Terry’s Worklog

  • Longing for some sunshine

    Thank goodness we are coming to the end of winter riding season.  For the first time in a long time, I’d decided to log my commuting trips throughout the year to get a better idea of how many commuting miles I keep off my car.  The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (who does a fun little bike…

  • Libraryfind 0.8.5 rc1

    Since Code4Lib, we’ve made a few significant changes to the 0.8.5 alpha tag.  Many of these are related to issues due to migrating to Rails 2.0, including issues with some pagination, changes to how rails handles posted data and then my favorite, issues with Rails defaulting to ActiveRecord caching (something that’s generally desireable, but causes…

  • MarcEdit 5.1 Update

    I’ve got a couple of MarcEdit updates for folks.  Most of these updates are related to the Z39.50 client.  Of course, a number of other features have been added as well.  Here are the highlights: Z39.50 Changes So a number of Z39.50 changes — some related to adding editing functionality to the MarcEditor, others to…

  • IE 8 beta & compliance

    While the IE team had said IE 8 would pass the Acid 2 test, I was taking a bit of a wait and see because a lot can happen between concept and release.  But, I downloaded the beta and sure enough, there’s the smiley face.   So, how about the Acid 3 test — not…

  • Color me excited

    I’ll write more about Code4Lib, but one of my favorite parts of Code4Lib was seeing David Walker’s session providing a first look at OCLC’s grid services.  Very promising.  If OCLC can deliver a robust api for both member and non-member libraries and provide the infrastructure to make this happen — then maybe it will allow…

  • Summit libraries share (and share some more) records with the Open Library

    On Tuesday, I’d mentioned that I’d been spending my evening working on approximately 6 GBs of data and mentioned that I’d explain later.  Well, it’s later, so I probably should explain.  Some background…Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive (among other things), was the opening Keynote speakers at Code4Lib.  We’d had some trouble thinking…

  • Code4Lib 2008 begins

    And so it begins.  Well, actually begins yesterday.  Yesterday Jeremy, Tami Herlocker and I gave a LibraryFind preconference.  Kindof an installfest that didn’t turn out that way thanks to Parallels on my laptop.  That’s ok — lots of good questions afterwards and now we have a very good install document — but still a little…

  • Some MarcEdit changes: Z39.50 updating

    This is one of those things that I wanted to get done a long time ago, but finally have found the time.  I’m working on updating MarcEdit to allow users to pull records directly into the MarcEditor from the Z39.50 client and then post them directly to a Z39.50 service that supports record updates.  At…

  • Rails SVN question

    For a rails project, when I want to update the vendor/rails it appears that the easiest way to update this in svn is to delete the directory, refresh the gems and then re-add the directory to the svn.  Does this sound right?  Seems like it should be easier.  This has been the process that we…

  • My dog and I want a recount

    Apparently, Dr. Adnan Qureshi, a stroke expert at the University of Minnesota performed a study recently that found cat owners to be less likely to die of cardiovascular disease than dog owners.  The Minneapolis Star Tribune ran this story (http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/15858742.html [appearently, this page was only available for a little while — seems to be carried here…

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