Month: January 2007

  • MarcEdit 5.0.2574.28817 Update

    I’ve posted a new update to MarcEdit 5.  The update includes the following changes: Added a Sort by Title to the MarcEditor and rearranged the sort commands I’d been asked by a few folks to add the ability to sort a results set by title — this new function allows that.  To make this work, I’ve…

  • MarcEdit "rosettastone"

    I’ll likely change the name, but I’ve been creating a simple SOAP service that will be able to migrate metadata directly between 7 known metadata formats — or user defined formats, in addition to the ability to harvest OAI to MARC, MARCXML or user defined.  I’m note sure how useful something like this could be…

  • Ruby and Date classes

    I’d seen this somewhere before, but thought I’d benchmark it to see if it was true.  Ruby has 3 classes for doing dates.  There is Date, DateTime and Time classes.  In languages like C# and PHP, the equivalent DateTime class is the one that is generally utilized to do date/time manipulations.  However, in Ruby, DateTime…

  • Ice storm, 2007

    Good lord, we get an inch of snow and we have an “extreme winter weather alert” in Oregon.  Maybe its time to hit the panic button. 🙂 –TR