Terry’s Worklog

  • My DLF Trip Report

    I’d forgotten to post my trip report from DLF — so here it is. DLF Federation Trip Report.doc –Terry

  • Sunny in Austin, TX

    I’m hanging out in Austin attending DLF’s Spring forum this weekend.  I’ll post my notes from the meeting at the end of each day — but if you are in Austin and want to say howdy, drop me a message.  –Terry

  • Making metasearch work for you

    Maybe I’ll write about this — maybe not.  I haven’t decided yet — but one of the benefits of rolling our own metasearch tool is that we get to try lots of new things.  Case in point.  Last night (this morning), I setup a multi-tier caching system into our metasearch tool.  Here’s how it works:…

  • More metasearch

    Apparently the Corvallis Gazette Times contacted Jeremy about our metasearch project.  Here’s the article URL: http://gazettetimes.com/articles/2006/03/31/news/community/friloc01.txt Cool beans. –Terry

  • MetaSearch Updates

    Just thought I’d post an update on our work since we have given the ok for our library administration to start internally testing the tool. API Development: Lets see, new enhancements to the API/backend server: New session manager.  This allows the software to capture and cache all user data over the life of a session…

  • First signs of getting older, I guess

    I remember it wasn’t too long ago that I could work close to 72 hours straight without crashing.  Well, this weekend, I worked close to 34 hours from Friday to Saturday around 5 pm — and then I actually had to take a nap.  A nap.  Who takes naps.  Of course, after my 1 1/2 hour power…

  • Google Chat

    Just a few random thoughts about Google Chat.  Since use my Gmail account for quite a bit of communication, I find that I’m nearly always logged in.  Well, because of that, I use Google’s Chat a lot.  Generally, in other chat clients, I tend to never log my conversations — but just today, I was…

  • Metadata Translation Web service

    I’m starting to work on a new webservice to run on one of our Unix boxes (thank you MONO).  Essentially, I’m looking to create a webservice that will be accessible via a WSDL file.  Basically, this will let any pipe files to this webservice and allow them to translate metadata into or out of any…

  • Metasearch work

    Whew! It’s been a while since my last post. Busy, busy, busy. Well, I’ve got a few posts I’d like to make tonight, so lets start with OSU’s Metasearch development. I’ve been busy. New API for doing inline filtering, adding new metadata formats and then building sample XSLT transform types for our UI folks so…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 update

    I made the following changes: Added a status window and ability to cancel processing of the Batch Processing utility. This allows you to see how many files are being processed as well as canceling the processing if you get tired of waiting (it will cancel after the in-process file has completed). In adding the status…

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