Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows

2013-10-02 Thread Joe Atzberger
To summarize options: - Linux VM in VirtualBox (ubuntu, fedora, centOS, etc.) - Groovy (dynamic JVM language) is an excellent cross-platform option, one I use daily. Especially if you are coming from a Java background. The Groovy web framework comparable to rails is Grails.

Re: [CODE4LIB] more on MARC char encoding

2012-04-26 Thread Joe Atzberger
All these should end up in the hypothetical if not actual MARCthulhu repository. Anybody heard from Simon whether that is still happening or not? If he doesn't have anything, we should just start a fresh pile on github. --joe On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Doran, Michael D do...@uta.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2012 preconference proposals wanted!

2012-01-26 Thread Joe Atzberger
I can chip in here, possibly reprising my role from last year's git session. If somebody else like mbklein wants to do fundamentals, I wouldn't might fleshing out the eco-system of git tools, including github, gitweb, gitosis and in particular, the necessary evil that is git-svn. --joe On Fri,

Re: [CODE4LIB] SV: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-28 Thread Joe Atzberger
this a fundamental OSS governance issue. If you can't keep this kind of appropriation from happening here, then we're all just one patent/copyright/trademark squatter/troll away from being hijacked. How is it we can't just cite prior art and be done with it? --Joe Atzberger

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hotel registration - This was a test, right?

2011-11-16 Thread Joe Atzberger
The site you are trying to access does not exist. Please contact the event organizer to report this problem.

Re: [CODE4LIB] What's the descriptive technical terminology?... pdf image of a page. pdf format used with cut paste.

2011-04-28 Thread Joe Atzberger
I would just say image-based or text-based. Sorry if you wanted something more hifalutin. There is another level of granularity though, inasmuch as you can publish a text-based PDF that attempts to prevent copy/paste. Like websites with their javascript hacks, it isn't really secure, it just

Re: [CODE4LIB] AquaBrowser Libraries Group

2009-10-26 Thread Joe Atzberger
I'm fairly confident there is not, just that the new list intends to (self-) select just licensed users. --Joe On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Cloutman, David dclout...@co.marin.ca.uswrote: Interesting. Our catalog consortium just bought Aquabrowser. Is there some sort of NDA that you know of

Re: [CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, etc

2009-08-28 Thread Joe Atzberger
Something like the jquery highlight function combined with this kind of mapping: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/863800/replacing-diacritics-in-javascript If you don't mind, you can speed things up by forcing the comparison sets to be in one case or the other. --Joe On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at

Re: [CODE4LIB] digital storage

2009-08-27 Thread Joe Atzberger
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.uswrote: Nate Vack wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Ryan Ordwayrord...@oregonstate.edu wrote: $213,360 over 3 years If you're ONLY looking at storage costs, SATA drives in enterprise RAID systems range from

Re: [CODE4LIB] Long way to be a good coder in library

2009-07-22 Thread Joe Atzberger
It's about time to make this thread a wiki post. --Joe

Re: [CODE4LIB] tools for massaging metadata

2009-07-09 Thread Joe Atzberger
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Avila, Regina L. regina.av...@nist.govwrote: Can anybody share some good tools for massaging metadata? For anything from file renaming to cleaning ASCII characters to various formulas? I know Excel does a lot of things but I'm looking for other useful software

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP/MySQL: sanitizing file uploads to DB

2009-06-05 Thread Joe Atzberger
Sounds like you might need something like a SQL version of HTML::Scrubber. The more important thing is to use prepared statements with placeholders, so that you can't get server execution injected on. Then worry about javacript or html scrubbing. -- Joe Atzberger LibLime - Open Source Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] A Book Grab by Google

2009-05-19 Thread Joe Atzberger
BTW, we are sponsoring a mini-symposium on the topic of mass digitization here at Notre Dame, tomorrow: http://www.library.nd.edu/symposium/ Nice timing. --joe

Re: [CODE4LIB] Curious about Cell Phone Barcode Scanning Apps

2009-05-08 Thread Joe Atzberger
Google provided the barcode-recognition line-interpolation software as open source for Android developers to build on. That explains why I have about 4 barcode-scanning apps on the G1. Note that most common cellphone camera's haven't advanced enough to get reliable resolution for barcodes, in

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommend book scanner?

2009-05-01 Thread Joe Atzberger
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote: If you want real 300 dpi images, at anything like the quality you get from a flatbed scanner, then you're going to need cameras much more expensive than $100. Or just wait, say, about 3 years.

Re: [CODE4LIB] resolution and identification (was Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?)

2009-04-14 Thread Joe Atzberger
The User Agent is understood to be a typical browser, or other piece of software, like wget, curl, etc. It's the thing implementing the client side of the specs. I don't think you are operating as a user agent here as much as you are a server application. That is, assuming I have any idea what

Re: [CODE4LIB] Something completely different

2009-04-09 Thread Joe Atzberger
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote: ... anyway, all of this is far, far away from the point. MARC is old and ugly yes; but then so am I, and I get the job done, just like MARC. That format is responsible for about 0.2% of our difficulties, and replacing it

Re: [CODE4LIB] extra computers

2009-03-17 Thread Joe Atzberger
Check for a local branch of freegeek for rehabilitation and environmental disposal: http://www.freegeek.org/ Columbus has one, so South Bend might too. --Joe On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Jim Tuttle j...@braggtown.com wrote: Eric Lease Morgan wrote: How do y'all suggest I put to good

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free cover images?

2009-03-16 Thread Joe Atzberger
This comes up in Koha development all the time. We support a sizable number of libraries using Amazon images (and other content) in Koha. Every now and again a client reads that same clause and alerts us to this threatening legal snafu. Josh would have some protracted contact with Amazon's US

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free cover images?

2009-03-16 Thread Joe Atzberger
The bizarre part of it is that they insist *Amazon's purpose* become the primary purpose of *your* Application. This is weird if you think of an entire ILS as the Application, since nobody could reasonably argue the overall purpose is to get Amazon more hits and sales. It requires the

Re: [CODE4LIB] more comments on award idea

2009-03-11 Thread Joe Atzberger
to archivists in major institutions? or Is this OSS project a good alternative to a different proprietary software X? I also like the role of code4lib being more of a contributer and less of an arbiter. If the goal is to benefit the cool projects, keep the money, show me the code. --Joe Atzberger

Re: [CODE4LIB] perl wrapper for yaz-marcdump

2009-01-30 Thread Joe Atzberger
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Is there any way I can make my Perl wrapper for yaz-marcdump, below, more efficient? Dump as you go rather than read up the whole thing into memory. Actually, why do you need perl at all? This is just a regular

Re: [CODE4LIB] release management

2008-10-29 Thread Joe Atzberger
may have seen my LibLime coworker Galen present on git at the last code4lib con. You can catch the video for that here: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=code4lib+2008so=1sitesearch=#q=code4lib%202008%20Galenemb=0so=1 Personally, I haven't found any reason to go back to SVN. --Joe Atzberger

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Logo

2008-09-29 Thread Joe Atzberger
cards, but that doesn't make us a corporation. If there is a persuasive case to be made *against* pursuing a logo for the group, please consider now the time to make it... --joe atzberger

Re: [CODE4LIB] Query: Standalone - log file code - for tracking CDRom Usage

2008-07-22 Thread Joe Atzberger
Notably, I think this is what Sony's hackware/spyware did some years ago (or attempted to), amongst others, so it should be possible. I think you probably want to pull data from the System event log though, at which point you can defer to whatever log-consolidation or event scanner that your

Re: [CODE4LIB] BarCampOhio and LibraryCampOhio, August 11, 2008

2008-07-17 Thread Joe Atzberger
Sounds good! On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Peter Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of the details, include stuff not covered below, are on the event homepage. Did I miss the URL, or are you holding out on us? : ) --joe

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

2008-03-15 Thread Joe Atzberger
Impressive! As luck would have it, I'm working on the question of book images in Koha this week... --joe atzberger On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tim, I think this proposal suffers from the same shortcoming as LibraryThing's widgets, which

Re: [CODE4LIB] perl6

2008-01-22 Thread Joe Atzberger
We get an honest-to-god switch statement, finally. And better regexp optimization. I too plan to convert relatively slowly, starting with 5.10for now and re-reading perldelta. --joe On Jan 21, 2008 8:00 AM, Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just what will I be able to do better

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Web4lib] Library Staff Scheduler

2007-09-05 Thread Joe Atzberger
You might consider RSS syndication as a third possible means of publishing a schedule, or rather, as an alternative to directly dumping HTML. Clearly it would take more work than just generating a printout, but the interoperability is sweet. --Joe On 9/5/07, Helen Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] executing a cgi script in the middle of a url

2007-08-01 Thread Joe Atzberger
Note also that, unless something has changed in more recent releases from MS, if you attempt to use IIS instead of Apache, path_info() in Perl's CGI won't work. My (undirected) approach eventually led me to use mod_rewrite and regular apache AliasMatch and ScriptAliasMatch commands. Example:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation parsing?

2007-07-20 Thread Joe Atzberger
On 7/20/07, Eric Hellman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have people been able to do a decent job of identifying parts of speech in natural language? I think trying to import broad NLP findings into our narrower problem of citation parsing is not likely to be fruitful but on the other hand

Re: [CODE4LIB] catholic portal

2007-06-25 Thread Joe Atzberger
You had me with the compelling illustration. :) I haven't implemented every piece in the puzzle, but it seems like a viable setup. On 6/25/07, Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below is some text I wrote outlining the technical infrastructure for at thing we colloquially call the

Re: [CODE4LIB] marc2oai

2007-05-29 Thread Joe Atzberger
Well, that's an impressive teaser, anyway, Andrew Looking forward to your release! On 5/29/07, Andrew Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:53 PM To: