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Shaun Ellis
> * Myth #1 : GitHub creates a barrier to entry.
That's a fact, not a myth. Myself, I won't give GitHub my full legal
name and I suspect there are others who won't. So, we're not welcome
there and if we lie to register, all our work would be subject to
deletion at an arbitrary futur
Thanks everyone for the info. This soothed my apprehensions of running
Fuseki in a production environment.
Ethan
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
> I'll add that the LARQ plugin for Fuseki (which adds Lucene indexes) is
> pretty awesome, as well.
>
> -Ross.
>
> On Feb 20, 20
As far as the google custom search solution, I'd add that sometimes it
yields weird results : for instance, we indexed a site and for a given
search term, google says "about 16 results" (we have 10 hits displayed
on the page) and when we click on page 2, it says "about 12 results"
(showing the
@Shaun,
That is really interesting. I never looked at Github that way. I jumped on the
github bandwagon for purely selfish, web-culture reasons and for the purpose of
having a code portfolio (even if I'm a little embarrassed by it). This split
topic I'd like to see maybe in another thread is ab
I've done it before, but it's been a while. What problem are you having
particularly?
s
On Feb-20-2013 1:57 PM, Brent Ferguson wrote:
Is there anyone that has experience working with PHP and YAZ on a Windows Box...
Have a few questions to help clarify what is needed to get up and running...
If you're not willing to provide even your name to make use of a free
service, then I dare say you are erecting your own barriers. Such is your
choice, of course, but I don't think others need to be compelled
to accommodate the barriers you create for yourself.
And just because the terms of use ar
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Nathan Tallman wrote:
> @Péter: The VuFind solution I mentioned is very similar to what you use
> here. It uses Aperture (although soon to use Tika instead) to grab the
> full-text and shoves everything inside a solr index. The import is managed
> through a PHP scr
If you read my email, I don't tell anyone what to use, but simply
attempt to clear up some fallacies. Distributed version control is new
to many, and I want to make sure that folks are getting accurate
information from this list.
Unfortunately, this statement is not accurate either:
// There
Also, as a side note (and of interest to some) you *can* add pull requests to
your repo:
https://gist.github.com/piscisaureus/3342247
On 2013-02-21, at 10:29 AM, Shaun Ellis wrote:
> If you read my email, I don't tell anyone what to use, but simply attempt to
> clear up some fallacies. Dist
Jonathan++
The more the merrier, says I. If we decide we need complete record of all
the poetry we create at some point in the future, we can deal with that
then. For right now, everybody have fun!
This is supposed to be fun, right?
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Andrew Hankinson <
andrew.ha
Thanks, both of those give me a much better idea. I know I had used
CONTENTdm data with a Google map almost 2 years ago for a class project but
that involved extracting the data from the admin end into an excel table,
so these show marked improvement.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Chad Nelson
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Hello -
I'm a newbie to this listserv. I'm not a librarian, nor am I a coder. I
primarily do systems related work with our library management system, run SQL
reports as needed and project management. I also work for Access Services and
even though I'm considered IT, I'm not in the library I
Hey Cindy,
Welcome! Glad to see your question here, we like new people.
Here at NC State we've set up a (mostly semi-working) system for requesting
backup using LibraryH3lp webchat. Basically we have a staff webpage that
has a chat box in it. If you type something in the box, say "Backup!" or
"jk
Hi,
- Original Message -
> Hi Matt,
>
> The largest hurdle you would face with linked data and ContentDM are
> the
> inconsistently persistent URLs (to say nothing of the application
> specific
> jankyness in the url). When an item is added to a collection in
> ContentDM,
> it is assigne
For something like this I would go the hardware route. A walkie-talkie on a
charging stand at each service point. The walkie-talkies would always be on and
tuned to the same channel. That way the staff person is not tied to the PC
itself, they can grab the walkie-talkie and still do what they n
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I second Paul's suggestion.
All due respect to the institution you work for, but this doesn't sound
like a problem best solved with software. If I'm the backup help, and I'm
talking with a colleague in their office, or making another pot of coffee,
I won't get your notice on my computer until I g
Cindy,
Welcome!
I think your situation in your library is a very common one, most likely
more common than being a "coder" in the sense of creating new software
or adding functionality to existing software. In fact, in every office I
have been in, including ones not in libraries, many people w
Timothy,
This has been sitting in my in-box as I try to come up with a reply.
I went through library school before "coding" was an issue, although I
did do some statistical work on computers (punch cards). But for me the
"moment" was simply being given a task with the assumption that I would
On Feb 21, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Paul Butler (pbutler3) wrote:
> For something like this I would go the hardware route. A walkie-talkie on a
> charging stand at each service point. The walkie-talkies would always be on
> and tuned to the same channel. That way the staff person is not tied to the
There was an article on this topic in issue 2 of the code4lib journal - I
tried to get it done here but got shot down by systems, but it seems simple
and might be what you need: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/45
--
Ellen Knowlton Wilson
Instructional Services Librarian
Room 250, University
At Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:29:28 -0500,
Shaun Ellis wrote:
>
> If you read my email, I don't tell anyone what to use, but simply
> attempt to clear up some fallacies. Distributed version control is new
> to many, and I want to make sure that folks are getting accurate
> information from this list.
Thank you!! This looks promising! I'll take a look into this to see if this
will work for us.
Cindy
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ellen
Wilson
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 12:12 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject
Thank you for your warm welcome, encouragement and ideas. I'd like to respond
to some of the suggestions while this topic is still fresh, so to speak.
Walkie-talkies, we did try this route. Not as easy and straight-forward as one
would wish. There were battery problems (needed coverage from
OK, pedant, tell us why you think methods that can be over-ridden are static.
Also, tell us why you think classes in Java are not instances of java.lang.Class
On Feb 18, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Justin Coyne wrote:
> To be pedantic, Ruby and JavaScript are more Object Oriented than Java
> because they
You got a second cashier at Jo-Ann's? That's amazing!
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Greenspun, Cindy wrote:
> Thank you for your warm welcome, encouragement and ideas. I'd like to
> respond to some of the suggestions while this topic is still fresh, so to
> speak.
>
> Walkie-talkies, we did
I did misspeak a bit. You can override static methods in Java. My major
issue is that there is no "getClass()" within a static method, so when the
static method is being run in the context of the inheriting class it is
unaware of its own run context.
For example: I want the output to be "Hi from
On 2/21/13 9:00 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
We had a policy of trying our best *not* to go into the computer labs,
because if you did, you'd get 6+ people who suddenly had questions
they wanted to ask ... but couldn't have been bothered to actually go
to the office to ask. When I first started, some
Look, I'm sure we can list the many ways different languages fail to meet
our expectations, but is this really a constructive line of conversation?
-1
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Justin Coyne
wrote:
> I did misspeak a bit. You can override static methods in Java. My major
> issue is tha
with regards to Class extending Object, should this error be possible?
error: clone() has protected access in Object
Class.clone();
^
Of course this sort of nit-picking is absolutely not constructive. I'm
just saying that if you're teaching the "Object Oriented" programming
pa
Agreed. Each language has its own strengths and weaknesses. Pick the one that
works best for your situation, factoring in not only what the application needs
to do, but your and your team's level of experience, and the overall community
context in which the project will live. The peculiaritie
Hi Cindy,
I am a newbie to the list as well. Our staff man the libraries single service
point and librarians take turns working on call reference. When the desk staff
get an reference question that requires a librarian's expertise, they page the
librarian on call through a simple computer pro
Concur. I think everyone should just switch to APL [0], then we'll all
suffer equally.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Ian Walls wrote:
> Agreed. Each language has its own strengths and weaknesses. Pick the one
> that works best for
Actually, I'm finding this thread very enlightening. I've only had a little
java experience, but always assumed it was the ur-implementation of OO
principles. Now, I've had that assumption corrected.
Thanks,
…adam
On Feb 21, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Ian Walls wrote:
> Agreed. Each language has
Ian, I have to caution against taking the attitude "we only code in what we
already know". Of course you are going to be able to hit the ground
running faster in what you are expert in. Putting on the blinders is a
great way to become irrelevant in the technology sphere. If you want to be
a bett
This ... saddens me.
We can have evermore threads which hit the daily post limit about the
community and how everyone feels. But a thread about programming language
strength/weakness has to be shut down.
I think it's time to change the name. I'm completely serious.
/dev
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013
If this thread is just code nerdery: You can't override static methods in
Java. It looks like you can because there's a generous search for
statically bound names (if B extends A, and A defines static a(), B.a()
works), but it's not the overriding mechanism because if you try to refer
to super in
> Once again, these are not “fallacies”: they are disagreements.
When you say that "GitHub is not team-centered," it's not a
disagreement; it's simply false. If you say "I don't agree with the way
GitHub implements the concept of teams", then that is a disagreement.
You said the first, but pe
Michael Schofield
> [...] This split topic I'd like to see maybe in another thread is
> about giving full legal names to web services. If anyone watched the
> PS4 reveal last night, you might have noticed that PS4 is giving up
> gamertags (read: aliases) for full names to easily integrate with
> o
> An open tool is Internet email: I can send an email from my provider
> (ucop.edu) to yours (princeton.edu). A closed tool is github, where I
> need a github account to send you a pull request. An open tool would
> be one where I can send a pull request bitbucket to github.
> (Obviously, bitbucket
Devon:
I don't think anyone is asking you to accommodate them in your choice of
tools or even approve of what they see as barriers. This conversation
started because of an understanding that the poetry folks *do want* to
accommodate others' needs and preferences. Taking that assumption in hand,
I
Can't resist a bit of nerdery :-)
If I'm not mistaken, this is bumping up against the differences between what
happens (in Java) at compile-time vs. what happens at runtime. Static method
calls in Java are always resolved at compile-time. Overridden methods, on the
other hand, are decided on at
I was just curious, so I threw the same thing into C#.
class Foo
{
public static void sayHello()
{
hi();
}
public static void hi()
{
Console.WriteLine("Hi from foo");
}
}
class Bar : Foo
{
public
> At a meeting recently, I was listening to a work leader lament how, if
> she is the only person there, she is just too busy to make a phone call or
> send an email asking for help - a common occurrence. After I heard her, I
> wondered how possible it would be to create some sort of desktop 'app
This seems like a good application for text messaging -- as long as
all librarians have smartphones, which they surely would at Yale :-)
Cheers,
Cab Vinton
Sanbornton Public Library
you really derailed me . . . i might be able to help with the javascript ypu're
messing with though . . . maybe . . .
mj
On Feb 21, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Cab Vinton wrote:
> This seems like a good application for text messaging -- as long as
> all librarians have smartphones, which they surely would at Yale :-)
The problem is that you'd have to have it dynamically generate the list of who
to text based on who's curre
Jay, Michael would like to recall the message, "[CODE4LIB] You are a *pedantic*
coder. So what am I?".
Hi everybody. On the Wednesday breakout sessions in Chicago, we had a breakout
that was titled "Project Rideshare Board", which was about trying to come up
with a solution to help libraries find cross-institutional development
partners; advertise specs, needs and membership; and foster learning
Tim,
This too has been sitting in my inbox, and I've been trying to find time to
respond. I have to say that I love your questions. Now that Karen has
piped up, I'll follow suit. I've addressed each of your questions below to
the best of my ability.
*For those of you who came into this communi
I feel that this is true. However, the more languages I learn, the more I find
myself doing embarrassing things like trying to update a JavaScript file and
then realizing I'm actually writing in PHP or C++. If only my brain had an
automatic language gearshift.
Genny Engel
Sonoma County Librar
As far as the poetry goes, not my thing, so I don't have a comment on what
is actually used. The thread appeared to fork onto a discussion about
github use more generally. My apologies to all if it is still tightly
coupled to the poetry thing. The rest of my comments assume the more
general convers
Like Rosy, I've been sitting on this wondering what to say, and am now
following Karen, even though I wish I had more in the way of
anthropological or statistical insight...
Anyway. I recommend reading Unlocking the Clubhouse, which sheds a lot of
light on the sometimes-subtle factors that disinc
Hi,
in the PHP Black Book you can find some usage examples.
http://www.amazon.com/PHP-Black-Book-Peter-Moulding/dp/1588800539
It was quite long time ago when I played with YAZ on Windows, I don't
remember any troubles.
Have you got installation problem?
Péter
ps. Warning: PHP Black Book is outd
Justin,
I certainly agree that to become a better coder, it's good to experiment
with many languages and applications. I'm not advocating that any given
shop should always rule out a project in a new (to them) language. What I'm
saying is that the context of what you already know and what your
Dear List,
I happily announce, that after several months of development the
eXtensible Catalog Drupal Toolkit 1.3 is just released.
The eXtensible Catalog Drupal Toolkit is the front end of eXtensible
Catalog (XC) built on Drupal content management system. It contains
a set of 25 Drupal modules,
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
> The problem is that you'd have to have it dynamically generate the list of
> who to text based on who's currently on duty.
>
If an app/service is generating the messages, it can take a parameter that
allows people to check in/out for purpose
TeachingBooks.net, a provider of digital multimedia resources for K-12
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Tim,
I'll jump in with, from a curriculum standpoint, making sure there are a
variety of class levels offered. When I went through my graduate
program there was assistance for people who'd never used email, attached
documents, created Powerpoints--basic level stuff that was taught by
myself
Please pardon the list-jacking and cross-posting.
Marc Fields & Bad Data is planning a performance at the ACRL Conference in
Indianapolis, at the Lyrasis Reception on the evening of April 11th. The band
is comprised of library-connected musicians.
We've had some changes in ensemble membership s
Hi All,
We are looking for a print management software that will not take too
much work from IT dept.
We wanted to track/limit no. of copies the students use.
Thanks,
Jay Dela Cruz
OK, this is embarrassing but our solution was buying a pair of walkie talkies.
On the back end, we have a schedule of who is "the backup" person and they
carry the other walkie talkie around with them and don't leave the building
during their backup hour. But they can be in their office, in the
It took me a minute to find this--remembering it from when it made the
rounds a few years ago. "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names". It's
a useful reality check for anyone who thinks they can find and record
someone's "real name".
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-
> If you're not willing to provide even your name to make use of a free
> service, then I dare say you are erecting your own barriers. Such is your
> choice, of course, but I don't think others need to be compelled
> to accommodate the barriers you create for yourself.
>
> And just because the term
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:44 PM, David Friggens wrote:
> "To all the people complaining about the Code4Lib 2014 conference
> being unwelcoming because of our new No Clothes Policy, I say you are
> wrong. We are entitled to enact our own conditions of entry, and if
> you are unwilling to front up n
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Shearer, Timothy J
wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm teaching systems analysis at SILS (UNC CH) this semester.
>
> Though the course is required for the IS degree, it's not required for the
> LS degree.
>
> However, the majority of my students this semester are LS. And t
Don't you mean " I hope to see all of you there."
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:44 PM, David Friggens wrote:
>> If you're not willing to provide even your name to make use of a free
>> service, then I dare say you are erecting your own barriers. Such is your
>> choice, of course, but I don't think ot
I wrote a little app in PHP to address this exact problem. I wrote it to
work the the LibraryH3lp webchat service, but the code could probably be
adapted to another context. You can download the source code and
instructions here: http://shirley.alptown.com/SOS_Button.zip
Best wishes,
Shirley Linc
I didn't spot this when Tim first posted it, but this question jumped out
at me now: "A person who said or modeled the right thing?" Around the time
I was applying to library school, a friend told me "Since you love foreign
languages and are interested in computers, you might enjoy programming."
T
It strikes me from a couple of people's comments -- and from some of my own
experiences -- that there's more going on here than just implementation.
The right implementation is important for adoption, of course, but for a
backup system to be helpful it needs to encourage compliance -- including
thi
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I think the last idea with a doorbell is on the right track. Forget tiny
notifications on individuals' computers and instead put up a screen in a
central spot which you can use as an informal notice board and buzzer,
connected perhaps to a webcam or security image so people can see the
traffic and
Most of the video from the conference is up on Internet Archive. I say
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Jason Ronallo is still working on HTML5-ifying stuff a
"pendantic" and "ruby" go together about as well as "brevity" and this
mailing list
class Foo
private
def bar
"Calling a private method is foobar"
end
end
$ irb
1.9.3p286 :009 > Foo.new.bar
NoMethodError: private method `bar' called for #
1.9.3p286 :010 > Foo.new.send(:bar)
=> "Callin
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