Terry’s Worklog

  • 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

  • LibraryFind code refactoring

    I’ve been spending time this weekend refactoring a major piece of the LibraryFind code partly in an effort to make it easier to add protocol classes.  This change affects a lot of the current API code-base, but the biggest change comes in the meta_search.rb file where nearly all the business logic relating to searching, etc.…

  • Roy Tennant vs RDA (and AutoCat) 🙂

    Ah, what fun.  Working in Technical Services, I tend to lurk on the AutoCat list to keep up and get an idea of what folks are chatting about there.  Normally the conversation is on traditional cataloging issues, but Roy’s latest musings in Library Journal (“Will RDA Be DOA”, url: http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6422278.html) seems to have raised peoples…

  • MarcEdit 5 update

    I’ve posted an update to MarcEdit.  Couple of changes: MARC21XML output: Larry Dixon from LC let me know that the xmlschema location value was incorrectly set on occasion.  Didn’t notice for two reasons: 1) It doesn’t affect my xslt processors and 2) I don’t use namespaces. Export Selected/Delete Selected — ability to use a file…

  • Finally, in Athens

    So Kyle and I finally made our way from Oregon to Athens, Georgia for Code4Lib.  Apparently, we missed a big storm in the Valley.  Apparently, the wind is blowing 30-45 mph with cold, slushy rain falling off an on.  I was told that it hit hard around 5 am.  Fortunately (depending on your point of…

  • Keeping your cycle rolling

    Most folks know, I love cycling and am probably one of a relatively few number of folks that commutes any real distance that actually puts more miles on their bike than they do in their car.  I was figuring it out last year:  ~15,000 miles for the bike, ~10,000 miles for the car.  🙂  So when I…

  • MarcEdit update

    I’ve been doing some work on the Delimited Text importer this weekend.  Nothing big — just some simple changes to make the import process work better — particularly when dealing with csv files (which MarcEdit periodically splits up incorrectly when dealing with MS Excel data).  Anyway, I think I’ve got a much better process using…

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