Posted in Notes from the Field, Ongoing Projects on Feb 16th, 2006 No Comments »
I spent time today and Code4Lib listening to Dan Chudnov talk about unAPI both in a formal presentation and in a breakout session where people talked about and created a draft specification for it. Before coming here I really didn’t know much about the unAPI idea. I’d kind of been following what Dan had been [...]
Posted in Ongoing Projects, XML on Jan 30th, 2005 No Comments »
Playing with PHP
Thursday and Friday this week I started working on writing my first
project in PHP. Normaly, I code in ASP, but circumstances have dictated
that now I start exploring PHP. The project I am doing isn't just a
plain old PHP project though. It is a project using PHP and XML. I've
played with PHP before and [...]
Posted in Ongoing Projects, OpenURL on Jan 30th, 2005 No Comments »
Free E-books
This week I spent some time adding free e-books collections to our
OpenURL resolver. The most important set I got added as the
Escholarship editions from the University of California Press.
Information about how to link to these titles and a list of them is
available on the web at http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/help.html
This collection contains almost 500 publically available titles. [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ongoing Projects on Jan 14th, 2005 No Comments »
Another step closer to completion
Today the consultant and I worked on integrating a WYSIWYG editor into
my XML-based blogging tool. After a couple hours we were able to
integrate the code from Cross Browser Rich Text Editor into the blogging tool. I need to make a PayPal donation to the guy who created this code
because it saved [...]
Posted in Ongoing Projects on Oct 5th, 2004 No Comments »
RSS and XML Fun
So I've been having a blast this week working on
writing a bunch of stuff to work with the XML produced from our
catalog. Thank you Owen for
giving me some great examples to start from! I've been working on three
different things. However, the one I have gotten the furthest on is a
script that will [...]
Posted in Ongoing Projects on Aug 25th, 2004 No Comments »
AWStats Up and Running
I got AWStats up and running at the end of last week after testing it
and deciding that it met our library's needs for a log analysis tool.
Honestly, I have nothing but positive things to say about it. The
install and configuration requires a degree of technical skill that
initially spooked me, but once I [...]
Posted in Ongoing Projects on May 13th, 2004 No Comments »
So the last three weeks have been rather busy. I have to give three presentations in a little less than two weeks, which means that I have been coding like crazy. First, I have pages to finish coding and testing that I am going to show as part of my presentations. I am working on [...]
