Re: [CODE4LIB] favorite jQuery plugins for libraries?

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Keane
You might take a look at jQuery UI: http://jqueryui.com/ --peter keane On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: Hi all, I'm on a mission to finally learn some jQuery, and I'm kind of falling in love with it. In particular, I'm finding in it the perfect tool

Re: [CODE4LIB] Unix training options?

2008-06-13 Thread Peter Keane
will ;-)) and always have the opportunity to erase the hard drive and start over. My all-time favorite resource/road-map for getting more unix saavy is Eric Raymond's How To Become a Hacker available at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html. --peter keane Hello all, I realize this is a bit off-topic

Re: [CODE4LIB] free movie cover images?

2008-05-19 Thread Peter Keane
://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/articles/2002dltr0006.html --peter keane Ken Peter Murray wrote: IMDB has cover art for films, but I haven't looked to see if they provide an API to get to them /a la/ Google Books. Peter - -- Peter Murrayhttp://www.pandc.org/peter

Re: [CODE4LIB] free movie cover images?

2008-05-19 Thread Peter Keane
away from cases where copyright issues are not clear and obvious. It is our job to provide the highest possible service to our users, not to be timid in the face of false and/or faulty claims about copyright infingement. --peter keane On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 03:00:08PM -0500, Charles Ledvina wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] free movie cover images?

2008-05-19 Thread Peter Keane
of visual metadata, and you cannot copyright metadata. --peter keane On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 03:50:35PM -0500, Jonathan Gorman wrote: Another link about thumbnail images not being copyright-able: http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/947 I don't think this particular case is saying thumbnail

Re: [CODE4LIB] free movie cover images?

2008-05-19 Thread Peter Keane
it they should or shouldn't use thumbnails? Honestly, folks, this is our profession. (Where's Larry Lessig when you need him... ;-). cheers- peter keane I wish our administrators agreed. Jonathan Peter Keane wrote: Actually, this is one of a number of links out there (esp. regarding

Re: [CODE4LIB] free movie cover images?

2008-05-19 Thread Peter Keane
if there were any other possible infringing images on the site. Why the huge fear!? --peter keane Jonathan Peter Keane wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 05:29:38PM -0400, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: But I would agree that it is our duty as libraries to be pushing the boundaries of these grey areas

Re: [CODE4LIB] open library

2008-03-14 Thread Peter Keane
being hesitant) to look beyond those models is simply missed opportunity. --peter keane On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:24:32PM -0400, Tim Spalding wrote: I'd like to say we should not get sidetracked by discussions of business models. I particularly object to the idea that LibraryThing can't

Re: [CODE4LIB] atom feeds

2008-02-01 Thread Peter Keane
I think is a very clean, extensible, and scalable system. Oh, by the way I found a blog entry by Elias Torres titled Extending Atom/Feeds [0] to be very helpful as well. -peter keane daseproject.org [0] http://torrez.us/archives/2006/08/02/476/ On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Can

Re: [CODE4LIB] Planning open source Library system at Duke

2008-01-29 Thread Peter Keane
steps towards tackling the library domain-specific tasks. I suspect a distributed system used by a library will look a heck of a lot like a distributed system used in other domains, so constantly looking outside the walls will be a real key. --Peter Keane The University of Texas at Austin Liberal

Re: [CODE4LIB] perl-cpan; php-pear; java-???

2008-01-25 Thread Peter Keane
The Apache folks have a bunch of good stuff under the Jakarta project: http://jakarta.apache.org/ Note also the Ex-Jakarta list on that page. --Peter Keane On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: When I want to find a nice collection of Perl modules I go to CPAN. If I wanted to find

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP and Sybase

2008-01-23 Thread Peter Keane
a charm. --peter keane On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Genny Engel wrote: Anyone have PHP on Linux/Apache talking to a Sybase database on another server? If so, are you using Easysoft ODBC? Or have other options to recommend? Thanks, Genny Engel Internet Librarian Sonoma County Library [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP and Sybase

2008-01-23 Thread Peter Keane
Sorry Genny!! I addressed you as George for some unknown reason. (There IS a famous George Engel and another one that I know, but that's no excuse...). --peter keane On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Genny Engel wrote: Anyone have PHP on Linux/Apache talking to a Sybase database on another server? If so

Re: [CODE4LIB] perl6

2008-01-21 Thread Peter Keane
. And...for perl programmers not wanting to brave the new Perl6 world, Perl5 development continues apace -- Perl 5.10 was recently released with some of the goodies back-ported from Perl6 (say and Hash::Util::FieldHash, a.k.a. inside-out objects). --Peter Keane On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Eric Lease