Month: April 2007

  • Monster Cookie — success!

    So, the great recumbent roundup (aka, the Monster Cookie) was a rousing success. Kyle tried out his new high racer and got lots of looks. It’s a very unique, light (21 lbs) and fast bike. Both Kyle and I ended up doing a full century…100.4 miles to be exact. We padded about 18 on the…

  • Let the cycling season begin

    So I’m just about ready to head out and do the Salem Monster Cookie, a metric century (60 miles) that takes you from Salem, Oregon north towards Portland, OR. It’s a nice easy ride that’s always a fun way to kick off the riding season. As past practice, a few of us will be turning…

  • And the simple design wins

    Its interesting how this has played out in the video game market this year.  When the Playstation 3 came out, my wife and I started to think about getting a gaming console under the guise that it would be for my boys (really, it was for me).  The idea though was that the gaming experience…

  • MarcEdit Z39.50 Changes

    I’ve been having some folks ping me recently regarding how data is displayed in the Z39.50 client.  To simply the data display process, I pull data into a byte array and simply render the content using the Windows 1252 codepage.  This means that any data returned via UTF8 (which I certainly don’t see often) gets…

  • MarcEdit 5 updated

    The biggest part of this update is the addition of a Z39.50 COM object call.  So for those that install as an admin, they will be able to access the Z39.50 object.  Here’s a code snippet. Function ZSearch(search, ltype) Dim lobj_Z3950 Dim lstring Set lobj_Z3950 =createObject(“MARCEngine5.Query”) With lobj_Z3950 .Database = “VOYAGER” .Host = “z3950.loc.gov” .Port…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 update

    Basically, a bug fix.  I made a few changes to the script maker, the Editor when it closes, and added a new sorting option in the Editor (sortby author). http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/software/development/MarcEdit50_Setup.exe –TR