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
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
Rochkind
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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
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 dclout...@co.marin.ca.us
Electronic Services
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 dclout...@co.marin.ca.us
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
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. MARC
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,
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:
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 dclout...@co.marin.ca.us
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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
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
Frameworks: 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 with the list
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 dclout...@co.marin.ca.us
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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From: Code for Libraries
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
: [CODE4LIB] Mime type for PHP serialized objects
Don'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
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
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
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 design
2-3 colors max++
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David Cloutman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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
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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David Cloutman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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From: Code for Libraries
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
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
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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it's a good fit for your task at hand.
Cheers
-Nate
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Cloutman, David
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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
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
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,
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
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
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I have a classic IE CSS rendering issue. The home page that I am
building for my library will have
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
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
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
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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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL
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
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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From: Code for Libraries on
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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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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David Cloutman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL
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
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
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:54:32PM -0500, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
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Date: January 30, 2008 9:12:19 PM EST
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Subject: [prison-l] Library automation software
Greetings:
Last month there was some discussion here about
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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Electronic Services
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