Month: December 2008

  • LibraryFind 0.9: Enhanced Cover Art

    In LibraryFind 0.9, the UI has been enhanced to include a number of small niceties (things that have been flowing into the 0.8.x branch — but are enhanced in 0.9).  Things that you will find in LibraryFind 0.9 is Cover Art (which can be pulled from Open Library, Google or Library Thing [Open Library is…

  • LibraryFind 0.9: Advanced Search Changes

    A number of changes that will be present in LibraryFind 0.9 will be UI related.  One of those changes will be seen in the Advanced Search page.  The layout of the page has been changed significantly to make it easier for users to specify specific (or combined) queries, as well as make it easier for…

  • LibraryFind 0.9: Embedding RSS query feeds

    During the past development cycle, one of the most often requested items by our students and faculty has been the ability to watch a query for an extended period of time.  In 0.9, this will be possible.  At any point, a user can create an RSS feed of a specific search and add it to…

  • LibraryFind 0.9: Dynamic UI changes

    One of the main UI complains with the 0.8.x branch of LibraryFind relates to what happens after the user searches.  Since LibraryFind must collocate all the search results together before display, what happens as the user waits (or doesn’t happen) has been an admitted weakness of the program.  That will change in 0.9.  In 0.9,…

  • LibraryFind 0.8.5.8 posted

    See: http://libraryfind.org/node/91 for information on what that entails.  LibraryFind 0.9 is on track for the first of the year. –TR

  • Trees been trimmed

    The boys got me out of the house this weekend and we picked up our tree.  They’d been itching to get the presents laid out.  Of course, the other person happy to see the tree is the cat.  He seems to believe that we brought this tree in the house just for him, because he’s…

  • A white Christmas in Independence?

    I know that its a little early, but the boys are excited.  Today, we got a little bit of snow (enough that the boys get off of school tomorrow) and they say that it won’t get above freezing all week — so it maybe sticking around.  I’ve never, ever had a white Christmas, so we…

  • LibraryFind 0.8.5.8 next week

    As I’ve been working on 0.9, I’ve been trying to migrate few odds and ends into the current 0.8 branch so that I can move them into production faster on our end.  To that end, I’ll be posting an updated to LF by the beginning of next week.  These updates will include: Update to the…

  • Beaver Cookies

    So, over this past year, I’ve watched the Beaver’s Football team go from awful (Stanford and Penn State) to great (USC) to inspired as they ran through the Pac-10.  In fact, like many season ticket holders, I was making my Rose Bowl plans because, well, all we had to do was beat a very flawed…