Monthly Archives: September 2010

Just to share info with other SFX administrators… I discovered a weird problem a few months ago, with a request to SFX for a certain pmid causing my SFX to reproducibly timeout. Some more answers to the mystery came from … Continue reading →

Note: This info is out of date with Rails 3.1 and the asset pipeline. The asset pipeline does a better job of taking care of this for you, although you may still need to do some work in apache to … Continue reading →

Mostly a note to myself. In HIP, the Horizon OPAC, sometimes when you edit XSL, it is immediately picked up automatically. Other times, in other files, it is not. Previously, I thought that the only way to get it picked … Continue reading →

Anyone likely to attend the next Code4Lib conference should go preference vote for their keynote speakers of choice. First the community ranks choices, then the potential keynoters still need to be available and accept, of course. None of em have … Continue reading →

The JQuery-UI framework is really nice, for getting consistent look and feel on interface objects, with a well-thought and well-tested (both in terms of what works in browsers, and usability) design (instead of constantly re-inventing from scratch). And it’s themable, … Continue reading →

By DUFF WILSON Published: September 13, 2010 Twenty-five out of 32 highly paid consultants to medical device companies in 2007, or their publishers, failed to reveal the financial connections in journal articles the following year, according to a study released … Continue reading →

I had previously known about TicTocs, a nice aggregator of journal RSS latest article feeds. The aggregated feeds themselves are public access, but the articles linked to may not be. This put a damper on my thoughts of using this … Continue reading →

I gave an internal presentation on umlaut’s architecture. Sorry, it wasn’t recorded, and all I’ve got are these slides — and the way I do slides,  I don’t think they are actually very readable/informative/useful  in isolation by themselves, without my … Continue reading →

A bit ago, I asked for advice on dealing with loading of the new provider-neutral-type e-book bibs. There was some interesting discussion there that helped me figure out how to think about this, but I guess most people have very … Continue reading →

Lately, for some reason, lots of friends and acquaintances are telling me they want to go to library school. I usually don’t know what to say, trying to convey the fact that: Yes, indeed, libraries are awesome. (Especially in theory/potential). … Continue reading →