Re: [CODE4LIB] Survey

2012-11-27 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: Peter, again I worry about this being self-selecting. People who report on surveys are the people who report on surveys. A code4lib survey would be nice, but I'm really interested in on the ground troops. And I think the questions

Re: [CODE4LIB] anti-harassment policy for code4lib?

2012-11-26 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Nov 26, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Bess Sadler wrote: Why have an official anti-harassment policy for your conference? First, it is necessary (unfortunately). Harassment at conferences is incredibly common - for example, see this timeline

Re: [CODE4LIB] one tool and/or resource that you recommend to newbie coders in a library?

2012-11-02 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Nov 2, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Mita Williams wrote: +1 to web-hosting as it gives the ability install one's own software on one's domain (which feels great) *and* easy access to shell. And when web-hosting feels like too much of a barrier to access, sites like jsfiddle where you can

Re: [CODE4LIB] Just Solve the File Format Problem month: can you help?

2012-11-02 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Nov 2, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Roy Tennant wrote: Um...how is this better/different from already existing sites/efforts around this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats http://www.wotsit.org/ http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html http://www.fileformat.info/ At the

Re: [CODE4LIB] one tool and/or resource that you recommend to newbie coders in a library?

2012-11-01 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Nov 1, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: Google is more useful than any reference book to find answers to programming problems. Too bad they got rid of codesearch. On Nov 1, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Nate Hill wrote: Huh. Michael, I'd love to know more about why I should care about SASS.

Re: [CODE4LIB] one tool and/or resource that you recommend to newbie coders in a library?

2012-11-01 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Nov 1, 2012, at 6:56 PM, Kam Woods wrote: Apologies, everyone (and especially Bohyun). You may still want to consider pointing people to foss4lib as a useful resource, but amend it with the following statement: Free and open source tools may not be the best tools. You might not even

[CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX (was: [CODE4LIB] Q: Discovery products and authentication (esp Summon))

2012-10-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 25, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Gary McGath wrote: On 10/24/12 8:58 PM, Ross Singer wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote: On 10/24/12 4:00 PM, Ross Singer wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote: Also, why wouldn't your

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 25, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Gary McGath wrote: On 10/25/12 7:37 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote: You didn't answer the question -- why would you not have some sort of check on the AJAX application (or any application, web or otherwise) to do at least minimal sanity checking on the result

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Chris Fitzpatrick wrote: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law I'm guessing the other people participating in this thread have never had men with guns show up to take your server because of a 'security incident'. Or block your server's IP address, and then make

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: Discovery products and authentication (esp Summon)

2012-10-24 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 24, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: On 10/24/2012 2:04 PM, Ben Florin wrote: We use Primo, but we've never bothered with their restricted search scopes. Apparently the answer to my question is that nobody has thought about this before, heh. Primo, by default, will

Re: [CODE4LIB] Event Registration System Question

2012-10-19 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 18, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Brian McBride wrote: Greeting! I was wondering if anyone out there has found or knows of a good open source solution for event scheduling? We would need users to be able to register, allow instructors to set enrollment caps, and basic email reminder functions.

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

2012-10-17 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Nate Hill wrote: Maybe someone can offer me a suggestion here... I bought a nifty new gadget that records data and spits out csv files as email attachments. I want to go from csv MySQL and build a web application to do cool stuff with the data. The thing is,

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

2012-10-17 Thread Joe Hourcle
) years before there were protocols such as webdav. It's also quite useful for generating status pages based on cronjob messages. -Joe On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov wrote: On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Nate Hill wrote: Maybe someone can offer me

[CODE4LIB] Job : Senior Software Engineer (mostly Perl / SOAP work)

2012-10-10 Thread Joe Hourcle
residents. - Joe Hourcle Programmer/Analyst Solar Data Analysis Center Goddard Space Flight Center

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-04 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Sep 4, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Matthew LeVan wrote: It's like a google search challenge! Looks like they changed their student home link patterns... http://home.ubalt.edu/nicole.kerber/idia642/Final_Usability_Report.pdf That's a challenge?

Re: [CODE4LIB] looking for an application to handle a large amount of redirects

2012-08-30 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Aug 30, 2012, at 2:17 PM, John A. Kunze wrote: If you run Apache server at the old location, and the original links and new links obey one or a few regular patterns, you could use one or a few RedirectMatch directives. If there are few patterns, you could use a big enumerated list of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Maker Spaces and Academic Libraries

2012-08-28 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Aug 28, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Emily Lynema wrote: I find this conversation interesting, mostly because the why do it reasons given parallel so closely what we are working on at NC State in our new library building. Except it doesn't have anything to do with makerspaces! Our emphasis is on

Re: [CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google

2012-08-28 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Aug 28, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Galen Charlton wrote: Hi, On 08/27/2012 04:36 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: I also assumed that Ed wasn't suggesting that we literally use github as our platform, but I do want to remind folks how far we are from having people friendly versioning software -- at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Maker Spaces and Academic Libraries

2012-08-27 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Aug 27, 2012, at 9:44 AM, BWS Johnson wrote: Salvete! Can't. Resist. Bait. Batman. Can anyone on the list help clarify for me why, in an academic setting, this kind of equipment and facility isn't part of a laboratory in an academic department? I'd say that I hate to

[CODE4LIB] Software/service to deal with matching up incomplete DVD/CD sets.

2012-08-23 Thread Joe Hourcle
So yesterday, I noticced a question on the libraries info science stack exchange site on dealing with TV seres ... which led me to post a question about dealing with trying to match up libraries with incomplete sets of multi-disk packages: http://libraries.stackexchange.com/q/1051/62

Re: [CODE4LIB] Intuitive Dual Boot on Mac (Mountain Lion)

2012-08-17 Thread Joe Hourcle
file: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20020921074429845 - Joe Hourcle Programmer/Analyst Solar Data Analysis Center Goddard Space Flight Center

Re: [CODE4LIB] Browser Wars

2012-07-12 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Jul 12, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Cary Gordon wrote: It is almost worth getting an iPad just to see all the clueless messages. Borrow one and try some restaurant sites. The restaurant business seems to have the absolute worst relationship between what they spend and the usefulness of what they

Re: [CODE4LIB] LoC job opening ???

2012-07-09 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Jul 9, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick wrote: This just seems like some sort of trap. The fact that it's a craigslist ad in all caps makes me pretty sure this person is working on a librarian centpede in their basement. If that were the case, I think they'd also accept applicants from

Re: [CODE4LIB] LoC job opening ???

2012-07-09 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Jul 9, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Joseph Montibello wrote: Um, did LC just stop referring to Library of Congress? http://www.acronymfinder.com/LC.html The closest that I can come to having the paragraph all make sense is 'low carb', but the 'pay is lousy' doesn't work for it. -Joe But

Re: [CODE4LIB] Storing lat / long

2012-06-28 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Jun 28, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Matthew LeVan wrote: I'd think it would depend on what you plan to do with the coordinates once you have them stored. If you intend to do anything at all complicated (spatial queries, KML generation, your own custom maps, area/volume calculations), you might want

Re: [CODE4LIB] Best way to process large XML files

2012-06-08 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Jun 8, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: I'm working on a script that needs to be able to crosswalk at least a couple hundred XML files regularly, some of which are quite large. [trimmed] How do you guys deal with large XML files? Thanks, um ... I return ASCII tab-delim records,

Re: [CODE4LIB] viewer for TIFFs on iPad

2012-05-10 Thread Joe Hourcle
On May 10, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Edward Iglesias wrote: Hello All, I was wondering if any of you had experience viewing large ~300MB and up TIFF files on an iPad. I can get them to the iPad but the photo viewer is less than optimal. It stops enlarging after a while and I'm looking at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone using node.js?

2012-05-08 Thread Joe Hourcle
On May 8, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Ross Singer wrote: On May 8, 2012, at 2:01 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: [trimmed] Thanks for the info. To clarify, I don't develop in java, but deploy well-established java-based apps in Tomcat, like Solr and eXist (and am looking into a java triplestore to run in

Re: [CODE4LIB] possible new stackexchange site for Digital Preservation

2012-04-26 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Apr 26, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Nada O'Neal wrote: I haven't seen the proposed new Stackexchange digital preservation site: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/39787 mentioned on code4lib yet. I'm sure most of you have turned to Stack Overflow in your darkest hours of need, so if you

Re: [CODE4LIB] crowdsourced book scanning

2012-04-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Apr 25, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Michael Lindsey wrote: A colleague posed an interesting idea: patrons scan book pages to deliver to themselves by email, flash drive, etc. What if the scans didn't disappear from memory, but went into a repository so the next patron looking for that passage

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help Start a Digital Preservation Stack Exchange QA Site

2012-04-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Owens, Trevor wrote: I and some other folks working in digital preservation are trying to get a Stack Exchange site focused on digital preservation launched. Here is the blurb defining the proposed site: Proposed QA site for librarians, archivists, curators,

Re: [CODE4LIB] monitoring wireless networks

2012-04-12 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Apr 12, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Tara Robertson wrote: Hi, Is there an automated way of monitoring (and notifying) when a wireless network goes down? I'm looking for something like Nagios, but for wireless (or can Nagios do this too?) I don't manage our network--our ITS department does.

[CODE4LIB] DC / Baltimore Perl Workshop

2012-03-01 Thread Joe Hourcle
Apologies in advance if you've already seen this from other mailing lists; I know we have a few Perl folks on here, but I don't know how many in the DC area. The DC Baltimore Perl Mongers groups are organizing a Perl workshop on Sat, April 14th in Catonsville, MD. We're still filling out the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Repositories, OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Feb 27, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Godmar Back wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Diane Hillmann metadata.ma...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: This issue is certainly not unique to VT - we've come across this as part of our project.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Feb 27, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Suchy, Daniel wrote: Hello all, At my campus we offer podcasts of course lectures, recorded in class and then delivered via iTunes and as a plain Mp3 download (http://podcast.ucsd.edu). I have the new responsibility of figuring out how to transcribe text

Re: [CODE4LIB] Repositories, OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-26 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Feb 26, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Godmar Back wrote: May I ask a side question and make a side observation regarding the harvesting of full text of the object to which a OAI-PMH record refers? In general, is the idea to use the dc:source/text() element, treat it as a URL, and then expect to find

Re: [CODE4LIB] Repositories, OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-24 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Feb 24, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: One of the questions this raises is what we are/aren't allowed to do in terms of harvesting full-text. While I realise we could get into legal stuff here, at the moment we want to put that question to one side. Instead we want to consider

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any libraries have their sites hosted on Amazon EC2?

2012-02-23 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Feb 22, 2012, at 11:52 PM, Cary Gordon wrote: EC2 works for a lot of models, but one that it does not work for is small traffic apps that need to be available 24/7. If you have a small instance (AWS term) running full time with a fixed IP, it costs about $75 a month. If you turn it on for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Issue Tracker Recommendations

2012-02-22 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Feb 22, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Cynthia Ng wrote: Hi All, We're looking at implementing an issue tracker for internal use, so I'm looking for recommendations. What's key: 1) minimal effort in install/setup i.e. ready to use out of the box 2) small scale is okay, we have a very small team

Re: [CODE4LIB] Touch Screens in the Library

2012-02-13 Thread Joe Hourcle
://osc.hul.harvard.edu/liblab/proj/wolbach-user-experience-lab (I took note, as the pictures of the sun are from the Solar Dynamics Observatory's AIA telescopes) I'm guessing it's out of the price range for most of us, though. -Joe - Joe Hourcle Programmer/Analyst Solar Data Analysis Center Goddard Space

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-30 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Jan 30, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Adam Wead wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a barcode scanner wireless or otherwise that saves barcodes to internal memory, to be downloaded to a computer later? We have patrons scan their ids as they enter to keep track of statistics. I've created some

Re: [CODE4LIB] My crazed idea about dealing with registration limitations

2011-12-23 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Dec 23, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Susan Kane wrote: [trimmed] You could repeat the conference at a totally different time of year ... everyone who didn't get in is automatically registered for the second conference later that year ... kinda wacky but ... You could plan for a second conference

Re: [CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-12 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Dec 12, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Brian Tingle wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Michael B. Klein mbkl...@gmail.comwrote: Here's a snippet that will completely randomize the contents of an arbitrary string while replacing the general flow (vowels replaced with vowels, consonants replaced

Re: [CODE4LIB] Pandering for votes for code4lib sessions

2011-12-01 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Dec 1, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Ross Singer wrote: As unwilling commissioner of elections, I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I say, to hear of improprieties with the voting process. It could be worse ... I'm an unwilling elected official. (and the re-election for my third term is next month ... anyone want

Re: [CODE4LIB] Pandering for votes for code4lib sessions

2011-12-01 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Dec 1, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Ross Singer wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Richard, Joel M richar...@si.edu wrote: I feel this whole situation has tainted things somewhat. :( Let's not blow things out of proportion. The aforementioned wrong-doing actually seems pretty innocent

Re: [CODE4LIB] server side vs client side

2011-12-01 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Dec 1, 2011, at 12:49 PM, Nate Hill wrote: As I was struggling with the syntax trying to figure out how to use javascript to load a .txt file, process it and then spit out some html on a web page, I suddenly found myself asking why I was trying to do it with javascript rather than PHP.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-23 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Nov 23, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Robert Sanderson wrote: LibLime A Division of PTFS, Inc. Main Office 11501 Huff Court North Bethesda, Maryland 20895 tel: (301) 654-8088 Ext. 127 fax: (301) 654-5789 email: kohai...@liblime.com Twitter: @liblime How about we all contact them? ;)

Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation Analysis - like projects for print resources

2011-11-17 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Nov 17, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Matt Amory wrote: Is anyone involved with, or does anyone know of any project to extract and aggregate bibliography data from individual works to produce some kind of most-cited authors list across a collection? Local/Network/Digital/OCLC

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hotel registration - This was a test, right?

2011-11-16 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Nov 16, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Cary Gordon wrote: I just registered for an overflow block room at https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_gi_newgroupID=7466136 I noticed when I got to the Guest Details page that there was a checkbox in the Contact Information block -- Yes, I'd like

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for products/price ranges for a database of performers

2011-09-06 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Sep 6, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Heather Rayl wrote: ** apologies for cross-posting ** Hi there, We have a database of performers that we use in our libraries. Currently, the data is stored on one person's computer in a file maker pro db that only this one person has access to (Hooray for

Re: [CODE4LIB] memory management for grownups

2011-08-30 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Aug 30, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Simon Spero wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: I have a feeling it may be time for me to learn some grown-up programming skills, and I hope someone here might be able to help. [trimmed] Sometimes it can make sense

Re: [CODE4LIB] internet explorer and pdf files

2011-08-29 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: I need some technical support when it comes to Internet Explorer (IE) and PDF files. Here at Notre Dame we have deposited a number of PDF files in a Fedora repository. Some of these PDF files are available at the following URLs: *

Re: [CODE4LIB] internet explorer and pdf files

2011-08-29 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Godmar Back wrote: Earlier versions of IE were known to sometimes disregard the Content-Type (which you set correctly to application/pdf) and look at the suffix of the URL instead. For instance, they would render HTML if you served a .html as text/plain, etc.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Apps to reduce large file on the fly when it's requested

2011-08-03 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Aug 3, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Ranti Junus wrote: Dear All, My colleague came with this query and I hope some of you could give us some ideas or suggestion: Our Digital Multimedia Center (DMC) scanning project can produce very large PDF files. They will have PDFs that are about 25Mb and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Advice on a class

2011-07-26 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Jul 26, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Lepczyk, Timothy wrote: Thanks everyone. The reasons I thought of taking the C course is a) it's free, b) concepts might be transferrable to other languages. I may continue to focus on Ruby on Rails. Before everyone manages to scare you away from learning C,

Re: [CODE4LIB] REST interface types

2011-07-20 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Ralph LeVan wrote: Where at all possible, I want a true REST interface. I recognize that sometimes you need to use POST to send data, but I've found it very helpful to be able to craft URLs that can be shared that contain a complete request. But there's more

Re: [CODE4LIB] TIFF Metadata to XML?

2011-07-19 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Jul 19, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Stern, Randall wrote: Also, see FITS (http://code.google.com/p/fits/) FITS is an open source java toolset we wrote that wraps JHOVE, ExifTool, and several other format analysis tools and produces a single XML output stream. It also includes a crosswalk to MIX

Re: [CODE4LIB] TIFF Metadata to XML?

2011-07-18 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Jul 18, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Edward M. Corrado wrote: Hello All, Before I re-invent the wheel or try many different programs, does anyone have a suggestion on a good way to extract embedded Metadata added by cameras and (more importantly) photo-editing programs such as Photoshop from TIFF

Re: [CODE4LIB] Trends with virtualization

2011-07-11 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Madrigal, Juan A wrote: Its true what they say, history does repeat itself! I don't see how virtualization is much different from a dummy terminal connected to a mainframe. I'd hate to see an entire computer lab go down should the network fail. The only real

Re: [CODE4LIB] exposing website visitor IP addresses to webcrawlers

2011-05-23 Thread Joe Hourcle
On May 20, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Keith Jenkins wrote: Just out of curiosity, does anyone on this list have any opinions about whether website owners should publicly post lists of their visitors' IP addresses (or hostnames) and to also allow such lists to be indexable by search engines? For

Re: [CODE4LIB] Jpeg2000 and XMP metadata

2011-03-23 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Mar 23, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Richard, Joel M wrote: Morning, all! I thought I'd crowdsource this question. 8+ hours of beating up on this and I haven't found a good solution. We have some software that processes the scanned pages of a book. They come to me as TIFF and I am converting

Re: [CODE4LIB] Need Apache log file analyzer for Mac OSX

2011-03-17 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Mar 17, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Tim McGeary wrote: Does anyone know of a good (and free) Apache log file analyzer for Mac OSX? I have sets of Apache web logs that I need to analyze off server. I've been using analog for years: http://www.analog.cx/ The config syntax takes a little

Re: [CODE4LIB] online course on the semantic web?

2011-03-05 Thread Joe Hourcle
, but has some tutorials on various things related to the web). They tend to be fairly introductory, but they have two that might be of interest: http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/default.asp http://www.w3schools.com/semweb/default.asp -Joe - Joe Hourcle Programmer/Analyst Solar Data

Re: [CODE4LIB] online course on the semantic web?

2011-03-05 Thread Joe Hourcle
/ Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they (yet) have anything on the Semantic Web, but I think there's a lot of overlap with what you're proposing. -Joe - Joe Hourcle Programmer/Analyst Solar Data Analysis Center Goddard Space Flight Center

Re: [CODE4LIB] Apache URL redirect

2011-02-03 Thread Joe Hourcle
} ^www\.partnersinreading\.org$ RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.sjpl.org/par/$1 [L,R=301] (that assumes that you've replicated the directory structure on the new site) - Joe Hourcle Programmer/Analyst Solar Data Analysis Center Goddard Space Flight Center

Re: [CODE4LIB] Apache URL redirect

2011-02-03 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Feb 3, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Nate Hill wrote: Thank you for your responses... Virtual host setup was also on the agenda, guess both things have to happen at the same time. You don't have to set up virtual hosts with the method that both Brian and I mentioned, although the syntax is a little

[CODE4LIB] Job Opportunity for Web Developer Focusing on Linked Data (fwd)

2010-12-23 Thread Joe Hourcle
I'm just passing this along ... I know nothing about the actual job. The bad formating of the message is probably my fault -- I prefer plain text email, and that can sometimes do interesting things to messages. (random unknown characters, etc.) If you have questions, I'd suggest contacting

Re: [CODE4LIB] LDAP Issues

2010-10-06 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Amy wrote: We are having a problem with a single student whose account was deleted from LDAP by Technology, and then had her account re-established. She has the same username and status as she used to have. She is now unable to login to any of the library resources that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Workflow analysis of archival arrangement and description

2010-08-31 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Mark A. Matienzo wrote: I'm currently looking for any workflow and business process analysis of the processes involved in processing archival collections. At this point, I'm hoping to find fairly high-level information, ideally in the form of or easily translatable into

Re: [CODE4LIB] Cookout in McLean on Saturday? (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Get together in DC during ALA?)

2010-06-24 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Simon Spero wrote: Haven't seen any concrete plans. I'm fine with the same plan as last year -- meet in front of RFD on Monday, but from your comments you'll be gone by then. [trimmed] If folks can make it out to McLean,VA on Saturday the 26th (Falls Church

Re: [CODE4LIB] Cookout in McLean on Saturday? (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Get together in DC during ALA?)

2010-06-24 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Schwartz, Raymond wrote: What is RFD? A restaurant in DC. Here's what was sent out the last time: -Original Message- From: Jonathan Rochkind [mailto:rochk...@jhu.edu] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 11:33 AM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB]

Re: [CODE4LIB] Cookout in McLean on Saturday? (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Get together in DC during ALA?)

2010-06-24 Thread Joe Hourcle
...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Joe Hourcle Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 3:32 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Cookout in McLean on Saturday? (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Get together in DC during ALA?) On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Schwartz, Raymond wrote: What is RFD? A restaurant in DC. Here's what

Re: [CODE4LIB] SMS headers in email-sms

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Ken Irwin wrote: We originally tried changing the From and Reply-To mail headers, but the phones we tested on didn't honor the email headers. Instead they show an address @www6.wittenberg.edu (ie, our web server). That's why I was thinking there would be some sort of

Re: [CODE4LIB] drupal question

2010-06-04 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Nate Vack wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Jill Ellern ell...@email.wcu.edu wrote: I know we can put this open source software on a PC...and we've done that but this isn't a solution for a production level web service What is the average cost of hosting a drupal

[CODE4LIB] SRU 2.0 / Accept-Ranges (was: Inlining HTTP Headers in URLs )

2010-06-02 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Joe Hourcle wrote: Accept-Ranges is a response header, not something that the client's supposed to be sending. Weird. Then can anyone explain why it's included as a request parameter in the SRU 2.0 draft? Section 4.9.2. They're

Re: [CODE4LIB] Inlining HTTP Headers in URLs

2010-06-01 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Accept-Ranges, I have no idea, I don't understand that header's purpose well enough. But SRU also provides a query param for that, it seems less clear to me if that's ever useful or justifiable. Accept-Ranges is a response header, not something

Re: [CODE4LIB] It's cool to love milk and cookies

2010-05-03 Thread Joe Hourcle
You know, there are some of us who are milk intolerant on this mailing list. And emacs intolerant, too. (although, I did use 'ee' as my editor in elm, but elm took too long to support MIME, so I switched to pine, with their pico default editor, but I don't use any of those I mentioned for

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib server downtime needed

2010-04-28 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Ryan Ordway wrote: I need to move the server that hosts the code4lib.org website into another rack to make room for some other equipment, when is a good time to do this? You power down machines when moving them? Oh, sure, do it the easy way. (After waiting 2 months for

Re: [CODE4LIB] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?

2010-04-12 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: So, as usual, the right tool for the job. If all you really need is a key-value store on ID, then a NoSQL solution may be the right thing. But if you need actual querrying and joining, then personally I'd stick with rdbms unless I had some

Re: [CODE4LIB] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?

2010-04-12 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Ryan Eby wrote: [trimmed] But I'm guessing they've thought about the data and what benefits they would get out of the backend. Wow. You obviously don't work with the same folks that I do. I've been attached to one project for about 16 months now, while the rest of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API

2010-03-31 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, stuart yeates wrote: Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Karen Coyle wrote: The OL only has full text links, but the link goes to a page at the Internet Archive that lists all of the available formats. I would prefer that the link go directly to a display of the book, and offer

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP bashing (was: newbie)

2010-03-26 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Doran, Michael D wrote: As a first language, you want something that let's you Get Stuff Done with a minimum of fuss... If you are getting started and if you are not planning on being a full-time programmer, then you want to be looking at the high-level languages as

[CODE4LIB] PHP bashing (was: newbie)

2010-03-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Brian Stamper wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:51:38 -0400, Mark Tomko mark.to...@simmons.edu wrote: I wouldn't recommend PHP to learn as a programming language, if your goal is to have a general purpose programming language at your disposal. PHP is a fine language for

Re: [CODE4LIB] newbie

2010-03-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: On 3/24/2010 17:43, Joe Hourcle wrote: I know there's a lot of stuff written in it, but *please* don't recommend PHP to beginners. Yes, you can get a lot of stuff done with it, but I've had way too many incidents where newbie coders didn't check

Re: [CODE4LIB] newbie

2010-03-24 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: On Mar 24, 2010, at 3:24 PM, jenny wrote: My question is, where would you recommend I would begin? What's hot right now in the library world? Python, PERL, Ruby? Any advice you'd have for a beginner like me or even recommendations for online

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project relases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-22 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Karen Coyle wrote: One thing I am finding about FRBR (and want to think about more) is that one seems to come up with different conclusions depending on whether one works down from Work or works up from Item. The assumption that an aggregate in a bound volume is an

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project relases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-18 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Karen Coyle wrote: naturally favors the package over the contents. So we'll have some works that are what users think of as works, and other works that represent the publisher's package -- which sometimes will be something that makes sense

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project relases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-18 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Joe Hourcle wrote: The group's two proposals were to model aggregates as works, or as manifestatons, so RDA seems to be on their own modeling them as expressions: See, this is what I don't understa.d As works, or as manifestations

[CODE4LIB] Any examples of using OAI-ORE for aggregation?

2010-03-10 Thread Joe Hourcle
. ... Has anyone ever tried doing something like this? Should I even be looking at ORE, or is there something that better fits with what I'm trying to do? Thanks for any advice / insight you can give -Joe - Joe Hourcle Programmer/Analyst Solar Data Analysis Center

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Godmar Back wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Ulrich Schaefer ulrich.schae...@dfki.dewrote: Hi, try this: http://code.google.com/p/xml2json-xslt/ I should have mentioned that I already tried everything I could find after googling - this stylesheet doesn't meet the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Location of the first Code4Lib North meeting?

2010-01-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Edward M. Corrado wrote: I never had a problem in the couple of times I crossed a border into Canada for a library conference, but I tend to make sure I have the program and hotel information readily available to show them in case they ask (yes, the Canadian border people

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-06 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, MJ Ray wrote: Thomas Krichel kric...@openlib.org 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-05 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, 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? If they already understand basic programming, and just need to pick up the syntactic issues, some of the documentation

Re: [CODE4LIB] good and best open source software

2009-12-29 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Thomas Krichel wrote: Requiring an upfront healthy community is particurly problematic is a small community such as digital library work. On the other kind, there is widely adopted software that I got cajoled into maintaining, that consider bad. Apache is one of them.

Re: [CODE4LIB] good and best open source software

2009-12-29 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: I think you may find yourself somewhat in the minority in thinking Apache is bad software. (I certainly have my complaints about it, but in general I find it more robust, flexible, and bug-free than just about any other software I work with).

Re: [CODE4LIB] good and best open source software

2009-12-28 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: For my own education and cogitation, I have begun to list questions to help me address what I think is the best library-related open source software. [1] Your comments would be greatly appreciated. I have listed the questions here in (more or

Re: [CODE4LIB] calling another webpage within CGI script

2009-11-23 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Ken Irwin wrote: Hi all, I'm moving to a new web server and struggling to get it configured properly. The problem of the moment: having a Perl CGI script call another web page in the background and make decisions based on its content. On the old server I used an antique

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Linked Data

2009-10-29 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Roy Tennant wrote: David, Could you elaborate a bit? In my mind, the only semantic web technology of any note is linked data. How that fits into library search is anyone's guess, and I'm wondering what, specifically, you're referring to when you say that Talis is active in

Re: [CODE4LIB] Bookmarking web links - authoritativeness or focused searching

2009-09-29 Thread Joe Hourcle
try to search for Hugo award winning novels that weren't on the New York Times best seller list, so it might not be as useful for general patron use ... unless you could give it your *own* catalog (AFI top 100 movies ... that I don't already own) - Joe Hourcle Solar Data Analysis Center

Re: [CODE4LIB] Implementing OpenURL for simple web resources

2009-09-14 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Mike Taylor wrote: 2009/9/14 Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu: Seriously, don't use OpenURL unless you really can't find anything else that will do, or you actually want your OpenURLs to be used by the existing 'in the wild' OpenURL resolvers. In the latter case, don't

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