Category: General Computing

  • C# plug-ins continued — Interacting with one’s hosted application

    Example Project Source: PluginProject.zip Because I’ve been doing a lot of work with MarcEdit and plug-ins, I thought I’d post some sample code for anyone interested in how this might work.  Essentially, the sample project includes 3 parts — a host application, a set of Interfaces and a Shared library.  Making this work requires a…

  • OCLC’s Connexion XML — why, oh why?

    As I’d noted previously (https://blog.reeset.net/archives/479), some early testers had found that the Connexion plug-in that I’d written for MarcEdit stripped the 007.  I couldn’t originally figure out why — it’s just a control field and their syntax for control fields is pretty straightforward.  However, after looking at a few records with 007 records, I could…

  • 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…

  • Can the open source community help the ILS matter?

    So, let’s start out with a preface to my comments here.  First, it’s a little on the long side.  Sorry.  I got a bit wordy and occasionally wonder a little bit here and there :).  Second — these reflect my opinions and observations.  So with that out of the way…  This question comes from two experiences…

  • Digital World Norway Outlaws iTunes

    Interesting…I’m not a big fan of governments legislating services — particular a service like this in part because there are available options to work around Apple’s Fairplay DRM and allow play of downloaded items on other players.  So I’m not sure what to think about this.  On the one hand — it would be great if the whole DRM concept could…

  • Groklaw – Patent Office Orders Re-Examination of Blackboard Patent

     Uh, oh.  Looks like the folks at Blackboard should have just let well enough alone.  Given a short period of time, a pluthera of prior art was able to quickly be located — enough to cause a re-examination of the patent.  See the link: Link to Groklaw – Patent Office Orders Re-Examination of Blackboard Patent…

  • Nicholas Carr — Wikipedia as a black hole

    I like to track Nicholas Carr’s blog, Rough Type, partly because it deals with a number of media issues — particularly with Wikipedia.  So it was interesting to get his take on Wikipedia’s decision this last weekend to make all its external links, no-follow links.  Here’s the post: http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/01/is_wikipedia_a.php   –TR

  • Translating ETDs from Dspace OAI to MARC

    I’m giving a short 15 minute presentation at ALA (How Catalogers and System Developers Work Creatively with Metadata: 1:30-3:30 pm at the Convention center) on the process OSU uses to moving ETD data going into Dspace directly into MARC/OCLC and our catalog.  Its a pretty simple process.  If you want to see how we do…

  • Wikipedia taking it in the teeth today

    Ouch — on slashdot today, two not so flattering articles surrounding wikipedia.  In the first, there are reports of the German version of wikipedia being used as a platform for speading a virus.  An interesting idea.  Given that folks trust wikipedia, noone seems to think twice about clicking on links that go outside of the…

  • Saxon.NET example

    I was playing around with Saxon.NET and I like it.  Its also very well done (not suprisingly).  Benchmarking, I found that its competitive with my custom processor for XSLT 1.0 while providing 2.0 support.  I’ll be integrating this into MarcEdit, likely even this weekend, so folks can start using XSLT 2.0 in the application.  I…