interesting challenges. I use mediaelement.js to manage video playback for our instructional tutorials, and the combination of MEJS's rendering habits

[CODE4LIB] Community anti-harassment policy

2014-07-02 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Hey folks, Recently on the Geek Feminism blog there have been some posts about their recent adoption of a community anti-harassment policy [1, 2, 3]. This differs from their model conference anti-harassment policy (which is awesome and which I seem to recall is one of the bases for our own

Re: [CODE4LIB] Community anti-harassment policy

2014-07-02 Thread Andreas Orphanides
My cursory web search came up with the one that was developed for the most recent conference, but it's not clear to me what the breadth of the document is supposed to include. I think it was applied to the IRC channel during the conference, but if it was written specifically as a conference

Re: [CODE4LIB] Community anti-harassment policy

2014-07-02 Thread Andreas Orphanides
? - possibly other stuff? I think the conflict resolution part is in better shape, though it would need a little cleanup for more universal (i.e., not conference-specific) language. On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote: My cursory web search came up with the one

Re: [CODE4LIB] Storyline or Scavenger Hunt Software

2014-05-30 Thread Andreas Orphanides
We did something like this. We looked at SCVNGR and rejected it due to its wacky cost model and limited feature set. (And stupid name.) We ended up doing something with ipods that the library maintains, shared Evernote accounts, and a Google spreadsheet. Requires hand-scoring, but works really

Re: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest - I definitely didn't rip off someone else's job posting

2014-05-29 Thread Andreas Orphanides
YAY FULL JOB POSTINGS On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:40 PM, BWS Johnson abesottedphoe...@yahoo.comwrote: Research Analyst I Royt's Treehouse The prestigious Tennant's Treehouse is accepting applications for the position of Research Analyst I for the Juniper Club Library. A collaborative

Re: [CODE4LIB] College Question!

2014-05-29 Thread Andreas Orphanides
You could do worse than an undergrad degree in pure math, especially if you're interested in doing hard CS at some point. In general, math gives you lots of good background for things like data and object structures, flow control, etc. Math is also really useful for framing the world as a series

Re: [CODE4LIB] 15% off of all tshirts on the code4lib store (MYSHIRT2014

2014-05-26 Thread Andreas Orphanides
The coupon is telling me it's valid from 6/3 to 6/11. Oh well. On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Eric Lochtefeld e...@mercerlibrary.orgwrote: Can you send this out again when the more products are added? Thanks, Eric ___ http://MercerLibrary.org/More-Than-Just-Books On Mon, May 26,

Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs digest for 2014-05-16

2014-05-16 Thread Andreas Orphanides
THIS IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE DISCUSSED. On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:44 PM, j...@code4lib.org wrote: Library Electronic Resources Specialist Raritan Valley Community College Branchburg Township, New Jersey ColdFusion, EZproxy, JavaScript, Personal computer hardware

Re: [CODE4LIB] Friends of code4lib (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos)

2014-04-13 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Historically, there's resistance to forming anything like an organization around Code4Lib proper. A great point of pride in the community is our generally anarcho-communist approach to self-organization and self-determination -- Code4Lib is manifestly not an organization, and yet [X], for many

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

2014-04-11 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Also, developing a solution that solves the organizational issue while preserving the desire to remain a loosely affiliated collective of like-minded individuals. On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Trevor Thornton kittinf...@gmail.comwrote: I just wanna point out how funny/awesome it is that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Southeast/Carolina Regional Times/Dates

2014-04-09 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Note that there's an outstanding doodle for the NC LITe library instruction group meeting at UNCC as well -- There's probably some overlap in populations, and I don't know whether people will want to try to make the trip together or make two separate trips, but either way it might behoove us to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Southeast/Carolina Regional Times/Dates

2014-04-09 Thread Andreas Orphanides
It's just a name the group made up, so there's probably a bit of a namespace conflict. I don't think there's a real web presence. But I do know that at least 3 or 4 of the Code4Lib people at NCSU have also expressed interest in the NC LITe meeting. The LIT stands for library instructional

Re: [CODE4LIB] Carolina Regional Group?

2014-03-28 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Profounder words have never been spoken. ikea++ On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote: My vote is Ikea :) but I am open Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my

Re: [CODE4LIB] Carolina Regional Group?

2014-03-28 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Be sure to specify WHICH Greenville. Greenville NC isn't exactly central, but people might not be paying attention. On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com wrote: Charlotte Riley can

Re: [CODE4LIB] Archiving a website - best practices

2014-03-20 Thread Andreas Orphanides
There was a pretty lively discussion of this topic just this past January. I'm not an expert so I can't speak on the most salient points, but here's a link to the archive of the lead message in the thread: https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1401L=code4libF=S=P=62345 -dre. On Thu, Mar 20,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Publishing an RSS feed on a Confluence page

2014-02-21 Thread Andreas Orphanides
I think you should be able to do this: {rss:url=http://someURL\|max=someNumberToShow\|titleBar=true} At least, that's what I dug up from an old Confluence page of ours. Not sure if there's some plugin that needs to be turned on for it to work, though -- I'm definitely not a Confluence guy.

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-28 Thread Andreas Orphanides
That's simple for the techs, but VPNs can be a royal pain in the keester if you're an end-user, for a variety of reasons. It should be incumbent on us as information specialists to unburden the user to the extent possible. On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Aaron Addison

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting is OPEN for this year's conference t-shirt

2014-01-27 Thread Andreas Orphanides
I thought that GOTO was considered harmful. On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Josh Wilson joshwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations to Chris Markman for his winning idea! http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/File:Cmarkman-shirt.gif Big thanks to everyone who submitted an idea, medium

Re: [CODE4LIB] Public transport from RDU to Sheraton Raleigh and how safe is it?

2014-01-13 Thread Andreas Orphanides
There's a pretty reliable bus that will take you straight from the airport to the center of downtown. Clean and safe, if a little infrequent. And $2. http://www.triangletransit.org/sites/default/files/maps-and-schedules/RoutesAndSchedules-100.pdf On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Salazar,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Graphic Tablets

2013-10-31 Thread Andreas Orphanides
We check out the Intuos for short (4-hour) periods and the Bambu something-something for 7-day checkouts. We also have a few workstations with drawing tablets attached. I can't speak about demand per se, or about policies, as I'm not in circulation, but I've fielded questions and requests about

Re: [CODE4LIB] desk scheduling software?

2013-09-06 Thread Andreas Orphanides
We're on Google Calendar as an institution and have come up with some practices that work decently well for scheduling our service points, by making Google calendars for the service points themselves. Our staffing includes 1 librarian and 1-3 students at the reference desk plus 1 librarian on

Re: [CODE4LIB] Desk Statistics Software Question

2013-08-22 Thread Andreas Orphanides
We use Suma. This may or may not have something to do with the fact that Jason Casden works upstairs from our reference desk. Setting that aside, we've found it to fit well with our needs, especially since the locational component allows us to track roving reference by location. If you keep very

Re: [CODE4LIB] Way to record usage of tables/rooms/chairs in Library

2013-08-15 Thread Andreas Orphanides
If I were feeling really ambitious -- and fair warning, I'm a big believer that any solution worth engineering is worth over-engineering -- I'd come up with something involving light sensors (a la a gate counter) mounted on the table legs, just above seat height. Throw in some something something

Re: [CODE4LIB] Way to record usage of tables/rooms/chairs in Library

2013-08-15 Thread Andreas Orphanides
, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Schwartz, Raymond schwart...@wpunj.eduwrote: Hey Dre, Perhaps a video camera with some OpenCV? -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Andreas Orphanides Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 8:55 AM To: CODE4LIB

Re: [CODE4LIB] Way to record usage of tables/rooms/chairs in Library

2013-08-15 Thread Andreas Orphanides
, Brian Feifarek bfeifa...@q.com wrote: Motion sensors might be the ticket. For example, https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8630 Brian - Original Message - From: Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 11:12:02 AM

Re: [CODE4LIB] Way to record usage of tables/rooms/chairs in Library

2013-08-15 Thread Andreas Orphanides
wrote: Motion sensors might be the ticket. For example, https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8630 Brian - Original Message - From: Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 11:12:02 AM Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Way

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

2013-07-30 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Whatever; if you're not programming Turing machines made from two rocks and a roll of toilet paper, then you're not a REAL coder. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: All languages other than assembly are boutique and must be eliminated like the cancer that

Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?!

2013-07-17 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Maybe they've got the same plans for Google Scholar as they did for Reader and other much-adored Google products: to slowly crapify it until it becomes nearly useless, then retire it on short notice. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Sarah Lester sles...@stanford.edu wrote: Hi Jonathan, I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Regular expression for maximum 4-digit number

2013-07-02 Thread Andreas Orphanides
You might also be able to do it with some kind of naive approach: import to excel as a space-delimited file; whatever the rightmost column ends up being, go one to the right, then you should be able to use the MAX() function (perhaps with some embellishment to ignore non-numeric text) to pick out

Re: [CODE4LIB] Regular expression for maximum 4-digit number

2013-07-02 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Maybe this (attached) will do the trick? On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote: I haven't used the addins, but any real regex support should allow you to extract multiple matches in one shot. However, you'd still need a bit of code to identify the max

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014: Save the dates!

2013-07-01 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Also, Raleigh (and I say this both with affection and from experience) acts a bit big for its britches. The standard rates for downtown (non-crap) hotels is... not cheap. Rack rate for both the Sheraton and the Marriott is nigh 'round $300 for a single. There are inexpensive options in walking

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-04 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Something something Simon Spero something something OWL something LOC hierarchy? On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: How about id.loc.gov's OpenSearch-powered autosuggest feature? mjg@moby:~$ curl

Re: [CODE4LIB] test

2013-05-06 Thread Andreas Orphanides
A vacuum nature does abhor. On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Peter Schlumpf pschlu...@earthlink.netwrote: This is a test. Please ignore.

Re: [CODE4LIB] An interesting practical problem that might be a good hackfest project

2013-04-09 Thread Andreas Orphanides
. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:00 AM, David J. Fiander da...@fiander.info wrote: On 13-04-08 13:11, Andreas Orphanides wrote: I should know this, since my wife works there... but does NoveList have an API? I suspect not. LibraryThing might be a better option for this, for a variety of reasons

Re: [CODE4LIB] An interesting practical problem that might be a good hackfest project

2013-04-08 Thread Andreas Orphanides
I should know this, since my wife works there... but does NoveList have an API? On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:56 PM, David J. Fiander da...@fiander.infowrote: A friend on friendfeed (no, it's not dead, and yes there's an active librarian community there) who works in a public library complains

Re: [CODE4LIB] Math or the other math?

2013-02-27 Thread Andreas Orphanides
As a math person who later studied some grad-level computer science, my personal experience was that the stuff I found easy in CS was exactly what the CS students got hung up on. So the aspects of CS involving higher math (Hi Cary!) can definitely be challenging for those who don't already have a

Re: [CODE4LIB] back to minorities question, seeking guidance

2013-02-27 Thread Andreas Orphanides
I'm forced to agree that arithmetic isn't math. In fact, I'd go further and say that arithmetic isn't even arithmetic. At best it's accounting. (Accounting, on the other hand, is way more than accounting, so please don't take offense if you're an accountant.) On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:57 PM,

Re: [CODE4LIB] A newbie seeking input/suggestions

2013-02-22 Thread Andreas Orphanides
closet as the crow flies (but only one wall if RF is good at bouncing around corners).) On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote: The right implementation is important for adoption

Re: [CODE4LIB] A newbie seeking input/suggestions

2013-02-21 Thread Andreas Orphanides
opinions. There are also other similar services that people might recommend as well. Good luck! This sounds like a good -- but definitely solvable -- problem. Andreas Orphanides NCSU Libraries On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Greenspun, Cindy cindy.greens...@yale.edu wrote: Hello - I'm

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

2013-02-21 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Concur. I think everyone should just switch to APL [0], then we'll all suffer equally. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Ian Walls iwa...@library.umass.eduwrote: Agreed. Each language has its own strengths and weaknesses. Pick the

Re: [CODE4LIB] A newbie seeking input/suggestions

2013-02-21 Thread Andreas Orphanides
solutions to! Andreas Orphanides NCSU Libraries On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Shirley Lincicum shirley.linci...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote a little app in PHP to address this exact problem. I wrote it to work the the LibraryH3lp webchat service, but the code could probably be adapted to another

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

2013-02-14 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Nuh-uh, remember that whole Reformation thing? On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Dave Caroline dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Cornel Darden Jr. corneldarde...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, It now seems that the Librarian of Congress is the Pope of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Zoia

2013-01-18 Thread Andreas Orphanides
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Gabriel Farrell gsf...@gmail.com wrote: I've also been working on a new IRC bot framework in node.js called n0d3 ( https://github.com/gsf/n0d3). ... How exactly do you pronounce that?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Groupon: $9 for 3-Day CTA Pass

2013-01-16 Thread Andreas Orphanides
True, but if it's the same up to three weeks that developers might quote a project as taking, they'll arrive sometime in March. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Bill Dueber b...@dueber.com wrote: I guess it depends on when you're leaving, but by my numbers it's more than three weeks until the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon 2013 T-Shirt Contest Winner

2013-01-16 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Wait, were they a sponsor this year? On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Suchy, Daniel dsu...@ucsd.edu wrote: BLACKLIGHT even. On 1/16/13 8:55 AM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote: Curious, is code4lib 2013 going to be added to that design? Seems a bit ... odd that it's for c4l13

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon 2013 T-Shirt Contest Winner

2013-01-16 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Shouldn't that lightning bolt be a BACON lightning bolt? On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Doran, Michael D do...@uta.edu wrote: Hi Roy, Here's the logo redone in appropriate colors for the t-shirt: [cid:image001.png@01CDF40E.266E6160] [cid:image002.png@01CDF40E.266E6160] --

[CODE4LIB] T-Shirt voting and registration -- last day!

2013-01-15 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Hey community, Don't forget! Today is the last day to submit your vital statistics to the T-Shirt Size-a-Tron in order to get a shirt at C4L 2013! Here's the URL: https://docs.google.com/**spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=**

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt voting and registration -- last day!

2013-01-15 Thread Andreas Orphanides
It has been brought to my attention that the Diebold-o-tron isn't quite functioning. Stay tuned for further instructions from your alien overlords. -dre. On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.eduwrote: Hey community, Don't forget! Today is the last day to submit

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt voting and registration -- last day!

2013-01-15 Thread Andreas Orphanides
OK, world, looks like voting is functional again. Go ahead and vote for your favorite design! And remember to complete the Size-o-tron if you want a t-shirt! It's included with the price of admission! On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.eduwrote: It has been

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt voting and registration -- last day!

2013-01-15 Thread Andreas Orphanides
the Size-o-tron? -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Andreas Orphanides Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 7:48 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt voting and registration -- last day! OK, world, looks

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2013 location

2013-01-14 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Wait, there's WHITE CASTLE in Chicago??? THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Fleming, Declan dflem...@ucsd.edu wrote: There WILL be a shuttle to WHITE CASTLE, RIGHT FRANCIS?!? D -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt voting is now open!

2013-01-03 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Minor correction: The correct address for voting is http://vote.code4lib.org/**election/25http://vote.code4lib.org/election/results/25, though the address Shaun provided (http://vote.code4lib.org/** election/results/25 http://vote.code4lib.org/election/results/25) will let you cheat and sneak a

[CODE4LIB] Final Reminder: Code4Lib 2013 T-Shirt design proposals due Monday!

2012-12-28 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Hey all, If you've got an idea for a Code4Lib t-shirt, get it in soon! When 2012 leaves us forever -- that is, after 11:59pm (let's say Central time) on December 31, it'll be too late! So add your submissions to the wiki page below. Code4Lib 2013 T-Shirt Design

[CODE4LIB] Reminder: Request for submissions: Code4Lib 2013 T-Shirt designs!

2012-12-21 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Hey all, I know that the only thing on many people's minds today is probably when the heck the day ends so they can enjoy a long weekend, but I wanted to send out a reminder -- get your Code4Lib tee shirt submissions in before 2012 is but a memory! Here's the link: Code4Lib 2013 T-Shirt Design

Re: [CODE4LIB] Request for submissions: Code4Lib 2013 T-Shirt designs!

2012-12-11 Thread Andreas Orphanides
thought we had settled on Michael Doran's design? __**__ Mark Sullivan Executive Director IDS Project Milne Library 1 College Circle SUNY Geneseo Geneseo, NY 14454 (585) 245-5172 On 12/10/2012 2:57 PM, Andreas Orphanides wrote: Hey Code4Libbers, The time

[CODE4LIB] Request for submissions: Code4Lib 2013 T-Shirt designs!

2012-12-10 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Hey Code4Libbers, The time has come once again to create the official Code4Lib 2013 tee shirt! If you're interested in submitting a design, please head over to the wiki: Code4Lib 2013 T-Shirt Design Proposalshttp://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2013_t-shirt_design_proposals The basics: - One

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib Hotel

2012-12-05 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Hi Mark, In previous situations like yours that I've been in, I've found that if you call the front desk of the hotel (not the reservation line or whatever, the actual front desk of the actual hotel -- don't let them transfer you!) they're usually happy to extend your stay at the conference rate.

Re: [CODE4LIB] some radical edit of policy

2012-12-03 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Karen, you should send this back to the Geek Feminism folks -- I am sure they'd be interested in seeing your edits, and they also like to report on orgs that have implemented such policies in general. On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: I prefer the tone and

Re: [CODE4LIB] desensitization

2012-11-26 Thread Andreas Orphanides
This fun MakerShed item will switch 120vac at 15 amps, on as little as 3 volts signal: http://www.makershed.com/PowerSwitch_Tail_II_p/mkps01.htm I don't know much about iOS development, but if you have access to the docking port, 3 volts should be easy to muster. Also, mumble mumble Arduino

Re: [CODE4LIB] Chat Options

2012-11-15 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Hi Mark, We're on Libraryh3lp here at NC State. So far we've had very few issues with LH3, except for the occasional hiccup -- certainly no more level of hiccupage than we've had with more enterprisey enterprise services, at least in my experience. Considering the overall cost versus the amount

Re: [CODE4LIB] Browser Wars

2012-07-12 Thread Andreas Orphanides
... IE 5?!?!?! On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Brig C McCoy bmc...@kckpl.org wrote: Hi... This is from the last six weeks from one of my public-facing websites. Definitely not going to drop MSIE support for the website at this rate: # #reqs #pages browser 1 18137 827

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Senior Application Developer at New York Public Library

2012-04-04 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Maybe if you work a couple years at 80 hours a week, you can count them double. On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Jeremy M Prevost j-prev...@northwestern.edu wrote: It seems nobody can be qualified for this job (besides possibly the original Basecamp developer but I kinda suspect he's not

Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Digest - 12 Feb 2012 to 13 Feb 2012 (#2012-42)

2012-02-18 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Hi David, It's interesting that you bring this up. When we designed the touchscreen it was more or less as a one-off prototype, just to see what we could do with what we had. We wanted an aesthetically and functionally pleasing experience, but other than including some familiar content areas and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Touch Screens in the Library

2012-02-13 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Oh, I should amend that article with a comment. I just switched over from Firefox to Opera because OH MY GOD FIREFOX YOU USED TO BE A GOOD WEB BROWSER. Opera actually works pretty well for our implementation -- it has a nice built in kiosk mode and URL whitelist, and there were minimal changes

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2012-02-10 Thread Andreas Orphanides
My take on enough for what? is this: What use cases do you have, both current and future? What sorts of queries and data displays are necessary and sufficient to fulfill those use cases? The collection of metadata involved in those displays and queries constitutes enough. Of course, this is

[CODE4LIB] Quick library visit at lunch?

2012-02-06 Thread Andreas Orphanides
Hey all, I have a crazy notion to visit the Seattle Public Library during today's lunch break. Looks like there's a taco place across the street from the library at 4th and Madison -- maybe if it's quick and not too busy we can squeeze in a quick lunch and have 30 minutes to look around the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Super Bowl

2012-02-01 Thread Andreas Orphanides
I don't much care about the Super Bowl, but if the Danes are showing up, include me in. -dre. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Mads Villadsen m...@statsbiblioteket.dkwrote: On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 06:35 +0100, Michael B. Klein wrote: Yep! Jessie Keck and I discussed getting together to watch;

Re: [CODE4LIB] C4L 2012 Seattle Lightning Talks Signup

2012-01-25 Thread Andreas Orphanides
I won't speak on behalf of the organizers, but my recollection is that signups for lightning talks on a given day are typically opened the day before. I think there was some kerfuffle related to this last year (I seem to recall it opening early and causing some confusion). But I suppose this is

Re: [CODE4LIB] jQuery Ajax request to update a PHP variable

2011-12-06 Thread Andreas Orphanides
jrock... I like it! I think Mr. Rochkind has a new nickname. And a new imperative: better get the band together for Seattle, Jonathan! Is it too late to dedicate a presentation slot to a performance? (Whoa, actually, seriously, a Code4Lib talent show would be AWESOME.) On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Pandering for votes for code4lib sessions

2011-12-01 Thread Andreas Orphanides
I have mixed feelings on the idea of requiring a minimum weight in the voting process. Vote pandering is definitely a real issue, but I think imposing strictures on the voting process goes a little bit against something fundamental about Code4Lib's anarcho-democratic underpinnings. I think one of

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