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 [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 11th, 2005 1 Comment »
So the Head of Network and Computing Services and I have been working to get LDAP authentication working on our test box and after two hours of work we able to get the Basic Authentication setup up and running. One of the hurdles we encountered was getting the right syntax for communications with Active Directory [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 10th, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve been reading some great posts about what people like Ross Singer, Lorcan Dempsey, Dan Chudnov, Art Rhyno and Peter Binkley are doing and thinking about in terms of innovating library web sites and services. In particular the commentary of from Access 2005 has been quite inspiring. There are so many great ideas that I [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 4th, 2005 1 Comment »
Now that we have our blog server running, I’ve been thinking about how to protect the blogs that are for internal use. One possible solution would be to use the Movable Type Plugin, MT Protect. However, I really want to try and leverage exisiting authentication information rather than making people remember another password. So I’ve [...]
Posted in Blogging on Nov 3rd, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve been working very diligently here to get Movable Type up and running so that all the weblog would be dynamic and easily manageable. Additionally, we’ve been testing to see how much we can lock down the Movable Type server without breaking Movable Type. Today I was finally successfully in getting a completely dynamic site [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 26th, 2005 No Comments »
Wed. IL 2005 Keynote
Roy Tennant and Rich Wiggins
Google Print Making the Virtual Library Real - Rich Wiggins
Rich has a great sense of humor and started by showing a number of jokes, including a hilarious cartoon about why Google should never be bought by Microsoft. He then started to talk about the idea of digitizing the [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 26th, 2005 2 Comments »
Flickr, Tagging, and the F-Word
Jessamyn West began with a quick overview of Flickr as a lead in to Jenny’s talk on social software. Advent of web tools that allow us to be more social and what social software’s play is in the workplace.
Flickr like other social software allows people to share stuff. Its easy [...]
