Terry’s Worklog

  • MarcEdit 7 Update

    It took less than a week for the first bug to show up. I have some UI changes that I’d like to make over the weekend, but I wanted to take the time to close this particular issue. The first bug was found in the field dedup option in the Add/Delete Field function. This option…

  • MarcEdit 7 is Here!

    After 9 months of development, hundreds of thousands of lines of changed code, 3 months of beta testing over which time, tens of millions of records were processed using MarcEdit 7, the tool is finally ready. Will you occasionally run into issues…possibly — any time that this much code has changed, I’d say that there…

  • MarcEdit MSI Cleaner Changes for MarcEdit 7

    The MarcEdit MSI cleaner was created to help fix problems that would occasionally happen when using the Windows Installer. Sometimes, problems happen, and when they do, it becomes impossible to install or update MarcEdit. MarcEdit 7, from a programming perspective, is much easier to manage (I’ve removed all data from the GAC (global assembly cache)…

  • MarcEdit 7 staging

    As of 12 am, Nov. 27 — I’ve staged all the content for MarcEdit 7. Technically, if you download the current build from the Release Candidate page — you’ll get the new code. However — there’s a couple things I need to test and finish prepping, so I’m just staging content tonight. Things left to…

  • MarcEdit 7: Release Candidate

    A new milestone was reached this past weekend, in that the MarcEdit 7 release candidate was posted. Over this next week, I’ll be working on tests, prepping final installation packages, writing documentation, and getting a package together for Linux installation. As I noted, the Mac version of MarcEdit will come later, as there are a…

  • MarcEdit 7 alpha weekly build

    Following changes were made: Bug Fix: Export Tab Delimited Records (open file and save file buttons not working) Enhancement: XML Crosswalk wizard — enabled root element processing Bug Fix: XML Crosswalk wizard — some elements not being picked up, all descendants should now be accounted for Bug Fix: Batch Process Function – file collisions in…

  • MarcEdit Delete Field by Position documentation

    I was working through the code and found an option that quite honestly, I didn’t even know existed.  Since I’m creating new documentation for MarcEdit 7, I wanted to pin this somewhere so I wouldn’t forget again. A number of times on the list, folks will ask if they can delete say the second field…

  • MarcEdit 7 weekly build

    Issues completed as part of the MarcEdit 7 weekly update  Couple of things to highlight.  * I’ve integrated a check and download of a Unicode Font into the Startup Wizard.  This will enable users to retrieve and install the Noto Fonts set into a private fonts collection for use by the application. * Clustering tools…

  • Saxon.NET and local file paths with special characters and spaces

    I thought I’d post this here in case this can help other folks.  One of the parsers that I like to use is Saxon.Net, but within the .net platform at least, it has problems doing XSLT or XQuery transformations when the files in question have paths with special characters or spaces (or if they reference…

  • MarcEdit 7: Continued Task Improvement; Part 2

    Last week, I discussed some of the work I was doing to continue to evaluate how Task processing will work in MarcEdit 7.  To do some of this work, I’ve been working with a set of outlier data who’s performance in MarcEdit 6.3 left much to be desired.  You can read about the testing and…

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