I started taking the "Functional Programming in Scala" course offered a couple
of months ago, but it was an enormous time commitment. I had a week-long trip
to the office (in the UK - my job is a long and confusing story) which got me
so far behind (two weeks, the way the lessons ran), that I wo
I took a "Software Engineering for SaaS: Ruby on Rails" Coursera course
over the summer through UC Berkely. I got a little more than 1/2 way
through and could not finish it.
I've been hacking for over 10 years (mostly PHP and Javascript among
others) so I've got a decent amount of programming
I'm taking this course
http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253/CourseRev/apr2012 along with a
ComSci professor at my institution. He took a robotics class and found it
extremely useful.
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Timothy A. Lepczyk*
Digital Humanities & Pedagogy Fellow
Hendrix College
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3
I've 'audited' a bunch of classes on Coursera, just to get an idea for what
they're doing, and the CS stuff is definitely better suited for online
learning. (I think people are still trying to figure out the right model
for humanities classes through sites like this).
Specifically, I think the cou
Amy --
I'm a lurker on Code4Lib. I don't consider myself a coder, but I have been
trying to learn as much as possible to help with my effectiveness at work.
I just completed a Coursera course on programming called, Learn to Program:
The Fundamentals (https://www.coursera.org/course/programming1).
Another little quick comment, adding to the chorus of lurkers and people who
aren't sure if they're coders. Someday I hope to get to a code4lib conference
(if only to tell people in person I knew Jonathan Rochkind way back when), but
in the meantime I've been on this list on and off (but mostly
Apologies for the cross-post.
Blacklight 4.0.0 was just released yesterday evening. One of the most notable
changes in this release is a switch to using Twitter Bootstrap for our UI
component. We have taken a fairly generic approach which will allow
implementers to take full advantage of the
" Also, Michael, your quote from the jQuery API is only about the getter usage
of attr(); if handed only one parameter, attr() returns the value of the
attribute for the first item in the selection e.g. $('input').attr('data-mini')
=> 'true'. But in the setter version, attr( attribute, value ) s
Thanks for taking the time to summarize; excellent.
Sorry I repeated what you said about the attr() function; I can't type fast
enough to keep up with all the thoughtful emails. ;)
- Gavin
>>> Eric Phetteplace 11/30/2012 10:46 AM >>>
I think Gavin got this sorted out but I just wanted to cla
jQuery matches only the first element when *getting* an attribute, but not when
*setting*; that would take away a lot of the power of jQuery with its
selectors.
Awesome info on the Detector; I'm using a php mobile detector:
http://code.google.com/p/php-mobile-detect/
Yeah, duh, I guess I c
At my alma mater, Florida State University, the average starting salary for
female grads was $39K while for male grads it was $57K
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/10/placements-and-salaries/2012-survey/explore-all-the-data/
The male graduates for the 2011 made 150% as much as the female graduates
> A final note is that Reddit's source code is up on github. I'm not a
> python expert, but it could probably be set up in isolation from reddit
> if that's seen as a problem. It could use whatever authentication the
> C4L wiki uses. I has a restful API as well, so we could integrate it
> into t
I think Gavin got this sorted out but I just wanted to clarify: the end
goal is to add a "ui-mini" class to inputs here, not data-mini=true. The
data attribute by itself does nothing. The jQuery Mobile framework uses
data attributes to apply classes, among other things, so you can skip the
intermed
Yes, in fact the Internet in general is a place people go to share all
sorts of things great and terrible, but we shouldn't throw the baby out
with the bathwater in my opinion.
The nice thing about Reddit is that you can control your particular
subreddit through culture, a code of conduct, and
Oregon State University and the Digital Library Federation are sponsoring five
scholarships to promote gender and cultural diversity. Each scholarship will
provide up to $1,000 to cover travel costs and conference fees for one
qualified attendee to attend the 2013 Code4Lib Conference, which will
At Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:34:41 +,
MJ Ray wrote:
>
> Esmé Cowles
> > Also, I've seen a number of reports over the last few years of women
> > who were harassed at predominately-male tech conferences. Taken
> > together, they paint a picture of men (particularly drunken men)
> > creating an atmo
Gavin,
I'm sort of playing catch-up on the long thread so I might be missing part
of the conversation, but are you trying to add data-mini=true to multiple
inputs? If so, courtesy again of the API documentation:
"The .attr() method gets the attribute value for only the first element in
the matche
Could we take a moment to stop and Google "sexist github" then stop and
Google "sexist reddit".
"Sexist github" will bring up discussions on how to deal with sexism. It
won't bring up pages and reams of blatant examples of sexism.
"Sexist reddit" will bring up a lot of really blatant sexism and
On 11/30/12 9:51 AM, Shaun Ellis wrote:
I also added a post on mentorship to the subreddit, since I'm
particularly interested in that. Karen, while I think your comments
on "promotion" and "giving credit" are important, I'm not sure how
they are related to mentorship. Would love to hear mor
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick
wrote:
> But, this leads into another trend I've noticed... recent MLIS graduates
> are constantly lamenting the lack of jobs...meanwhile this list is flooded
> with jobs. It's a really odd disconnect.
>
One thing that is very different about lib
Note that almost exactly the same sentence is already located a paragraph
or two below that one. I leave it to y'all to decide which wording and
which location you like best, but we should probably strike one of them.
-Mike
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Mark A. Matienzo
wrote:
> Karen,
>
>
Ha ha. You were just eager to help, I know how that is.
My solution is just to use:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('input').addClass('ui-mini');
});
Thanks everyone for helpful tips and info.
- Gavin
>>> Mark Pernotto 11/30/2012 9:44 AM >>>
Gavin/Group:
Sorry about that.
+1 Thanks for getting the sub-reddit started. I'm happy to see that as I agree
with the format of discussion. I find it much easier to archive full
discussions that I find there vs. the jumble of a multitude of email messages.
Aaron Collier
Library Academic Systems Analyst
California State
Cool, thanks. Good info!
I did know it was HTML5 schtuff, but haven't used the data() method before.
Unfortunately it doesn't work in this case.
- Gavin
>>> Michael Schofield 11/30/2012 9:21 AM >>>
Friendly FYI :-). "data-mini=true" is an HTML5 data attribute. So, in the
source it might look
Karen,
You can review a first pass here:
https://github.com/anarchivist/antiharassment-policy/commit/9f304420f42b6f73938f8bb3176ef42fd7cea0e0
In short, I have added another sentence to the end of the first
paragraph: "If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is
being harassed, or have
Mark and Karen, yes, the DIY and take-initiative ethos of Code4Lib leads
to a lot of channels. I think this is a good thing as each has its
strengths. But it creates chaos without more clarity on what platforms
are best for certain types of communication?
We have similar issues when it comes
Gavin/Group:
Sorry about that. That will teach me to to respond to a syntax
question before testing.
jsfiddle.net is a great resource!
And I'd love to see what you end up with!
Thanks,
mark
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Gavin Spomer wrote:
> Thanks for the tool suggestions! I also found
Thanks for the tool suggestions! I also found one recently:
http://jsfiddle.net/
- Gavin
>>> Shaun Ellis 11/30/2012 7:10 AM >>>
I stand corrected. CodePen doesn't require login... here's the same
example there:
http://codepen.io/anon/full/wxJqz
The UI is a little different and CodePen, b
Thanks, Eric.
Using "Inspect Element" in Safari I see that the data-mini is indeed getting
set to true.
I'm probably not understanding this, even after reading
http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.2.0/docs/api/globalconfig.html , but wrapping
in a $(document).bind("mobileinit", function(){ instea
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> Wow. We could not have gotten a better follow-up to our long thread about
> coders and non-coders.
>
> I don't git. I've used it to read code, but never contributed. I even
> downloaded a gui with a cute icon that is supposed to make it easy,
Access refers it to the conference organizers, though that I think is
more structured for that conference.
http://accessconference.ca/about/
On 11/30/2012 11:19 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
We'd need to change that wording because there isn't always someone we
could call "staff" -- I prefer some wor
Friendly FYI :-). "data-mini=true" is an HTML5 data attribute. So, in the
source it might look like:
When talking to data-attributes with jQuery, you might be able to eke out
better performance using .data('mini'). E.g.:
$('input').data('mini', 'true');
Rather than having jQuery look for an a
Here's the current first paragraph:
Code4Lib is dedicated to providing a harassment-free community
experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment in any form.
Discriminatory language and imagery (including sexual) is not
appropriate for any event venue, including talks, or any communit
Does it have to be a single path element beyond root? Could you do
/reserve/study? That keeps it fairly simple, accurate, and extensible. If
that isn't an option, I recommend /spacedibs.
/dev
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Schofield wrote:
> What’s up everyone,
>
>
>
> We are homegrow
Hi All,
There's so many parallel threads here that it's hard to determine which
one to respond to. Nice to see all this open discussion though! :)
In any case, in regards to choosing future talks and attempting to
ensure speaker diversity, this blog post from Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries
(auth
Wow. We could not have gotten a better follow-up to our long thread
about coders and non-coders.
I don't git. I've used it to read code, but never contributed. I even
downloaded a gui with a cute icon that is supposed to make it easy, and
it still is going to take some learning.
So I'm afrai
I didn't have any part in its naming or development, but we use 'crs,' which is
short for "Campus Reservation System." You can take a peep at the front page at
http://crs.ucmerced.edu. Our system is based on phpScheduleIt
(http://phpscheduleit.sourceforge.net/).
Regards,
Alisak.
Alisak Sanavon
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Tim Spalding wrote:
> I'd support removing or somehow couching language about any organizer,
> including any volunteer, immediately ending a talk.
>
> All the other sanctions seem to involve the likelihood of deliberation
> involving some time and multiple people,
Thanks for the input, Mark.
I don't think there is a textinput method in jQuery or jQuery Mobile.
- Gavin
>>> Mark Pernotto 11/29/2012 3:58 PM >>>
This looks more syntactical than anything else.
Try:
$('input').textinput({mini:true});
This hasn't been tested.
Thanks,
Mark
On Thu, Nov 29
On 11/30/12 8:12 AM, Wilhelmina Randtke wrote:
This is interesting. They actually had a male entertainer on stage in
velcro pants, then speedo and boots, at the WestLaw reception at
the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting this year.
OMG, really?! Did anyone mention to them tha
Hi Erik,
A thin client/terminal server approach would probably work well for this,
too (maybe even better). The reasons I ended up going the LiveCD image
route (aside from familiarity) were: 1) a lack of available server
hardware/money and 2) an overabundance of old PCs laying around. OPAC
stati
This is interesting. They actually had a male entertainer on stage in
velcro pants, then speedo and boots, at the WestLaw reception at
the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting this year.
Apparently that's not uncommon for the WestLaw reception. At the North
American Serials Intere
Data Integrity and Metadata Coordinator
Department of English and Film Studies
Competition No.
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Posting Date
Nov 28, 2012
Closing Date
Dec 09, 2012
Position Type
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This position has an end
Hi Michael,
We go with /spaces, which fits our needs currently, as we're using our
system to reserve not just rooms but also some physically open spaces in
our locations, with the potential to add different types of spaces for
reservation. It's also short and easy to circulate on print materials.
All,
Please feel free to make the changes you'd like to see and then submit a
pull request. I have added instructions for how to do this in the README:
https://github.com/code4lib/antiharassment-policy
I say this not to shame anyone in the jerky "patches welcome!" sense, but
as an acknowledgeme
Hi Michael,
Just curious, but is there a reason you're not just doing
http://study.library.nova.edu (sans the /whatever)?
Rosy
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Ellen Wilson wrote:
> I'd be inclined to go with "study," since that's the function the users
> care about. That said, if your student
I'd support removing or somehow couching language about any organizer,
including any volunteer, immediately ending a talk.
All the other sanctions seem to involve the likelihood of deliberation
involving some time and multiple people, and some possibility of a
misunderstanding being cleared up. I
I stand corrected. CodePen doesn't require login... here's the same
example there:
http://codepen.io/anon/full/wxJqz
The UI is a little different and CodePen, but it seems that they've
taken jsbin and added a some more features. I like the longer list of JS
libraries in jsbin, but you can plu
As a preface, I fully support both of these changes in language.
That said, I think it's both important to balance the idea that sure,
sometimes people are idiots, with that sexism is a prevalent problem right
now at geek conventions, and that it's more than a 'bad and/or drunk
apples' problem.
T
I'd be inclined to go with "study," since that's the function the users
care about. That said, if your students are like ours, they are not going
to pay one bit of attention to the name of the link. I'm amazed how many
clicks students will go through to get to their university email, for
example.
Thanks, MJ. Done:
https://github.com/code4lib/antiharassment-policy/commit/14c4e12023639200dea85de5db2a314ac305387a
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 6:34 AM, MJ Ray wrote:
> Esmé Cowles
> > Also, I've seen a number of reports over the last few years of women
> > who were harassed at predominately-male
Whats up everyone,
We are homegrowing a study room reservation system and were within a week
of making it livebut still in betato the public. Right now, on our staging
box, our URI looks like something.library.nova.edu/room-res. /room-res
doesnt mean anything, to me. The public URI will be
Esmé Cowles
> Also, I've seen a number of reports over the last few years of women
> who were harassed at predominately-male tech conferences. Taken
> together, they paint a picture of men (particularly drunken men)
> creating an atmosphere that makes a lot of people feel excluded and
> worry abo
Ah, so I am a bit delusional. I really need to cut back on these bath
salts(but at least I'm not ALA delusional...$90 for a PDF of librarian
salary statistics...really? )
Thinking about this, I guess things have changed quite a bit and I hadn't
realized it...at my first 3 library/archive jobs
I've been involved in running library/tech unconferences in the UK (the Mashed
Library events http://mashedlibrary.com). For the second event (organised by
Dave Pattern and others at the University of Huddersfield) we put together a
very short list of things you could expect to get out the event
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