Skip to content

Monthly Archives: September 2006

rsinger++

Thursday, September 28, 2006

So Ross beat out 11 other projects to win the OCLC Research Software Contest for his next generation OpenURL resolver umlaut. Second place went to to Jesse Andrews’ BookBurro–so the competition was fierce this year. Much more so than last year when there were 4 contestants.
Those of us who hang out in #code4lib got to [...]

Filed in irc, libraries, metadata, opensource, ruby | | Comments (2)

a funny way to make a living

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

gabe discovered that the code4lib.org drupal instance was littered with comment spam. Someone had actually registered for an account and proceeded to add comments to virtually every story.
Since there was an email address associated with the account I figured I’d send an email letting them know their account was going to be zapped.

From: edsu
To: [...]

Filed in web | | Comments (1)

ruby-oai v0.0.3

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

v0.0.3 of ruby-oai was just released to RubyForge. The big news is that this release allows you to use libxml for parsing thanks to the efforts of Terry Reese. Terry is building a RubyOnRails metasearch application at OSU and, well, felt the need for speed.
After committing the branch he was working on I ran some [...]

Filed in libraries, metadata, opensource, ruby, xml | | Comments (2)

the importance of making packages

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

If you are interested in such things Ian Bicking has a nice posting about why breaking up a project into smaller packages of functionality is important. His key point is that the boundaries between packages actually help in establishing and maintaining decoupled modules within your application.

…when someone claims their framework is all spiffy and decoupled, [...]

Filed in opensource | | Comments (1)

open standards

Friday, September 15, 2006

Folks who are interested in libraries and technology are often drawn to the issue of open standards. Using open standards is very important to libraries for a variety of reasons that Ed Corrado summarizes nicely.
This week my podcast reader picked up an excellent interview with Danese Cooper of the Open Source Initiative where she talks [...]

Filed in libraries, opensource | | Comments (1)

mission haiku

Monday, September 11, 2006

Following the lead of some others:

vacant history
crusted burnt bits lost to time
shards of clarity

Filed in libraries | | Comments (0)