Re: [CODE4LIB] 'Send to Kindle' link

2012-03-06 Thread Patrick Berry
It looks like that may even be a special relationship between OL/IA and Amazon/Kindle http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/send-selected-full-text-ebooks-from-open-library-to-a-kindle-with-only-a-couple-of-clicks/ All other services that I know of need to use the Amazon Send to Kindle app or the Sen

[CODE4LIB] 'Send to Kindle' link

2012-03-06 Thread Sara Amato
Can anyone advise on how to implement Send to Kindle' , as seen on the OpenLibrary site ( e.g. http://openlibrary.org/works/OL729827W/Correspondence) https://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/fiona/web-to-kindle?clientid=IA&itemid=gauguing00gauguoft&docid=gauguing00gauguoft It looks like some sort of re

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: New, lower pricing for Amazon EC2, RDS, and ElastiCache

2012-03-06 Thread Peter Murray
We had this discussion last month about using EC2 for production services. They have dropped their pricing again, so a reserved 'small' instance is now $17.57/month after paying the one-time reservation fee of $160 for a 1-year term. That averages out to about $31/month. Peter Begin forwarde

Re: [CODE4LIB] Brett Bonfield wants to chat

2012-03-06 Thread Brett Bonfield
Oh no. That didn't really happen. Sorry everyone. Brett On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Michael J. Giarlo wrote: > You had me at "chat," Brett Bonfield! > > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 13:06, Brett Bonfield wrote: >> --- >> >> Br

Re: [CODE4LIB] Preserving hyperlinks in conversion from Excel/googledocs/anything to PDF (was Any ideas for free pdf to excel conversion?)

2012-03-06 Thread stuart yeates
Sounds like a job for LaTeX and a short bash script to me. cheers stuart On 07/03/12 07:55, Bill Dueber wrote: What exactly are you trying to do? Take a list of links and turn them into...a list of hot links in a PDF file? On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Matt Amory wrote: Does anyone know o

Re: [CODE4LIB] Preserving hyperlinks in conversion from Excel/googledocs/anything to PDF (was Any ideas for free pdf to excel conversion?)

2012-03-06 Thread Bill Dueber
What exactly are you trying to do? Take a list of links and turn them into...a list of hot links in a PDF file? On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Matt Amory wrote: > Does anyone know of any script library that can convert a set of (~200) > hyperlinks into Acrobat's goofy protocol? I do own Acroba

Re: [CODE4LIB] Microsoft Transact-SQL

2012-03-06 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Then you might be best starting with a really good book on SQL in general, or 'standard' SQL. On 3/6/2012 1:42 PM, Wilfred Drew wrote: It is actually for a job I am interested in. I have no SQL experience in depth at all. Just some using Access. -Original Message- From: Code for Libr

Re: [CODE4LIB] Microsoft Transact-SQL

2012-03-06 Thread Wilfred Drew
It is actually for a job I am interested in. I have no SQL experience in depth at all. Just some using Access. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jon Gorman Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 1:39 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject

Re: [CODE4LIB] Brett Bonfield wants to chat

2012-03-06 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
You had me at "chat," Brett Bonfield! On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 13:06, Brett Bonfield wrote: > --- > > Brett Bonfield wants to stay in better touch using some of Google's coolest > new > products. > > If you already have Gmail or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Microsoft Transact-SQL

2012-03-06 Thread Jon Gorman
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Wilfred Drew wrote: > I did mean Transact-SQL!!  Sorry.  I am after book recommendations. Right, sorry, should have made myself clearer. Do you have previous experience with creating database queries? I can't say I have any real recommendations, but it might he

[CODE4LIB] Brett Bonfield wants to chat

2012-03-06 Thread Brett Bonfield
--- Brett Bonfield wants to stay in better touch using some of Google's coolest new products. If you already have Gmail or Google Talk, visit: http://mail.google.com/mail/b-e9a82d6f75-ebad154aeb-xi0XRFne0OFA0g69pVkX2gOi91Y You'll

[CODE4LIB] Job announcement: Director of Library Information Technology @ Cal State Northridge

2012-03-06 Thread Altman, Elizabeth A
DIRECTOR OF LIBRARY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Oviatt Library, California State University Northridge Under the general direction of the Dean, the Director of Library Information Technology is responsible for the conception, design, implementation, and operation of all systems and technology within a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Microsoft Transact-SQL

2012-03-06 Thread Mark Ellis
I was going to suggest O'Reilly's Transact-SQL Programming, but it's apparently out of print. Do you have access to Safari Books Online through your institution? If so, you can choose from many appropriate titles there and you can hop among them without commiting to any one in particular. Mark

Re: [CODE4LIB] Microsoft Transit-SQL

2012-03-06 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
There's the O'Reilly book Transact-SQL Programming: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565924017.do However, it's worth noting that the book is really out of date at this point. Mark On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Jon Gorman wrote: >> I am looking for a good text on Microsoft Transit-SQL.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Autoscaling and streaming apps on EC2

2012-03-06 Thread Kyle Banerjee
> > The variability in traffic and the support for streaming in CloudFront > does make this look like a good use of AWS. Just out of curiosity what > is the user and staff client software that you are talking about? http://variations.sourceforge.net/ The demo movies at http://www.dlib.indiana.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Provider Testing Tool

2012-03-06 Thread Habing, Thomas Gerald
You might also want to look here, http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/, which allows you to interactively explore an OAI provider, and it can also run a suite of tests against an OAI provider. Tom > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Cricke

Re: [CODE4LIB] Microsoft Transact-SQL

2012-03-06 Thread Wilfred Drew
I did mean Transact-SQL!! Sorry. I am after book recommendations. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jon Gorman Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 12:02 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Microsoft Transit-SQL >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Microsoft Transit-SQL

2012-03-06 Thread Jon Gorman
> I am looking for a good text on Microsoft Transit-SQL. I have searched high > and low and > all I find are books focused on Microsoft SQL Server. Do you mean Transact-SQL (which I usually just see abbreviated T-SQL) ? The online documentation at msdn isn't great, but it's not horrible. That

[CODE4LIB] Microsoft Transit-SQL

2012-03-06 Thread Wilfred Drew
I am looking for a good text on Microsoft Transit-SQL. I have searched high and low and all I find are books focused on Microsoft SQL Server. I am not setting up a server, I need to teach myself the database structure and language. Any suggestions? I did order Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-in

[CODE4LIB] OAI Provider Testing Tool

2012-03-06 Thread Cricket
Dear Code4Lib, This is a simple one page web form that creates correctly formatted OAI requests that appear as live links on the page. All code is html and javascript contained in the one file. There is a menu for switching between different base URLs because we have multiple providers and

[CODE4LIB] OAI provider testing tool

2012-03-06 Thread Cricket
Dear Code4Lib, This is a simple one page web form that creates correctly formatted OAI requests that appear as live links on the page. All code is html and javascript contained in the one file. There is a menu for switching between different base URLs because we have multiple providers and t

Re: [CODE4LIB] Preserving hyperlinks in conversion from Excel/googledocs/anything to PDF (was Any ideas for free pdf to excel conversion?)

2012-03-06 Thread Joseph Montibello
Hi, Could you use perl's PDF::Create? (http://search.cpan.org/~markusb/PDF-Create-1.06/lib/PDF/Create.pm) Alternatively, on a bash command line I've used a couple of commands to print a given file to a pdf: enscript -q --margins=::10: -L 60 -B -p "outputfile.ps" "inputfile.txt" ps2pdfwr "outputf