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 [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 18th, 2005 No Comments »
Well, I got the one thing done today that I wanted to. That was to successfully get Coldfusion running on my Mac using Tomcat. I’m still working on getting Tomcat and Apache to play nicely together but at least I have the Coldfusion server running successfully. Doing this wasn’t an easy task so here are [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 18th, 2005 No Comments »
It has been at best, a hellish week. I spent most of last evening obessing about getting Tomcat installed and working on my Mac at home. I found a nice packaged installer that did the job for me in the Mac Downloads Section of Softpedia. It was so easy that was able to try to [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 16th, 2005 No Comments »
Okay so we’ve been going nuts trying to get the auth_ldap module for Apache 1.3 to work. We don’t have any problem getting it to work insecurely. However, we can’t seem to get the secure version of it to work. The directions say to install it with either the Netscape Directory SDK, or the OpenLDAP [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 16th, 2005 1 Comment »
In the last 24 hours I’ve discovered one of the most dangerous things about having a big library website: no one knows who pages belong to or what the purpose of certain pages are. To make matters worse, it seems we’ve got intranet stuff on both our intranet server and our public webserver. The whole [...]
