Monthly Archives: February 2008

Scriblio Feature: Text This To Me

February 28, 2008 – 12:51 pm

Take note of the ?New Feature: Text this to your cellphone? line above.
Adam Brin of Tricollege Libraries explained that the ?text this to me? feature he built to send location information about items in the library catalog as text messages to a user’s cell phone is being used as many as 60 times a [...]

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Web Design Frameworks?

February 21, 2008 – 8:37 am

I’m a fan of the Sandbox WordPress theme because it does so much to separate application logic from design, and a few small changes to the CSS can make huge changes to the look of the site. I think that’s the idea behind Yahoo! Developer Network’s Grids CSS library. That is, well structured HTML allows [...]

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Give Up Your Civil Rights (and your laptop and hard drives) At The Border

February 20, 2008 – 5:39 am

Can the Feds take your laptop? Yep. Be prepared to give up your civil rights and your laptop at the border, says a recent article in the Washington Post. This came to the attention of music fans earlier, when MTV news reported that a hard drive seized at the border contained studio recordings for Chris [...]

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Apache Reverse Proxy

February 19, 2008 – 11:03 am

Apache mod_proxy does most of the work, Nick Kew’s howto on running a reverse proxy with Apache explains it. Now, can I tack on some authentication and make it replace III’s WAM or EZproxy?

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Changes To WordPress Object Caching In 2.5

February 7, 2008 – 6:20 am

Jacob Santos‘ FuncDoc notes:
The WordPress Object Cache changed in WordPress 2.5 and removed a lot of file support from the code. This means that the Object Cache in WordPress 2.5 is completely dependent on memory and will not be saved to disk for retrieval later. The constant WP_CACHE also changed its meaning.
I’ve just started using [...]

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iPhone Strobe Light

February 6, 2008 – 8:37 pm

Strobe Light is clearly the perfect app for your new 16GB iPhone.

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MySQL On Multi-Core Machines

February 6, 2008 – 7:11 am

The DevShed technical tour explains that MySQL can spawn new threads, each of which can execute on a different processor/core. What it doesn’t say is that a single thread can only execute on a single core, and if that thread locks a table, then no other threads that need that table can execute until the [...]

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Top Tech Trends

February 2, 2008 – 8:00 am

Contents:

Sophistication
Contextualization
Disintermediation
Identity & Reputation
Comments & Contribution

I’m excited and honored to be joining Meredith Farkas and David J. Fiander in a roundtable discussion of Top Tech Trends, an OLITA program at Superconference. We’ve made a pact not to share our trends with each other in advance (no peeking), so it’ll be interesting to see how much overlap [...]

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OLA Superconference Presentation: Scriblio

February 1, 2008 – 11:54 am

I’m honored to be invited to the Ontario Library Association Superconference to present my work on Scriblio today (session #1329). A PDF of my slides is online.
Scriblio has had about a year of use in production at each of three sites, and the lessons suggest that Web 2.0 technologies really do work for libraries. And [...]

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Microsoft Threatens To Buy Yahoo!

February 1, 2008 – 7:51 am

I like Yahoo!. I really hope the shareholders decline Microsoft’s offer. Blech, MS has wanted a piece of Yahoo! for a while.

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