Posted in Blogging on Dec 20th, 2005 No Comments »
Well this week started the blogging pilot project at University Houston Libraries. So far we have two internal blogs and two external blogs that are up and running. Probably the biggest challenge with the process was knowing so little Perl that it was difficult to do anything useful with Movable Type’s Perl API. That [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 12th, 2005 No Comments »
I spent most of today working on adding some simple PHP code to the UH Libraries Movable Type templates so that if a blog didn’t have categories then the categories section wouldn’t shown up in the sidebar and if a blog had categories then the categories section would show up. This may seem like a [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 6th, 2005 No Comments »
I just found my latest article in Library Hi Tech on the Emerald website! Its been a year since I submitted it and another year since I completed the project. Therefore its nice to see some of my hard work in print. Interestingly, the article is an an issue of Library Hi Tech that is [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 2nd, 2005 1 Comment »
For more than three months I’ve been meaning to listen to OCLC’s Long Tail Symposium from ALA this year. Today I squeeze out a few minutes to go look at the link and click on it only to be told “Your operating system is currently not supported by this presentation.” Yet again I’m being penalized [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 28th, 2005 No Comments »
ACRLBlog has a good post pointing out a New York Times article discussing the tension between privacy and personalization of services. This is an issues which is very close to home for me. A little less than a year ago I gave a presentation at Computers in Libraries discussing the issues that libraries face in [...]
Posted in Blogging on Nov 28th, 2005 No Comments »
Today we got Coldfusion successfully installed on the production Linux server that is going to run our Movable Type weblogs. My team has spent quite a bit of time trying to get this set up properly and just before Thanksgiving they were finally successfully. I’m more than thrilled that not only can we get this [...]
Posted in Blogging on Nov 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Librarian in Black (Sarah Houghton) has a post pointing to a good article comparing and contrasting self-hosted blogging options. The article provides a clear and concise overview of Textpattern, Movable Type, and Wordpress. There is a good comparison chart of these different systems, as well as links to examples blogs using each of these blogging [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Ever since I finished my second Masters degree I’ve been annoyed that I didn’t have access to the databases that provide information on library and information science publications. My place of work as Library Literature but I really missed having LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) and other library science or information technology resources. Therefore [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 23rd, 2005 No Comments »
Meredith has a good post about her life for the last year as chronicled by her blog. She talks about how her blog allows her to look back at what she has done. For me this is one of the most important aspects of blogging, it allows you to keep track of where you [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 21st, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve been working on getting the developer version of Coldfusion to run on my Mac using Tomcat and Apache as the webserver. I posted before on how to set up Coldfusion with Tomcat. However, this post discusses taking things one step further and getting Apache to be the main webserver and route Coldfusion and Java [...]
