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

2016-04-15 Thread Chris Gray
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] indexing word documents using solr

2015-02-10 Thread Chris Gray
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

2014-06-16 Thread Chris Gray
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

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

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Gray
I would suggest any attempt to teach people to code should begin with Software Carpentry http://www.software-carpentry.org/about/90seconds.html. An important point here is that there are many misconceptions about programing and teaching that won't stand up to empirical investigation.

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

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Gray
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] WARC file format now ISO standard

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Gray
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: http://www.scribd.com/doc

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

2009-02-12 Thread Chris Gray
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

[CODE4LIB] Simulating off-campus for testing

2008-09-17 Thread Chris Gray
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?

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Gray
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 Foster wrote

[CODE4LIB] Lucene Question

2007-03-28 Thread Chris Gray
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm sorry, but you've failed your Turing test! See - http://tinyurl.com/cgfrk

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

2007-03-28 Thread Chris Gray
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] tidy

2006-06-06 Thread Chris Gray
Eric, The Sourceforge page for Tidy http://tidy.sourceforge.net 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 cool

Re: [CODE4LIB] browser toolbars

2005-06-09 Thread Chris Gray
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, 'Top

Re: [CODE4LIB] Exploring OPAC Subject Headings

2005-05-31 Thread Chris Gray
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 and after a quick look at table