Re: [CODE4LIB] Encrypting EZProxy + SIP2 authentication

2015-02-02 Thread MJ Ray
, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serious vulnerability in OpenSSL

2014-04-14 Thread MJ Ray
it was an implementation bug rather than a general design flaw. Hope that informs, - -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html

Re: [CODE4LIB] phone app for barcode-to-textfile?

2013-06-07 Thread MJ Ray
the auto-search-for-products bit and I don't think it's FOSS. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-22 Thread MJ Ray
after me legally, the legal system will either accept my common alias or convert it for them (I have to tell it both, for that reason). Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-21 Thread MJ Ray
or interoperate. Use github if you like. Just don't expect everyone to do so. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk

Re: [CODE4LIB] Full Legal Names on the Web, was GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-21 Thread MJ Ray
full names. This might amuse some of you: I'm not even the first (or in the first ten) calling themselves MJ Ray on one popular web service - the ones before me are a diverse bunch, too; and I namespace-collided with myself at least twice while I was both staff for different departments

Re: [CODE4LIB] Editing Code4lib Wiki

2013-02-11 Thread MJ Ray
library mediawiki site manages OK with email confirmation and humans reviewing account signups (looking for sensible biographies, mostly) - could code4lib? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Editing Code4lib Wiki

2013-02-11 Thread MJ Ray
Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:02 PM, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote: It would also be very nice to replace the reCaptcha with something that allowed people who can't pass audio-visual tests to take part! I've always wondered what percentage

Re: [CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed Captioning

2013-02-07 Thread MJ Ray
. A sort of simultaneous interpreting but to/from almost the same language. Read more about it at http://m.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/jan/16/pigs-love-to-eat-willies by World's sexiest deaf guy http://charlieswinbourne.com/ Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop

Re: [CODE4LIB] Group Decision Making (was Zoia)

2013-01-25 Thread MJ Ray
), carry out a de Borda (preference) voting round 1, merge/amend/consolidate ideas to try to get consensus or at least an overwhelming majority, then voting round 2 if needed. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anybody using the Open Library APIs?

2013-01-22 Thread MJ Ray
remember much more than that - maybe it's enough of a pointer for someone to find the related code and use it as an example. Manual entry: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.10/en/administration.html#OpenLibraryPrefs Koha is at http://koha-community.org Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt voting is now open!

2013-01-08 Thread MJ Ray
Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com On Jan 7, 2013, at 7:25 AM, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote: It should at least mention that (fortunately, my organisation lets me enable javascript for specific sites) and ideally it should be allowed to vote without it, because some libraries are really

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt voting is now open!

2013-01-07 Thread MJ Ray
had to enable javascript to get the vote site to work at all. It should at least mention that (fortunately, my organisation lets me enable javascript for specific sites) and ideally it should be allowed to vote without it, because some libraries are really locked down. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question abt the code4libwomen idea

2012-12-19 Thread MJ Ray
Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu On 12/18/2012 12:27 PM, MJ Ray wrote: Is there clarity that deliberately-discriminatory groups should have no platform in code4lib? If what you mean is if everyone agrees with you that a group created for women in tech is bad, then, no, pretty much

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question abt the code4libwomen idea

2012-12-18 Thread MJ Ray
without prejudice or being challenged as to whether and which minority. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question abt the code4libwomen idea

2012-12-18 Thread MJ Ray
with a previous group. Is there clarity that deliberately-discriminatory groups should have no platform in code4lib? And is it sure that libtechwomen is not the aforementioned women-only group? Thanks -- MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop Setchey, Norfolk, England

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question abt the code4libwomen idea

2012-12-17 Thread MJ Ray
time, I'm not dismissing the need for a support group. I'm opposing the idea that any support group should be allowed to discriminate. If it doesn't, then go on with it, even if I'd prefer that we worked together to broaden access to all minorities. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray m

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question abt the code4libwomen idea

2012-12-12 Thread MJ Ray
. Are there people here who really feel threatened by this? That's not really a similar thing, but might indicate other problems. Would we not be troubled by code4libanything, just because it could be kept hidden and you could use code4lib anyway? Regards, -- MJ Ray Setchey, Norfolk, England

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question abt the code4libwomen idea

2012-12-12 Thread MJ Ray
Wilhelmina Randtke rand...@gmail.com MJ Ray, OK, ctrl+F did not work, because the email said for just but you said just for. Actually, no two words in your quote were in sequence in the email you tried to quote. So much for ctrl+F. I don't much like this attempt to Fisk me over putting

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

2012-12-07 Thread MJ Ray
women in the community probably means fewer women mentors available for women learners, leading to slower promotion of women into the community. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question abt the code4libwomen idea

2012-12-07 Thread MJ Ray
Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net [...] If it's successful, it's successful. If not, it'll fade away like so many start-up groups. I'm astonished at the resistance to the formation of a group on the part of people who also insist that there are no rules about forming groups. I don't recall

Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results

2012-12-05 Thread MJ Ray
, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing fora. was: Proliferation of Code4Lib Channels

2012-12-04 Thread MJ Ray
Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu On 12/3/12 2:14 PM, MJ Ray wrote: This listserv looks threaded to me. Maybe you need to upgrade Thunderbird, although I could have sworn it's done threaded for a while now. [...] Whether or not people would use such a tool in addition to the listserv, I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing fora. was: Proliferation of Code4Lib Channels

2012-12-04 Thread MJ Ray
Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu On 12/4/2012 12:10 PM, MJ Ray wrote: Really? I hoped if I wanted to do serious hacking, I could clone it on git.software.coop and send a pull request. If you use github *and insist everyone else does* then you lose all the decentralised networked

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

2012-12-02 Thread MJ Ray
for and about women. It has some interesting links, but a site with a Resources for men ghetto is not promoting equality well. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only

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

2012-12-02 Thread MJ Ray
Erik Hetzner erik.hetz...@ucop.edu MJ Ray wrote: However, I'm saddened that I seem to be the first to object to the hand-waving (number of reports) and prejudice in the above paragraph. The above problems seem more likely to arise from being drunk or being idiots than from being men

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

2012-11-30 Thread MJ Ray
minorities and claim it's allowed because they're not formal, organised or state-approved religions. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http

Re: [CODE4LIB] Wikis

2012-07-25 Thread MJ Ray
), but it has a vast range of extensions, so it's definitely not basic. Much better to be part of an information-sharing community, isn't it? (I use trac's wiki and mediawiki on various projects. I've contributed to a few projects that use Confluence, but really don't like it.) Hope that helps, -- MJ

Re: [CODE4LIB] First draft of patron account API

2012-06-22 Thread MJ Ray
? (Of course, Koha can use things like LDAP for its patron data, but for various reasons, some libraries want Koha as primary store and SIP is a bit hard-core and doesn't cover all updates.) Thanks for any feedback, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http

Re: [CODE4LIB] Issue Tracker Recommendations

2012-02-22 Thread MJ Ray
experiences of email-mangling and/or upload-mangling. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire

Re: [CODE4LIB] Koha in the Running

2012-01-14 Thread MJ Ray
software, but I've still heard of it happening. Even with open source, you have to make sure that you can export and import your data. Most vendors that support Koha-community.org do offer that, in support of the Open Network Libraries idea. Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any ideas for free pdf to excel conversion?

2011-12-14 Thread MJ Ray
help. In general, it is rather like trying to rebuild a pig from sausages. :( Good luck, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux Laptop

2011-12-14 Thread MJ Ray
system as ubuntu or mint use), so I can set up the basics fairly quickly and I'm quite tolerant of X11/GTK apps like firefox being common on my desktop. I guess newcomers still have to get used to basics like having 5 or more useful mouse buttons instead of 1... Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member

Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents and open source projects

2011-12-06 Thread MJ Ray
Erik Hetzner erik.hetz...@ucop.edu MJ Ray wrote: Will people please stop suggesting that PTFS's attempts to register Koha trademarks in various jurisdictions are somehow because of inattention on the part of the Koha users and developers? It was my intention only to suggest

Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents and open source projects

2011-12-06 Thread MJ Ray
to answer: are there similar civil offences of passing-off, misleading advertising and trade misdescriptions in the US? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My Opinion Only

Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents and open source projects

2011-12-05 Thread MJ Ray
includes software - is explicitly excluded from patents. Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available

Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents and open source projects

2011-12-05 Thread MJ Ray
and maybe spend tomorrow? It's a choice. Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha

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

2011-11-28 Thread MJ Ray
should have more say over what they call their purchase than the seller? Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html

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

2011-11-22 Thread MJ Ray
it? So, please give generously to HLT's ratbag-repelling fund. There are wider issues at stake for users and coders for libraries. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My

Re: [CODE4LIB] web spam block less awful than Captcha?

2011-10-25 Thread MJ Ray
Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu On 10/24/2011 1:15 PM, MJ Ray wrote: trying to design things so that the return on investment for spammers is fairly low, In my experience, this is irrelevant. I have spammers spamming my ask a librarian a question link, which _only_ results in email

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib g+ hangouts

2011-10-18 Thread MJ Ray
and not under the control of one private-sector corporation. I'm somewhat disappointed that g+ is being adopted so uncritically. Has faceblocking not taught the library world anything yet? Anyone got handy tips for diaspora or friendika, by the way? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop

Re: [CODE4LIB] in step with disclosing our ideas to OCLC Inc.

2011-10-18 Thread MJ Ray
off-list! Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products

Re: [CODE4LIB] does your OPAC pass HTML validation?

2011-06-20 Thread MJ Ray
as xhtml) and koha 3.4 has a few extra errors that may arise from the recent switch to template toolkit. So validation is definitely achievable with Koha. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS

Re: [CODE4LIB] New xforms4lib Google Group

2011-05-27 Thread MJ Ray
list admins to be U.Va. members, I think, and will also allow the archives to be indexed by search engines. Could you make it so that people can subscribe by email, without signing up for a Google account, please? code4lib readers - anyone know what setting(s) to make that happen? Thanks, -- MJ

Re: [CODE4LIB] Webinar information for today's Virtual Lightning Talks

2011-05-03 Thread MJ Ray
on this list know who does? (I don't care who does it but I'd love to see this problem solved!) Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My Opinion Only: see http

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel file to Dublin Core?

2011-03-02 Thread MJ Ray
for it and your XML-using tool probably throws them out. So I think it's more efficient to keep the toolchain as short as possible because you may want to repeat it a few times to get as good as it gets. Good luck! -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http

Re: [CODE4LIB] SV: [CODE4LIB] AGPL for libraries (was: A to Z lists)

2011-02-18 Thread MJ Ray
of the whole damn codebase) and say that their app can stay online without checking whether source is available right then. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Past Koha Release Manager (2.0), LMS programmer, statistician, webmaster. In My Opinion Only: see

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for OAuth experts

2010-10-14 Thread MJ Ray
to existing HTTP authentication and authorization methods, really. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Past Koha Release Manager (2.0), LMS programmer, statistician, webmaster. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for OAuth experts

2010-09-20 Thread MJ Ray
, including for Twitter. I feel the above is an accurate summary. In short, OAuth isn't ready yet and it would be very disappointing if ILS-DI adopts it. What other options is ILS-DI API group considering? Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for OAuth experts

2010-09-20 Thread MJ Ray
-security-nonsense/ but does mention that there is no solution [...] for a distributed application - does that mean OAuth isn't fit for FOSS? Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for OAuth experts

2010-09-20 Thread MJ Ray
on this list, readers might be able to offer suggestions. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for OAuth experts

2010-09-20 Thread MJ Ray
OAuth add to this field which wasn't already there with HTTPS authentication and cookies? Confused, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk

Re: [CODE4LIB] open source proxy packages?

2010-08-15 Thread MJ Ray
from the co-op? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and developer for hire at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk| co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | op

Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system

2010-02-22 Thread MJ Ray
think the project categoriser thing is an add-on and we use our regular spam filters (building it into each email-connected application seems wasteful). Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and LMS developer at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk| co IMO

Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system

2010-02-15 Thread MJ Ray
met that used it hadn't got it to sent good emails, so they got spam-filtered far too often, so we changed supplier. Our co-op uses RT, but not in a very visible-to-clients way. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and LMS developer at | software www.software.coop http

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-10 Thread MJ Ray
graham wrote: MJ Ray wrote: I'll send a note to suggest that any Koha ones are mentioned here. I hope it will be using something like Lernid or Muji rather than selling us out to the private sector Skype, though ;-) muji? can't find any references to it - is it a typo? Muji can be found

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-07 Thread MJ Ray
ones are mentioned here. I hope it will be using something like Lernid or Muji rather than selling us out to the private sector Skype, though ;-) Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and LMS developer at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk| co IMO only: see http

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-06 Thread MJ Ray
work well and be very useful, though we're under no illusions about PHP's warts. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and LMS developer at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk| co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | op

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-shirt Design Contest

2010-01-04 Thread MJ Ray
-related clothing if we can. More information and links at http://www.news.software.coop/are-your-free-software-t-shirts-ethical/112/ Thanks, -- MJ Ray, member of www.software.coop Experts in web and GNU/Linux (TTLLP # in subject emails = copy to all workers unless asked.) Turo Technology LLP, reg'd

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

2009-10-01 Thread MJ Ray
with noscript.net because it's confusing when things you don't see perfectly start moving themselves around the page.) I strongly suggest people don't promote siteCite.com until they drop reCaptcha. The re should stand for remove. Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef) LMS developer and webmaster at | software

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

2009-10-01 Thread MJ Ray
. I've been learning about accessibility issues since my eyesight started to deteriorate and my hearing was damaged. This isn't an add-on issue for me. It's vital for web use. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) LMS developer and webmaster at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk

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

2009-09-29 Thread MJ Ray
needs to be both FOSS and Open Data to overcome that. Some of the veterans here will probably remember the ODP (dmoz.org) and VLib.org catalogues. Can we build on them instead of inventing another wheel? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef) LMS developer and webmaster at | software www.software.coop http

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Website Redesign Info and Project Plans

2009-09-21 Thread MJ Ray
that the book's website doesn't meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0? In particular, the chapter selector only works with javascript execution permission. Then again, it looks like WorldCat also fails, so they're in good company. Regards, -- MJ Ray, member of www.software.coop Experts

Re: [CODE4LIB] best OCR package?

2009-02-03 Thread MJ Ray
. It is not a public domain package. Feel free to use it as a commercial product without fear. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html

Re: [CODE4LIB] perl recaptcha?

2008-07-01 Thread MJ Ray
or by porn-trojans). Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237

Re: [CODE4LIB] perl recaptcha?

2008-07-01 Thread MJ Ray
and it should start working. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237