Posted in General Thoughts on May 5th, 2008 3 Comments »
After spending the better part of the last couple weeks working with the WorldCat API to get at my library’s holdings, I realized that I’d made an incorrect assumption in my plans. I was describing what I was doing to our Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services over lunch when she interrupted me to say [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 2nd, 2008 7 Comments »
I’m doing some work with the early release of WorldCat API to incorporate some new functionality into our content management system. Part of this involves searching WorldCat and manipulating the records retrieved in MARCXML. While the service will also return Dublin Core records, I decided that I preferred to work with the full information. This [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
Sometimes you just don’t know about a new technology until you see it in action. In February, Google announced a new feature in Google Spreadsheet which allowed you share a spreadsheet by creating a form into which data could be entered into the spreadsheet. This didn’t hit my radar until very recently when a conference [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 1st, 2008 No Comments »
In my last post, I mentioned that I had been working on a Drupal project that was related to one of my ALA groups but that I couldn’t talk about it yet. Today I’m really thrilled to announce the debut of that project: YourBIGWIG, which is part of the crusade effort to implement more modern [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 22nd, 2008 5 Comments »
For the last year I’ve been thinking about using Drupal. In the last month, I decide that it would be a potentially good fit for a couple of web projects (one work and one professional development) that I have going on. This week I started work on the simpler of those two projects: a site [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 18th, 2008 4 Comments »
I’ve taught a workshop on AJAX in Libraries with Jason Clark 3 times now and each time it both gets better and more challenging. It gets better because Jason and I tweak the workshop based on the participants feedback. We have buffed up the examples we should and Jason has added more sample code. It [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 17th, 2008 5 Comments »
I’ve had some time to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 and use it to work on my blog for a while. So I thought it was time to post a little bit about my thoughts on the new interface. Initially, I was a bit taken aback by the new interface. Things were moved around and called [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 17th, 2008 3 Comments »
We have several sections on our website that use tabbed navigation but in some cases the tabs don’t look enough like tabs for people to notice they are clickable. To deal with this I’ve been working to redesign the tabs but I’m not exactly sure what I want them to look like. While I like [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 17th, 2008 5 Comments »
One of the questions I most often get asked when I teach or present at a conference is “how did I learn my technology skills and could I recommend good classes, books, etc”. I got this question again after teaching the AJAX preconference at CIL and thought it would be worthwhile to post a paraphrased [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
I did my upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 yesterday which promptly broke my blog because I neglected to upload of of the files. It took me a while to discover something was wrong because the Admin interface was working fine and my cache was showing my blog homepage to me just fine too. Thanks to Blake [...]
