Re: [CODE4LIB] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Forwarding blog post: Apple, Android and NFC – how should libraries prepare? (RFID stuffs)

2014-10-07 Thread Genny Engel
This is disturbing to me. I thought we had agreed not to mention the C4L Illuminati. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Maura Carbone Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 11:54 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB]

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-13 Thread Genny Engel
We have had, for some time now, a section in our privacy policy explaining what services we use and giving links to opt out. http://sonomalibrary.org/governance/library-policies/privacy-statement Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x1581 www.sonomalibrary.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for proposals to host Code4Lib Conference in 2015

2014-03-26 Thread Genny Engel
How about this? http://www.poll-maker.com/poll77925x33144cAe-3 Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x1581 www.sonomalibrary.org -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of anna headley Sent: Wednesday

Re: [CODE4LIB] image gallery management software recommendations

2013-11-07 Thread Genny Engel
At one point I was trying out the Gallery module for Drupal. The module is for integrating the otherwise standalone Gallery. http://galleryproject.org/ I ended up going with something else for Drupal, but in a standalone situation, I'd definitely give Gallery another look. Genny Engel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tool to highlight differences in two files

2013-04-23 Thread Genny Engel
There's a list here that may be more along the lines of what you're seeking. http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/11547/diff-for-websites Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x1581 www.sonomalibrary.org -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] Imaging Hosting Services

2013-02-27 Thread Genny Engel
We've only used archive.org for this type of service. We've had a good experience with them. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x1581 www.sonomalibrary.org -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf

Re: [CODE4LIB] Adding Twitter to Google Analytics

2013-02-27 Thread Genny Engel
You shouldn't have to do any setup for basic counts to show up. Traffic coming directly from Twitter or Facebook ought to be appearing under Traffic Sources - Social - Overview From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Kimberly

Re: [CODE4LIB] You are a *pedantic* coder. So what am I?

2013-02-21 Thread Genny Engel
I feel that this is true. However, the more languages I learn, the more I find myself doing embarrassing things like trying to update a JavaScript file and then realizing I'm actually writing in PHP or C++. If only my brain had an automatic language gearshift. Genny Engel Sonoma County

Re: [CODE4LIB] Stand Up Desks

2013-02-07 Thread Genny Engel
% of the cost of that elliptical desk. Only works with a laptop/tablet, not a full-size desktop+monitor+keyboard. It makes a GREAT break from the regular desk. http://fitdesk.net/ Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x1581 www.sonomalibrary.org -Original Message

Re: [CODE4LIB] Zoia

2013-01-22 Thread Genny Engel
Guess there's no groundswell of support for firing Zoia and replacing her/it with a GLaDOS irc bot, then? *Sigh.* Genny Engel -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Andromeda Yelton Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 11:30 AM

Re: [CODE4LIB] Stats and public wireless devices

2012-12-18 Thread Genny Engel
We use a captive portal (FirstSearch by Patronsoft: http://patronsoft.com/firstspot/) but we don't require a login. We do require clicking an Agree button on our terms of use. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x1581 www.sonomalibrary.org -Original

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mobile device usage (iOS vs. Android)

2012-10-30 Thread Genny Engel
10.25% 4. Android 4.27% 5. Linux 0.58% 6. (not set) 0.52% 7. BlackBerry 0.08% 8. Windows Phone0.04% General trends only go so far in telling you about your own audience. Genny Engel gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB

[CODE4LIB] GA vs User-Agent RE: [CODE4LIB] Browser Wars

2012-07-13 Thread Genny Engel
@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Browser Wars To be fair, I think this information isn't likely to be *that* inaccurate. Most people don't count 'the User-Agent header of your HTTP requests' alongside their age or income. MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop writes: Genny Engel wrote: Interesting, Safari has

Re: [CODE4LIB] Browser Wars

2012-07-12 Thread Genny Engel
of the door. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Aaron Collier Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 8:41 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject

Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea

2012-05-02 Thread Genny Engel
not sure what the standard cardigan metadata would include. Genny Engel -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Maryann Kempthorne Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 9:56 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2012-02-13 Thread Genny Engel
that starts with the sentence So a string walks into a bar. The actual data (the novel) is not in the catalog (which is composed only of metadata). Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] Koha in the Running

2012-01-12 Thread Genny Engel
Todd, you might want to check out Marshall Breeding's annual ILS survey results: http://www.librarytechnology.org/perceptions2010.pl He compiles responses from many hundreds of libraries re: open source and proprietary ILSs. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545

Re: [CODE4LIB] institutional fair use policies for digitized image collections

2012-01-04 Thread Genny Engel
-print.html Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Derek Merleaux Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 10:39 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU

Re: [CODE4LIB] copyright/fair use considerations for re-using Seattle World's Fair images

2011-12-09 Thread Genny Engel
or to inquire about permissions, email i...@seattlecenter.org or call 206-684-7345. I'm guessing you could use that as the general method to inquire about any other Seattle World's Fair image. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Unwritten Rules, formerly Pandering for votes for code4lib sessions

2011-12-01 Thread Genny Engel
Can't. The first rule of unwritten rules is ... Genny -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Wilfred Drew Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 12:51 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Unwritten Rules, formerly

Re: [CODE4LIB] screen scraping

2011-10-03 Thread Genny Engel
prefer you grab the feed rather than scrape the screen. I don't actually have any feed-based pages on our site that aren't also available as feeds -- but some people might. Also, for usage statistics reasons, I'd rather have bots hitting the feeds instead of the pages. Genny Engel Sonoma County

Re: [CODE4LIB] TIFF Metadata to XML?

2011-07-18 Thread Genny Engel
Guess it depends on whether they actually followed any kind of standard in encoding the data in the TIFF files. http://www.metadataworkinggroup.com/pdf/mwg_guidance.pdf Genny Engel Internet Librarian Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us www.sonomalibrary.org 707 545-0831 x581

Re: [CODE4LIB] Trends with virtualization

2011-07-11 Thread Genny Engel
to the cloud, I'm still leery, especially after that Amazon thing a few months ago. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1379474/Web-chaos-Amazon-cloud-failure-crashes-major-websites-Playstation-Network-goes-AGAIN.html Genny Engel Internet Librarian Sonoma County Library gen

[CODE4LIB] FW: [dpla-discussion] DPLA Beta Sprint: Announcement, Video, and Instructions

2011-05-25 Thread Genny Engel
Reposting for anyone who's not on the DPLA list and thinks this sounds like a fun project. Genny From: Rebekah Heacock [mailto:rheac...@cyber.law.harvard.edu] Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 12:27 AM To: dpla-discuss...@eon.law.harvard.edu Subject: [dpla-discussion] DPLA Beta Sprint: Announcement,

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP vs. Python [was: Re: Django]

2010-10-29 Thread Genny Engel
I think the significant attributes of most programming languages are adequately summarized here: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] on behalf of William Sexton

Re: [CODE4LIB] Approaches to Did You Mean Query Spelling Suggestions

2010-04-30 Thread Genny Engel
lists in parentheses the number of results that match each suggestion. http://www.sonomalibrary.org/search Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org cory_l...@ncsu.edu 04/30/10 06:55AM I'm exploring options for implementing

Re: [CODE4LIB] newbie

2010-03-25 Thread Genny Engel
Agreed -- I coded up many nice SQL injection vulnerabilities before I ever learned PHP. As for Perl, anyone remember the notorious formmail.cgi from Matt's Script Archive? For **web** programming specifically, it's critically important for newbies to get a grounding in security issues,

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

2010-03-25 Thread Genny Engel
I think it's perfectly sensible to declare that there is one best language. Here is the current spec for it: http://lolcode.com/specs/1.2 The only place where I seriously take issue with this language is in their misspelling of kthxbai, but perhaps that is an internal joke sort of like

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Genny Engel
-2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. Regards, Kevin Reiss Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] XForms editor for EAD

2009-07-14 Thread Genny Engel
The closest thing I'm aware of is the EAD Toolkit. http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/oac/toolkit/ ewg4x...@gmail.com 07/06/09 05:33AM Hi, I'm curious as to whether anyone on the list has worked on or knows about any web-based XForms application for creating and editing EAD Finding Aids.

Re: [CODE4LIB] MySQL Stop Words

2009-05-29 Thread Genny Engel
desirable. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org dclout...@co.marin.ca.us 05/29/09 11:26AM 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Something completely different

2009-04-07 Thread Genny Engel
honking expensive. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org njv...@wisc.edu 04/07/09 08:59AM On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Peter Schlumpf pschlu...@earthlink.net wrote: I want to get back to simple things. Imagine

Re: [CODE4LIB] Notes from Tuesday's Plone/Zope breakout session, C4L 2009 c4l09

2009-03-09 Thread Genny Engel
I've really looked at in depth has been 6. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org schneide...@appstate.edu 03/09/09 11:00AM from Vignette ($ license, complicated end-user interface). Didn't have SDK's, hard to get content

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt Design Contest

2009-01-06 Thread Genny Engel
My apologies to all. I meant to reply to Jean, not to the entire list. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org yitzc...@touro.edu 01/06/09 08:36AM Eek! A humble request that submitters post graphics online rather than

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web Statistics Software

2008-11-12 Thread Genny Engel
/webcast_data/255/index.html Genny Engel Sonoma County Library [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/11/08 12:52PM Library Code People: 1 - What do you use for your web statistics package? Are you happy with it? Pros/Cons? 2 - What do you wish

[CODE4LIB] Today at the Library WordPress plugin: advice?

2008-11-06 Thread Genny Engel
, it could be generalized, but that would take some time. Is it worth it? I thought I'd check with the Code4Librs. Anyone out there think this is indeed worth pursuing and if so, want to take some time to help me de-kludge? Thanks a bunch. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707 545

Re: [CODE4LIB] creating call number browse

2008-10-01 Thread Genny Engel
for the browse-oriented. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/01/08 05:21AM Ideally, the user should be able to run a query, retrieve a set of items, sort them however he wants (by author, date, call number, some kind

Re: [CODE4LIB] Simulating off-campus for testing

2008-09-17 Thread Genny Engel
things actually work at all over dialup is also useful -- the percentage of our audience on dialup Internet connections keeps shrinking, but it's still not zero.) The ISP is also our registrar for domain names like sonomalibrary.org and for a while supplied our T1 lines. Genny Engel Sonoma County

Re: [CODE4LIB] Enterprise Search and library collection

2008-07-11 Thread Genny Engel
://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/pages/Products.html Genny Engel Internet Librarian Sonoma County Library [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/08 07:36AM In short, I think a Google Appliance is an expensive but viable option. Relative to other

Re: [CODE4LIB] perl recaptcha?

2008-07-02 Thread Genny Engel
be able to submit a URL field. What I don't know is whether all the bots hitting our comment form happen to be WordPress-specific bots preprogrammed to send a URL value, or if it's really true in a more general sense that commenting out input fields is a good way to foil bots. Genny Engel

Re: [CODE4LIB] ssh tunneling through a mysql dsn

2008-06-25 Thread Genny Engel
Have you tried changing the source port to e.g. 3307 so you avoid the conflict with your localhost MySQL port? Genny Engel Internet Librarian Sonoma County Library [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/25/08 05:59AM Is there anyway to support

Re: [CODE4LIB] coverage of google book viewability API

2008-05-07 Thread Genny Engel
the irrelevant-request volume. This is a public library, so ymmv at academic libraries ... Genny Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/07/08 08:45AM I think Kyle brings up a great point. If we can get links to previews, patrons will have a better understanding of what a book has to decide if they want to go

Re: [CODE4LIB] KR

2008-04-03 Thread Genny Engel
Actually, the whole reason my wrist is so bad is the stress on it from writing out code -- wouldn't be so bad except for having to press down hard to write it in triplicate through all that carbon paper. Genny [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/03/08 08:54AM ..- .-.. .-.. .. .. -- --. --- .. -. --.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability evaluation of library online catalogues

2008-02-04 Thread Genny Engel
, in fact, want an exact title. It'll be interesting to see the findings when the researchers test their proposed interface. Genny Engel Internet Librarian Sonoma County Library [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/04/08 11:05AM A New Zealand based study

[CODE4LIB] PHP and Sybase

2008-01-23 Thread Genny Engel
Anyone have PHP on Linux/Apache talking to a Sybase database on another server? If so, are you using Easysoft ODBC? Or have other options to recommend? Thanks, Genny Engel Internet Librarian Sonoma County Library [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org