Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs
Is it time to reconsider: should we start a separate list for discussing a separate list for Job: postings? code4lib-discuss-jobs-list-jobs-list, perhaps? :P /runs away On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, David Friggens frigg...@waikato.ac.nz wrote: This is a pretty terrible reply. I thought it was a great reply. obscure words (seriously, shibboleth?) Somewhat obscure, but not so much in Code4Lib. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth_(Internet2) Unless you're trying to be sarcastic...in which case ignore this. He most definitely was. I believe Stuart's point was to suggest that when the multiple requests for a separate list for job notices get immediately shot down with no - use an email filter, or are you stupid? [1] it doesn't help to create an inclusive and good learning environment. [1] NB the respondents aren't explicitly are you stupid but that's how it may be taken by some people. And to answer the original question - job listings help more people than they annoy so they should be kept as-is. My view is that it would make more sense to have separate discussion and job notice lists, as I see in other places. But I'm not that bothered personally, as I would subscribe to both and filter them into the same folder in my mail client. :-) Cheers David -- Chad Fennell Web Developer University of Minnesota Libraries (612) 626-4186
Re: [CODE4LIB] We should use HTTPS on code4lib.org
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I just don't see why http and https can't coexist. They can definitely coexist, but there is a corresponding maintenance cost and a slightly higher risk profile (e.g. session hijacking is still possible in a variety of mixed http/https configurations). I noticed a a pretty good, if a bit dated, run-down of the tradeoffs for various secure setups in Drupal http://drupalscout.com/knowledge-base/drupal-and-ssl-multiple-recipes-possible-solutions-https. Even if the solutions have somewhat changed, it does get at the idea of what some of the tradeoffs are between security, usability and maintenance. Just today, I noticed a security alert (https://drupal.org/node/2129381) for the Drupal 6 Secure Pages module where theoretically secured pages and forms could be transmitted in the clear. This is the module you'd most likely use to achieve a mixed http/https site in Drupal. I have personally tended to just put everything behind https because of the added work/modules/maintenance associated to running it along side of http (in Drupal, specifically), but I am a lazy person with access to free certs and ferncer servers. HTH -- Chad Fennell Web Developer University of Minnesota Libraries (612) 626-4186
Re: [CODE4LIB] Approaches to Did You Mean Query Spelling Suggestions
Seconded. We use Solr's SpellCheckComponent to accomplish exactly this. +1
Re: [CODE4LIB] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?
So let's say (hypothetically, of course) that a colleague tells you he's considering a NoSQL database like MongoDB or CouchDB, to store a couple tens of millions of documents, where a document is pretty much an article citation, abstract, and the location of full text (not the full text itself). Would your reaction be: Noo!!! NoSQL is terrible for startup projects ;) http://labs.mudynamics.com/2010/04/01/why-nosql-is-bad-for-startups/ But seriously, it depends. You know, a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous. I sort of like MongoDB's characterization of the landscape as tradeoffs between scale performance on the one hand and depth of functionality on the other: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Philosophy I suspect we'll continue to see more hybrid systems for some time to come with various data stores handling the pieces they do best.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Zotero, unapi, and formats?
It's still a LOT better than COinS for Zotero, I assume though. Yes, if only because you get more complete metadata with things like RIS than COinS does via OpenURL. I do like the theoretical benefit of a metadata format request API , but the promise of richer metadata (primarily for Zotero) was ultimately why I chose unAPI over COinS. And yeah, better documentation would be nice, thanks for looking into it. -Chad
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. I'll second Ross's suggestion to look into Heroku, sounds like a good match for your needs. It's one of the most interesting platform deployment systems I've ever seen. Here's a podcast with one of their reps: http://www.rubyology.com/podcasts/show/84
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
FWIW, I was going to mention VPS as an option, but it sounded like *maybe* you'd been working under a managed hosting environment, so Heroku seemed like a natural fit to your question (easy Rails installs with support for a wide variety of libraries/common dependencies), which is why I mentioned at least looking into it. That being said, a VPS like Slicehost would grant you pretty much free range to do whatever you like with the proviso that you'd be managing the whole she-bang and would need to keep your whole LAMP stack updated/patched yourself. As a Ruby newb/fiddler, after looking for a play space to run some of my own Rails projects, I opted for Linode, a somewhat new competitor to Slicehost. But both seem like pretty good options to me. Of course, there are a mind boggling array of other options, including managed VPS's - more restrictive, but there are some that seem more willing to accommodate your needs than others. A good friend uses WiredTree out of Chicago for all of their commercial Drupal sites and love the support they've gotten: http://www.wiredtree.com/. It looks like they do support Rails, but I have no idea how well: http://www.wiredtree.com/managedservers/software.php. Anyway, good luck.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a referral key :)). A number of customers have switched to them since Slicehost was sold to Rackspace. Hey, no fair! :^p
Re: [CODE4LIB] character-sets for dummies?
A classic general overview (on the topic of what the heck ARE character sets???): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: 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 character sets into one MySQL table - I expect I need some way to convert from one to another, but I don't really even know how to tell which data are in which format. Our homegrown journal list (akin to SerialsSolutions) includes data ingested from publishers, vendors, the library catalog (III), etc. When I look at the data in emacs, some of it renders like this: Revista de Oncolog\303\255a [slashes-and-digits instead of diacritics] And other data looks more like: Revista de Música Latinoamericana [weird characters instead of diacritics] My MySQL table is currently set up with the collation set to: utf8-bin , and the titles from the second category (weird characters display in emacs) render properly when the database data is output to the a web browser. The data from the former example (\###) renders as an I don't know what character this is placeholder in Firefox and IE. So, can someone please point me toward any or all of the following? · A good primer for understanding all of this stuff · A method for converting all of my data to the same character set so it plays nicely in the database · The names of which character-sets I might be working with here Many thanks! Ken
Re: [CODE4LIB] Suggest a keynote speaker for Code4Lib 2010!
I nominate Andy Lester, author of ack a grep replacement and itinerant speaker on Technical Debt and employment in the tech world. He's a Perl guru working in the publishing indsutry. Andy's Technical Debt lecture would be a good fit, IMO, for the code4lib group. Technical Debt Talk: http://www.media-landscape.com/yapc/2006-06-26.AndyLester/ Employment Stuff: http://theworkinggeek.com/ He spoke at OSCON year on a couple of topics: http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/speaker/6552 find him at twitter at: http://twitter.com/PetDance Cheers, -Chad
Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?
On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Tom Habing wrote: link rel=unapi-server type=application/xml title=unAPI href=http://www.dlfaquifer.org/unapi / Yes, forgot to mention this piece. link rel=unapi-server type=application/xml title=unAPI href=http://ethicshare.org/unapi /
Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?
On Dec 3, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: Thanks, Chad, it does help. And I think it helps me understand why I was a bit confused by the suggestion, but let me see if I've gotten it: I asked about COinS. COinS (drat, hate uplow, from now on just coins) is basically just a formatted string imbedded in the html that will be used by an external program. There is no service that the OL site needs to provide other than popping the context object in there in the right format. Very low effort, from the open library's point of view. unAPI appears to require some lightweight services that would have to be added to the OL site: basically, responding to the three possible unapi requests. So we can't *just* add an unAPI to the html pages -- there's a bit more work that needs to be done. Yes, you are correct. unAPI does require that you implement some kind of unAPI server. Is this correct? Thanks, kc Chad Fennell wrote: On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: I've looked at unAPI, but I can't get a handle on what needs to be in the abbr. What would be useful? kc I put together a pretty basic unAPI interface (technically, a Drupal module) for our EthicShare project; you can see how the abbr tags are used there. Ex: http://ethicshare.org/publications/ethics?sc=publications embedded on the page, you'll find things like: abbr class='unapi- id' title='http://ethicshare.org/unapi/374360' There are a few other pieces, but you can see these in action there as well. Ex, http://ethicshare.org/unapi/ -tells clients what formats are available on the sever - I've only implemented RIS so far... http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360 - tells the client what formats are available for a given resource. http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360format=ris - kind of self- explanatory. Hope that helps a little... Cheers, -Chad -- --- Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcoyle.net ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet fx.: 510-848-3913 mo.: 510-435-8234
Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?
On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: I've looked at unAPI, but I can't get a handle on what needs to be in the abbr. What would be useful? kc I put together a pretty basic unAPI interface (technically, a Drupal module) for our EthicShare project; you can see how the abbr tags are used there. Ex: http://ethicshare.org/publications/ethics?sc=publications embedded on the page, you'll find things like: abbr class='unapi-id' title='http://ethicshare.org/unapi/374360' There are a few other pieces, but you can see these in action there as well. Ex, http://ethicshare.org/unapi/ -tells clients what formats are available on the sever - I've only implemented RIS so far... http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360 - tells the client what formats are available for a given resource. http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360format=ris - kind of self- explanatory. Hope that helps a little... Cheers, -Chad
[CODE4LIB] Web Statistics Software
Library Code People: 1 - What do you use for your web statistics package? Are you happy with it? Pros/Cons? 2 - What do you wish you used or had access to? 3 - Opinions on Specific Projects: 3.1 Piwiki/Mint Piwik and Mint both seem pretty interesting to me because they solve some of the problems of traditional log file analysis (see http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/the-limitations-of#comments) , while of course introducing their own set of problems: given their reliance on a RDBMS to store each page load, there are some obvious scaling concerns for very high traffic sites, for example. I wonder if anyone here has put either of these or similar systems to the test on high traffic (define in your own terms) sites. 3.2 Google Analytics and/or Urchin Some libraries have incorporated Google Analytics into their privacy policies: http://www.google.com/search?q=google+analytics+libraries+privacyie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialclient=firefox-a . So, anyone here passionate one way or the other? Other Pros/Cons? Of course, favorite resources, questions I should be asking and the like are welcomed and appreciated as well :). In advance: thanks! Cheers, -Chad
