Re: [CODE4LIB] Don't Change Your Site Because of Reference Librarians RE: [CODE4LIB] Responsive website question

Firefox has an option in the Zoom menu called "Zoom Text Only," which causes Zoom to only affect text size. If you want to do an "optical" zoom in on a portion of a page (i.e. physically enlarge an area of the page without changing layout), using OS-level accessibility tools like Magnifier on

Re: [CODE4LIB] yaml/xml/json, POST data, bloodcurdling terror

Thanks! That's really solid. I just spent $EMBARRASSINGLY_LONG_TIME figuring out how to turn off half of Saxon's XML parsing functionality for some of these reasons. On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Andromeda Yelton < andromeda.yel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I strongly recommend this hilarious,

Re: [CODE4LIB] "coders for libraries"

++ as well from me. On an unrelated note: as long as someone's in there changing stuff, changing the favicon away from the default Drupal one would be nice. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Eric Hellman

Re: [CODE4LIB] free html editors

Hmmm... Are they Intel or PPC, and what OS version are they running? It seems likely that there's SOME version of TextWrangler that will work - they keep old versions around for the use of people with older OS versions. http://www.barebones.com/support/textwrangler/updates.html On Sat, May

Re: [CODE4LIB] free html editors

Just a side note: I'd be very leery of using Textedit. No offense meant to Jason, but Textedit supports (and, unlss configured, defaults) to RTF for files it creates, which won't work for HTML/CSS. If you're on 10.6.8, Textwrangler's current version works, as does SublimeText 2. If you have

Re: [CODE4LIB] free html editors

Actually, BBEdit doesn't support 10.6, so scratch that option. - Dave On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 5:18 PM, David Mayo pobo...@gmail.com wrote: Just a side note: I'd be very leery of using Textedit. No offense meant to Jason, but Textedit supports (and, unlss configured, defaults) to RTF

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python PyMARC Code Club

Also potentially interested, depending on timing. - Dave Mayo Software Engineer Harvard University On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Suda, Phillip J psu...@tulane.edu wrote: I'm interested and will contact the appropriate people. Thanks, Phil Phillip Suda Systems Librarian

Re: [CODE4LIB] Whatever Happened to the Northeast Code4Lib?

I'm also definitely interested - I've been looking with a certain amount of jealousy at the various Code4Libs that are out of my range. - Dave Mayo Software Engineer Harvard University - HUIT - Library Technology Services On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Joseph Montibello

Re: [CODE4LIB] Let me shadow you, librarians who code!

If you'd like to talk to someone who did a library degree, and currently works as a web developer supporting an academic library, I'd be happy to talk with you. - Dave Mayo Software Engineer @ Harvard HUIT LTS On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Steven Anderson stevencander...@hotmail.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows

DevKit is a MingW/MSYS wrapper for Windows Ruby development. It might not be finding it, but he does have a C dev environment. I know you cut them out earlier, but would you mind sending some of the C Header Blather our way? It's probably got some clues as to what's going on. Also - which

Re: [CODE4LIB] drupal barcamp or railsbridge?

Hello! Here's my two cents - for context, my day job has been coding on a Rails app for the past four months or so, and before that, I worked on an existing Drupal 6 installation for about a year. Rails is pretty neat, but it's a framework (much as Drupal is). If your goal is to pick up things

Re: [CODE4LIB] Responsive Web Site Live

In Firefox, the Web Developer Toolbar also gives an option that animates the title with the width (and height, which is less useful) of the browser - this can be useful for quick ballpark resize tests. - Dave Mayo On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Responsive Web Site Live

Ooooh, exciting! I think the middle layout (768px xwidth 1020px) needs some love (the right-hand box deforms pretty severely, and parts of the content of the center top box are obscured due to non-resizing form controls), but overall, nice work! If you feel like it, I'd love to hear more about

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

Version control. My own strong preference is for git (either managed locally or through github.com), but really, just pick a version control solution and use it. If you value your work at all, it should be in version control. Smart use of version control can make finding and fixing problems in

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

As a sort of side question, does anyone know of a halfway-decent Android app for scanning UPC-style barcodes? QR scanners are pretty widespread, but worthless for my purposes, and I haven't found a decent 2D barcode scanner yet. - Dave Mayo On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Michael B. Klein

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

the barcodes over wifi. But I think that might be asking a bit too much. - Dave On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Simon Spero s...@unc.edu wrote: Barcode Scanner? https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.zxing.client.androidhl=en Simon On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:32 PM, David Mayo pobo

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

I can say from experience that that won't help - spambots even hit lone forms with nondescript names. - Dave Mayo On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: On 10/24/2011 1:15 PM, MJ Ray wrote: trying to design things so that the return on investment for

Re: [CODE4LIB] FW: Drupal developer position, UNC Chapel Hill

Is this position possibly open to remote applicants. - Dave Mayo On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Shearer, Timothy J tshea...@email.unc.edu wrote: Hi Folks, We're hiring a Drupal+ developer. http://www.lib.unc.edu/jobs/spa/17022.html See below: Tim

Re: [CODE4LIB] Can a library automate without a computer yet?

as they have for the last 60 years! Cheers Rowan On 26 September 2011 09:43, David Mayo pobo...@gmail.com wrote: Here's an example of the kind of thing I'm talking about when I say micro-development board: http://technabob.com/blog/2011

Re: [CODE4LIB] Can a library automate without a computer yet?

1000s of 3rd world libraries doing everything manually still and if there are economies of scale we may be able to afford it. Cheers Rowan On 24 September 2011 17:10, David Mayo pobo...@gmail.com wrote: It's so experimental, that it's having a Free *Trail*. That is a good

Re: [CODE4LIB] Can a library automate without a computer yet?

to check out books. I was thinking maybe with a scanner attached to an iphone running an app. I didn't think librarything could do circulation. I thought it was just a catalog. What do you reckon? Cheers Rowan On 23 September 2011 21:34, David Mayo pobo...@gmail.com wrote: I think

Re: [CODE4LIB] Can a library automate without a computer yet?

I think it's going to be difficult to find a solution that's entirely cloud based. What functionality do you need? If you have a very limited subset of ILS/OPAC functions in mind, theoretically a LibraryThing paid account or similar quasi-library service might suffice. I'm having trouble

Re: [CODE4LIB] Can a library automate without a computer yet?

need borrowers to be able to check out books. I was thinking maybe with a scanner attached to an iphone running an app. I didn't think librarything could do circulation. I thought it was just a catalog. What do you reckon? Cheers Rowan On 23 September 2011 21:34, David Mayo pobo

Re: [CODE4LIB] Can a library automate without a computer yet?

://alexandria.rubyforge.org/features.html, and pass the datafile manually to anyone who needs to have it. Not a great solution, but the best my brain is coming up with right now. - Dave Mayo On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:58 PM, David Mayo pobo...@gmail.com wrote: If I recall correctly, Librarything has

Re: [CODE4LIB] Can a library automate without a computer yet?

http://www.bookbump.com/manual.php There's some level of loaned/borrowed tracking functionality. Might do; at least closer than LibraryThing. - Dave Mayo On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:14 AM, David Mayo pobo...@gmail.com wrote: They don't, actually. My mistake. How are you imagining the check

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software for Capstone\Theses Projects

I've worked with Omeka, and while it's great, I don't think it's ideal for what he's looking for. It's really meant for digital libraries, or as a frontend to a repository, rather than as a bare-bones repository. For instance, I'm not sure how you would cleanly and simply handle the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Advice on a class

If you're looking to do web programming, C is probably not going to directly benefit you - it's not that it's a bad language to learn, or that it doesn't have uses, but you'd probably be better off trying to improve your PHP or RoR skills. That being said, if you need to get lower-level knowledge