Re: [CODE4LIB] OCLC Service Outage Update

2010-05-10 Thread Casey Bisson
Or be like Google, give up on UPSs, and just attached a battery to the DC side of each server's power supply. http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/04/the-beast-unveiled-inside-a-google-server.ars On May 10, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Simon Spero wrote: > At least it wasn't a "totally transparent"

Re: [CODE4LIB] HTML mark-up in MARC records

2009-06-23 Thread Casey Bisson
The mistake here is presuming that (X)HTML coded data isn't (or can't be) data. On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:22 AM, Roy Tennant wrote: If we've learned anything at all, it should be to not mix presentation with data.

Re: [CODE4LIB] MySQL Stop Words

2009-06-01 Thread Casey Bisson
The minimum word length and stop word list are run-time configurable. The exclusion of words that are in more than 50% of the corpus is a compile-time issue (or simply use boolean). Here are the settings to be aware of: ft_min_word_len=3 ft_stopword_file=/dev/null --Casey http://about.scr

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone else watching rev=canonical?

2009-04-14 Thread Casey Bisson
Google's Matt Cutts tweeted a few days ago that he didn't understand why Twitter and similar services don't simply resolve short URLs to their long form and store/display them that way. Things like that have been on my mind for a while, but I've only just put some of those thoughts to words

[CODE4LIB] NEcode4lib meeting, Tuesday, Dec 9, 2008 @ BPL

2008-11-26 Thread Casey Bisson
I listed the event on Upcoming (hopefully that doesn't draw more people than we can accommodate): http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1389003/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Today at the Library WordPress plugin: advice?

2008-11-06 Thread Casey Bisson
Genny, I would encourage you to release your plugin, though writing plugins can be an addictive behavior ;-) You might consider widgetizing the sidebar component of your plugin so that nobody but you needs to muck around in PHP to make it work. There's a good template for making the widge

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fwd: Request for Comments: SKOS Reference: W3C Working Draft 25 January 2008

2008-02-01 Thread Casey Bisson
Ed, thanks for the pointer to this. It does indeed look to be something libraries should get involved with. Using SKOS, conceptual resources can be identified using URIs, labeled with lexical strings in one or more natural languages,documented with various types of note, linked to each other and

Re: [CODE4LIB] low-cost software for prison libraries?

2008-01-31 Thread Casey Bisson
Libraryworld.net is a hosted solution for $1/day. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 30, 2008, at 11:54 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, this is forwarded from a prison librarian listserv. Does anyone know of any very low-cost (or open source?) library systems that would be su

Re: [CODE4LIB] PS-Re: looking for code example: AJAX + MySQL + PHP

2007-12-17 Thread Casey Bisson
Ken, You might want to look at the autocomplete code in Scriblio. The JS is part of the theme: http://svn.scriblio.net/theme/trunk/scripts/ The server side: http://svn.scriblio.net/plugin/trunk/suggest.php And you can actually try it here: http://nov9.scriblio.net/browse/ About jquery.suggest

Re: [CODE4LIB] open source search engines

2007-07-18 Thread Casey Bisson
Don't forget Sphinx. http://sphinxsearch.com/ Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use. Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to

Re: [CODE4LIB] lucene pre-conference - reminder

2006-12-19 Thread Casey Bisson
Hi Bess, please reserve me a seat in this. Thank you, Casey Bisson __ Information Architect Plymouth State University Plymouth, New Hampshire http://oz.plymouth.edu/~cbisson/ ph: 603-535-2256 On Dec 19, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Bess Sadler wrote: Hey

Re: [CODE4LIB] A code4lib journal proposal

2006-02-23 Thread Casey Bisson
Ross++ the less formal, the better. On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Ross Singer wrote: I think we're down to some real questions here. One question is certainly, "Who will this journal serve?" (which has already been asked, but I don't know if we've gotten consensus on it). I think a more impo