Terry’s Worklog

  • Happy birthday Nathan!

    Two years ago, my wife and I were blessed with our second son, Nathan Wallace.  Most folks probably don’t realize it — but Nathan’s name has a special meaning.  When Kenny was born, we choose a name that would give him his own personal identity.  Most folks in our family had thought that Kenny would…

  • More reasons to avoid REXML (like the plague)

    I’ve been having a great time playing with ruby — but one of the things that I find myself constantly running up against is the “ruby way”.  The place where I notice this most is when dealing with XML.  One of the things I’ve noticed in working with XML in ruby is that the ruby…

  • IronPython 1.0 available

    Very cool.  I’ll admit that my experience with Python is limited to IronPython — but I’ve been playing with it a bit and benchmarking it against the C-based implementation of Python, and in many places, its actually faster or dead even.  See: IronPython version 1.0.  Great work by the IronPython team. –TR

  • Growing up

    I’ve been a little delinquent at posting pictures of my boys over this last summer.  I’ve always been a terrible picture taker and even worse about developing pictures that I’ve taken (one of the great things about the digital camera — I can take them, archive them — and then pull them later when I…

  • Google turning spook?

    I’d be curious to know how much truth their is to the article found on the UK’s Register.  I was glancing through slashdot and was pointed to an article on Google working on ways to utilize a PC’s built-in microphone to essentially catalog the conversations, sounds, etc. around the machine to target advertising to the…

  • State of US basketball

    This will be my off topic rant of the week.  I think its from the lack of sleep, but ugh — I stayed up late last night to watch the US basketball team again, look like a bunch of posers on the world stage.  A lot of folks will say that the team underachieved.  I…

  • Native RSS Support in CONTENTdm (kindof) 🙂

    Updated: Fixed a couple of typos below Updated two: Thanks to Josh Kline for pointing out that the PubDate wasn’t RFC 822 complient. This has been updated. About a year ago, I created an RSS generator for CONTENTdm.  At the time, CONTENTdm really didn’t have an API that could be worked with, so in building…

  • Sorry for the multiple posts

    I’m playing with MS’s Live Writer (which I actually like) and kept getting an error message.  I’d assumed that meant that it didn’t post.  Apparently not. 🙂   –TR

  • Shifting through the chaos (myDspace pooled tasks)

    At OSU, we have very few Dspace collections configured to allow direct submission to the repository.  Nearly anyone on campus can submit an item into Dspace, but that item is then vetted through Technical Services where metadata is looked at and corrected before being added to Dspace.  To do this, we have ~4 individuals (though…

  • Gone a blackberry pick’n

    I was only a matter of time — but I finally broke down and took the family down to the coast to do some blackberry picking.  You see, in riding my bike between Independence and Corvallis every day, I get to smell the blackberries along side the road.  Now, I wouldn’t eat any of the…

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