Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed library alpha server up, feedback welcome

2011-04-25 Thread Elliot Hallmark
@brice: good point, its on the list now @michael: >> University of Texas is switching to django for all of their internal DB > >stuff like accounting and payroll for reasons that are obvious to anyone who > >has used django. >Huh? Django may be great, but this seems highly unlikely. I may ver

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed library alpha server up, feedback welcome

2011-04-25 Thread Doran, Michael D
:58 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed library alpha server up, feedback welcome > > Another thing that differentiates you from other small libraries > attempting this sort of thing is your contacting of this list. Most of > the readers here are used to big

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed library alpha server up, feedback welcome

2011-04-25 Thread Brice Stacey
aries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Elliot Hallmark Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 5:27 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] distributed library alpha server up, feedback welcome All, It was at the end of last year that I came here saying I was writing an open source ILS

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed library alpha server up, feedback welcome

2011-04-25 Thread Elliot Hallmark
Interesting point about the checkout history. Not displaying it automatically is probably a good idea. I wouldn't drop that info though, or obscure it in the DB.

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed library alpha server up, feedback welcome

2011-04-25 Thread Elliot Hallmark
> > Another thing that differentiates you from other small libraries > attempting this sort of thing is your contacting of this list. Most of > the readers here are used to big-data problems, where they're trying > to make sense of the storage, maintenance, and display of millions of > records, so

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed library alpha server up, feedback welcome

2011-04-25 Thread Markus Fischer
Hi Elliot congrats, you did it! Wish you all the best for the further development! Markus Am 23.04.2011 23:27, schrieb Elliot Hallmark: All, It was at the end of last year that I came here saying I was writing an open source ILS for a distributed (book sharing) library. While I had lots of

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed library alpha server up, feedback welcome

2011-04-24 Thread Dave Caroline
I am another self coder using my own ideas not stuck with legacy ideas and using a web design with mysql db I happen to use php and dont use a cms like many seem to these days. I find use of a CMS somewhat restricting to the use of the database for full speed. You may get a CMS up quickly but it ca

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed library alpha server up, feedback welcome

2011-04-24 Thread Gabriel Farrell
The distributed library, where all patrons are both lenders and borrowers, is an intriguing concept, and it's great that you have a rudimentary system up to experiment with it. Aside from the unusual requirements of a distributed library, you have one thing which separates you from the masses of sm

[CODE4LIB] distributed library alpha server up, feedback welcome

2011-04-23 Thread Elliot Hallmark
All, It was at the end of last year that I came here saying I was writing an open source ILS for a distributed (book sharing) library. While I had lots of enthusiasm and time for it at the time, our development computer didn't have the capacity to run a solr based discovery front end. Even thoug