Day: December 24, 2008

  • Tracking Santa

    This has been a tradition in our house for the past 4 years — but each Christmas eve, the boys and I use NORAD to “track” Santa.  It’s a neat, fun little thing that NORAD does that the kids really enjoy.  If you’ve never seen it, check it out: http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html

  • LibraryFind 0.9: SOAP and REST APIs

    While LibraryFind has always supported SOAP, LibraryFind 0.9 will finish the process of adding json apis for all the SOAP based apis.  This process started in LibraryFind 0.8.5.3 and continued in release 0.8.5.8 — but will be finished with 0.9.  I’m working up documentation for the Json calls (which basically emulate the SOAP calls for…

  • LibraryFind 0.9: Using Custom Connectors to bridge non-standard collections

    One of the tenants behind LibraryFind has always been that LibraryFind would only query materials that provide some kind of standard search protocol.  However, there are many sites that provide API access, but it’s no a standard api access like OpenSearch for example.  For example, a user wanting to query Yahoo or Flickr (where many…