Ed Summers schrieb:
The first step is admitting that you are unable to understand *all*
the crazy library technology lingo, and that library-technology
environment as a whole has become unmanageable. :-)
[evil grin]
2. Don't forget to look at trends outside of Libraryland.
I think that's
Ed Summers schrieb:
The first step is admitting that you are unable to understand *all*
the crazy library technology lingo, and that library-technology
environment as a whole has become unmanageable. :-)
If all else fails, as a noise filter, you could also do worse than to
track the
2009/7/22 Wayne Lam wing...@gmail.com:
I am new in here and i am currently worked in the library too.
I am always confused that when i read the post in here, there are always
something i don't understand
and there are so much to learn.
So, the question is, hows everybody learns to be a good
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:14:47AM +0800, Wayne Lam wrote:
Hi all,
I am new in here and i am currently worked in the library too.
I am always confused that when i read the post in here, there are always
something i don't understand
and there are so much to learn.
So, the question is,
On Jul 21, 2009, at 11:14 PM, Wayne Lam wrote:
I am new in here and i am currently worked in the library too. I
am always confused that when i read the post in here, there are
always something i don't understand and there are so much to
learn.
So, the question is, hows everybody learns to be a
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Wayne Lamwing...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I am new in here and i am currently worked in the library too.
I am always confused that when i read the post in here, there are always
something i don't understand
and there are so much to learn.
So, the question
Some good answers so far...
First, regarding books. While the suggestion of avoiding dumbed
downed books has some merit it is worth noting the distinction between
books that are primarily used for reference and books that are more
about theory. I haven't fund much use for reference books so
2009/7/22 John Fereira ja...@cornell.edu:
Some good answers so far...
First, regarding books. While the suggestion of avoiding dumbed downed
books has some merit it is worth noting the distinction between books that
are primarily used for reference and books that are more about theory. I
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.com wrote:
2009/7/22 John Fereira ja...@cornell.edu:
Some good answers so far...
First, regarding books. While the suggestion of avoiding dumbed downed
books has some merit it is worth noting the distinction between books that
are
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Wayne Lam wrote:
Hi all,
I am new in here and i am currently worked in the library too.
I am always confused that when i read the post in here, there are always
something i don't understand
and there are so much to learn.
So, the question is, hows everybody learns to be
Hi Wayne:
My advice would be to find a real, do-able, and hopefully exciting
problem where you work (or elsewhere) that can be solved with a bit of
automation. Once you've found something to work on, fish around for
the right tools(s) to solve the problem. You can use your peers in
here or
2009/7/22 Jacob skoc...@gmail.com:
These are books that I have come back to time and time again. They
contain treasures worth a hundred time more than whatever currently
trendy Design Pattern is being pushed by this month's hot book.
You surely don't mean the GoF classic here, do you? It's a
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Jon Gormanjonathan.gor...@gmail.com wrote:
As far as
languages, I'd probably lean towards ruby or python for starters or
maybe Java. Then move into php after you have a grasp of good
programming practice. You'll also figure out more what you like to
work
Here's another reference to add to some of the great ones so far
(hadn't seen that Norvig one before Chris!). Whatever you think about
Perl, it's hard to argue with Larry Wall's 3 great virtues of a
computer programmer:
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris
//Ed
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Ross Singerrossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Jon Gormanjonathan.gor...@gmail.com wrote:
As far as
languages, I'd probably lean towards ruby or python for starters or
maybe Java. Then move into php after you have a grasp of good
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Jacob wrote:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Ross Singerrossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Jon Gormanjonathan.gor...@gmail.com wrote:
As far as
languages, I'd probably lean towards ruby or python for starters or
maybe Java. ?Then move into
I do think that what language you choose to learn in will effect what
you learn though. As someone else mentioned, which was a good point,
being exposed to good code is the best thing to help you learn to write
it. And on that basis, PHP is maybe not a good choice, and Perl can
be...
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Jon Gorman wrote:
[trimmed]
Good point. One of my main thoughts was that ruby and python are both
hot languages right now and there might be a lot of tutorials and
tolerance out there now for the hello world type of approaches. I
also considered for suggesting perl, but
It's about time to make this thread a wiki post.
--Joe
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Hi all,
I am new in here and i am currently worked in the library too.
I am always confused that when i read the post in here, there are always
Thank you so much for all the reply.
Maybe i should say something about my background first.
I was a business (information system) (a half computer, half business
degree) student but i work in IT industry for more than 5 years (mainly web
development),
I learnt some basic language by that time
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Wayne Lamwing...@gmail.com wrote:
So i start browsing on the internet about what OAI, Solr and all related
thing without a direction, reading books on what Semantic web is and
subscribe some mailing list of interesting projects. But for a newbie like
me, it was
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