Terry’s Worklog

  • LibraryFind 0.8.5.2 available

    LibraryFind 0.8.5.2 has officially been tagged and posted to the libraryfind.org website.  You can get the tarball here: http://libraryfind.org/release-0.8.5.2.tar.gz.  This release has admittedly been a long time coming.  What’s held it up?  Well, primarily work that we were doing for people interested in using LibraryFind outside of the public view.  Of course, the result of…

  • R & R

    The past couple of days, I’ve been spending a few quite days in Vermont ahead of the ReadEx Digital Institute.  I’ve had the opportunity to be able to attend and speak at this little shin-dig for a number of years, and this year is no different.  I actually like this get together a lot for…

  • MarcEdit 5.x update notes

    I don’t usually post information about pending updates, but I want to prep users for an upcoming change.  In all versions of MarcEdit, the application installs all application and configuration files by default to the Program Files/MarcEdit 5.0/ directory.  To help make MarcEdit friendlier for Vista/Group managed XP systems, the next build is going to…

  • Just wondering

    I was at the Oregon State/USC football game last night (9/25) and have just one question:  Does mean that Oregon State is now The OSU?  I’m just saying… –TR

  • oai and sru gems updated

    In wrapping up the Libraryfind 0.8.5.1 update, I’ve had to make some modifications to a few gem packages.  These are the ones updated: oai: http://rubyforge.org/projects/oai/Changes:Prior versions of the oai component only supported the ruby libxml gem 0.3.8-.  In order to support the newer versions of the ruby-libxml (which does better memory management), I’ve updated the…

  • 100 foods

    Not library related but fun, I guess.  My wife sent me a list because she wondered what kinds of crazy things on this list I could say I’ve eaten.  Some of the things on this list, I honestly don’t even know what they are.  But, I’ll play the game.  I’ve bolded the items of things…

  • How Delta screwed me…again, and again, and again…..

    I just got back home from without a doubt the most horrendous travel experience I’ve ever had dealing with an airline.  And to be honest, it wasn’t until this weekend that I never really realized how little help travelers have when something goes wrong.  For me, my story started back in January of this year. …

  • LibraryFind notes & stuff

    So, I just wanted to update folks on some LibraryFind work.  0.8.5.1 is pretty much ready to go.  The only things that I’ve been waiting on are changes to two core components — the oai.gem and the sru gem.  So, I added libxml support to the sru gem (both support for the current and past…

  • LibraryFind Changes a coming

    It’s been a little while since the public LibraryFind code repository has been changed.  This is mostly due to some work being done privately with a number of partners to tweak the software for use within some larger local implementation.  Over this next weekend, I’m going to be working on moving many of these changes…

  • MarcEdit 5.1 Updates

    While I’ll have to admit that much of my time over the past two months has been sucked up by other commitments (like preparing my dosier for my six year review), I have had some time to make some significant changes to MarcEdit — at least — some significant changes to parts of the MarcEdit…

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