Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

Have a look at http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else: "Considering MySQL? Use something else. Already on MySQL? Migrate. For every successful project built on MySQL, you could uncover a history of time wasted mitigating MySQL's inadequacies, masked by a hard-won, but meaningl

Re: [CODE4LIB] indexing word documents using solr

I found this book helped me get my head around Solr: https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-solr-beginner%E2%80%99s-guide. Chapter 8 explains indexing rich text formats including MS Word. Chris Gray Systems Analyst 519-888-4567, ext. 35764 cpg...@uwaterloo.ca

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel to XML

I'd do it with a Python script, but a Google search for "csv to xml tool" presents many hits. The top hit is a free online CSV to XML Converter at freeformatter.com. So export to CSV and away you go. http://www.freeformatter.com/csv-to-xml-converter.html Chris On 14-06-14 08:41 AM, Amelia M

Re: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?

Yes. Exactly. It's like saying you can't go to the doctor or hire a lawyer without a bit of medical or law school. Doctors and lawyers need to be able to explain what they're doing. Another skill that would be useful is understanding databases, by which I do not mean learning SQL. Too many

Re: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?

I would suggest any attempt to teach people to code should begin with Software Carpentry . An important point here is that there are many misconceptions about programing and teaching that won't stand up to empirical investigation.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux Laptop

- Linux on Laptops http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html - Linux Laptop - Fully Supported & Configured High Performance Linux Laptops and Netbooks | LinuxCertified http://linuxpreloaded.com/ - Buy a Linux Computer Chris Gray Systems Analyst 519-888-3456, ext. 35764 cpg...@uwaterloo.ca University of Waterloo

Re: [CODE4LIB] Long way to be a good coder in library

better off coming to this after you've learned and used a first programming language. How do I know all this advice is good? Because I've been meaning to take it myself for quite a while now! :) Chris Gray Library Systems University of Waterloo Wayne Lam wrote: Hi all, I am new

Re: [CODE4LIB] WARC file format now ISO standard

:-] XSLT, which became a standard in 1999.) Chris Gray Library Systems University of Waterloo "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from." -Andrew Tanenbaum st...@archive.org wrote: hi Karen, understood. the final draft of the spec is available here:

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP Frameworks: An informal survey.

I also notice that doing a search on amazon.com gives me the following counts on books devoted to the frameworks you found. I did an advanced search for "php" as a keyword and the framework name in the title. Zend results for other Zend products (PHP cert training and Zend Studio) were filter

[CODE4LIB] Simulating off-campus for testing

free 7-day trial of Anonymizer Anonymous Surfing software ($30/yr), but I want to make sure I'm not missing any good alternatives. Does anyone have any recomnendations or relevant experience? Chris Gray Library Systems University of Waterloo (hopeful future ex sysadmin firefighter %-)

Re: [CODE4LIB] XML schema for describing software applications?

no longer maintained. Some of the efforts that were going on 1997-2000 felt that they were superceded by improved package management tools in various GNU/Linux distributions and by sites like Sourceforge and Freshmeat. Chris Gray Library Systems University of Waterloo On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Sharon Fo

[CODE4LIB] D'oh! (Was: Re: Lucene Question)

I'm having trouble formulating my question, so I'll try again later. Sorry. *blushes* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm sorry, but you've failed your Turing test! See - http://tinyurl.com/cgfrk

[CODE4LIB] Lucene Question

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Re: [CODE4LIB] tidy

Eric, The Sourceforge page for Tidy has links to the bindings for various languages (Perl included) and also note that there is a link to a separate sourceforge project for an Apache mod for tidy. Chris On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Is there a coo

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python thesaurus module?

You might have a look at TextIndexNG which now has thesaurus support. It is not a general Python solution but specific to Zope and Zope products. TextIndexNG thesaurus support Chris "

Re: [CODE4LIB] browser toolbars

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > Decreasingly can we expect people to come to our website for data. > Instead we must figure out ways to insert our data and services into > their space. These sorts of plug-ins -- gadgets -- represent a way to > accomplish this goal. > > "Can you say,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Exploring OPAC Subject Headings

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Chris Gray wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2005, Walter Lewis wrote: > > > Chris, I wonder if you could pull the relationships from the authority > > file in Endeavour ... or if others think it's worth the effort. > > It had occurred to me to do this an

Re: [CODE4LIB] Exploring OPAC Subject Headings

On Mon, 30 May 2005, Walter Lewis wrote: > I too was intrigued. I've been thinking along similar lines for a while. > > In the spirit of sharing approaches to the problem here's a variation: >http://search.hipinfo.info/results.asp?SubjID=33 > Note: I wrote the original interface for this. Th

Re: [CODE4LIB] Exploring OPAC Subject Headings

On Mon, 30 May 2005, Kevin K wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I like it. We've been playing with something similar. > We start with keyword (instead of the the left-anchored search) I'm using a left-anchored search at the moment because I don't know how to get to the Voyager keyword indexes through the ba

Re: [CODE4LIB] Exploring OPAC Subject Headings

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Mike Rylander wrote: > We have something similar in the "Relevant Subjects" sidebar of our > pre-alpha OPAC (http://gapines.org), though the user only gets to > select one subject to resubmit the search with in ours. That's nifty. Voyager does the relevant subjects at the re

[CODE4LIB] Exploring OPAC Subject Headings

to cook up went into getting the SQL right. I'd appreciate any feedback from anyone who'd like to take a kick at the tires. You can try it out at <http://testtube.uwaterloo.ca/cpgray/sl/subject.cfm>. Chris Gray Systems Analyst University of Waterloo Library "The brain is a wo

Re: [CODE4LIB] Perl or Python?

I have two pieces of advice. 1) This one I take from Philip Greenspun : Don't switch. If you already know one of these tools, stay with what you know and leverage your existing expertise; any of these tools can get the job done. Be suspicio