Re: [CODE4LIB] commercial support for oss

2010-01-14 Thread Carol Bean

Might want to consider adding DrupalEasy (http://drupaleasy.com/).

Carol

On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:


On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:


http://infomotions.com/tmp/support.html


Ah, shot! Don't you hate when you do that! Instead, try:

 http://infomotions.com/tmp/oss/support.html

--
Earache Least Moron


Carol Bean
beanwo...@gmail.com


Re: [CODE4LIB] commercial support for oss

2010-01-14 Thread Hopkins, Justin
Acquia is really the best choice for commercial drupal.

Cheers,
Justin

On Jan 14, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Carol Bean beanwo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Might want to consider adding DrupalEasy (http://drupaleasy.com/).

 Carol

 On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

 On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

 http://infomotions.com/tmp/support.html

 Ah, shot! Don't you hate when you do that! Instead, try:

 http://infomotions.com/tmp/oss/support.html

 -- 
 Earache Least Moron

 Carol Bean
 beanwo...@gmail.com


Re: [CODE4LIB] commercial support for oss

2010-01-14 Thread Hopkins, Justin
Oh, I'm sorry I read that out of context and misunderstood. I didn't realize 
this was a list, got the impression someone was seeking Drupal support.

Justin

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Carol 
Bean
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:31 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] commercial support for oss

Might want to consider adding DrupalEasy (http://drupaleasy.com/).

Carol

On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

 On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

 http://infomotions.com/tmp/support.html

 Ah, shot! Don't you hate when you do that! Instead, try:

  http://infomotions.com/tmp/oss/support.html

 -- 
 Earache Least Moron

Carol Bean
beanwo...@gmail.com


[CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Kevin Reiss
Hi,

I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a 
good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my 
experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to 
get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we 
are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. 
Thanks for any comments in advance.

Regards,

Kevin Reiss



  


Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Ross Singer
Have you looked at Heroku (http://heroku.com/)?  I've only used their
freebie plan (so I have no idea how they compare pricewise), but it's
been fantastic to get Ruby apps running there.

Dreamhost also provides Passenger to their customers
(http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger) so that might be an option, too.

-Ross.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Kevin Reiss reiss.ke...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a 
 good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my 
 experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to 
 get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we 
 are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a 
 day. Thanks for any comments in advance.

 Regards,

 Kevin Reiss







Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Chad Fennell
 I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a 
 good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my 
 experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to 
 get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we 
 are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a 
 day. Thanks for any comments in advance.

I'll second Ross's suggestion to look into Heroku, sounds like a good
match for your needs.  It's one of the most interesting platform
deployment systems I've ever seen. Here's a podcast with one of their
reps: http://www.rubyology.com/podcasts/show/84


Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Doran, Michael D
Hi Kevin,

Although I can't recommend any hosting based on personal experience, a while 
back I had bookmarked a recommended (by another code4libber) hosting site: 
Slicehost at http://www.slicehost.com/

I think they pretty much get out of the way and let you do what you want, 
development wise.  Regarding Rails in particular, one of their testimonials 
said The only thing I can say is Wow! ... Rails up and running in 30 minutes. 
 Another said ...I’m a Rails developer and a Linux enthusiast who can’t 
believe he found a Gentoo VPS with 256MB RAM for $20/month.  And yet another 
...I’m a freelance Rails developer, and my experience on an Ubuntu VPS has 
been fantastic compared to my previous shared hosting experience. [1]

Again, this is *not* a recommendation from personal experience.

-- Michael

[1] http://www.slicehost.com/why-slicehost/testimonials

# Michael Doran, Systems Librarian
# University of Texas at Arlington
# 817-272-5326 office
# 817-688-1926 mobile
# do...@uta.edu
# http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/
 

 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
 Kevin Reiss
 Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:16 AM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
 
 Hi,
 
 I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've
 had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with
 bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through
 a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application
 properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be
 moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in
 advance.
 
 Regards,
 
 Kevin Reiss
 
 
 
 


Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Rosalyn Metz
Hi Kevin,

I'm going to recommend slicehost also.  Again, I haven't used it but I met
the (former) owner.  He sold the business to rackspace, which has an awesome
reputation in the cloud computing world.  They are #2 behind amazon.

Rosalyn

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Doran, Michael D do...@uta.edu wrote:

 Hi Kevin,

 Although I can't recommend any hosting based on personal experience, a
 while back I had bookmarked a recommended (by another code4libber) hosting
 site: Slicehost at http://www.slicehost.com/

 I think they pretty much get out of the way and let you do what you want,
 development wise.  Regarding Rails in particular, one of their testimonials
 said The only thing I can say is Wow! ... Rails up and running in 30
 minutes.  Another said ...I’m a Rails developer and a Linux enthusiast who
 can’t believe he found a Gentoo VPS with 256MB RAM for $20/month.  And yet
 another ...I’m a freelance Rails developer, and my experience on an Ubuntu
 VPS has been fantastic compared to my previous shared hosting experience.
 [1]

 Again, this is *not* a recommendation from personal experience.

 -- Michael

 [1] http://www.slicehost.com/why-slicehost/testimonials

 # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian
 # University of Texas at Arlington
 # 817-272-5326 office
 # 817-688-1926 mobile
 # do...@uta.edu
 # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/


  -Original Message-
  From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
  Kevin Reiss
  Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:16 AM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
 
  Hi,
 
  I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've
  had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with
  bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through
  a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application
  properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be
  moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in
  advance.
 
  Regards,
 
  Kevin Reiss
 
 
 
 



Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Ethan Gruber
I can attest to Slicehost, which Michael suggested.  I have used it for
several projects.  One has java/tomcat intensive
applications--Cocoon/Solr/Orbeon.  The other is running game servers haha.
It'll run Rails as well as anything, although I have not used slicehost for
that in particular.  I think it's a great service.  Both systems I manage
are running Ubuntu 8.04.

Ethan

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Doran, Michael D do...@uta.edu wrote:

 Hi Kevin,

 Although I can't recommend any hosting based on personal experience, a
 while back I had bookmarked a recommended (by another code4libber) hosting
 site: Slicehost at http://www.slicehost.com/

 I think they pretty much get out of the way and let you do what you want,
 development wise.  Regarding Rails in particular, one of their testimonials
 said The only thing I can say is Wow! ... Rails up and running in 30
 minutes.  Another said ...I’m a Rails developer and a Linux enthusiast who
 can’t believe he found a Gentoo VPS with 256MB RAM for $20/month.  And yet
 another ...I’m a freelance Rails developer, and my experience on an Ubuntu
 VPS has been fantastic compared to my previous shared hosting experience.
 [1]

 Again, this is *not* a recommendation from personal experience.

 -- Michael

 [1] http://www.slicehost.com/why-slicehost/testimonials

 # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian
 # University of Texas at Arlington
 # 817-272-5326 office
 # 817-688-1926 mobile
 # do...@uta.edu
 # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/


  -Original Message-
  From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
  Kevin Reiss
  Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:16 AM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
 
  Hi,
 
  I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've
  had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with
  bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through
  a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application
  properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be
  moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in
  advance.
 
  Regards,
 
  Kevin Reiss
 
 
 
 



Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Ross Singer
I think one thing to consider between Heroku and something like
Slicehost, is what exactly you have the resources/willingness to
support.

One of the things I've really liked is that to get an app running on
Heroku is that I basically just have to worry about my Ruby app, not
maintaining a server environment.

On the other hand, it's somewhat limiting as to what I can do there,
so it's not a solution to every problem.

-Ross.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Kevin,

 I'm going to recommend slicehost also.  Again, I haven't used it but I met
 the (former) owner.  He sold the business to rackspace, which has an awesome
 reputation in the cloud computing world.  They are #2 behind amazon.

 Rosalyn

 On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Doran, Michael D do...@uta.edu wrote:

 Hi Kevin,

 Although I can't recommend any hosting based on personal experience, a
 while back I had bookmarked a recommended (by another code4libber) hosting
 site: Slicehost at http://www.slicehost.com/

 I think they pretty much get out of the way and let you do what you want,
 development wise.  Regarding Rails in particular, one of their testimonials
 said The only thing I can say is Wow! ... Rails up and running in 30
 minutes.  Another said ...I’m a Rails developer and a Linux enthusiast who
 can’t believe he found a Gentoo VPS with 256MB RAM for $20/month.  And yet
 another ...I’m a freelance Rails developer, and my experience on an Ubuntu
 VPS has been fantastic compared to my previous shared hosting experience.
 [1]

 Again, this is *not* a recommendation from personal experience.

 -- Michael

 [1] http://www.slicehost.com/why-slicehost/testimonials

 # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian
 # University of Texas at Arlington
 # 817-272-5326 office
 # 817-688-1926 mobile
 # do...@uta.edu
 # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/


  -Original Message-
  From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
  Kevin Reiss
  Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:16 AM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
 
  Hi,
 
  I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've
  had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with
  bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through
  a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application
  properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be
  moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in
  advance.
 
  Regards,
 
  Kevin Reiss
 
 
 
 




Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Chad Fennell
FWIW, I was going to mention VPS as an option, but it sounded like
*maybe* you'd been working under a managed hosting environment, so
Heroku seemed like a natural fit to your question (easy Rails installs
with support for a wide variety of libraries/common dependencies),
which is why I mentioned at least looking into it.

That being said, a VPS like Slicehost would grant you pretty much free
range to do whatever you like with the proviso that you'd be managing
the whole she-bang and would need to keep your whole LAMP stack
updated/patched yourself. As a Ruby newb/fiddler, after looking for a
play space to run some of my own Rails projects, I opted for Linode, a
somewhat new competitor to Slicehost.  But both seem like pretty good
options to me.

Of course, there are a mind boggling array of other options, including
managed VPS's - more restrictive, but there are some that seem more
willing to accommodate your needs than others. A good friend uses
WiredTree out of Chicago for all of their commercial Drupal sites and
love the support they've gotten: http://www.wiredtree.com/. It looks
like they do support Rails, but I have no idea how well:
http://www.wiredtree.com/managedservers/software.php.

Anyway, good luck.


[CODE4LIB] Job Opening: DuraCloud Java Developer, DuraSpace, Inc.

2010-01-14 Thread Tim Donohue

Full Job Description available at:
http://duraspace.org/javadeveloper.php

Description:

The java developer will join the team designing, building, and 
supporting the DuraCloud technology 
(http://duraspace.org/duracloud.php). The developer will be responsible 
for writing code and working with the larger team in defining 
requirements and creating the project roadmap. The position requires a 
knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and self-motivated individual with 
experience in integrating disparate code bases, Web services, API calls, 
wrappers, scripts or database synchronizations. The java developer will 
focus on best strategies for integrating DuraCloud and other DuraSpace 
systems as the underpinning for dynamic, collaborative Web-based 
applications. Other responsibilities include assisting the DuraSpace 
team in defining project goals, leading the software engineering 
process, and disseminating results (including software deployment, 
documentation, reports, journal articles, presentations at professional 
meetings/conferences).


Qualifications:

Required: College degree or equivalent work experience. Minimum two 
years direct experience in constructing integrated systems using 
components in Java, and ideally in one or more of Ruby, Python, PHP, or 
other Web development environments. Strong UNIX command line skills, and 
familiarity with typical open source packaging and build conventions. 
Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Flexibility and 
willingness to collaborate with both technical and non-technical staff 
in a team/cooperative environment.


Desirable: Experience building and maintaining complex Web applications 
and/or digital library systems. Familiarity with Web Services and 
virtualized or cloud computing environments. Solid understanding of 
relational databases and SQL. Exposure to semantic technologies 
including RDF, OWL, and triple store systems. Background in hybrid 
systems linking components written in different languages.


To Apply:

Please email or mail cover letters and resumes addressed to:
Carissa Smith
jobs+javadevelo...@duraspace.org
DuraSpace, Inc.
301 College Avenue
Cornell University Information Science Building
Ithaca, NY 14850


Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Graham, Wayne (wsg4w)
Hi Kevin,

Love Heroku (http://heroku.com/), but it does have limitations in the way it 
works (e.g. Read-only drive space). I've heard good thinks about EngineYard 
(http://www.engineyard.com) and I've been running several apps through 
slicehost.

If you're feeling brave, you wan use jruby and deploy to Google's app-engine 
(http://code.google.com/p/appengine-jruby/).

HTH,
Wayne


On 1/14/10 11:15 AM, Kevin Reiss reiss.ke...@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi,

I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a 
good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my 
experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to 
get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we 
are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. 
Thanks for any comments in advance.

Regards,

Kevin Reiss


[CODE4LIB] PTFS to Acquire LibLime

2010-01-14 Thread Yitzchak Schaffer

http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=14463

--
Yitzchak Schaffer
Systems Manager
Touro College Libraries
33 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230
Fax (212) 627-3197
Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org

Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu


[CODE4LIB] Job Opening: Java Deveopers - eXtensible Catalog Organization

2010-01-14 Thread Lindahl, David
The eXtensible Catalog Organization (XCO) is seeking several experienced Java 
developers with immediate availability for short-term assignments (6 months to 
1 year).  See the position descriptions below for a list of qualifications and 
duties.  

Consideration will be made for qualified developers that are currently employed 
at another institution, but who may be available for loan to the XCO.  The XCO 
would cover the salary and benefits of such individuals in the form of a direct 
payment to their host institution.   This is an excellent opportunity for a 
library to invest in open-source software for libraries as well as a way to 
temporarily offset staffing costs in a difficult economic environment.  Only 
staff that can be made available to XCO at 100% time (or close to that level) 
will be considered for this arrangement.

Qualified candidates would have the opportunity to learn and be challenged to 
work with exciting technologies and are asked to bring a self-directed problem 
solving approach to the project.  

XC software is currently undergoing exhaustive testing with a range of legacy 
library systems and metadata.  The focus of our work going forward is on 
feature completion, code refinement, bug fixes and performance enhancement.  
One critical task will be to develop our bulk metadata processing platform into 
a parallel processing workhorse.  Another task will be to develop support for a 
wide range of metadata formats, including Dublin Core data and authority 
records.

In these difficult economic times, we hope this approach to staffing might 
assist an institution in retaining a staff member in between projects.  With 
XCO-provided funding, staff would continue at their host institution but take 
their work assignments from the XCO team.

Contact Information

Interested institutions or individuals that would like to discuss this 
arrangement should contact Randall Cook at 585-273-2042.   Resumes can be 
submitted to:

Randall Cook
eXtensible Catalog Project Manager
Rush Rhees Library, Box 270055
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627-0055
-OR
Email:   rc...@library.rochester.edu

Analyst Programmer - Senior
This position is responsible for software development, testing, and deployment 
activities for eXtensible Catalog software applications that are currently 
under development.  This position is part of the eXtensible Catalog 
Organization (XCO) (http://eXtensibleCatalog.org) and will help to enhance a 
suite of open-source next-generation library web applications.  This 
high-profile project will offer the selected candidate an opportunity to work 
with a range of developers, both within the project and at other institutions.

The XC software consists of several distinct applications, each designed to 
work with library metadata in various XML formats, to integrate with legacy 
systems, process data, and present web user interfaces.  The applications are 
built with a number of technologies.  Experience with some or all of the 
technologies listed below is highly desired and conceptual familiarity is 
required for discussion purposes.  The core list of technologies used in the 
Java-based components of eXtensible Catalog includes: Java, JSP, Struts 2 
Framework, YUI Toolkit, SOLR, Lucene, mySQL, web services, XML, XSLT, and XML 
Schema.  Knowledge and/or familiarly with the following library specific 
standards and technologies is desired: MARC format, Dublin Core format, OAI-PMH 
Protocol, and NCIP Protocol.  Development tools used include Subversion, 
Eclipse, and NetBeans.

The position is a 12 month assignment with possible extension should funding be 
available.

Position 1 - MST Performance and Processing Enhancements

One of the applications within the XC suite of software is called the Metadata 
Services Toolkit (MST) and it consists of a user interface and several distinct 
services.  This position will be responsible for enhancing the performance of 
the MST and services via:
* Code changes to allow for multiple processor processing/parallel processing
* Enhancements in SOLR indexing and storage
* Code and query related optimization enhancements
* Other enhancements identified by the XCO management

Position 2 - Summary -  MST Services

One of the applications within the XC suite of software is called the Metadata 
Services Toolkit (MST) and it consists of a user interface and several distinct 
services.  This position will be responsible for the development of several 
additional services that will augment the existing feature set of the MST.  
This work will entail working with Dublin Core data formats and Library of 
Congress Authority records.


Supervision

This position reports to the eXtensible Catalog Organization's Executive 
Director (http://extensiblecatalog.org).

Typical Duties

* Software Engineering, Implementation and Testing 
* Produce well designed, documented, and tested code for the next-generation 
library platform.  
* Communication and 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Gabriel Farrell
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 08:15:38AM -0800, Kevin Reiss wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a 
 good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my 
 experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to 
 get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we 
 are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a 
 day. Thanks for any comments in advance.
 
 Regards,
 
 Kevin Reiss

1000-2000 visits/day should be possible with just about any hosting
provider.  The flexibility you need will be determined by what you mean
by a moderately complicated setup for Rails.  

If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a
referral key :)).  A number of customers have switched to them since
Slicehost was sold to Rackspace.

If you want a web host, I'd recommend WebFaction.  I have a client site
with them and have been impressed by the balance of support and
flexibility they offer.  See the Rails forum
(http://forum.webfaction.com/viewforum.php?id=33) for an idea of the way
things work there.


Gabriel


Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Chad Fennell
 If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a
 referral key :)).  A number of customers have switched to them since
 Slicehost was sold to Rackspace.

Hey, no fair! :^p


Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Nate Vack
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Gabriel Farrell g...@rc98.net wrote:

 If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a
 referral key :)).  A number of customers have switched to them since
 Slicehost was sold to Rackspace.

If it's Plug your favorite VPS provider, I'll put in a shout-out to
Rimuhosting. Excellent support, snappy boxes, and good prices. Been
using them for three years, both for a pro-bono Rails project and
gimlet.us.

Cheers,
-Nate

PS - Lest you giggle at its name (I did), it's ree-moo-hosting ;-)


Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Terence Ingram
Kevin,

I host a few rails apps with dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com/). I have 
found them to be really good.

Cheers
Terence


On 15/01/10 3:15 AM, Kevin Reiss reiss.ke...@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi,

I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a 
good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my 
experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to 
get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we 
are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. 
Thanks for any comments in advance.

Regards,

Kevin Reiss


Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Gabriel Farrell
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:33:20PM -0600, Chad Fennell wrote:
  If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a
  referral key :)).  A number of customers have switched to them since
  Slicehost was sold to Rackspace.
 
 Hey, no fair! :^p

Oops, sorry.  Chad has first dibs.


[CODE4LIB] Job in Federal Courts Library

2010-01-14 Thread Carol Bean
Just passing along info for those who may be interested.  Please don't
respond to me. :-)

U.S. COURTS LIBRARY 8th  CIRCUIT
DIGITAL SERVICES LIBRARIAN

A new position is available in the U.S. Courts 8th Circuit Library System
headquarters in St. Louis. The library system consists of a headquarters and
9 branch libraries which
serve all federal judges and court staff in the 7 states of the 8th Circuit.
The Digital Services Librarian
will primarily be responsible for developing and maintaining library web
sites,  recommending and
developing electronic services, training court staff on the use of  digital
resources, and assisting with
reference.  Initial appointment will be for 1 year; renewable if funding
permits.

Primary Responsibilities:
Work with stakeholders to determine the content and layout of library web
sites
Maintain the library's web sites (including web page technical support and
troubleshooting)
Collaborate with other library personnel to develop and maintain the
library's digital services
Investigate emerging technologies; recommend and develop applications
Implement appropriate Web 2.0+ technologies
Develop and conduct training for library and court staff on the use of
electronic resources
Serve as library SharePoint administrator
Assist as needed in maintaining Unicorn and other library systems
Provide reference services in coordination with other staff

Requirements:
M.L.S. + minimum one year full-time or equivalent library experience
Substantial experience in providing support for library-related information
technology services
Working knowledge of emerging technologies related to the design and
delivery of library services
Experience with blogs, wikis, media-casting, RSS, and other Web 2.0
applications
Experience designing and maintaining web pages
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to make presentations and conduct training sessions
Occasional travel required; background check required for successful
candidate

Preferred qualifications:
Degree or substantial coursework in information technology
Expert online research skills, including Lexis, Westlaw and the Internet
Experience with SharePoint and SharePoint Designer
Law library experience

Salary and Term:
Minimum $55,000 (approximate); initial 1 year appointment, renewable subject
to funding
Court cannot reimburse interview or relocation expenses

Submit letter and resume by February 15, 2010 to:
Ann Fessenden, Circuit Librarian
U.S. Courts Library 8th Circuit
111 S. 10th St., Room 22.300
St. Louis, MO 63102
ann_fessen...@ca8.uscourts.gov
For more information on federal court employment see:
http://www.uscourts.gov/careers/

-- 
Carol Bean
beanwo...@gmail.com


Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Genny Engel
I have used Sonic.net for the past 10 years because it is run by geeks.  
Haven't done any Rails on it, but you can build pretty much anything you want 
on standard tools  languages (Perl, PHP, Python, C, Ruby, etc.).   For tech 
support, they have their own newsgroup hierarchy where questions get answered 
by authoritative sources, like their senior network  server admins or the 
company founder.  Also, they recently added two new ways to get their MOTD:  
twitter and  this cracks me up ... gopher ;) 

 
 Hi,
 
 I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've
 had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with
 bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through
 a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application
 properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be
 moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in
 advance.
 
 Regards,
 
 Kevin Reiss
 
 
 
 

 
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