Monthly Archives: May 2010

So in newish versions of Rails, if you say: render(:partial => “foo”) And you are current rendering format “html”, then rails will look for a template called “_foo.html.[erb|builder]“, and failing that look for “foo.[erb|builder”.  If your in some other format, … Continue reading →

Am I right, or am I misunderstanding? I cant’ be the first to have ntoiced this. 4.1.1.1 ….It is advisable that each atom:entry element contain a non-empty atom:title element, a non-empty atom:content element when that element is present, and a … Continue reading →

Update Aug 2010: I’ve done some time-distribution visualization with Flot, Solr, and Blacklight, not quite what’s contemplated in this post, but it’s kinda neat. http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/cool-range-limitprofile-function-in-blacklight/ So I’ve been thinking for a while about visualizing time distribution in an OPAC view. … Continue reading →

There is LOTS of skepticism toward federated search from librarians and library staff.  And indeed I agree that even the best library-oriented federated search solutions I’ve seen are awfully kludgey in many ways. (By “library-oriented” I mean oriented toward finding … Continue reading →

So I didn’t even know anything about Unicode normalization before I had to learn it to debug my RefWorks issues, but it ends up mattering for a whole bunch of other things not related to RefWorks. An esoteric issue which … Continue reading →

I previously reported that even though it’s not documented anywhere and RefWorks support couldn’t tell me it, RefWorks had a problem importing UTF-8 including “decomposed” characters, and the solution was to apply Unicode Normalized Form C to your data before … Continue reading →

My google account(s) have been driving me crazy for a while. I think I found a hint as to why: Why am I seeing the message “Oops. A calendar already exists…” when I access Google Calendar? If you’ve recently signed … Continue reading →

On the NGC4Lib listserv, Neil Godfrey writes, and I respond: Apols if I have missed any previous explanation of this, but I am wondering what reason/s lie behind RDA continuing the concept of “a preferred acces point” in cases of … Continue reading →