Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 28th, 2005 No Comments »
Moving to WordPress and LISHost
If you are wondering why I haven't been blogging much of late. Its
because I'm in the process of moving Library Web Chic from Radio to
WordPress and on to the LISHost server. This is taking up much of my
supposed “free time”. Once the move is done I will fill everyone in on
the [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 28th, 2005 No Comments »
I was playing around with CiteULike today and discovered their journal
section. I looked up the Journal of Academic Librarianship and got
links to relatively recent articles from the journal. The best part
though was the fact that the on the page of recent articles was a link
that let me turn that list into an RSS feed. While [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 23rd, 2005 No Comments »
RedLightGreen Search Plugin for Firefox
RedLightGreen has a search Plugin for Firefox available. If you are a fan of Needlesearch,
you might wonder why to bother with this. However, I've discovered that
Needlesearch won't work in the latest version of Firefox on the Mac
(grr!). I've no idea when it might get fixed. So I've been using the
built-in search [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 23rd, 2005 No Comments »
Two good articles in this month's Wired
The March issue of Wired includes two really neat articles. One is
on the podcasting movement and Adam Curry who is reponsible for the
iPodder software. The other is about Wikipedia and the people behind
that project. Both of these articles are likely present because this
issue also contains the Wired Rave Awards. [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 23rd, 2005 No Comments »
Differences Between PHP 4 and 5
I've been trying to install PHP on my Mac for the last week but I've
been having some issues. The install seemed to work just fine. However,
my test code refused to to work. The problem is that there are
significant differences between PHP 4 and PHP 5. As a result, my test
code [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Bye Bye Listserv Email!
Today I found a way to be free of listserv email once and for all.
::schwagbag:: has a nice link to a post
about how to subscribe to listservs via Bloglines. Since I read all my
news in Bloglines I was SO excited to find out about this. Since I'm
typically a listserv lurker I [...]
Posted in CSS on Feb 21st, 2005 No Comments »
CSS Just Keeps Getting Better
I was looking at the CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders Module
on the W3C's website today and all I have to say is “Wow! CSS Just
keeps getting better.” The new module includes some really nifty stuff
include the ability to round the corners of borders. Graphic
design-oriented web developers have been wanting this for a [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Collaborative Online Suggestion Box for Libraries?
I just discovered Public Mind
for the first time and I am intrigued by the concept. We've had an
online suggestion box on our library website for the last six months
but have gotten few suggestions. Also, it is difficult to tell when one
user asks for something if it is just something one [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 18th, 2005 No Comments »
So Many Free E-books So Little Time
Ever since I added the University of California Press free e-books to
SFX I've been wondering how many other freely available e-books are out
there. The answer is tons. There is Project Gutenberg, World eBook Library, eBooks@Adelaide, and The Digital Book Index. The Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library
has a good list [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, XML on Feb 18th, 2005 No Comments »
PHP XML Adventures
I've spent the last two days playing with PHP and XML on my new Mac.
I've managed to get PHP successfully installed. Well, sort of. The
regular parts of PHP work just fine. I created the typical “Hello
World” test without a hitch. However, the PHP extensions that I most
want XML-DOM, XSLT, XML-RPC don't seem to [...]
