Monthly Archives: December 2011

It isn’t because libraries can’t figure out, technically, how to loan out ebooks. It’s because publishers don’t want them to, and may be able to prevent it. A shift to ebooks has been predicted for a while, and seems to be … Continue reading →

Library Journal has a very useful article with case studies of four commercial library-sector “discovery interface” layers.  Four sections written by librarians at institutions implementing each of four products: EBSCO EDS (Amanda Clay Powers, Mississippi State University) OCLC WorldCat (Zinthia … Continue reading →

…A federal agency ruled on Monday that a set of important features commonly found in smartphones are protected by an Apple patent, a decision that could force changes in how Google’s Android phones function…. …For example, the case decided Monday involves the technology that lets … Continue reading →

So, like many non-huge non-corporate-supported open source projects, many of the open source projects I contribute to go something like this (some of which I was original author, others not): Someone starts the project in an publicly accessible repo. If … Continue reading →

tl;dr version For Rails 3.1 (3.1.3 is the latest release as I write this). If you have JQuery-UI CSS generated by the theme roller, say for the ‘cupertino’ theme. One option is exploding the contents a bit, put the `jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.css` … Continue reading →