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  • MarcEdit platform testing

    Just a couple of notes.  I’ve been spending quite a bit of time as of late testing the current MONO builds against the current MarcEdit codebase.  It looks like the latest stable version works just fine with the program, while the 3.0.x branch has a few rendering issues (not sure if they are mine or…

  • Moving domains

    If you are reading this, then the redirections that I’ve temporarily put into place are working.  I’m currently in the process of moving all of my content off of the oregonstate.edu domain and onto my new personal domain at: reeset.net.  This means everything from my blog: https://blog.reeset.net to MarcEdit: http://marcedit.reeset.net.  It’s been a slow process,…

  • Dragging old data forward: finding yourself an RDA Helper

    Sunday, I’ll be making an exception to my no ALA rule (well, it’s not a rule, but I’ve yet to find a good reason to get back involved) and will be in Seattle giving a talk as part of the ALCTS CaMMS program.  The focus is around research, and I thought it would give me…

  • Running PHP from the comand line (CLI)

    I occasionally have occasion to build small projects (web and command line) to do various things.  A lot of times, these projects could be done in things like Rails or another framework, but honestly, I don’t need that much overhead so I fall back to using PHP or PERL.  Between the two, I prefer working…

  • MarcEdit Direct ILS Integration – Update/Create records [Koha Example]

    This afternoon, I put the finishing touches on the update/creation components for the ILS direct integration framework in MarcEdit.  As a proof of concept, I’ve continued to demonstrate the processing utilizing Koha’s API.  The Koha API has been abstracted as a separate class so I can push up to github for those interested in a…

  • MarcEdit Direct ILS Integration Setup [Koha Example]

    One of the things I have been working on is a framework for supporting the ability to configure MarcEdit to support the direct integration with one’s ILS system.  Many ILS systems like Sierra, Alma, Koha, and others support (or will support) APIs that allow for the modification and creation of bibliographic.  I’ve developed a framework…

  • MarcEdit MARCXML XSLT changes

    I’ve been working on making a few changes to the way in which MarcEdit processes MARCXML data.  In MarcEdit, XML metadata transactions happen via XSLT.  This was done primarily to provide a great deal of flexibility in the types of XML transactions MarcEdit could preform.  It also meant that others could create their own XSLT…

  • Updating my blog

    I just finished updating my version of WordPress and rather than just doing an upgrade, I decided to do a new install. The main reason for this is that I’ve been running a really old version due to some limitations on the OSU web space (no MySQL 5). Well, we finally can support a current…

  • Reese Family 2011 Pumpkins

    So, I finished up working on the last of the 2011 Reese Family pumpkins.  We ended up doing 5 pumpkins this year, and I ended up being very happy with all of them.  I’ve posted the first two already, but I’m going include them here again, so I can put them all in one list.…

  • MarcEdit 5.6: MarcEdit Intellisense

    In MarcEdit 5.6, I’ve added support for a number of new mnemonic values.  This means that MarcEdit now supports a really long list of mnemonic values.  To make it easier for people using mnemonics — I’ve added an intellisense to the MarcEdit application.  When a user types { the application will automatically pop-up the list…