Monthly Archives: February 2009

I’ve increased the line-height and p.margins slightly on this blog, inspired by this interesting article from A List Apart about improving the reading experience of long text on the web. Of course, none of you that read through an RSS … Continue reading →

So the proposals have been received for code4lib 2010 hosting. Sometime soonish voting will open to the community, with the last day of voting traditionally being the end of the 2009 conference.  If you have an interest in attending Code4Lib … Continue reading →

How the heck did I wind up with an internal HD on my Intel MacBook that  uses APM partition scheme?  It boots fine in 10.4, but apparenty I can’t install 10.5.  So I need to reformat my disk? First finding … Continue reading →

So, concurrent programming can certainly be tricky no matter what. But if you keep it simple, and keep inter-task communication and shared data to a minimum, it should be do-able. I thought I had figured out a way to put … Continue reading →

So there’s lots of open access scholarly article content on the web now. But there’s no good way to actually search all that content, and only that content. Sure, you can use Google (and other web searches), but your results … Continue reading →

Roy makes some comments on newish Google features that let you move search results up or down in your own personal search results, and then have that remembered. These bring up some interesting thoughts for me. I’m guessing Google is … Continue reading →

last.fm has a really nice api. I’d really like to write a plug-in for last.fm for Umlaut. But first I’ve got to figure out how Umlaut is going to figure out (and track in it’s internal schema) whether a given … Continue reading →

HERMES was a home-grown open source Electronic Resources Management (ERM) system developed by Mark Cyzyk and my predecessor here, Nathan Robertson. See this article for some of it’s history. . Portrait of a vision unfulfilled It was developed, I beleive, before … Continue reading →

Question for the catalogers out there. I thought to go look and see if I had an LC authority record. I don’t think I’ve written anything that would end up cataloged by LC, so I doubted it. But, see, I’ve … Continue reading →

Thanks to the 105 people who responded to my short readers survey. Much appreciated. Google Docs gives me a nice summary with pie charts and stuff of the responses, but there’s no good way to share it with anyone! Due … Continue reading →