Re: [CODE4LIB] StackExchange reboot?

2013-07-06 Thread Brad Rhoads
You could set up http://www.osqa.net. On Jul 6, 2013 11:21 AM, Collie, Aaron col...@mail.lib.msu.edu wrote: Hey, So, both the Libraries http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/12432/libraries-information-science and Digital Preservation

Re: [CODE4LIB] Regular expression for maximum 4-digit number

2013-07-02 Thread Brad Rhoads
Hi Cindy, You can *almost* use text to column to split the fields out from the string. Then you take the max() of the resulting range. *Except* there's a max of 256 columns. So you'll need to split the string into parts, perhaps into separate worksheets. Then do the text to columns in worksheet

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free Employee Scheduling Software

2013-06-10 Thread Brad Rhoads
http://www.orangehrm.com/ might have what you need. --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Cornel Darden Jr. corneldarde...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of any Free employee scheduling software for Windows; or even

Re: [CODE4LIB] Stand Up Desks

2013-02-07 Thread Brad Rhoads
Go all the way to a treadmill desk. Check out http://officewalkers.ning.comfor info. On Feb 7, 2013 10:09 AM, Mark Pernotto mark.perno...@gmail.com wrote: Despite my best efforts of sitting up straight, getting an ergonomic chair, making sure my desk is a proper height (I'm a tall guy, so my

Re: [CODE4LIB] project management system

2013-01-14 Thread Brad Rhoads
Actually you can get it up and running on Amazon in few minutes. http://bitnami.org/stack/redmine --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:45 AM, John Fink john.f...@gmail.com wrote: We use Redmine, and we're pretty happy with it. It's often

Re: [CODE4LIB] project management system

2013-01-14 Thread Brad Rhoads
You might also look at http://www.teamlab.com/saas.aspx. And FWIW, I've been collecting PM related links at https://delicious.com/bdrhoa/projectmanagement --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Brad Rhoads bdr...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] Event Registration System Question

2012-10-19 Thread Brad Rhoads
It's not open source but you might want checkout Eventbrite. It's free if ypi don't charge for the event. On Oct 18, 2012 4:08 PM, Brian McBride brian.mcbr...@utah.edu wrote: Greeting! I was wondering if anyone out there has found or knows of a good open source solution for event scheduling?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Issue Tracker Recommendations

2012-02-22 Thread Brad Rhoads
I've been happy with Trac. It does have good SCM integration. Many of the options listed have VMs available at places like turnkeylinux.org or bitnami.org. You might try out this custom google search I put together: http://ontherhoads.org/brad/2012/02/vm-search-engine/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-22 Thread Brad Rhoads
I'm in the process of doing an evaluation. SmartSheet is a great tool for creating gantt charts. Overall, Redmine is looking pretty good. Not much info yet, but at least the list of products might be helpful: https://doc.maflt.org/Reviews-Comparisons/Project_Management

Re: [CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-10 Thread Brad Rhoads
Hi Lars, You might take a look at our recently released digital library system called Ibidem (http://www.maflt.org/products/Ibidem). Its strengths are its simplicity and its flexibility. For example, items can be in multiple collections. And you can define custom metadata sets, where you can

Re: [CODE4LIB] iPad Kiosk Statistics

2011-11-11 Thread Brad Rhoads
I'd try using couchdb (http://www.couchbase.org/get/couchbase-mobile-for-ios/current). It would auto sync when ever you did get online. --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Edward Iglesias edwardigles...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software for Capstone\Theses Projects

2011-09-21 Thread Brad Rhoads
I don't have that exact security model in place, but http://www.maflt.org/products/Ibidem could be modified to add it. --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Michael Beccaria mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu wrote: I've been looking for an

Re: [CODE4LIB] converting video DVDs to something that will play on the web

2010-10-20 Thread Brad Rhoads
You can probably use http://handbrake.fr/. --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Browne,Ginny brow...@oclc.org wrote: We have a bunch of DVDs that we converted from VHS tapes. And now we would like to put them on the web, but we

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-12 Thread Brad Rhoads
A great quality service is http://on-sitemedia.com/. I have no idea what she charges. Google for open source speech recognition On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Sean Hannan shan...@jhu.edu wrote: Not software, exactly, but this seems like an ideal thing to set up in Mechanical Turk. This

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR for handwritten pages

2010-01-13 Thread Brad Rhoads
I'm not sure if you could use reCAPTCHA or not. If you have a large enough user base for some other application and reCAPTCHA will let you specify the source document, it could be an option. http://recaptcha.net/ On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Han, Yan h...@u.library.arizona.eduwrote: Hello,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

2010-01-06 Thread Brad Rhoads
On the IDE question, I'll just add that I find an interactive debugger to be a necessity.

Re: [CODE4LIB] University of Rochester Releases IR+ Institutional Repository System

2009-12-15 Thread Brad Rhoads
Looks very nice. Congrats! On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Sarr, Nathan ns...@library.rochester.eduwrote: The University of Rochester is pleased to announce the 1.0 production version of its new open source institutional repository software platform, IR+. The University has been running

Re: [CODE4LIB] EmeraldView, a PHP frontend for Greenstone

2009-07-10 Thread Brad Rhoads
URLs of unusual size - LOL Looks very nice. Have fun storming the castle On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Yitzchak Schafferyitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com wrote: The systems team at Touro College Libraries is pleased to announce the beta release of EmeraldView, a new open-source PHP frontend for