Re: [CODE4LIB] Female roomate wanted for Code4libcon

2010-01-05 Thread Becky Yoose
This may be a good time to bring this up... There is a roommate list at http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010planning:RoommatesRidesEtc#Roommatesif folks are looking or offering a place to stay. Thanks, Becky Becky Yoose Bibliographic Systems Librarian Miami University Bringing WI weather

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-shirt Design Contest

2010-01-05 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
I asked Roy, Which of the Roy Tennant Undergarments line are you most looking forward to? He replied, Depends. -Mike On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 22:56, Roy Tennant tenna...@oclc.org wrote: Ross, you are entirely too kind. ;-) Roy On 1/4/10 1/4/10 € 7:34 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-shirt Design Contest

2010-01-05 Thread Ya'aqov Ziso
I asked Roy, Which of the Roy Tennant Undergarments line are you most looking forward to? He replied, Depends. === are you sure he didn¹t say ³deep-ends² (?)

[CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-05 Thread Tod Olson
One of our staff needs to learn PHP, and an online course is preferred. Is there an online PHP course that any of you would recommend? -Tod Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-05 Thread Sharon Foster
http://www.ed2go.com/nvcc/online_course/iph/detail/Introduction_to_PHP_and_MySQL.html?CategoryId=41 Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS Technology Librarian http://firstgentrekkie.blogspot.com/ Have you tried switching it off and on again? On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-05 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Tod Olson wrote: One of our staff needs to learn PHP, and an online course is preferred. Is there an online PHP course that any of you would recommend? If they already understand basic programming, and just need to pick up the syntactic issues, some of the documentation

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-05 Thread Thomas Krichel
Joe Hourcle writes ps. yes, I could've used this response as an opportunity to bash PHP ... and I didn't, because they might be learning PHP to migrate it to something else. controversial ;-) what's the problem(s) with PHP? Cheers, Thomas Krichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-05 Thread Walker, David
what's the problem(s) with PHP? I fear this thread may never end. And I like PHP. --Dave == David Walker Library Web Services Manager California State University http://xerxes.calstate.edu From: Code for Libraries

[CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

2010-01-05 Thread marijane white
Greetings Code4Lib, Long time lurker, first time poster here. I've been turning over this question in my mind for a few weeks now, and Joe Hourcle's postscript in the Online PHP Course thread has prompted me to finally try to ask it. =) I'm interested in hearing how the members of this list

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

2010-01-05 Thread Terence Ingram
I reckon if you are building webapps either get into Rails (as you know ruby this should be simple) or get into Grails as Brad suggests. Both are pretty powerful, have interesting and active communities and there are sufficient ruby and java library libraries for library related development. If

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

2010-01-05 Thread Ross Singer
I realize you didn't want to start a religious war nor were you interested in the abstract reasons people chose a particular language, that being said... I honestly think choosing the best* development language is very similar to how one settles on politics, religion, diet, etc. Environment plays

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

2010-01-05 Thread Roy Tennant
Thanks to Ross for forestalling what might have easily sunk into yet another platform war. He makes some excellent points, with none better than that it is an entirely personal choice, barring other criteria that must be considered (e.g., demands of your place of employment). Therefore, his advice