Re: [CODE4LIB] asist2010 meetup?

2010-10-28 Thread Tim Spalding
Thanks for the note. I was too exhausted to take you up on it—up all night fixing bugs :( Tim On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: Whoops, that was bus 61B not 61D. //Ed 15:23 edsu @quote get 3 15:23 zoia edsu: Quote #3: edsu, your source for bad advice

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-28 Thread Nate Vack
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Junior Tidal jti...@citytech.cuny.edu wrote: Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I haven't actively looked for resources since I'm busy doing collection development. However, I came across an advertisement for a Django book and figured it would be a useful

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

2010-10-28 Thread Thomas Bennett
Having used Zope (python based) as our WEB server of choice since 1998 I am urged to express my opinion that if you do choose to use python in your projects then use a service designed for python use such as Zope, Django, et al. Zope is normally run in front of Apache as a virtual host. If

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hadoop/MapReduce and FOP

2010-10-28 Thread Nate Vack
Can you start FOP job as its own process? If so, something like Condor[1] or Sun Grid Engine will probably be a whole lot easier to deploy (like, you could be testing next week) than something MapReduce-based. Usage is essentially: condor_run your_process and that queues the job up and runs it

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARCXML - What is it for?

2010-10-28 Thread Cory Rockliff
I've only just had a chance to catch up on this thread. I'm not offended in the least by Turbomarc (anything round-trippable should serve just as well as an internal representation of MARC, right?), but I am a little puzzled--what are the 'special cases' alluded to in the blog post? When

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARCXML - What is it for?

2010-10-28 Thread MJ Suhonos
Let me openly state that I've never used Turbomarc. I believe the special case they are referring to is the subfield code with a value of η, which is non-alphanumeric. I don't know enough about MARC to even begin guessing what this means or why it might occur (or not). The use case I see for

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARCXML - What is it for?

2010-10-28 Thread Mike Taylor
On 28 October 2010 17:37, MJ Suhonos m...@suhonos.ca wrote: Let me openly state that I've never used Turbomarc.  I believe the special case they are referring to is the subfield code with a value of η, which is non-alphanumeric.  I don't know enough about MARC to even begin guessing what

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARCXML - What is it for?

2010-10-28 Thread MJ Suhonos
The first comment claims a 30-40% increase in XML parsing, which seems obvious when you compare the number of characters in the example provided: 277 vs. 419, or about 34% fewer going through the parser. The speedup can be much greater than that -- from the blog post itself, Using

[CODE4LIB] Proposal: CURATEcamp Hackfest at Code4Lib 2011

2010-10-28 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Folks, I'm proposing a CURATEcamp Hackfest as a full-day preconference at the Code4Lib 2011 conference. What is that? It's a loosely structured, highly collaborative day of hacking -- coding, design, specs, API, policy, you name it -- around the domain of digital curation. See the initial