Terry’s Worklog

  • Back from hiatus

    Howdy folks, its been a while I guess (May 5th to be exact).  It’s been a busy few months — busy enough to put a number of my own personal projects (MarcEdit for example) on hold.  I’ve been to San Jose (twice) for the IUG and a preservation meeting with the folks from Sun and…

  • MarcEdit 5 + Linux (and Mac)

    It’s been a little while since I’d taken a look at the progress being made by the MONO group in regards to the GUI development and since someone had asked, I thought I’d see how it was working.  The current stable working version of MONO tested is 1.2.3.  Testing was done on CentOS.  And what did…

  • Wounded pride

    So this is downright embarrassing.  For the second time in about a month, I’ve basically just tipped over on my bike and fallen off.  The first time it happened, I had gotten cut off and couldn’t get my feet out of my cleats fast enough to keep from falling.  That was less embarrassing since it wasn’t…

  • WorldCat Local — first questions

    So OCLC and the UW finally pulled off the cover and unveiled WorldCat Local to the world. A number of folks will write about the things that this does very well. The faceting is nice and clean, as is the layout. Some of the ajaxy features (like holdings retrieval) is a little clunky and I’ve…

  • Monster Cookie — success!

    So, the great recumbent roundup (aka, the Monster Cookie) was a rousing success. Kyle tried out his new high racer and got lots of looks. It’s a very unique, light (21 lbs) and fast bike. Both Kyle and I ended up doing a full century…100.4 miles to be exact. We padded about 18 on the…

  • Let the cycling season begin

    So I’m just about ready to head out and do the Salem Monster Cookie, a metric century (60 miles) that takes you from Salem, Oregon north towards Portland, OR. It’s a nice easy ride that’s always a fun way to kick off the riding season. As past practice, a few of us will be turning…

  • And the simple design wins

    Its interesting how this has played out in the video game market this year.  When the Playstation 3 came out, my wife and I started to think about getting a gaming console under the guise that it would be for my boys (really, it was for me).  The idea though was that the gaming experience…

  • MarcEdit Z39.50 Changes

    I’ve been having some folks ping me recently regarding how data is displayed in the Z39.50 client.  To simply the data display process, I pull data into a byte array and simply render the content using the Windows 1252 codepage.  This means that any data returned via UTF8 (which I certainly don’t see often) gets…

  • MarcEdit 5 updated

    The biggest part of this update is the addition of a Z39.50 COM object call.  So for those that install as an admin, they will be able to access the Z39.50 object.  Here’s a code snippet. Function ZSearch(search, ltype) Dim lobj_Z3950 Dim lstring Set lobj_Z3950 =createObject(“MARCEngine5.Query”) With lobj_Z3950 .Database = “VOYAGER” .Host = “z3950.loc.gov” .Port…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 update

    Basically, a bug fix.  I made a few changes to the script maker, the Editor when it closes, and added a new sorting option in the Editor (sortby author). http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/software/development/MarcEdit50_Setup.exe –TR

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