Terry’s Worklog

  • Right to left rendering Part II

    So, a couple of a additional notes on this.  I got some feedback from my latest attempt and while I’m closer, there are still some significant issues.  Also, my testers and I weren’t seeing the same things on the screen when testing so I thought I’d follow up on two aspects of working with Right…

  • Supporting Right to Left languages in MarcEdit

    Life is a funny thing.  I’ve never been someone with a distinct desire to understand the intricacies of language or characters.  That’s stuff that my wife enjoys — she’s the linguist while I’ve barely mastered English. 🙂 Yet, here I am, thanks to MarcEdit, having to become much more familiar with character sets and language…

  • A long weekend reprised

    I hope everyone had a nice 4th of July weekend.  We had a good one.  Our little town of Independence, OR goes all out on the 4th.  They have two fireworks celebrations (one for the locals, one for everyone else) — they have a mini-marathon, a large parade and a carnival that goes on for…

  • LibraryFind 0.9.2 update

    I posted this update Thursday.  It fixes some problems found in 0.9.1.  The main issue with 0.9.1 was that the svn got foobared a little bit and some files needed for install were left out of the package.  Files that were left out and errors that they caused: 1) migrations 031 & 032 — would…

  • LibraryFind 0.9.2 update coming

    I’ve been getting some questions from a number of people trying to upgrade to LF 0.9.1 and it appears that our SVN has gone a little wonky.  When I checked in the last set of changes, appearly, SVN marked a number of the files and keep the changes from moving from my development branch to…

  • MarcEdit update

    I posted an update to MarcEdit on Thursday.  The scope of the update is limited — a new function in the MarcEditor (copy field), enhancements to the validator, etc.  Nothing earth shaking.  I’m still working on a few larger initiatives — but wanted to get a few bug fixes/convenience functions out to people. As always,…

  • Strawberry Century

    Yesterday, Kyle and I finished up our first organized century of the year, the Strawberry Century (http://www.santiamspokes.org/strawberry.html).  I was really looking forward to this ride because it represented the first organized ride on my new bike. This week, I’d been doing a lot of riding to break things in.  Without counting this century, I’d put…

  • My new bike

    I just picked up a new bike.  It’s a Felt Z70.  Love this bike.  Can’t wait to take it on my first big ride.  Here’s a picture. –TR

  • Code4Lib PNW

    Whew, what a lot of fun.  Today, we held our first meeting of the C4L PNW group.  This was a meeting that essentially got started after I returned from the C4L meeting in Providence and noticed that pretty much no one from the PNW was able to make the trip.  After a few conversations, Kyle…

  • Code4Lib PNW is on, June 4th in Portland

    What started out as an idea to help out some colleagues stranded in state by travel restrictions will become a reality.  Kyle Banerjee and I hatched our plan in late March — since really no-one from the west coast was able to attend code4lib in providence (and won’t next year as well) — we figured…

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