Monthly Archives: August 2011

Google Book Search officially supports search by ISBN using a field search, either in the HTML interface, or the (new, or old, but new in this case) API. But in a library context, you sometimes have a book you’re interested … Continue reading →

While we libraries typically spend more of our resources on ‘catalog’ search, for academic libraries a significant portion of users probably spend more time looking for articles instead. (Anyone have a cite to any research showing this?) So many of us … Continue reading →

Why does Rails choose to, unlike the standard ruby Logger, eliminate inclusion of severity and timestamp in a log line? It makes the logs kind of useless, I don’t get why they thought this was a sensible default? Why did … Continue reading →

I’m not even sure how I managed to figure out this problem, but there wasn’t a problem report/solution on google, so I thought I’d share it here so maybe someone else will find it. I needed to deploy an old … Continue reading →