Monthly Archives: June 2011

I have a fairly large/complex Rails application that has been chugging along in Rails2, and I am now at the final stages of migrating it to Rails3. Now, the Rails2 version wasn’t all that speedy. I’m embaressed to admit in … Continue reading →

A second post with a walk through on customizing a Blacklight-based app to add a search feature. Of interest to programmers working on Blacklight, or those curious about Blacklight’s architecture (especially those familiar with Rails). The first post covered a … Continue reading →

In the current environment, it’s an embaressing shame that not all of our catalog interfaces allow direct links to particular search results in the catalog. It’s neccesary to integrate ourselves into the workflows and communities of our patrons. Our Blacklight-based … Continue reading →

There is a known gotcha with the Solr dismax query parser, where using fields with varying stopwords definitions together in an ‘qf’, results in ‘mm’s not being met even when you think they should be, and fewer results being in … Continue reading →

In a thread on the Code4Lib listserv, I offered Umlaut as an example of providing “just in time” links to open access content, integrated into our existing services like the catalog. Eric Hellman liked Umlaut’s example, and asks if there … Continue reading →

This post will be of interest to programmers, who work on Blacklight apps or are interested in Blacklight’s architecture. Locally, we wanted to add a checkbox to the search form for “Show only items available online”. I will walk through … Continue reading →

On the Code4Lib Listserv, Jeremy Frumkin describes a future direction for libraries that again makes me think “Yeah, that’s exactly what Umlaut tries to do.”  Umlaut isn’t just a fancy new interface for SFX, it’s trying to do, I think, … Continue reading →