Terry’s Worklog

  • The wonderful world of skype

    So today I entered the wonderful world of skype.  Love it.  If anyone has a desire to chat and use skype, my skype name is reese_terry. –TR

  • Learning Systems Management Patent

    I’m not sure how I missed this, but apparently the US Patent office, in their infininte wisdom, granted Blackboard a paton on “Internet-based education support system and methods”.    Michael Feldstein on the e-Literate blog notes that: As I read it, Blackboard basically owns the patent on any sort of groupware at all that is used…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 updates

    I’ve posted an update.  Some of the highlights of the change: New functions added to the MarcEngine/COM objects that allow for the streaming of text into the MARCEngine for direct translation to MARC.  Traditionally, MarcEdit has been a file based tool (i.e., you send it a file and it prints the results to a new…

  • OSCON 2006 — Presentations I attended

    There are still a couple that are not posted yet — I’ll update this post as they are added. –TR  Test-driven Development meets design-by-contract Jim Weirich, Compuware URL: http://onestepback.org/articles/TddMeetsDbc Google Ajax Search API Mark Lucovsky URL: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/os2006/lucovsky_mark.ppt Driving Rails Deep into the back office Obie Fernandez URL: (URL hasn’t been posted yet — but should be…

  • OSCON Day 3

    Just a note — The presentation notes have been posted for all the presentations now (at least as far as I can tell). I’ll post another post with direct links to all the sessions I attended after this one. KeyNotes The first few keynotes really weren’t that interesting (I thought) and I’ll admit that I…

  • Using XMLTextReader to improve XSLT processing

    One of the things that I spend a little too much time working on was how to setup a more streamlined version of resolving entities and ignoring entities.  The key has to do with avoiding a call to the XMLValidateNavigator object, and using the XMLTextReader gives you more granularity over the process.  Here’s an example:…

  • OSCON Presentation notes

    For those interested in seeing all the presentation notes from OSCON 2006, you can find all the sessions currently posted at: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/46/presentations.html For sessions that I’ve attended and written about, I’ve placed them below.  As more sessions become available, I’ll post additional links. Building Internet Applications with Mozilla XULRunner Benjamin Smedberg URL: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/os2006/smedberg_benjamin.odp (Open Office files) Google…

  • OSCON 2006: Day 2

    Keynotes: The Zen of Free Simon Phipps, Sun “Opening” the Possibilities: APIs and Open Source Gary Lang, AutoDesk, Inc. Ugh — As good as the first day’s keynotes were — these were not.  I was nearly ready to bag the keynotes when… 5 a day Robert “rOml” Lefkowitz, Root Markets This was a fantastic keynote. …

  • Looking for McDonald’s Lightening McQueen

    I have a bit of a request.  My boys love the Cars movie, toys, ect. and we ate at McDonalds until we were able to get the little Red Lightening McQueen car.  Well, last night, the boys left their car ourside and our puppy apparently liked the car as well, because she chewed it up. …

  • OSCON: Day 1 sessions

    Test-driven development meets design-by-contract Jim Weirich, Compuware Slides: http://www.onestepback.org/articles/TddMeetsDbc I enjoyed this session partly because I’m not a big fan of Ruby’s Unit Testing and liked the idea of a contract testing method.  The session discussed a separate testing packed called rSpec (http://rspec.rubyforge.org/).  I’ve included a link to the presentation which includes sample code on…

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