Category: Programming

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Beta bug fix

    I found an interesting little bug in the MARCEngine that occurs only when using the MARC=>UTF8 component when converting data into XML in Arabic. Its been corrected and reuploaded. One other interesting note…while testing my recent updates to the MarcEditor (improving large file loading), I found that when openning files with a mix of Arabic…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 refresh (Dec. 6, 2005)

    I’ve uploaded a new version of MarcEdit 5.0. The new features: 1) Batch Processing — This tool allows you to select a directory, file types and then a function. From there, it will automatically enumerate through the directory processing each file. 2) In the MarcEditor — a Jump to function. This allows you to jump…

  • IE Toolbar revision and notes

    I did a little revision this weekend and added the ability to add your own resources to the IE Toolbar for our library. I’ll be implementing this code for Firefox as well so that I can keep compatibility between the two browsers. Here’s an image: However, something I’m considering doing — and have actually started…

  • OSU Libraries Toolbar for IE

    I need to still build an installation for this project, but I completed the IE toolbar for our library. Its a little different than the Firefox version, but not that different. The biggest thing left todo is getting some kindof automatic updating mechanism to work. Anyway, here is a screenshot of the toolbar as it…

  • Oregon State Libraries FireFox Plugin (Just for fun)

    I love simple technologies. I was asked recently how difficult it would be to build a toolbar to search our library’s resources for Firefox and IE. The answer — it took about an 1 1/2 to build the firefox toolbar (see: Click for the full image: that included a simple search interface to a number…

  • ILL ASAP 2.5 Program and Source

    I’ve uploaded the C# version of ILL ASAP 2.5. You can download just the setup or the source. The program works with all ILS systems, but will only pull holdings data from SIRSI and III ILS systems (these were the two systems that I had testers). If users of other ILS systems would like to…