Terry’s Worklog

  • LibraryFind 0.9: Embedding RSS query feeds

    During the past development cycle, one of the most often requested items by our students and faculty has been the ability to watch a query for an extended period of time.  In 0.9, this will be possible.  At any point, a user can create an RSS feed of a specific search and add it to…

  • LibraryFind 0.9: Dynamic UI changes

    One of the main UI complains with the 0.8.x branch of LibraryFind relates to what happens after the user searches.  Since LibraryFind must collocate all the search results together before display, what happens as the user waits (or doesn’t happen) has been an admitted weakness of the program.  That will change in 0.9.  In 0.9,…

  • LibraryFind 0.8.5.8 posted

    See: http://libraryfind.org/node/91 for information on what that entails.  LibraryFind 0.9 is on track for the first of the year. –TR

  • Trees been trimmed

    The boys got me out of the house this weekend and we picked up our tree.  They’d been itching to get the presents laid out.  Of course, the other person happy to see the tree is the cat.  He seems to believe that we brought this tree in the house just for him, because he’s…

  • A white Christmas in Independence?

    I know that its a little early, but the boys are excited.  Today, we got a little bit of snow (enough that the boys get off of school tomorrow) and they say that it won’t get above freezing all week — so it maybe sticking around.  I’ve never, ever had a white Christmas, so we…

  • LibraryFind 0.8.5.8 next week

    As I’ve been working on 0.9, I’ve been trying to migrate few odds and ends into the current 0.8 branch so that I can move them into production faster on our end.  To that end, I’ll be posting an updated to LF by the beginning of next week.  These updates will include: Update to the…

  • Beaver Cookies

    So, over this past year, I’ve watched the Beaver’s Football team go from awful (Stanford and Penn State) to great (USC) to inspired as they ran through the Pac-10.  In fact, like many season ticket holders, I was making my Rose Bowl plans because, well, all we had to do was beat a very flawed…

  • A Guide for the perplexed: libraries and the Google Library Project Settlement

    In case folks haven’t seen it, this came across my desk today.  It’s an analysis written by Jonathan Band, a copyright expert that does work with ARL.  The link to the document is here: http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/google/index.shtml I think it’s definitely worth taking a look at. –TR

  • new shoes and dry feet

    A lot of folks know that cycling for me is a year round event.  Well, during the winter, the weather turns dark, cold and wet.  Now, it’s not nearly as cold as those folks that live in snowy weather climates, but it pretty much starts raining in Oct and then stops sometime around May.  So,…

  • Faust 2.0 (xkcd.com strip)

    I always look forward checking my feedreader on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays because I know that one of my favorites comics, xkcd will have a new strip to read.  I got a special kick out of today’s, http://xkcd.com/501/, in part because I think that most commercial EULAs are from the devil 🙂 and I simply…

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