Re: [CODE4LIB] onboarding developers coming from industry

2016-03-02 Thread Jason Casden
I think that the importance of sharing your passion for library service should not be overlooked. While universities can be rather bureaucratic, this may also be true of many of the commercial and governmental organizations from which these developers are being hired. The advantages that we do

Re: [CODE4LIB] Charlotte, NC Code4Lib Meeting

2013-11-13 Thread Jason Casden
Hi Riley, I'm in the Triangle and I would definitely be interested in attending. Jason On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Riley Childs ri...@tfsgeo.com wrote: I can secure a meeting space at one of the public library branches, so really there isn't much organizing, I would want it to be more

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 keynote voting is open!

2013-10-03 Thread Jason Casden
This is just a reminder that keynote voting closes Friday (tomorrow) at midnight PDT. Jason On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Jason Casden jmcas...@ncsu.edu wrote: With special thanks to Ross Singer for his management of the diebold-o-tron and to Adam Constabaris for his patches

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 keynote voting is open!

2013-09-20 Thread Jason Casden
With special thanks to Ross Singer for his management of the diebold-o-tron and to Adam Constabaris for his patches, the Code4Lib 2014 Keynote Speakers Committee is happy to open this year's invited speaker election. All nominees have been contacted and the ten nominees included in this election

[CODE4LIB] Call for Code4Lib 2014 invited speaker nominations ends Friday!

2013-08-26 Thread Jason Casden
If there is anyone that you think would be a good choice for one of our two keynote presentations at Code4Lib 2014, please add them to our list of invited speaker nominations: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2014_Invited_Speakers_Nominations You can view the previous two years of nominations

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

2013-08-16 Thread Jason Casden
Hi Tom, It's nice to see Suma discussed on this thread, and I do think that it is a pretty nice tool for collecting, managing, and analyzing a variety of transactional and observational use data. We're using it at NCSU to collect a fairly wide range of data, including head counts, service desk

Re: [CODE4LIB] Inventory App

2013-08-09 Thread Jason Casden
Hi Michael, If you happen to be a Voyager user (or if you'd just like to see a nice example), check out the ShelfLister project from Michael Doran and UT Arlington: http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/shelflister/ Jason On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Michael Wright Johnson mwj1...@gmail.comwrote: I

[CODE4LIB] Submit your Code4Lib 2014 invited speaker nominations!

2013-08-06 Thread Jason Casden
Hi folks, It's that time again. Have you seen any speakers lately that you think would give an excellent Code4Lib keynote? Is there someone you haven't seen but would like to? Do you like making lists of names? Please add to our list of invited speaker nominations:

[CODE4LIB] Announcing lentil

2013-05-14 Thread Jason Casden
This is just a quick note to announce the open-source release of the lentil project[1], which is extracted from the My #HuntLibrary[2][3] photography (i.e. Instagram) social media collection and preservation project. My #HuntLibrary was created as a platform to foster student and community

Re: [CODE4LIB] project management system

2013-01-14 Thread Jason Casden
We have been using Trello[1] for several projects and so far it's been getting rave reviews all around. We've used Basecamp quite a bit and it's an excellent project communication tool, but it sometimes fell a little short when it came to the ticket-y use cases--specifically, planning and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library tablet app

2012-02-07 Thread Jason Casden
Hi Paul, At NCSU Libraries we've built a couple of more special-purpose apps that target tablet devices, WolfWalk and Suma: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/wolfwalk/ http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/spaceassesstool/ The tablet design for WolfWalk is in a native iOS app, while Suma is

Re: [CODE4LIB] iPad Kiosk Statistics

2011-11-11 Thread Jason Casden
I've used the semi-deprecated Web SQL Database on iPads to store relational data locally with some periodic polling to see if it's safe to flush the data to a server. The data survives browser and device restarts. This works well as long as the network access is reliably intermittent (as Nate

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open-Source Reference Tracking Software

2011-08-02 Thread Jason Casden
Sorry for the plug, but we're working on a project (Suma) at NCSU Libraries that is basically a set of tools for collecting, storing, and analyzing data about the usage of physical spaces. The current client is web-based and designed for tablet use. We're using it for library headcounts now,

Re: [CODE4LIB] C4L10 Mobile Web App Design slides

2010-03-02 Thread Jason Casden
Playing around with the Android emulator, it looks great in regards to performance testing (it runs even slower than my Droid). Thanks for pointing this out. Have you had any luck sending multi-touch interactions to the Android emulator? Rapid pinch-to-zoom redraws have been the source of a lot of

Re: [CODE4LIB] C4L10 Mobile Web App Design slides

2010-03-01 Thread Jason Casden
I have mostly worked in the iPhone Simulator, but in this case you will miss out on testing some of the device's resource limitations. I have had issues both with a native application and a mobile web app where I had smooth sailing in the simulator but then had crashes due to memory limitations on

Re: [CODE4LIB] C4L10 Mobile Web App Design slides

2010-03-01 Thread Jason Casden
I was actually referring to the webOS emulator: http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=1744Itemid=58 Currently, the emulator does not support the following: * Accelerometer * Audio * Bluetooth (UI and any interface-specific APIs do not work in the