I'm glad someone mentioned maintainability. I used to work in embedded
systems, where design, testing, and maintainability were of utmost
importance, and coding is just the brief stage in between design and
test. I lived by the adage, "Code as if the person who will maintain
your code is a homicida
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 wrote:
> One of ou
I don't think I have a vote--I'm just a lurker and unlikely to be
going to the get-together--but I'd say the contest is over. This is
excellent!
Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS
Technology Librarian
http://firstgentrekkie.blogspot.com/
"Have you tried switching it off and on again?"
On Wed, Dec 23, 20
"The best way to learn good code design and architecture is to work
with code someone already wrote (open source, libraries, frameworks,
etc) that uses good design and architecture."
Or having to debug code that someone else wrote that *wasn't* written
well. It's one thing to learn the good practi
>From my software engineering days, I like Steve McConnell's "Code
Complete" and "Software Project Survival Guide;" "The Mythical
Man-Month," by Fred P. Brooks; "Joel On Software" by Joel Spolsky (who
also has a blog); and "The Elements of Programming Style," by Kernigan
and Plauger. K&R is directe
I wanted to find out how much my house would be worth today in a
"normal" situation (if there is such a thing in the housing market).
WolframAlpha helped me to formulate the query
$96900 (1985 dollars)
and then gave me the answer, adjusted for an average inflation of
about 2.8% per year.
Google
+1
Sharon M. Foster, 91.7% Librarian
Speaker-to-Computers
http://www.vsa-software.com/mlsportfolio/
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Bill Dueber wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Mike Taylor wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what to make of this except to say that Yet Another XML
>> Bibliog
Which is why the interface specifications are at least as important,
if not more important, as the specs for each of the modules that you
enumerated. If the interfaces are well-defined, then the components
can be designed and developed with a minimum of further interactions
among developers. In fac
e juggling students' midterms schedules. We've got
> > more complex work for our staff!
> >
> > Helen
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> > Sharon Foster
> > Sent: Wednesda
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> Sharon,
>
> Thank you. While our application may be different, I am interested in what
> you develop. Are looking at starting development immediately?
>
> Please let me know your progress or if I can help in any way.
>
> Deb
>
>
> Sha
hile our application may be different, I am interested in what
> you develop. Are looking at starting development immediately?
>
> Please let me know your progress or if I can help in any way.
>
> Deb
>
> Sharon Foster wrote:
> > Gotcha! My library is in a consortium a
I'm a part-timer myself, so scheduling in lunch time had not occurred
to me. Thanks! We will include lunch and breaks. Travel time between
branches seems to me to be a little out of scope, though. I think I'm
going to leave that as a manual schedule tweak for now.
On 9/5/07, Walter Lewis <[EMAIL P
ould be fabulous to have an online tool that
> provides all the information I've described.
>
> I hope this clarifies the lay of our land for you.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Deb
>
>
>
> Sharon Foster wrote:
> Indeed! I hadn't even thought of multiple li
unique requirements' you're looking for from other
> libraries?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Deb
>
>
> Sharon Foster wrote:
> I've set up a wiki to collect software requirements for a Library
> Staff Scheduler. Initially it's intended for use by public libraries,
I've set up a wiki to collect software requirements for a Library
Staff Scheduler. Initially it's intended for use by public libraries,
because that's what I'm most familiar with, but I'd also like to
incorporate any unique requirements from other kinds of libraries.
I know there is at least one i
for these
> but...
>
> On 8/14/07, Sharon Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've been thinking I'd like to develop a web-based personnel
> > scheduling program. Library scheduling has some unique problems, as
> > I'm sure you all know. ...
>
&
I'm one of those former software engineers, and I think there is a
need for a repository of library-specific applications. For example,
I've been thinking I'd like to develop a web-based personnel
scheduling program. Library scheduling has some unique problems, as
I'm sure you all know. There are s
ce before I pick up the book -
but that's just me. If you think you can learn that way then that's all
that matters.
On 7/24/07, Sharon Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've been lifting bits of PHP code from various tutorial websites and
> playing with them...learn
day hands on class in programming PHP, but other
than that it was a lot of learning by doing.
I don't know if that was helpful - but that's the short version of my story.
Nicole C. Engard
http://web2learning.net
On 7/24/07, Sharon Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm a
I'm a former embedded software engineer and a current library student,
trying to get up to speed on all this Web stuff. This question is not
part of any class project, but just for my own curiosity. How did you
all come to be so heavily involved in this aspect of librarianship? I
don't think it's
This is so cool, I sent it to BoingBoing!
On 7/20/07, Ken Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok, it's really more code-for-literature, but I thought many of you
would appreciate this:
http://www.savagechickens.com/blog/2007/07/poet-bot.html
--
Ken Irwin
Reference Librarian
Thomas Library, Wittenb
ers
> to enable more projects to be able to be included in the semantic
> web<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web>
> ."
>
> Good luck,
>
> -Mike
>
>
> On 7/17/07, Sharon Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Please forgive the cross-posti
Please forgive the cross-posting.
For my final project in the class Digital Libraries, I am bringing
together a "bibliography" ("appliography"?) of open source software
applications and free web services that would be useful in the
construction of digital libraries. (How self-referential can you
I agree with you that each format is better some purposes, worse for
others. But rising postal rates may make the ultimate decision. And an
online journal can simulate the print experience better than a print
journal can simulate the online experience (if you just ignore the
hyperlinks).
I love p
I absolutely agree that reading articles online from a database is
nothing like reading a magazine or a journal. But why must the
experience be "atomized"? For example, I find reading The New York
Review of Books online to be very nearly as satisfying as reading it
in print was, and plus I don't h
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