Terry’s Worklog

  • LibraryFind 0.9: SOAP and REST APIs

    While LibraryFind has always supported SOAP, LibraryFind 0.9 will finish the process of adding json apis for all the SOAP based apis.  This process started in LibraryFind 0.8.5.3 and continued in release 0.8.5.8 — but will be finished with 0.9.  I’m working up documentation for the Json calls (which basically emulate the SOAP calls for…

  • LibraryFind 0.9: Using Custom Connectors to bridge non-standard collections

    One of the tenants behind LibraryFind has always been that LibraryFind would only query materials that provide some kind of standard search protocol.  However, there are many sites that provide API access, but it’s no a standard api access like OpenSearch for example.  For example, a user wanting to query Yahoo or Flickr (where many…

  • Independence, OR Ice Storm Dec. 23, 2008

    We got off a lot better than the folks in Portland, but Sunday saw the arrival of an ice storm that left about 3/4 – 1 inch of ice on things (which left a number of trees shattering throughout the day) turning the sidewalks, roads, etc. into an ice rink.  I posted a few pictures…

  • Family Pictures

      So, I’ve posted a couple of pictures on my facebook page for folks wanting to see what the family is up to.  So for those interested, you can find: A couple pictures of the family at my brother’s wedding at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=48487&l=9b376&id=792728815 A couple pictures of this weeks snow at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=48490&l=604a0&id=792728815 A couple pictures of…

  • And it just continues to fall…

    While the idea of having snow on Christmas still sounds like a good idea, I have to admit, I’m ready to start seeing the white stuff melt away.  Unlike many other states (or places that get snow with some regularity), Oregon simply doesn’t so a little bit of snow turns normal, decent drivers, into morons. …

  • MarcEdit 5.x update notes

    So far so good.  A number of people have updated without snags.  However (there had to be one, right), if you are a new MarcEdit 5.x user (installed today) or someone using the MarcEngine5.Query object, I’ve pushed a new update that will solve a missing file and object issue.  If you updated and there were…

  • MarcEdit 5.x update: addendum

    One thing I did forget to highlight in the update [in reference to: https://blog.reeset.net/archives/597].  A number of changes were made to the Delimited Text Translator — the most notable being a fix that allows data saved in UTF16 or UTF32 to be translated into UTF8 so that it can be used to generate MARC21 Data.…

  • MarcEdit 5.x Update

    It’s taken a little while to get this update finished, but I’m finally ready to make this available to the general public.  So what’s in the update?  Actually quite a bit, though I won’t go into a long list, but will say that there were some bug fixes (mostly related to UI or convenience functions),…

  • LibraryFind 0.9: Enhanced Cover Art

    In LibraryFind 0.9, the UI has been enhanced to include a number of small niceties (things that have been flowing into the 0.8.x branch — but are enhanced in 0.9).  Things that you will find in LibraryFind 0.9 is Cover Art (which can be pulled from Open Library, Google or Library Thing [Open Library is…

  • LibraryFind 0.9: Advanced Search Changes

    A number of changes that will be present in LibraryFind 0.9 will be UI related.  One of those changes will be seen in the Advanced Search page.  The layout of the page has been changed significantly to make it easier for users to specify specific (or combined) queries, as well as make it easier for…

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