On the IDE question, I'll just add that I find an interactive debugger to be
a necessity.
Marijane,
Yes, I would encourage you to ask for help on the blacklight list,
with specifics about the problems you're having. We've set up
Blacklight on a bunch of non-Marc Solr indexes here.
- Naomi
On Jan 6, 2010, at 1:32 PM, marijane white wrote:
I've read about Blacklight's ability t
Well, we received a few more entries. But now its time to close the T-shirt
contest. Thanks for participating!
The T-Shirt Design Committee
--Original Message--
From: Rosalyn Metz
To: Code for Libraries
Subject: Re: c4l2010 T-Shirt Design Contest Extended to Jan. 6th
Sent: Jan 6, 2010 8
SigInt Technologies, LLC seeks an inquisitive and motivated individual to
support efforts to integrate electronic content for a U.S. Government
Library.
We have access to electronic content from a variety of services, but lack a
way to expose the data to our users. We need someone to build scripts
There are only two kinds of people: Those who have done this kind of thing,
and those who will. You're in good company, Jonathan. That is, ALL of us.
Roy
On 1/6/10 1/6/10 1:53 PM, "Jonathan Rochkind" wrote:
> Darn it, that reply (which I've avoided quoting) was of course supposed
> to be conf
Darn it, that reply (which I've avoided quoting) was of course supposed
to be confidential and CC'd to the C4LJ editors list, not Code4Lib.
That is terribly embaressing of me.
Please do not reply to the list, and please pretend you haven't seen it,
as much as you can.
I'm afraid I send an e
Jonathan, I have a feeling you didn't want to send this to the whole list :-)
Kim
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: January 6, 2010 4:48 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Journal,
Ms. Schaefer,
I'm pleased to tell you that your recent proposal for the article "Open
Source in Name, but not in Nature" has been provisionally accepted to
the Code4Lib Journal. The editorial committee is interested in your
proposal, and would like to see a draft. As a member of the editorial
I've read about Blacklight's ability to run on any Solr index, but I've
struggled to make it work with mine. Honestly, I've been left with the
impression that my data should be in MARC if I want to use it. Is there
some documentation on this somewhere that I've overlooked? (Maybe I should
ask th
I'm glad someone mentioned maintainability. I used to work in embedded
systems, where design, testing, and maintainability were of utmost
importance, and coding is just the brief stage in between design and
test. I lived by the adage, "Code as if the person who will maintain
your code is a homicida
Marijane,
It also makes sense to examine the available software for what you
wish to accomplish. Available software goes beyond current features to
- maintainability (one reason Stanford switched to Blacklight) I'll
talk a little bit about this in our Code4Lib 2010 presentation about
te
Seems to me that Dan's "Hacker 101/201" preconfs fall into this sort
of category.
I think it would be really useful to see at a conference that didn't
already appeal to the hacker set, like CiL or LITA or something.
Even Access.
-Ross.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Tim Spalding wrote:
> I wo
Very true, however, since programming is not part of my core job duties, I'd
like to avoid spending much time on something I won't end up using. But
that doesn't mean not exploring, I think it just means choosing carefully.
This discussion has steered me towards focusing on exploring things I'm
re
I wonder if Code4Lib would ever be a good outlet for online
programming tutorials or hack sessions. I mean, get 10 people on
Etherpad or CodeArmy together, and Skype, and you could learn a lot,
and do a lot.
Tim
On Jan 5, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Tod Olson wrote:
> One of our staff needs to learn PHP, and an online course is preferred. Is
> there an online PHP course that any of you would recommend?
Thanks to the list for all of the responses. Very helpful.
-Tod
Tod Olson
Systems Librarian
University of
Taking time to explore is rarely a a waste of time in this area, because
exploring is how you learn in programming/software engineering.
marijane white wrote:
I may have worded that poorly, abstract reasons to choose a language was
exactly what I was looking for.
Your suggestion matches my nat
+1 [A good informed response]
-glen
Gabriel wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:23:09AM -0500, Bill Dueber wrote:
> > There's a spectrum of how much an editor/environment can know about a
> > program. At one end is Smalltalk, where the development environment *is* the
> > program. At the other e
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On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:23:09AM -0500, Bill Dueber wrote:
> There's a spectrum of how much an editor/environment can know about a
> program. At one end is Smalltalk, where the development environment *is* the
> program. At the other end is something like LISP (and, to an extent, Ruby)
> where so
Ross wrote:
> I honestly think choosing the best* development language is very
> similar to how one settles on politics, religion, diet, etc.
> Environment plays a part, of course, but, in the end, what generally
> works best is the language that jibes best with you and your
> personality. Sin
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Well, I'll quickly run down why we chose Drupal (hence, PHP). I mention
Drupal because to me it's more of a framework which just happens to have
a CMS built on top of it =)
Before Drupal, my team knew PHP. We had PHP books in the library,
students were learning some PHP in classes, etc.
We w
Joel Marchesoni wrote:
I agree with Dan's last point about avoiding using a special IDE to develop
with a language. That can be expensive and/or hinder others supporting the
application down the road. I use vim for most of my development as well,
although we officially use Dreamweaver at wor
At the risk of making this worse... Bill makes good points, and I wasn't saying
"don't use an IDE". I meant "I don't like using an IDE, so I don't want to be
forced to, and that affects my language/tool preferences. You might want to
consider whether you like using a particular IDE or not, in
. Thanks to Ross for forestalling what might have easily sunk into yet
another platform war
===
Discussing our professional preferences is diametrically opposed to war.
I am encouraged by our differences and ability to identify and handle them
professionally.
Do we need mediators t
I definitely agree with Bill here. There is a definitely a totemistic
attitude about vim or emacs being "all the IDE I need". Knowing your
way around vim (or possibly emacs) is certainly important -- after
all, everybody has to eventually fix something remotely -- but just
languages, some editors
I should have worded my response differently. I didn't mean one shouldn't use
any IDE at all, but as Dan said if there is a special IDE *for that language*
and otherwise one can't develop it I would stay away from it.
Joel
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Joel Marchesoni wrote:
> I agree with Dan's last point about avoiding using a special IDE to develop
> with a language.
>
I'll respectfully, but vehemently, disagree. I would say avoid *forcing*
everyone working on the project depend on a special IDE -- avoid locki
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, MJ Ray wrote:
Thomas Krichel wrote:
Joe Hourcle writes
ps. yes, I could've used this response as an opportunity to bash
PHP ... and I didn't, because they might be learning PHP to
migrate it to something else.
controversial ;-)
what's the problem(s) with PHP?
I agree with Dan's last point about avoiding using a special IDE to develop
with a language. That can be expensive and/or hinder others supporting the
application down the road. I use vim for most of my development as well,
although we officially use Dreamweaver at work mostly because of its S
Hello All,
Today is the last day to submit your T-Shirt Designs, I'll be
"closing" it at noon with a times up message. I'm sure you're already
sick of doing work, so waste your day creating a t-shirt.
Rosalyn
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 07:42:23AM -0500, Erin Germ wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone is or has tried using Go ( http://golang.org/ ).
i begun an experimental ISO2709 parser. It's very nice to write go code
but:
- even the langage itself isn't stable
- the performances are not yet as good as tho
On Jan 5, 2010, at 10:13 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
> Dan Chudnov, for example, seems to think in Python. When I tried
> Python, it never really clicked -- I muddled through a few projects
> but never really got it.
Actually, I think in Hoosier, but as the late Kurt Vonnegut might remind me,
that's
> I think that the single critical question to ask about any
> development in a digital library environment is it's ability
> to deal with Unicode and it's related standards such as UTF-8.
> Last time I looked at it, PHP had problems is that area.
> These problems will bedevil anything you wri
Just wondering if anyone is or has tried using Go ( http://golang.org/ ).
~Erin
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MJ Ray writes
> Our experience is that PHP hosting environments vary much more, most
> PHP code is a mess
I guess that is a feature of the code written in PHP, rather
than of the language itself. Some languages make it harder to
write bad code. No language makes it impossible.
I thin
Thomas Krichel wrote:
> Joe Hourcle writes
> > ps. yes, I could've used this response as an opportunity to bash
> > PHP ... and I didn't, because they might be learning PHP to
> > migrate it to something else.
>
> controversial ;-)
>
> what's the problem(s) with PHP?
Oh please don't nuk
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