Terry’s Worklog

  • OSCON 2006 Wed. Keynotes (Tim O’Reilly)

    In the openning keynote, Tim O’Reilly presented what he calls his 5 big ideas about open source.  Some I thought were fairly interesting.  Architectures of participation beyond software development (Web 2.0) The idea here is that in this new world of Web 2.0, successful companies are looking to architectures where people build systems simply by…

  • OSCON 2006

    I’m going to be away from the office for a few days while attending the OSCON 2006 conference here in Portland, Oregon.  I’ll be periodically blogging about the sessions throughout the conference — so stay tuned.  BTW, if anyone is here at OSCON, give me a hollar. –TR

  • Just finished the STP (204 miles in one day)

    Its late, actually early (Sunday morning) — but I just got back today from doing the STP.  204 miles of cycling fun taking you from Seattle to Portland.  Lots of fun — me and my closest 9000 friends pack the streets of Seatle till you are able to create some space (by riding faster than…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 updates (preupdate moved into download area)

    Ok — I ran the preupdate through some more extensive testing and I’m happy with it.  I’ve also made a few other changes.  The biggest changes: Entity resolution — ability to set entity resolution by translation. Installation improvements — I’ve made some changes to the program so now MarcEdit 5.0 can be installed on machines…

  • Character conversion in .NET

    I had someone who uses UniMARC ask me about some problems that they were having with the conversion between Unimarc to Dublin Core.  Some of the characters where being skewed when the translation occurred.  The problem of course relates to the characterset that the Unimarc records are encoded in.  Because a number of MARC formats…

  • Has anyone ever used Saxon.NET?

    Within MarcEdit, the MarcEngine makes use of the .NET System.xml libraries.  This has been a very good thing in that Microsoft has a very special class setup specifically for XSLT translations — and by adding some additional code and extending the class, I’ve been able to create a very fast XSLT processor.  The downer however…

  • MARC21XML=>Static OAI XSLT Stylesheet

    So I noticed David Bigwood mention on his blog (http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2006/07/static-oai.html) that he wished that there existed an XSLT stylesheet that moved data from MARC21XML to Static OAI.  Well, ask and you shall receive.  While I doubt that David will be able to make use of this (it sounds like he’s finished with his project), maybe…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 pre-update

    There are a few folks that have been requesting this — so I’ll make it available for those wanted to try it.  I’ll formalize the update later this week.  So what does it do?  The change is in how the MarcEngine handles DTDs.  By default, I’ve turned DTD validation off in order to make it…

  • Coding block?

    I’ve heard of writers block, but coders block?  Who knows.  All I know is that I’ve been in a bit of a funk lately.  After pushing out the first version of our metasearch tool, our group sat back and looked at retooling the program in Ruby.  Partly to make it easier to do R&D prototyping…

  • Qwest customer service — the 8th circle of hell

    Agh — I thought I’d taken care of this last month.  Earlier this year, I’d signed up for Qwest DSL.  It was great — we finally had high speed and for the ~8 months I was with them, their service was exactly what I paid for.  However, our little city of Independence, OR laid their…

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