Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for Code4lib 2016 location

Speaking from my own experience, I have almost always used the breakouts blocks to decompress and do anything else but conferencey stuff. Including going back to my room to take a nap. By that point in the day, I¹m so wiped out and overloaded with ideas that the last thing I want to do is pull peop

Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?

For those investigating a shelf browse (and for those that have implemented one), I have a few questions: Where is the feature demand originating? Staff? Faculty? Students? Grad students? Undergrad students? (Not to exclude publics or special libraries, but this seems to be an academic catalog fea

Re: [CODE4LIB] what good books did you read in 2014?

This thread reminded me that there exists a code4lib Goodreads group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/72219-code4lib -Sean On 12/10/14, 9:10 AM, "Foster, Meredith" wrote: >Interesting post and responses. > >Books: >Started the year by finishing up the Dresden Files (Jim Butcher) series. >A

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library community web standards (was: LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav)

I'm just going to jump in here and question the need for it to be ALA or LITA affiliated. Plenty of stuff has been accomplished and respected (like, oh, hey, code4lib) without an attachment of ALA or LITA. Ad...discuss. -Sean From: Code for Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

On 9/16/14, 7:15 PM, "Michael Schofield" wrote: > >Q4. No nav? >Okay, nobody actually brought this up, but users don¹t tend to look at >sidebars at all. Most libraries have a top menu in the header. If this is >the case, consider dropping sidebars entirely and positioning your single >column of c

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring strategy for a library programmer with tight budget - thoughts?

Would it be possible to re-write this position as a project-based contract? Such a position is more appealing for short-term (part-time) gig-type work and telework types. Also, it helps you out in that if the telework thing doesn¹t work for various reasons, you¹re done with it at the end of the co

Re: [CODE4LIB] Community anti-harassment policy

Pull requests welcome. From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Andreas Orphanides [akorp...@ncsu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 9:33 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Community anti-harassment policy In p

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any good "introduction to SPARQL" workshops out there?

That source seems, shall we say, less than legitimate. -Sean From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Daron Dierkes [daron.dier...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 2:23 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] An

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription services

We¹ve had good experience with just using our student employees. They get quite fast at it and become content experts at the same time, which comes in really handy if the content is user research and the like. -Sean On 4/25/14, 9:24 AM, "Rachel Shaevel" wrote: >Piggybacking on the topic...what

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

? Maybe it would be better suited on its own page with similar content that is of a more digestible length. That sort of thing. -Sean --- Sean Hannan Senior Web Developer Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University On 4/17/14, 7:42 PM, "Simon LeFranc" wrote: >My organization has recent

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability resources

OptimalWorkshop.com -Sean From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Coral Sheldon-Hess [co...@sheldon-hess.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 9:48 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Usability resources Here is one S

Re: [CODE4LIB] A ticketing system for internal troubleshooting purpose

Reporting staff are somewhat indifferent. It’s a bit of a hassle and the native interface makes no sense for help desk ticketing (it’s very clear that it’s for development). Staff that respond to issues are trained on it and it works for them, but it’s still not ideal. I would not recommend JIRA a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Screencasting Usability Studies

with using a Mac. It made usability testing a bit tricky, since they were apprehensive about even using the trackpad. ³How do I go back?² ³You press the back button, just as you would in Firefox on a PC.² That kind of thing. I definitely didn¹t expect that. -Sean ‹ Sean Hannan Senior Web Devel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Publishing an RSS feed on a Confluence page

You need the Confluence HTML Macros plugin installed. -Sean (Who hates Confluence with the passion of a thousand suns.) On 2/21/14, 11:12 AM, "Kimberly Silk" wrote: >Thanks, Christina and Dre --- I've tried these macros, to no avail. I'm >wondering if it's blocked in the hosted version. Grr. >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?

In ruby, there's the ffaker gem (https://github.com/EmmanuelOga/ffaker), which itself is a port of Perl's Data::Faker. -Sean From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Pottinger, Hardy J. [pottinge...@missouri.edu] Sent: Saturday, D

Re: [CODE4LIB] calibr: a simple opening hours calendar

), but I ended up writing up the whole process as a blog post (http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/2013/07/anatomy-of-an-hours-page/). -Sean ‹ Sean Hannan Senior Web Developer Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University On 11/26/13, 6:41 PM, "Barnes, Hugh" wrote: >Great edge cas

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Conference Registration

Did someone say colors? http://dysinterested.com/rainbows.html -Sean From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Doran, Michael D [do...@uta.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 4:55 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CO

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC field lengths

That sounds like a request for Roy to fire up the ole OCLC Hadoop. -Sean On 10/16/13 1:06 PM, "Karen Coyle" wrote: >Anybody have data for the average length of specific MARC fields in some >reasonably representative database? I mainly need 100, 245, 6xx. > >Thanks, >kc > >-- >Karen Coyle >kc

Re: [CODE4LIB] edUi Discount

Hey, that's me! Come see me talk! It's a good conference. I've gone the last two years. Cheapest design-thinking conference you'll ever see. -Sean On 10/14/13 8:24 AM, "EdUI Conference" wrote: >This is how you do digital collections in >2013

Re: [CODE4LIB] pdf2txt

Very cool. But, why only for a limited period of time? -Sean On 10/11/13 11:16 AM, "Eric Lease Morgan" wrote: > >For a limited period of time I am making publicly available a Web-based >program called PDF2TXT -- http://bit.ly/1bJRyh8 > >PDF2TXT extracts the text from an OCRed PDF document and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Separate library CMS systems vs Campus-wide CMS systems (was [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it)

script? Also, how much control do you > have over the content of library pages on the CMS? > > Josh Welker > > On Aug 14, 2013, at 8:35 AM, Sean Hannan wrote: > >> You could do something like what I did and run your own data backend and use >> whatever you need to/have

Re: [CODE4LIB] Separate library CMS systems vs Campus-wide CMS systems (was [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it)

You could do something like what I did and run your own data backend and use whatever you need to/have to to display content. Our website is just static HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Everything dynamic/data-powered is javascript that is pulling from a centralized API (written using grape: http://intr

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it

Again, this not a technical issue. It's a content strategy issue. Believe me, I was where you were. I was using all kinds of javascript and CSS hacks to try to prevent people from getting creative with color. I was getting to the point of setting up Capybara tests to run against the guides to aler

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it

All of this, plus SpringShare has great support. Like, the best of any library vendor I've dealt with. I've had them implement features within an hour of me sending the email suggesting it. The big downside of LibGuides is that it's ease of use (and ease if reuse) leads to content sprawl like y

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC record model to be inserted in mongodb

Also, I'm sure you have your reasons for wanting (or needing) to use mongodb, but you might want to take a look at this presentation: http://thebuild.com/presentations/pg-as-nosql-pgday-fosdem-2013.pdf and the benchmarks in the latter half of it. -Sean On 7/5/13 5:47 AM, "dasos ili" wrote: > C

Re: [CODE4LIB] File based CMSes

I'm a big fan of middleman (http://middlemanapp.com). It's more coder-oriented, but you're not locked into the horrible UI of a wiki product. Once it's set up, it's good to go. There's lots of nice extensions for it, including a WYSIWYG blog post manager/editor, and it's simple to code for. -Se

Re: [CODE4LIB] ADVICE: Applied Computing Program at Tulane

Honestly, if you're interested in and looking to focus on Content Strategy and UX, the only course there that comes close is Human-Computer Interaction. If those are really your interests, I'd look at a strictly HCI program (they're out there) or something that leans more towards Knowledge Manag

Re: [CODE4LIB] A Responsibility to Encourage Better Browsers ( ? )

Let's not forget that Google has a business case for dropping IE8 support. Alerting folks to their old browser could (in SEO terms) turn into Chrome conversions. -Sean On 2/19/13 12:22 PM, "Eric Phetteplace" wrote: > I guess my general philosophy is that, for any browser with a decent market >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Stand Up Desks

I'm a big fan of just having an obscenely large monitor. I can work on the other side of the room. Standing, sitting, whatevs. http://instagram.com/p/RqaKH0DRQN/ -Sean On 2/7/13 2:37 PM, "Peter Murray" wrote: > I don't have a standing desk, but I'm a big fan of using PVC pipe to put > equipme

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rdio playlist

A bit of a tangent, but this post (as well as the Layar one, and others) is exactly why I love code4lib. It really has nothing to do with code nor libraries and it wasn't handed down by conference organizers. Someone (Bill, in this case) thought it was a good idea, others would be interested, and j

Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing software

On that front, I highly recommend the book Remote Research by Nate Bolt. http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/remote-research/ -Sean From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Taylor, Nicholas A. [n...@loc.gov] Sent: Friday, February 01,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon 2013 T-Shirt Contest Winner

Or just black ink on a black T-shirt. You know, The Black Album style. -Sean On 1/16/13 12:19 PM, "Suchy, Daniel" wrote: > I vote that the code4lib 2013 portion be added in backlight ink. > > \m/ > > -Dan > > On 1/16/13 8:55 AM, "Cynthia Ng" wrote: > >> Curious, is code4lib 2013 going to

Re: [CODE4LIB] project management system

As someone that's had to fight with maintaining a Jira system for the last 6 years, I'm going to have to steer people away from it. It's a giant pain in the ass (in my experience). If you go with Jira, at the very least, go with a hosted solution. You don't want Jira's blood on your hands. It smel

Re: [CODE4LIB] preconf ideas

Slight derail, but for everyone considering a workshoppy preconf, you might consider using something like http://showterm.io so that people can follow along. -Sean On 11/8/12 8:16 PM, "Heidi P Frank" wrote: > Hi Jason, > I'd definitely be interested in the Ruby workshop. I know a little > bit

Re: [CODE4LIB] Seeking examples of outstanding discovery layers

That's what user research is. Qualitative evidence, too. -Sean On 9/20/12 1:18 PM, "Karen Coyle" wrote: > And I presume that you have quantitative evidence to show that. > > kc > > On 9/20/12 8:49 AM, Sean Hannan wrote: >> Every one of these sit

Re: [CODE4LIB] Seeking examples of outstanding discovery layers

Every one of these sites is not going to work for everyone. Please conduct your own user research for your own audience. Our users, for example, have no interest in visualizations of search results. Our researchers actually want just a list of results. They are compiling bibliographies or readin

[CODE4LIB] Job: Software Engineer, Johns Hopkins University

The Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University seeks a Software Engineer for its new Digitization Services Unit. This position will perform a major role in the design, software development, and implementation of the University Libraries and Museums’ digital collections discovery and pre

Re: [CODE4LIB] Wikis

As an administrator of a Confluence installation, I have to say that I hate it. Confluence is fine if you are not going to be touching it or doing any kind of local customizations (hooking it into local auth, etc.). If that's the case, you should really be looking at the hosted version. I've foun

Re: [CODE4LIB] Browser Wars

I go by my statistics (and you should, too). I can't make users use another browser (as much as I'd like them to). The bulk of our users still use IE (well, the bulk use a WebKit browser--Chrome/Safari--but lumping those together isn't an assumption I'm ready to lean on yet). That IE majority is sh

Re: [CODE4LIB] library hours database/tool?

I'm implementing this in Google Calendar. Easy to update for non-tech staff. Easy to have multiple calendars (one per location), and the API is baked in. Amenities info, etc. can be included in the notes field of the calendar entry. -Sean --- Sean Hannan Web Developer Sheridan Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library site design patterns

There's this thing: http://influx.us/onepager But I don't really believe in it. I know the library world is full of people that think that we're unique snowflakes, but at least in my case (for library websites) I find that to be true. This is based on a number of factors: how librarians instruct

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone implementing common LIS applications on PaaS providers?

If you already have everything indexed in Solr elsewhere, a way to cut down the BL slug size is to remove/ignore the SolrMarc.jar. It's pretty sizable. -Sean On 3/29/12 12:16 PM, "Chris Fitzpatrick" wrote: > Hi, > > I've deployed Blacklight on both Heroku and Elastic BeanStalk. > > Heroku is

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

Mechanical Turk it. (I hear that's what all the hipsters do while they watch Downton Abbey.) -Sean On 2/27/12 1:52 PM, "Suchy, Daniel" wrote: > Hello all, > > At my campus we offer podcasts of course lectures, recorded in class and then > delivered via iTunes and as a plain Mp3 download (htt

Re: [CODE4LIB] Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!

ry > University of Alberta > Edmonton, Alberta > Canada T6G 2J8 > > phone 780-492-3743 > fax 780-492-9243 > > > > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Sean Hannan > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!

r? Sorry, I don't know exactly how to phrase this. > To put it another way - are your patrons finding you this way? > > wayne > > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Sean Hannan > Sent: Thursday

Re: [CODE4LIB] Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!

Our Blacklight-powered catalog (https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/) comes up a lot in google search results (try gil scott heron circle of stone). Some numbers: 59% of our total catalog traffic comes from google searches 0.04% of our total catalog traffic comes from yahoo searches 0.03% of our tot

Re: [CODE4LIB] Issue Tracker Recommendations

Not Jira. -Sean On 2/22/12 12:36 PM, "Cynthia Ng" wrote: > Hi All, > > We're looking at implementing an issue tracker for internal use, so > I'm looking for recommendations. > > What's key: > 1) minimal effort in install/setup i.e. ready to use out of the box > 2) small scale is okay, we hav

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference size

This should fill some gaps: http://cynng.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/code4lib-day-keynote-on-code4libcon/ -Sean From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Benjamin Florin [benjamin.flo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 11

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-shirt contest winner

D.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] T-shirt contest winner There seems to be a character encoding error; #\( is rendering as #\{ and #\) is rendering as #\}. ((believes ed.) (that (shurely (that (exists ?X (mistake ?X))) Simon On Dec 22, 2011 10:53 PM, "Ann Lally" wrote: > Sean

Re: [CODE4LIB] Pandering for votes for code4lib sessions

On Dec 1, 2011, at 8:34 AM, "Richard, Joel M" wrote: > In the end, the conference organizers can invite whoever they want to speak. > The voting ends up being a courtesy to the rest of us. > > --Joel > > Joel Richard > Lead Web Developer, Web Services Department > Smithsonian Institution Libra

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference Schedule 2012

The draft schedule (http://code4lib.org/conference/2012/schedule) says we're done at 12:15. -Sean On 11/16/11 12:00 PM, "Lepczyk, Timothy" wrote: > Hi, > > Any idea when things wrap up on the 9th? I'm trying to gauge leaving that day > vs the 10th. > > Best, > > Tim > > - - -

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Registration Cost?

How about we call it a generously free preconference instead? -Sean On 11/9/11 4:29 PM, "Timothy McGeary" wrote: > So based on these responses - can the costs of the pre-confs be separated > out? Is there lunch provided? Is it only room rental? > > Either way, if it's going to be called a p

Re: [CODE4LIB] ISBN Regular Expression

GitHub search knows all: https://github.com/zapnap/isbn_validation/blob/master/lib/isbn_validation.rb -Sean On 10/21/11 1:44 PM, "Kozlowski,Brendon" wrote: > Hi all. > > > > I'm somewhat surprised that I've never had to validate an ISBN manually up > until now. I suppose that's a testiment

Re: [CODE4LIB] New thread: Why are you doing what you're doing?

Evangelizing the importance and use of large information sets, research, and discovery through alternate media forms. Visualizations, interactive installations, video art. Anyone feeling crazy enough to create a position like that? -Sean On 9/28/11 2:12 PM, "Karen Coyle" wrote: > I think a gre

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Digital Library Repository Developer, Boston Public Library (Boston, MA)

OCLC Monopoly! Go directly to CONTENTdm. Do not pass Worldcat. Do not collect $200. -Sean On 9/28/11 2:11 PM, "Ya'aqov Ziso" wrote: > *As a community, we create and modify our policies as we go along SO THAT we > can contribute freely in our discussions with each other.* > * > * > *Anybody, i

[CODE4LIB] Job: Techy Library Position at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University - Washington, DC

Sorry for the vague title, but ‘LAN Administrator III’ (the official title) doesn’t really describe the position... BUT THIS DOES: The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a leading graduate school of international affairs, educating students for professional career

[CODE4LIB] Job: Software Engineer - Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University

*Apologies for cross-posting.* Want do do some fun work exposing special collections/repository materials with Solr/Blacklight? Sure you do. Come work with us. This is a one-year full time position. -Sean Details: Software Engineer General Description: Position will perform a major role i

Re: [CODE4LIB] Brief Survey: Reasons you've been given for NOT having a CMS in your library

This assumes that you want a CMS. I don't. http://www.slideshare.net/MrDys/lets-get-small-a-microservices-approach-to-l ibrary-websites -Sean On 9/9/11 3:21 PM, "Varnum, Ken" wrote: > * Apologies for cross-posting * > > We are doing a presentation at Internet Librarian > (http://www.infotod

[CODE4LIB] FW: [Blacklight-development] Release 3.0 of Project Blacklight

FYI, y’all. Big, big thanks to dfunk for getting the lion’s share of the code working in Rails 3. -Sean -- Forwarded Message From: Dan Funk Reply-To: Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:11:02 -0400 To: Subject: [Blacklight-development] Release 3.0 of Project Blacklight I am proud to announce the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Seattle Update.

Honestly, I'm the most concerned that there was only one proposal last year. Let's try to solve that problem. -Sean On 6/15/11 1:46 PM, "Kevin S. Clarke" wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > >> Heresy I know, but I wonder if we should change conf host/site sel

Re: [CODE4LIB] exposing website visitor IP addresses to webcrawlers

I think in many circumstances, this sort of disclosure is covered by a site's privacy policy (or it should be). -Sean On 5/20/11 10:35 AM, "Keith Jenkins" wrote: > Just out of curiosity, does anyone on this list have any opinions > about whether website owners should publicly post lists of the

Re: [CODE4LIB] linking catalog records to IMDB

If I were doing this, I'd use the Freebase (freebase.com) API and write a little app that returns the IMDB title stem (ex: tt0460791) for each of the films you're trying to match up. -Sean On 4/27/11 10:56 AM, "R. Levi" wrote: > I would like to add a link to IMDB for the feature films that we

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC magic for file

http://i.imgur.com/6WtA0.png (Sorry, it's Friday. Also, blame dchud for the idea.) -Sean On 4/6/11 4:53 PM, "Mike Taylor" wrote: > On 6 April 2011 19:53, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: >> On 4/6/2011 2:43 PM, William Denton wrote: >>> >>> "Validity" does mean something definite ... but Postel's L

[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Systems Engineer, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University

We’re looking for a sysadmin at Hopkins. Come work with me. It’ll be cool, I promise. -Sean --- https://hrnt.jhu.edu/jhujobs/job_view.cfm?view_req_id=46964 The Systems Engineer will provide systems administration and, to a lesser extent, programming support for the Systems department’s multi

[CODE4LIB] Wednesday Afternoon Video?

So, it looks like the Wednesday Afternoon archive video cuts off at lunch. Did the afternoon talks get recorded.? -Sean

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fwd: Code4lib 2011 Conference Registration

On 12/8/10 12:45 PM, "Westman, Stephen" wrote: > There seems to be a great deal of interest in the conference opening time. It > almost reminds me of people lining up for the IPhone. ;-) > > Is there a reason for this? Not having gone to code4lib before, do slots fill > up quickly? You betcha

Re: [CODE4LIB] detecting user copying URL?

rksmode.org/dom/events/cutcopypaste.html -Sean --- Sean Hannan Web Developer Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University On 11/29/10 1:49 PM, "Ken Irwin" wrote: > Hi all, > > I have just, for the severalth time, just talked to a student who had lost a > bunch of work in a c

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP MVC frameworks

It really depends on the use case. If I'm trying to get something up quickly and it isn't too involved, CodeIgniter. If it's going to be a much more fully developed application that is to be maintained for a lengthy amount of time, Symfony. -Sean On 11/15/10 6:19 AM, "David Kane" wrote: > Hi

Re: [CODE4LIB] usability question: searching for a database (not in a database)

I was in the middle of typing a really long response along these lines, but Dre beat me to it. But yeah, labeling is a big issue that really requires testing with actual users to find out what works best for them. Giving users immediate feedback/correction with Google Suggest-like functionality wi

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

Not software, exactly, but this seems like an ideal thing to set up in Mechanical Turk. This guy did it with an audio interview: http://waxy.org/2008/09/audio_transcription_with_mechanical_turk/ -Sean On 5/12/10 2:18 PM, "Eric Lease Morgan" wrote: > Does anybody here use or know of any audio

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCLC Service Outage Update

After poking around, it seems that there is: Wt (http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt). After looking through the source of the Hello World example[1], I'm not sure why anyone would go through the trouble, but then again, I feel that way about a lot of lower-level compiled languages. -Sean [1] http://

Re: [CODE4LIB] Bibliographic data on Freebase

Also, David Huynh (of Gridworks and Freebase Parallax fame) dropped into IRC last week asking about MARC4J and its possible use with Gridworks. Things are afoot. -Sean On Apr 22, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Owen Stephens wrote: > Thought that some on the list might be interested in various discussions

[CODE4LIB] Blacklight Developers Open Skype Call April 26

Apologies for cross-posting... On April 26 at 1pm (EST)/10am (PST) Blacklight (http://www.projectblacklight.org/) developers will be having an hour-long Skype call open to anyone that cares to participate. If you have any questions or concerns or things you want to discuss with Blacklight progr

Re: [CODE4LIB] New books RSS feed / "badge" with cover images?

I would suggest using Yahoo! Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/) for something like this. You can feed it your RSS feed, and add in some logic to strip out extraneous information and the grey boxes. -Sean --- Sean Hannan Web Developer Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University On Apr 9

Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for Code4Lib 2011 host is OPEN

Not to mention that the SkyTrain will get you to Main in 3 minutes, and there your options increase exponentially. -Sean On Mar 14, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Paul Joseph wrote: > Here's a few pubs and brewpubs that have decent beers and are within easy > walking distance to the proposed hotel in Vancou

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Proposals

As someone who has done a lot of US->Vancouver travel, here's a protip: Fly into Sea-Tac and then take the Quick Shuttle (http://www.quickcoach.com/) across the border ($40ish USD). You won't get dinged on airport international travel fees and you will have a lot more flight options. Just in

[CODE4LIB] Conference Twitter List

witter.com/code4lib/attendees-2010 Vielen dank. Sean Hannan Code4Lib Twitter Wrangler

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sunday in Asheville

If I'm remembering correctly, NBC is opting to show Ice Dancing over the USA/Canada game. Yay, NBC. -Sean On Feb 17, 2010, at 2:53 PM, David Fiander wrote: > Seriously, are any other sports going to be broadcast during that time slot? > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 14:51, Julia Bauder wrote: >>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Newcomer dinner reminder

Apart from the steakhouse, all of the remaining restaurants have vegetarian (and some vegan) options. Check out their menus, they look tasty. -Sean (Token Vegetarian) On Feb 17, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Joyce Chapman wrote: > I heard concerns from some vegetarians that all the slots are taken at >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: what is the best open source native XML database

Sean On Jan 19, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Godmar Back wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Sean Hannan wrote: >> I've had the best experience (query speed, primarily) with BaseX. This was >> primarily for large XML document processing, so I'm not sure how much it >> w

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: what is the best open source native XML database

I've had the best experience (query speed, primarily) with BaseX. This was primarily for large XML document processing, so I'm not sure how much it will satisfy your transactional needs. I was initially using eXist, and then switched over to BaseX because the speed gains were very noticeable.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Website Redesign Info and Project Plans

n plotting out our work from the User Experience touchy-feely end to the Information Architecture to the visual design and implementation. -Sean --- Sean Hannan Web Developer Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University On Sep 16, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: > Hi All, > >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens

ww.lukew.com/ff/index.asp) and book (http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/webforms/info/description/) might be other good places to look for inspiration. -Sean Sean Hannan Web Developer Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Walker, David" <[EMAIL P

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP Frameworks

lot, but it tends to be overkill for most things PHP. Sean Hannan Web Developer Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Susan Teague Rector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/27/08 4:50 PM >>> Hi All, We're exploring Zend as a framework for php base

Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI-PMH Harvester in PHP?

There's some good skeleton code (not sure how far it will get you) in Omeka's SVN: https://omeka.org/svn/plugins/OaiPmhImport/trunk/ Sean Hannan Web Developer Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Walker, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Logo

emolanphy++ I, too, being a closet design nerd, would also volunteer to be on some sort of committee. -Sean >>> Emily Molanphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/29/08 4:51 PM >>> Ignite, Drupal, Ubuntu, OLPC and lots of other tech groups have logos and brand identities. Actually some of the best- know

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib Keynote Speaker Suggestions

Personal homepage: http://davidhuynh.net/ Sean Hannan Web Developer Sherdian Libraries Johns Hopkins University [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> jean rainwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/10/08 11:33 AM >>> I don't think we're doing an official vote but if you want to add y

Re: [CODE4LIB] what's friendlier & less powerful than phpMyAdmin?

I was in a similar situation and I just used CodeIgniter's scaffolding (http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/scaffolding.html ) feature to allow my users to add/edit data. It's pretty safe, and it looks neat and clean, too. Sean Hannan Web Developer, Sheridan Libraries Joh

Re: [CODE4LIB] Shibboleth

ak to that; if you have any integration-type questions I'd be more than happy to try to answer them. Sean Hannan Web Content Coordinator The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410-516-7642 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "K.G. Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3/21

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Course reserves management

Reserves Direct (http://www.reservesdirect.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) is the only one that I am aware of. I'd be very interested if people know of any others. Sean Hannan Web Content Coordinator The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410-516-7642 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >&g