Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby MARC::Record: anyone need ruby 1.8 support anymore?

2016-02-28 Thread Louis St-Amour
The semver spec doesn't specifically address such changes, focusing more on API-level changes. The Ruby community seems to have boiled semver down to: PATCH 0.0.x level changes for implementation level detail changes, such as small bug fixes MINOR 0.x.0 level changes for any backwards compatible

Re: [CODE4LIB] Let's Encrypt and EZProxy

2016-01-14 Thread Louis St-Amour
Just in case anyone was (like me) wondering how a wildcard certificate would work with multiple levels of subdomains, it turns out that EZproxy has custom support for SSL built-in and automatically converts example.org.ezproxy.example.org to use hyphens in the subdomains:

Re: [CODE4LIB] IP Authentication for Online Access to the New York Times

2015-01-15 Thread Louis St-Amour
@listserv.nd.edu/msg22055.html Myself, as a dev, I’d want to investigate a solution based around something caching and fast like Varnish, but there’s nothing pre-made out there like EZproxy right now, so it’s what everybody uses. --  Louis St-Amour Sent with Airmail On January 15, 2015 at 4:39:39 PM

Re: [CODE4LIB] Issuing Mozilla Open Badges

2013-03-15 Thread Louis St-Amour
How does that Drupal module compare with https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Badges/build ? Personally I couldn't make heads or tails of the Mozilla Badges project until I saw this page's overview at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges and

Re: [CODE4LIB] A newbie seeking input/suggestions

2013-02-21 Thread Louis St-Amour
I think the last idea with a doorbell is on the right track. Forget tiny notifications on individuals' computers and instead put up a screen in a central spot which you can use as an informal notice board and buzzer, connected perhaps to a webcam or security image so people can see the traffic and

Re: [CODE4LIB] [WEB4LIB] How to configure subdomain hosting without domain hosting?

2012-11-27 Thread Louis St-Amour
If I understand things correctly: If your cheapie hosting account has a static domain name, set up a cname from your university domain to your cheapie domain. cname is usually used for domain to domain translation, A records are used for domain to IP address translation. Louis. On Tuesday,

Re: [CODE4LIB] does your OPAC pass HTML validation?

2011-06-20 Thread Louis St-Amour
There's a simple trick to fix quite a few pesky validation errors -- swap to an HTML5 doctype instead of the XHTML spec, which really did go too far. It mistakenly removes the target attribute from links, for instance, and it's not until HTML5 that you can nest block-displayed elements within a

Re: [CODE4LIB] A/B Testing Catalogs and Such

2011-01-26 Thread Louis St-Amour
As Nielsen says in a 2005 Alertbox column, Putting A/B Testing in Its Placehttp://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050815.html, a large part of why A/B testing is successful or not comes down to the metric you're measuring to define that success. If there is no agreement on the value of that metric, it's

Re: [CODE4LIB] reading early versions of FrameMaker...

2011-01-24 Thread Louis St-Amour
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Bill Janssen jans...@parc.com wrote: At PARC, we have some digital documents from the early '90's in FrameMaker version 1 and 2. But we have no versions of FrameMaker suitable for opening them, and re-rendering them in a more accessible format. I'm wondering

Re: [CODE4LIB] An alternate presentation of Code4Lib Journal

2011-01-04 Thread Louis St-Amour
Given my journal2epub script's experience with the Code4Lib journal site, does Anthologize have an option to produce TOC items from post headings, modifying the HTML to add IDs where necessary? Does it map links to posts with their offline copies, preserving references? Does it try to add the