Terry’s Worklog

  • 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…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Beta Refresh (Nov. 15, 2005)

    Well, well…after working with the SRU client on servers not from the Library of Congress — I’ve realized that I didn’t propery setup my internal stylesheets to handle servers that excluded namespaces. I also realized that outside of the Library of Congress, I couldn’t find another SRU server that supported the bath profile — however…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Beta Refreshed (Nov. 13, 2005)

    I’ve posted a revision to the MarcEdit 5.0 beta. (Download here. New stuff — the Z39.50/SRU client has been completed. Also, I’ve made some changes to the global MarcEditor functions to provide deduping and better swapping functionality. Also, for those interested in knowing — I downloaded .NET 2.0 to test on a machine and can…

  • MarcEdit MARCEngine Benchmarking

    Just a quick post — I’d pulled our entire database (1,252,718 records) and figured it would be a good chance to try running my console version of MarcEdit on my Linux box. So, I gave it a run converting my MARC records to MARCXML — which means that the program has to handle MARC8-UTF8 conversion…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 update

    Just a quicky — I updated MarcEdit 5.0. Basically a bug fix. Currently, I have two users auditing functionality and will be posting a comprehensive update that includes some new functions and fill in missing functionality. Also, I’ll be posting an updated help document (though not yet complete). I’ll be working on this through the…

  • Puppy pictures

    I forgot to post the pictures of our puppy visit. We visited our puppy — she’s 21 days old, eyes open and wobbling around. We should get to bring her home Nov. 19th. Anyway, here are some pictures: –Terry

  • Jack-o #1 finished

    Its funny what kids can make you do. I’d never really spent much time working on pumpkins over halloween — but for Kenny, the last two years I’ve done a scoopie doo and tom and jerry. This year, I decided that one of the 4 pumpkins that I’ll likely be doing this year is for…

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