Terry’s Worklog

  • Musings on the 4th

    I’ve got to preface this by saying I try not to post political musings here — but I’ll make an exception today given that our nation was founded on political musings and would do well to have more of it.  I have to admit, I love the 4th of July more now that I’ve had…

  • MarcEdit Quick update

    Just a quick update.  I’m in the process of wrapping up the Script Maker.  It will look about the same but with a number of new options in the works.  First, the script maker will be able to produce new script languages.  Previously, the script maker only generated vbscripts.  Well, this version will create vbscript,…

  • Nathan’s first real fireworks

    The City of Independence, Oregon does the 4th of July well.  They actually host two large fireworks shows that are some of the best I’ve seen put on by a city smaller than 250,000 — which is saying something since Independence is a town of 7,500.  Anyway, tonight, they had the city appreciation day fireworks.…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Updated

    Few updates worth noting from last night/this morning. 1) Added a new option in the Add/Delete Field Utility to allow users to insert a field into the last position in a record 2) Corrected a problem that allows new fields to be added/deleted after a non-numeric field has been added to a record 3) Corrected…

  • Red Hat Patent lawsuit and its far reaching consequences

    I seen that Red Hat has recently found themselves ensnared in a patent lawsuit stemming from their purchase of JBoss.  The lawsuit is centered around the Hibernate 3 technologies — or technologies that deal with object-oriented access to a relational database.  The story can be found here: http://www.infoq.com/news/RedHat-Sued-Due-to-Hibernate-3-O My assumption, looking over this lawsuit, is that there will likely be much prior art to pull from to hopefully invalidate this particular claim.  However, in a worse case scenero (i.e., the patent is upheld), frameworks made popular by languages like Ruby and Python would be…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    I made a few updates over the weekend — though the are mostly fixing a few things: Delimited Text Translator:  The generated 008 field was too long.  The date information wasn’t being truncated correctly. UTF-8 => Marc8 translation:  I finally setup the translation to support the Greek and Greek Symbols as noted by the LC…

  • Comments have been re-enabled

    I’d had some folks try to post comments over the last few days and had run into some problems.  I think that I’ve corrected these problems. –tr

  • Beavers win the CWS!

    Congratulations to the Oregon State Beavers for winning OSU’s first National Championship in a team sport (not counting cross country).  Great time to be a Beaver. –tr

  • Warren Buffet to give it all away

    I realize that this isn’t library related — but I think its very cool.  A few weeks ago, Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, makes the announcement that he will step down and continue to spend his vast fortune through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (which does help libraries).  Well today, Warren Buffet announced that he…

  • Helping out New Orleans in my own special way

    Have you ever known that you were being taken?  Well, I did (as did my wife) and was.  Whooho!  We were walking down Decanter (is that how you spell it) street and was approached by someone playing a steet game.  I was game — and of course — it didn’t work out.  Cost me $20…

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