Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Papers: Code4Lib Journal

2010-08-30 Thread Luciano Ramalho
for the 12th issue, please send proposals, > abstracts, or draft articles to c4lj-artic...@googlegroups.com no later than > Friday, September 17, 2010. > > > Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing. > > Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee > ___

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-25 Thread Luciano Ramalho
enjoyed "Python Web Development with Django", which includes half a dozen simple and diverse example applications. http://www.amazon.com/Python-Development-Django-Jeff-Forcier/dp/0132356139 -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

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

2010-10-27 Thread Luciano Ramalho
-side Web scripting on almost any hosting service on Earth. For everything else, it is very worthwhile to learn and use a general purpose dynamic language such as Python, Ruby or Perl. Sorry for the rant. I must confess I am a founder of the Brazilian Python Association and was its first president, so you can call me a Python advocate. -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] He's Pro-Django (humour)

2010-10-30 Thread Luciano Ramalho
post I saw someone reply "He's >    pro-Django, he's pro-Django, he's pro-Django, >    That's his stance!" > > -- Michael > (A gray-beard Perl programmer who has resolved to start learning and using > Python in 2011) > > # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian > # University of Texas at Arlington > # 817-272-5326 office > # 817-688-1926 mobile > # do...@uta.edu > # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ > -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Journal Call for Papers

2010-12-06 Thread Luciano Ramalho
o jour...@code4lib.org no later than > Friday, January 7, 2011. > > Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing. > > > Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee > -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?

2010-12-14 Thread Luciano Ramalho
% RESTful API is a highly productive web-services platform with a document oriented data model and built-in peer-to-peer replication. In short, it does very well lots of things we need done. -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

[CODE4LIB] CouchDB and MongoDB (was: Re: O'Reilly books...)

2010-12-14 Thread Luciano Ramalho
B can't handle the traffic. [1] http://regional.bvsalud.org/php/index.php?lang=en -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] CouchDB and MongoDB (was: Re: O'Reilly books...)

2010-12-14 Thread Luciano Ramalho
kill the conversation we had just started on the other thread. -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] CouchDB and MongoDB (was: Re: O'Reilly books...)

2010-12-14 Thread Luciano Ramalho
to be the most mature. Terrastore seems promising, I will check it out. Thanks for the pointer, Bill. -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] CouchDB and MongoDB (was: Re: O'Reilly books...)

2010-12-14 Thread Luciano Ramalho
nt state on disk, because it only appends, and appends are guaranteed to be atomic in posix systems. -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] GPL incompatible interfaces

2011-02-18 Thread Luciano Ramalho
ust use it within their infrastructure. That is exactly why the AGPL was created, by the way. To provide a way to make companies like Google share the changes they make to GPL software they use to provide services to third parties. -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] Controlled Vocabulary DB: RESTful CRU[D]

2011-03-01 Thread Luciano Ramalho
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Luciano Ramalho wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:31 PM, William Denton wrote: >> On 1 March 2011, Bobbi Fox wrote: >> >>> I have been tasked with coming up with a RESTful Create, Read, Update >>> [we're not Deleting] API t

Re: [CODE4LIB] Controlled Vocabulary DB: RESTful CRU[D]

2011-03-01 Thread Luciano Ramalho
RESTful Web Services Cookbook, published by O'Reilly in 2009. RESTful Web Services Cookbook - Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity By Subbu Allamaraju http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801694 -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sign up to present at the Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks on April 4th

2011-04-01 Thread Luciano Ramalho
nting, but I think the lead time was too short, particularly for an activity intended for business hours (1:30pm EDT is 2:30pm BRT / UTC-3). How about trying again, but aiming at a date in late April? -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

[CODE4LIB] Why does the MARC to DC crosswalk refuse to use Creator?

2011-04-18 Thread Luciano Ramalho
I am mystified by the discovery that the MARC to DC Crosswalk does not map *any* MARC tag to the DC Creator element! http://www.loc.gov/marc/marc2dc.html Does anyone know the reasoning behind this strange decision? -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter

Re: [CODE4LIB] Why does the MARC to DC crosswalk refuse to use Creator?

2011-04-25 Thread Luciano Ramalho
ibutor instead.  So I'm guessing the sticking > point is that it's hard to figure out what Contributors are primary, so it's > safer to just punt and put them all in Contributor instead. > > -Esme > -- > Esme Cowles > > "During my service in the United

Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn?

2011-04-27 Thread Luciano Ramalho
... I love to teach and I am a Python and Django instructor (I've used Python professionally since 1998). I've been using CouchDB for a few months at work now. -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

[CODE4LIB] irtual Lightning Talks: tests passed, but Webinar "not found"

2011-04-29 Thread Luciano Ramalho
else I have to do and I don't have time to reschedule. >>> I really like this idea and I hope it can be successful, so I hope >>> this message brought a rash of sign-ups and it goes on, or it is >>> rescheduled. >>> >>> Edward >>> >>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Webinar information for today's Virtual Lightning Talks

2011-04-29 Thread Luciano Ramalho
e Library Technology Jester                http://dltj.org/ > Attrib-Noncomm-Share   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ > -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] irtual Lightning Talks: tests passed, but Webinar "not found"

2011-04-29 Thread Luciano Ramalho
I just got in the room. Please ignore my last message. Cheers, Luciano On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Luciano Ramalho wrote: > Hello, Peter! > > I am trying to connect to the Webinar but I keep getting a Java > NullPointerException traceback, with an "Event not found"

Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn?

2011-05-01 Thread Luciano Ramalho
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Fleming, Declan wrote: > Wine appreciation - ok, this one is a lie.  BEER!!! Same here. Both the façade and the truth. -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] Position Anouncment: Web Developer - University of Pittsburgh

2011-05-06 Thread Luciano Ramalho
"Gregg, Brian D" wrote: >Systems/Programmer III >Web Developer, Information Systems, Thomas BL. > >To apply or see more information on this position: >https://www.pittsource.com/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=239751 > >This is a temporary grant-funded position through

Re: [CODE4LIB] Seth Godin on The future of the library

2011-05-16 Thread Luciano Ramalho
.html > > To summarise: "The library is a house for the librarian ...  [Kids] > need a librarian more than ever (to figure out creative ways to find > and use data). They need a library not at all ...  We need librarians > more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard > dead paper." > > -- Mike. > -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] Seth Godin on The future of the library

2011-05-19 Thread Luciano Ramalho
ted) Why is it hard to justify anything that would be good for everyone? -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] Seth Godin on The future of the library

2011-05-19 Thread Luciano Ramalho
ot;: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any Experiences with In-House Training and Development?

2011-07-19 Thread Luciano Ramalho
shotgun-seminars/ > We'd love to hear from any and all of those out there who have implemented > (or attempted to implement) something along these lines. -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano

Re: [CODE4LIB] [lita-l] Re: Seeking feedback on database design for an open source software registry

2011-07-27 Thread Luciano Ramalho
h ideas, code reviews and even code in the form of patches, if they find the project useful. Of course, developing in the open does not guarantee that you will get any volunteer help. But doing it behind closed doors does guarantee that you won't get any. Cheers, -- Luciano Ramalho progra

Re: [CODE4LIB] Advice on a class

2011-07-30 Thread Luciano Ramalho
ay). And learning C then Smalltalk is a great path to Objective-C, the main language used to program iPhones and iPads. Putting aside the OOP issue, learning C is totally worthwhile as a grounding for any other language. Its what C++ adds to C that is not worth the trouble, as there are better alt