Month: June 2006

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    Couple of Update notes.  I fixed a small issue with the 008/006 editing and have been spending a bit of time going through the XSLT processing code to do as much optimization as possible — and I’m happy to report that it looks like some good has come out of these optimizations.  Here’s how it…

  • New oak floors

    So I’ve been a little bit in accessible for the past 3-4 days because our house has been under some renovation. About a month back, our dog chewed a hole in our carpet helping my wife and I finally make the decision to take the carpet our of the bottom floor of our house and…

  • University of Virginia

    University of Virginia Originally uploaded by alycereese. This would be Alyce and I hanging out at the UVA rotunda. This is the last day of our trip and Alyce is a little tired. We’d just gotten back from visiting Monticello — but we couldn’t go home without one picture of the UVA grounds or the…

  • Mt. Vernon Mansion

    Mt. Vernon Originally uploaded by alycereese. Alyce ended up not liking the interior of this house — but at 3000 or 8000 acres — its a big piece of property and a very impressive view on the Potomic. –tr

  • Montpelier

    Montpelier Originally uploaded by alycereese. This was a pretty cool place because of the restoration work being done. The group doing the restoration has basically stripped the house to its original brick and are slowing repairing the outter structure and recreating the interior structure. –tr

  • Monticello

    Monticello Originally uploaded by alycereese. So this is a picture of Monicello. I love this place. I love the gardens and the forests. –TR

  • Ruby and Rails

    So, because of a project that I’m working on — I’ve started learning Ruby with Rails.  I was pleasantly surprised to find that Ruby is a really easy language to learn.  I have a feeling that when Microsoft developed C# — they based it on languages like Ruby because the overall feel is pretty much…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    I posted an update to MarcEdit tonight.  Changes: Bug fix: When moving data from UTF-8 to MARC8, specific subscript characters would be placed into the superscript area. Bug fix: When working with the Console — if you used the commandline parameters — the destination path was being read incorrectly. Added Help files Updated Langauge files…

  • Spell Checking with Aspell and PHP

    One of the things that I like about PHP is the many built in functions found in the language. Within our metasearch tool, one of the things that I wanted to start looking at adding was spell checking. Since Aspell works as a good open source dictionary and is available as a php extension (pspell)…

  • Creating Analytic records from EAD finding aids

    While at UVA, I was asked if the MarcEdit stylesheet could be modified to allow for the creation of both Collection, series and analytic records for items in the EAD records. This is just a template and would need to be modified for actual use — but I put this together while on the plane…