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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of
Ken Irwin
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:55 PM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: [CODE4LIB] LC sort problems (php)
Hi folks,
I've been using a Library-of-Congress sort routine for a few
years, and
until now I have never used
Hi all,
Thanks for these myriad responses! I've gotten at least three distinct
approaches to try. I knew there had to be a better way.
your sql-fu is appreciated!
joys
Ken
of query.
thanks
Ken
--
Ken Irwin
Reference Librarian
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University
that give lots of examples + code?
I'm finding that to be less prevalent than I'd imagined...
Thanks!
Ken
--
Ken Irwin
Reference Librarian
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University
the Scriptaculous framework/library which I thought might do
the trick, but I've not figured out a way to make that work. (It seems
to be more into regular auto-completion rather than narrowing the
results display.
Ken
Ken Irwin wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm looking for what ought to be a straightfoward
as other character-based functionality is
deprecated.
Just a reminder of the risks of relying on automation that depend on
interfaces that are losing vendor support.
kyle
--
Ken Irwin
Reference Librarian
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University
library's
pretty small collection of feature films, and I'd love to include
covers. Any ideas on how I might get them? Anyone else doing this?
Thanks
Ken
--
Ken Irwin
Reference Librarian
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University
I'm puzzling through all of this too. Could it be the case that the
acquisition of the images would be problematic (the files are owned or
licensed by other companies) but that the use of the images is ok? That
would be a particularly annoying snarl: if you've got it, you can use
it, but you
users from doing things like accidentally changing primary key
data and things like that.
I've thought about writing something, but I suspect that would be
reinventing the wheel. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ken
--
Ken Irwin
Reference Librarian
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University
Ken Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/30/08 9:35 AM
Hi folks,
I have some straightforward MySQL data tables that I would like to be
editable by some of my less- techy colleagues. I tend to think of
phpMyAdmin as a perfectly serviceable and reasonably interface for
updating database
against PHP in favor of
C, against C in favor of assembly, etc.. Abstraction always has merits
and demerits.
Tim
--
Ken Irwin
Reference Librarian
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University
the user has command-line mysql
access.)
Any ideas?
Thanks
Ken
--
Ken Irwin
Reference Librarian
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University
This sounds like a great idea for a Firefox plugin...
Ken
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Tim Shearer
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:18 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, etc
Hi all,
I'm moving to a new web server and struggling to get it configured properly.
The problem of the moment: having a Perl CGI script call another web page in
the background and make decisions based on its content. On the old server I
used an antique Perl script called hcat (from the
Hi all,
I'm looking for a good source to help me understand character sets and how to
use them. I pretty much know nothing about this - the whole world of Unicode,
ASCII, octal, UTF-8, etc. is baffling to me.
My immediate issue is that I think I need to integrate data from a variety of
Hi all -- thanks for these fabulous replies. I'm learning a lot.
Armed with a bit of new knowledge, I've done some tinkering. I think I've
solved my original quandaries, and have opened new cans of worms. I have a few
more specific questions:
1) It appears that once I switch my MySQL table
Hi all,
Does anyone have an-AJAX pop-up window style tool that works with image maps?
I'm thinking of something in the the lightbox, thickbox, ibox family. I've
found a bunch of references to people online *looking* for this functionality,
but no one finding it. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Ken
From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin
[kir...@wittenberg.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 2:20 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] image maps + lightbox/thickbox/ibox/etc
Hi all,
Does anyone have an-AJAX
Sometimes the answer is quit working, go home, and ask your sweetie.
My partner is a genius and had a very straightforward solution: get rid of the
imagemap and replace it with some absolutely-positioned links that use regular
anchor tags. Not only does this solve the problem in a
Hi all,
I'm on a mission to finally learn some jQuery, and I'm kind of falling in love
with it. In particular, I'm finding in it the perfect tool for modifying our
OPAC in ways that the catalog vendor never intended, tweaking the DOM to my
heart's content.
Having worked my way through the
I would come from Ohio to wherever we choose. Kalamazoo would suit me just
fine; I've not been back there in entirely too long!
Ken
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Scott Garrison
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 8:37 AM
To:
I love how we changed the name of this thread to PHP bashing just in time for
it to become a thread about duct tape.
And y'all are forgetting the best automotive use for duct tape: as a temporary
scaffolding for smearing Bondo onto.
I just did this, in fact, and have the pink residue on my
Hi all,
Forking off from the mobile-detection thread:
Does anyone have any favorite books, articles, websites, etc. for the real how
to business of building mobile-friendly websites. I have been astonished at
the apparent dearth of such books, and was delighted earlier this year to
discover
I've been pretty happy with the results we were able to get with a home-grown
mobile catalog. It's not a product that one could install (though I'd be
happy to share our code, much of which would likely work out well.)
Basically, my approach was to write mobile stylesheets that kill a lot of
I hypothesize that until you get your 100,000 results, that authors like
Chaucer and Shakespeare will rise to the top because they are the ones we've
all read; they're going to get more total votes because more people will have
read them.
Are you capturing the losses as well as the wins here?
Hi all,
I have just, for the severalth time, just talked to a student who had lost a
bunch of work in a common way: he had copied-and-pasted a bunch of
database-content URLs on the fairly-reasonable (but, of course, incorrect)
assumption that those URLs would get him back to the content later.
I was just struck with a bit on inspiration on this, so perhaps I'll have a
thing to share later
Ken
From: Ken Irwin
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 3:38 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: easy/classy save-marked-records functionality?
Hi all,
Thanks for your thoughts yesterday
Hi all,
Thanks for your thoughts yesterday re: dealing with vendors impermanent URLs
- I think the advice of the group re: getting vendors to change their ways
makes more sense than the techno solution I had in mind.
For today's question, I am the db supplier, so I get to make my own
Nathan,
Would it make sense to break this up into several documents and add a search
function? You could still have a giant, one-page (and thus easily-printable)
option, but maybe that wouldn't be the default.
The search feature I'm envisioning would just be a search of key words in the
Hi all,
I've got a dataset that I'm trying to make exportable for MiniTab, etc. It's
tab-delimited and lines end with \n.
When I serve it up as text/plain and view it in my web browser, it works just
fine and all the line breaks are in the right places.
When I send the header to make it a
appropriately; and you may need to make the filename
end in .txt anyway.
The line breaks are probably still there, your web browser is just
rendering the file as html rather than txt, is my guess.
On 1/11/2011 3:29 PM, Ken Irwin wrote:
Hi all,
I've got a dataset that I'm trying to make exportable
To: Code for Libraries
Cc: Ken Irwin
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] data export help: line breaks on tab-delimited download
Windows NotePad probably needs an \r\n combo at the end of every line,
windows style. Whether you should worry about that depends on where the
file is destined for and if it matters
Hi all,
Is there any effort currently underway to help folks get from the airport
to/from the conference? If not, shall we start one? I'll be driving thru
Indianapolis to/from the event and would be glad to pick up a person or two on
the way.
I'm sure we don't need to work that all out on
://www.sil.si.edu/
(202) 633-1706 | (202) 786-2861 (f) | richar...@si.edu
On Jan 24, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Ken Irwin wrote:
Hi all,
Is there any effort currently underway to help folks get from the airport
to/from the conference? If not, shall we start one? I'll be driving thru
Indianapolis
Drupal
Solr/Blacklight
Rr
Hula-hoop tricks
-Ken
On Apr 26, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Edward Iglesias wrote:
Hello All,
I am doing a presentation at RILA (Rhode Island Library Association) on
changing skill sets for Systems Librarians. I did a formal survey a while
back (if you
Hi all,
I'm about to embark upon a summer weeding project, and would like to do so with
the help of a little web tool - perhaps one that you've already invented or for
which a generic AJAX-based CRUD interface already exists. (Mostly I think I'm
just looking for a low-power AJAX-based CRUD
It turns out that this is one of those I should have just searched first
questions. Once it became clearer to me that I didn't need a library-specific
app but that all I really needed was AJAX+CRUD, the problem simplified.
Solution: http://www.ajaxcrud.com/
It looks like it can do all of the
AJAX for slickness and ease of use. We could do form html, but I'd prefer
something that's updated in real time.
As for the scanner -- my plan was to pre-populate the database from our OPAC,
so we won't need to scan each book individually.)
Ken
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From: Code for
Hi all,
I'm curious: does ANYONE have an OPAC that passes an HTML validator test?
I've know mine doesn't, and none of the ones I spot-checked do either. (TPD:
OhioLINK gets a prize for coming way closer than anyone, by at least an order
of magnitude and sometimes several!)
Do catalogs even
I have a feeling it may be time for me to learn some grown-up programming
skills, and I hope someone here might be able to help.
I have a PHP script chewing over a large MySQL query. It's creating a handful
of big associative arrays in the process, and punks out after the arrays get to
32MB.
Hi all,
I've not done much with MySQL subqueries, and I'm trying right now with what I
find to be surprising results. I wonder if someone can help me understand.
I have a pile of data that with columns for institution and date.
Institution gets repeated a lot, with many different dates. I want
I don't know that there are two many rules about this, but here's what comes to
mind for me:
1. respect robots.txt
2. cache content so you don't hit their site more often than is reasonable.
(i'd say that once a day is pretty reasonable)
3. also cache or mockup or something when you're writing
That's a great point, Same. Thanks.
The spam-bots have been falling for the confirm_email and filling it in with
the correct value, but I think I'll try switching it to something obtuse that
the auto-fillin isn't likely to have a value for.
what_would_you_do_for_a_klondike_bar comes to mind...
Hi folks,
Using the ever-handy phpMyAdmin tool for MySQL db management, there's a CSV
import option to parse lines like this (all GUI-like):
LOAD DATA INFILE 'file.csv'
INTO TABLE tbl_name
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
FIELDS ENCLOSED BY '\',
FIELDS ESCAPED BY '\'
LINES TERMINATED BY 'auto'
Hi all,
I'm working with someone who's working to make their videos available online
and is particularly looking for mobile accessibility. That seems to be a moving
target these days, and I'm wondering if anyone with more experience in this
area might have some best-practices up their sleeve.
HTML, CSS, and PHP make for a great start.
For interface development, I'd suggest adding jQuery to the mix (especially
JQueryUI and JQuery Mobile). I find jQuery to be useful for two particular
things:
1) modifying interfaces over which you have limited direct control (like OPACs)
-- it lets
My general approach is server-side first. Unless it's wildly easier to
accomplish something client-side, then I think it makes sense to go for the
consistency of server-side processing.
So taking a text file, doing some processing, and spitting out what should
behave for the user as if it's a
Hi folks,
I'm starting in on a pretty big bibliography project, for what I expect will be
a web-based annotated bibliography. Kind of
part-book-review-blog/part-bibliography. I'm wondering if there are any systems
out there that would support this kind of thing. I think what I want is
Julia -- that look quite plausible; it just means that I'll finally have to
learn Drupal! I am not opposed to this fate, just foot-draggy... :)
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Julia
Bauder
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 10:10 AM
Hi folks,
Does anyone know of a free data source that correlates ISSNs with data that
includes what kind of publication is this? e.g.
*Academic journal (+/- peer review?)
*Popular magazine
*Newspaper
*Trade journal
*Etc
Obviously, there's some wiggle
Thanks Ranti!
I am definitely interested, and would favor a the latter end of the proposed
timeframe.
Ken
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt
Schultz
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 3:08 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Hi folks,
Our library is planning to post some video guides in the next little while, and
I'd like to make it as simple-for-me and accessible-for-everyone-else as
possible.
Does anyone have a good handy guide/idea/workflow/etc on current best practices
for presenting html5-happy video that
Quoth Jason:
I've just written a script which takes source video, adds a common credits
snippet to each video,
and then wraps system calls to convert to MP4 and WebM. The script also takes
the first frame of the video to create a poster image.
Is this a share-able script? That sounds like
My id agrees with the calls to let IE die a horrible death, but I agree with
your point: from a service perspective, we cannot just drop support for IE.
Libraries will hopefully uphold a higher standard of accessibility than some
other places on the web.
In my heart of hearts, I assume that
Hi folks,
Anybody out there using the Libki computer kiosk/reservation manager system?
Our library is looking for a (preferably free/OSS) solution to manage access to
our public kiosks. Libki looks possible, but the documentation on their website
really only goes as far as installation.
I'd
Eric++
I was thinking the same thing.
Along those lines: for the folks working on the draft policy - I'd like to
suggest adding gender expression and gender identity to the mix of things
we're not discriminating about.
Language from the GLAAD Media Reference
Sarah asks about how to direct users to mobile versions of databases where
appropriate.
The way I'm doing it is:
1. All database links are served up from a database table, so the link on our
website is http://$OUR_LIBRARY/redirect?$db_id
2. The db-of-dbs knows if there is a mobile specific
I use the PHP code from: http://detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/
(free for personal and non-profit use)
Ken
-Original Message-
From: Jonathan Rochkind [mailto:rochk...@jhu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:36 PM
To: Code for Libraries
Cc: Ken Irwin
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] directing
to detect mobile-or-not?
On 1/2/2013 3:33 PM, Ken Irwin wrote:
Sarah asks about how to direct users to mobile versions of databases
where appropriate.
The way I'm doing it is:
1. All database links are served up from a database table, so the
link on our website is http://$OUR_LIBRARY/redirect
What both Kelly and David say is true here:
David: programming needs math, not arithmetic.
Kelly: computers are good at arithmetic on their own.
To which I'll add: the related skill that I see as necessary here is
quantitative reasoning - not the crunching of numbers but the correct assembly
I've set up email address-based accounts for PayPal and Facebook APIs using
organizational gmail accounts. Our university is picky about not having email
accounts accessible by more than one person (refdesk@mylibrary is a mailing
list/distribution list that can receive email but cannot send
Hi folks,
I'm looking for simple, JS-based mobile framework (like jQT, formerly jQuery
Touch) that looks good on both iOS and Win 8 (and, you know, everything else).
For this particular purpose I'm NOT looking for a responsive framework (e.g.
Bootstrap, Skeleton).
I just checked out jQT on a
PS - I should have mentioned that what I'm looking for is a mobile WEB
framework. I'm not doing app development -- just trying to deliver reasonably
simple HTML pages.
thanks
Ken
From: Ken Irwin
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 10:40 AM
To: Code for Libraries
Hi all,
Does anyone have a phone app (pref. iOS) that will just scan barcodes to a
textfile? All the apps I'm finding are shopping oriented or other special uses.
I just want to replace our antique barcode scanner that spits out a list of
barcodes as a text file.
Anyone have such a thing? Or
] phone app for barcode-to-textfile?
You might want to look at
http://www.clz.com/barry/
--
Aaron Addison
Unix Administrator
W. E. B. Du Bois Library UMass Amherst
413 577 2104
On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 17:40 +, Ken Irwin wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone have a phone app (pref. iOS
Hi folks,
I've been working on integrating some Bootstrap into our library website, and
I've stumbled on weird thing that I can't explain:
I'm using the basic bootstrap templates, straight out of the box with no
customization, and the CSS feature that compresses the header on narrow screens
Never mind? This appears to be a campus network issue, not inherent to IE
On Jun 28, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Ken Irwin
kir...@exchange.wittenberg.edumailto:kir...@exchange.wittenberg.edu wrote:
Hi folks,
I’ve been working on integrating some Bootstrap into our library website, and
I’ve stumbled
Hi folks,
Is anyone out there using library-like tools for searching Netflix? I'm
imagining a world in which Netflix data gets mashed up with OCLC data or
something like it to populate a more robustly searchable Netflix title list.
Does anything like this exist?
What I really want at the
title you can get into trouble because movies get remade. So title +
date seems to work best if you can get the information.
Karen
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote:
Hi folks,
Is anyone out there using library-like tools for searching Netflix? I'm
imagining
Hi all,
I'm looking for a tool that I hope exists, and that I hope someone here might
be able to point me too. I want to select a portion of a web page (or of the
html behind it), and be able to copy it ALONG WITH whatever CSS rules apply to
that section of code. I don't want the whole 1000+
Hi all,
I'm working on a project for which we're looking for some image gallery
management software (ie, upload, organize, tag, etc.) that's a standalone piece
of software: ie, not part of a larger CMS like WordPress, Drupal, ContentDM,
etc.
We'd of course like something that is simple,
Hi all,
In our library, we've noticed lately a lot of raw-looking RDA info from MARC
records that shows up in the user interface. Our head of tech services
translated the gibberish for the librarians, and we are now considering what to
do with it. (The example and her excellent translations
Matt,
Our library's website is visually and navigationally part of the larger
university website, but housed on its own server. We are under the Academics
tab in the Centers of learning block along with the writing center, community
service office, etc. Being part of the larger university
difference, e.g.:
Irwin, Ken
Irwin, Kenneth
Irwin, Mr. Kenneth
Irwin, Kenneth R.
Basketball - Women
Basketball - Women's
Basketball-Women
Basketball-Women's
I would love to have some sort of pattern-matching tool that's smart about this
sort of thing that could go through the list of terms (as a text
This is the only python we've got going on in our library:
http://www.wittprojects.net/library_blog/?p=573
http://ezra.wittenberg.edu/record=b1252845~S0
Ken
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Julia
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014
Hi folks,
Does anyone have a handy scheme for coding LC call numbers into just a few
broad subject areas (e.g. Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences) or
perhaps something only a little more granular than that?
I'm hoping for a list that will turn 1-3 letter LC classes into subject
Thanks all,
This has given me a few things to work with and I think I can move forward.
Joys
Ken
-Original Message-
From: Will Martin [mailto:w...@will-martin.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 5:26 PM
To: Code for Libraries
Cc: Ken Irwin
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] library
Three things I do with a tablet in the library:
1. guerrilla reference -- if I'm carrying a tablet I don't need to be near a
computer to help folks out when wandering around the library. (this is an ad
hoc activity for me, but I imagine some people do it more deliberately.)
2. weeding -- my
Hi folks,
I'm hoping to find a PHP class that designed to display data in tables,
preferably able to do two things:
1. Swap the x- and y-axis, so you could arbitrarily show the table with
y=Puppies, x=Kittens or y=Kittens,x=Puppies
2. Display the table either using plain text columns or
Brett,
This isn't quite an answer, but perhaps a perspective/option. Our library
hasn't been able to get NYT to do straight-up IP authentication and for years
they have been a challenge for us.
Recently, they rolled out an educational institutional access option. Through
that option, our
Hello all,
I've just learned that the PHP mysql_* functions are all deprecated as of PHP
5.5, and I'm trying to figure out what this means for my life. My library's
website is heavily database-driven, hand-coded, and all written using the
mysql_* functions. It's currently running PHP 5.4, so
I'll start
exploring those ideas again too. And/or, I may take TK up on the idea of giving
it all up an opening a coffee shop instead...
Many thanks -- I 'm glad to have such a robust community of experienced
co-conspirators.
Ken
On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu
Hi folks,
Thanks to all who responded a few weeks ago to my inquiry about updating the
code on my library's website. Many folks suggested moving to a CMS, and I'm
starting to look into that possibility, and particularly Drupal.
In doing so, I'm hoping not to re-invent the wheel, and I'm hoping
Hi folks,
I'm hoping to find some sort of web-based app that can manage the library's
hours of operations, including:
* Displaying today's hours
* Displaying an upcoming schedule of hours
* Updatable though a GUI interface by non-techy library staff
* Able to
info.
Ron Gilmour
Web Services Librarian
Ithaca College Library
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm hoping to find some sort of web-based app that can manage the
library's hours of operations, including:
* Displaying today's hours
Hi folks,
I'm working on a javascript project that currently has a bunch of JSON data
defined inside the script; I'd like to move the data to a file outside the JS
file so it can be updated without touching the script, but I'm running up
against a few challenges externalizing the data.
The
Thanks Kyle -- that's exactly what I needed for the current circumstance. It
might not be the best, but it looks like the simplest by a long shot.
Thanks to Conal too.
I'm so glad to have a community of folks who can help spare us from hours of
anguish and frustration!
Ken
Matt,
For the last year or so I've been using a tool developed by a handful of
Code4Libbers:
https://github.com/kenirwin/LibraryHoursManager
There are two front-end pieces: 1) a "today's hours" report to put on the front
page,
http://www6.wittenberg.edu/lib/
and calendar of dates and hours:
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