Terry’s Worklog

As is my habit — there will be an update coming out around Christmas. And while it won’t be a large update (since MarcEdit 7 was just made available) — I think there will be a couple of new features that will make the changes worth it. Clustering: I’m continuing to enhance the clustering functionality…

This past weekend, I spent a bit of time doing some additional work around the task broker. Since the release in Nov. , I’ve gotten a lot of feedback from folks that are doing all kinds of interesting things in tasks. And I’ll be honest, many of these task processes are things that I could…

MarcEdit 7 represents the next generation of the MarcEdit software. And aside from having new features, new options, and better performance — MarcEdit 7 also has its own song. Yes, Jeff Edmunds, a writer and creator of many cataloging songs (which I can’t seem to find on YouTube any longer — which is definitely a…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…