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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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set your data free … with unapi

Monday, August 28, 2006

Dan, Jeremy, Peter, Michael, Mike, Ross and I wrote an article in the latest Ariadne introducing the lightweight web protocol unAPI. Essentially unAPI is an easy way to include references to digital objects in your HTML which can then be predictably retrieved by a machine…yes ‘machine’ includes JavaScript running in a browser :-) Dan and [...]

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code4libcon 2007

Sunday, July 2, 2006

Here’s to making sure that code4libcon 2007 is a watershed moment for women library technologists. code4libcon 2006 in Corvallis wasn’t all male, but it was largely…and I can only remember two women speaking to the audience. To a large extent code4libcon was modeled after technology conferences like yapc, pycon, oscon, barcamp, etc–which have much the [...]

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professionalism in the age of discontent

Friday, May 19, 2006

After seeing him speak and meeting him a couple times I’m a big fan of Adrian’s work. He was one of the first people to “mash up” google maps at chicagocrime.org; has set the bar for local online media content at lawrence.com; created the Congressional Votes Database at the washingtonpost which allows you to (among [...]

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reading 2.0

Monday, March 20, 2006

Reading 2.0 slipped under my radar, but I guess that was the idea: to let people from O’Reilly, Los Alamos National Labs, OCLC, The Internet Archive, Adobe, Yahoo, Harvard and Elsevier hobnob away from prying eyes. I haven’t seen any audio/video for the event but Tim O’Reilly has a nice fly on the wall summary [...]

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(py)?lucene 1.9

Thursday, March 2, 2006

So on March 1st lucene v1.9 was released and the *next day* pylucene v1.9 is released. Nice work! I guess there are a bunch of methods that are deprecated in 1.9 which will dissappear entirely in v2.0. Now would be a good time to update usage…

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a new type of journal

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

In the unlikely event that you haven’t seen it there is an interesting thread over on the code4lib discussion list about establishing a code4lib journal. I think Mark Jordan has the right idea: …would creating a section at http://code4lib.org/ that was reserved for formal, maybe even peer-reviewed articles do what you’re describing? The articles would [...]

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code4lib days 2-3

Monday, February 20, 2006

So I didn’t have time to journal about the 2nd and 3rd days of the conference since there was so much good stuff going on. I’m on the plane back to Chicago now so I’ve got a few moments to jot down some notes about those days and some general thoughts about the conference. To [...]

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code4lib day 1

Thursday, February 16, 2006

So the first day of “the conference” was a lot of fun. It is just great to see all these people who care about the same stuff in the same place. The lightning talks and the breakout sessions built in some breathing space between the presentations which worked pretty well I thought. Memorable moments for [...]

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