Terry’s Worklog

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Beta bug fix

    I found an interesting little bug in the MARCEngine that occurs only when using the MARC=>UTF8 component when converting data into XML in Arabic. Its been corrected and reuploaded. One other interesting note…while testing my recent updates to the MarcEditor (improving large file loading), I found that when openning files with a mix of Arabic…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update (Dec. 7, 2005)

    Ha! Finally, I got the record exporting code to work again. When I’d first set it up, it worked great on our ILS, but didn’t on others. So, after a few sleepless nights (and banging my head against a wall and sobbing) I finally got this problem fixed. The program should now work as expected…

  • More Goldie pictures

    Well, well, our puppy is turning into a little horse. Who know how fast puppies actually grew. Yikes! Anyway, here a few Goldie pictures, during the rare moments where she and the boys are not chasing each other through the house. 🙂 –Terry

  • MarcEdit 5.0 refresh

    I posted a rebuild at: MarcEdit50_Setup.exe. The problem was in the last update, I overwrote the master xml function list (the list found in the MARC Tools Window) with the master list on my development machine, so you will likely find that xml functions are now broken if you’d updated. This will correct it. I’m…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 refresh (Dec. 6, 2005)

    I’ve uploaded a new version of MarcEdit 5.0. The new features: 1) Batch Processing — This tool allows you to select a directory, file types and then a function. From there, it will automatically enumerate through the directory processing each file. 2) In the MarcEditor — a Jump to function. This allows you to jump…

  • IE Toolbar revision and notes

    I did a little revision this weekend and added the ability to add your own resources to the IE Toolbar for our library. I’ll be implementing this code for Firefox as well so that I can keep compatibility between the two browsers. Here’s an image: However, something I’m considering doing — and have actually started…

  • OSU Libraries Toolbar for IE

    I need to still build an installation for this project, but I completed the IE toolbar for our library. Its a little different than the Firefox version, but not that different. The biggest thing left todo is getting some kindof automatic updating mechanism to work. Anyway, here is a screenshot of the toolbar as it…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 beta refresh (Nov. 22)

    Ok — this is a biggie — not in terms of new stuff, but fixing something that didn’t quite work right. The MarcEditor — a notepad for MARC records — works fine as is but doesn’t allow you to load files as large as the MarcEdit 4.6 generation. In 4.6, you could load files as…

  • Welcome Goldie, the puppy

    So Sunday, I drove to the breeders and picked up our puppy, Goldie (Kenny named her). She’s been a lot of fun, as well as a ball of energy. Kenny lovers her and Nathan is quite sure what to make of her. He wants to pet her, but isn’t too happy at this point with…

  • Oregon State Libraries FireFox Plugin (Just for fun)

    I love simple technologies. I was asked recently how difficult it would be to build a toolbar to search our library’s resources for Firefox and IE. The answer — it took about an 1 1/2 to build the firefox toolbar (see: Click for the full image: that included a simple search interface to a number…

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