Monthly Archives: January 2010

Using Mongrel with Rails 2.2+ and prefix

First, don’t. Mongrel seems to be a dead product, I think everyone’s moved over to mod_rails/passenger. Because mod_rails/passenger (what’s that product actually called these days?) is nice. Just use that, mongrel hasn’t been updated in years now and doesn’t look … Continue reading

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Purposes/Functions of Controlled Vocabulary

Quite a while ago on December 14th, Jim Weinheimer wrote something on NGC4Lib that got me thinking about a paper I wrote back in school. Jim wrote: I often see this sort of finding, but it always leaves me a … Continue reading

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Google Scholar does not allow meta-search

Neither does Google ‘ordinary’ web search for that matter. Metalib, the Ex Libris federated (broadcast) search product has for a long time supported a Google Scholar target, which I believe was accomplished by screen-scraping G.Scholar (cause I can’t figure out … Continue reading

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