Cygwin++ / Wubi++ / Virtual box - heard good things from people who know
Those three solutions give you respectively the choice between partial
emulation / dual boot / and virtualization. Like others have, or are likely to
say, it depends on what you're trying to do (and why you're trying to do
rsday, October 29, 2009 9:35 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] svn repos for CONTENTdm configurable files
Cloutman, David wrote:
> of software.) However, because of the way the application is
> architected, there are some key parts of the application that I do not
> want l
Hi Everyone,
I have recently taken over the administration of my library's CONTENTdm
installation, and am currently completing the upgrade to the 5.x
version. (This upgrade also involves a migration to Linux.) I have a
question that may be best answered by the more technical audience on
this list
Interesting. Our catalog consortium just bought Aquabrowser. Is there
some sort of NDA that you know of that would limit the discussion to
private forums? I hadn't heard of such a thing, but then maybe no one
thought to tell me.
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David Cloutman
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Fre
Ironically, the first, and only other time, I heard of R was in a job
description for the Democratic National Committee.
I wonder if the Republicans will need D programmers.
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David Cloutman
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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Most of the responses I've seen have focused on the raw technology. For
a different perspective, I'm going to assume that you know how to
program, and do it well, and that you are looking for advise with
regards to working in a library. Here's my take:
1. Learn about your organization. Figure out
>> My first question is: What is the image an image of?
> It's a bit ironic perhaps, but most of the images are essentially
*text* -- e.g. the words "UTA Plus OffCampus" in a gif [1].
I can see why you are trying to talk your catalogers out of this one. I
think my head is going to explode thinkin
I'm in a similar situation in that I've spent the last 6 months cramming
XSLT in order to do output from an application provided by a vendor. In
my situation, I'm taking information stored in a CMS database as XML
fragments and transforming it into our Web site's pages. (The CMS is
called Cascade,
>From the perspective of a programmer, rather than a cataloguer, my opinion is
>firmly no, HTML does not belong in your MARC records.
In application development, general best practice is to separate information
systems into layers, splitting data from "business logic" and "presentation
logic".
It seems like there are a number of eccentricities like that. I saw
somewhere in the documentation that if a word appears in more than half
the rows, it isn't searched. Because of that, I'm only using MATCH to
generate relevancy numbers. I'm doing boolean in the search terms. My
queries are like:
In building a search function for some of our internal documents in PHP
/ MySQL, I took a look at the default list of MySQL English language
stop words used in the natural language searching feature. The list is
actually quite extensive, and goes well beyond the typical list of "to
be" cognates, co
I don't know if there is anything that can be done about it, but if
anyone is interested, I've set up a Facebook group opposing the merger.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=91044005659
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David Cloutman
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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I'm open to seeing new approaches to the ILS in general. A related
question I had the other day, speaking of MARC, is what would an
alternative bibliographic data format look like if it was designed with
the intent for opening access to the data our ILS systems to developers
in a more informal mann
>From my perspective, as someone working in a public library, I really
want to be able to hit our OPAC with marketing type queries to provide
promotion of library materials using real-time, or near real-real time
data. Fundamentally, the Holy Grail of API queries for me is as follows:
For a given
ks: An informal survey.
Cloutman, David wrote:
> This morning I was curious to see how the battle for domination
between
> PHP frameworks was shaping up, and which one was most economically
> sensible for a developer with limited time to learn. I thought I'd
share
> my results
This morning I was curious to see how the battle for domination between
PHP frameworks was shaping up, and which one was most economically
sensible for a developer with limited time to learn. I thought I'd share
my results with the list, as this may be of interest to some of you.
To gauge the dema
I had the same issue when I booked a couple of weeks ago. Maybe we
should offer to rewrite their reservation system. ;)
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David Cloutman
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
7;t you think that's rather dangerous? PHP serialization can include
objects, and it calls wakeup() on the object if that exists after
unserialization. In theory that could do almost anything, right?
Tim
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Cloutman, David
wrote:
> I have a quick question for
event information, you should use
iCal/iCalendar instead of making up your own format.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar => text/calendar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCal => application/calendar+xml
Jonathan
Cloutman, David wrote:
> I have a quick question for any PHP developers out th
I have a quick question for any PHP developers out there.
I am writing a SOA application to manage my library's events calendar.
The basic idea is to create a public API that our web site or other
community organizations can use to query and consume information. I am
using JSON as the default out
I have to say, I couldn't agree more with John's sentiments about the
MLS not being as necessary for library technologists as the people
writing these job description seem to think it is. Between the time I
earned my MLIS and the time that I accepted my current position, I spent
seven years as a We
Roy,
I'd be happy to look at your drafts and offer feedback. I've worked a
lot with designers in the past, so I can help steer the document so that
it is helpful to the designer, and insure the process goes smoothly. I
wish I could take on a more active role, but I'm already involved in a
pro-bono
I interviewed at a company a while back that had four developers on
staff that was using the Zend Framework coupled with the Yahoo! UI
library. They seemed happy with their technology stack. I think their
choice was driven mostly by corporate backing and name recognition of
these two platforms. I h
Same for me on FF3. Also, the same error on IE 7 and Safari 3 for
Windows. All browsers are identified as IE 6.
Windows XP SP 2.
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David Cloutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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There is a surprisingly high correlation, when I look at job listings,
between companies that describe themselves as "Web 2.0" and job
descriptions demanding that candidates bring experience scaling
applications to the table. My suspicion is that "Web 2.0" has become a
euphemism for haphazard desig
In my experience, good brands accurately represent the organizational
nature of the entities they represent. IMHO, "as disorganized as humanly
possible," isn't such a bad place to start. :)
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David Cloutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
-Orig
2-3 colors max++
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Marin County Free Library
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[Amanda Hartman]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:45 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subj
I think we should vote on the options you outlined below. It seems like
a fair and reasonable way for the community to select a process.
- David
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Marin County Free Library
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I've done a lot of work with designers over the years, and I wouldn't be
surprised if a number of us work with professional designers from time
to time. It may be possible to get a designer to provide some concepts
as a volunteer, particularly since it might prove to be a great foot in
the door for
Thanks. Again, we're not looking so much for an application, but a
_format_ that we can publish from our existing CMS in such a way that we
could reasonably expect other organizations to import into their
systems. Because it is likely that some of our community partners will
need to create the impo
Does anyone have a recommend standard XML format for the exchange of
calendar information, preferably something with a W3C standard? We want
to be able to publish data from our content management system in a
format that other calendars in our community could scoop up.
Thanks,
- David
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David
arly enough
information to answer whether it's a good fit for your task at hand.
Cheers
-Nate
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Cloutman, David
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Today my boss asked me to come up with a solution that would let us
> index and search our intranet. I was alre
based on lucene, but nutch will give you more
built-in tools for crawling your website. Use the right tool for the
job and all that. :)
Bess
On 5-Aug-08, at 7:03 PM, Cloutman, David wrote:
> Today my boss asked me to come up with a solution that would let us
> index and search our i
Today my boss asked me to come up with a solution that would let us
index and search our intranet. I was already thinking of using Solr on
our public Web site we are building, and thought this might be a good
opportunity to knock two items off the to-do list with the same
technology. I know there w
Perhaps you should put together some MySQL training materials for
librarians. A webinar, perhaps. I'd love it if my colleagues had those
skills. I don't think there is that much interest, but I could be wrong.
There are at least 101 ways enterprise level database skills could be
put to work in my l
ganging your inserts together, etc. This
stuff adds up fast.
Of course, the same arguments could be leveled against PHP in favor of
C, against C in favor of assembly, etc.. Abstraction always has merits
and demerits.
Tim
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Cloutman, David
<[EMAIL PROTECTED
This is why most Web applications have to implement CRUD interfaces. PHP is
definitely for the uninitiated.
Along the lines of CodeIgnitor, I would suggest using another framework
Symfony. It's a very powerful, yet easy to learn framework, and it will
autogenerate the CRUD for you. Really, some
;t work, I can't think of
anything else off of the top of my head without seeing a screenshot of the
problem you are describing.
Hope this helps,
Ethan
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Cloutman, David
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I have a classic IE CSS rendering issue. The home page that I
I have a classic IE CSS rendering issue. The home page that I am
building for my library will have a content area that is laid out in
five columns, each a div tag with another div tag nested inside to
control spacing (which gets around another IE bug). What I have renders
fine on Windows XP install
Our public library has a local history archive, and they are using a
Content DM instance to implement their digital collection. They are
happy with it. Currently they're running on a WAMP setup. Though I'd
like that to change to Linux, Windows seems to work as a development
environment, and from lu
In a Windows environment, SSH tunneling can also be accomplished by
installing OpenSSH via Cygwin.
http://www.cygwin.com/
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David Cloutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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There was a quick recipe for doing key based SSH tunneling in the
January 2008 issue of Linux Journal.
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David Cloutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Nate V
I would add to absolute must-know commands:
pwd - This will tell you what directory you are currently in. This is
particularly handy if, like in many un*x systems, the path in not
automatically printed at the prompt. Often times users will configure
their shells to do this, as this is something th
Hi Cindee,
Having a good understanding of Unix-like systems is a great skill to
have. I don't think that it is the sort of thing that you develop
overnight, or really pick up an a week or two of training.
Fundamentally, this class of operating systems has a pretty steep
learning curve, and there i
That may very well have been the problem. Whatever it was, after I had fixed
some other bugs, the json_encode function produced strings for hashes that
worked perfectly well with the API. As is often the case, the problem was user
error.
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Disregard my last post. I replied to the wrong email.
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David Cloutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:16 PM
Okay. You're right actually. I was for whatever reason thinking that
this is not the case. Perhaps I made an error in my initial coding, but
I went back and tried the json_encode function again, and it performed
as you said, which also is how the documentation says it should behave.
This is my tes
but also took a stab at expanding some of the
text in the API document because the first version was terser than
terse.)
Do you have someone in mind to send it to? If not, Alexis can probably
forward it to the right people.
kc
Cloutman, David wrote:
> Inspired by a thread on this list yesterda
Inspired by a thread on this list yesterday, I started playing with the
Open Library API. In order to query through the API, you must pass a
query as a JSON serialized object. That's good, and it could be great,
given that for Java and PHP (at least) there already exists the ability
to serialize a
mlsSnobbery--
johnathanRochkind++
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David Cloutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:14 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSER
mers at any price.
Jonathan
Cloutman, David wrote:
> It is very clear to me, from trying to integrate into our III systems,
> is that their ILS is desperately in need of being reworked into more
of
> an SOA model. The best that they can currently do for library
developers
> is sell us
It is very clear to me, from trying to integrate into our III systems,
is that their ILS is desperately in need of being reworked into more of
an SOA model. The best that they can currently do for library developers
is sell us an RSS product, which I think probably falls short of what we
actually n
I briefly looked into Meebo for our site and decided against it. I
didn't like the idea of our chat sessions being bounced to and possibly
logged on a third party server. At least in our context as a public
library, reference interviews should be treated as confidential by
default, and chat records
To me, his reply seemed like it contained a lot of verbal gymnastics. I
don't see how you can simultaneously require a client to not disclose
the functionality of an API, yet allow the client to publish code that
utilizes the API. By publishing the code, you are giving examples of the
API's usage a
s that they have to support it. Which is another reason I
don't like to postpone API use work.
Jonathan
Cloutman, David wrote:
> Just as a note, before you write your code- We are in the process of
> evaluating federated search tools, and one item we learned that
Serials
> Solutions an
Just as a note, before you write your code- We are in the process of
evaluating federated search tools, and one item we learned that Serials
Solutions and Webfeat are now owned by the same parent company. The
stories we are getting from the two vendors are a little different, but
essitially what we
Monday, March 31, 2008 10:50 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] K&R (was: Gartner on OSS)
On Mar 31, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Cloutman, David wrote:
> I use nano, which is the same thing as pico, more or less. I wrote my
> first web pages using pico in a unix shell.
I use nano, which is the same thing as pico, more or less. I wrote my
first web pages using pico in a unix shell. I always thought it was a
great editor. I use nano almost daily, even on my Windows machines.
I just don't see the attaction to vi. I understand the need to know it,
but the fundamenta
I've often thought that there should be, if there isn't one already. I
know I have bits here and there that I'd like to share.
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Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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Thanks for posting this. I actually like the wordiness, particularly
since the presentations at the conference whizzed by so quickly. It's
nice to get to spend some time going through this at my own pace. It's a
really interesting topic.
-David
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David Cloutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Electronic Se
This is a step in the right direction. Another next trick is that you
can do this:
http://lccn.loc.gov/2003556443/marcxml
Neat.
The only problem is that if you pass a bad URL (i.e. for an invalid LC
Card number, the resulting page for either MARC XML or human readable
view gives you a response c
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:54:32PM -0500, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Date: January 30, 2008 9:12:19 PM EST
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [prison-l] Library automation software
>>
>> Greetings:
>>
>> Last month there was some discussion
I don't know what alternatives that you have, but I am in the beginning
stages of developing a simplified ILS that would allow for basic
cataloging (not MARC compliant) with the idea that with instruction
bibliographic records could be created by non-librarians. In the case of
my test client, a LGB
I don't code PERL, but I enjoy reading about languages that aren't in my
toolkit. Often I find that I can learn something more high-leve from such
discussion. The PERL 6 thread on Web4lib was particularly interesting this week.
- David
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