WordPress to the rescue
Spent about 30 minutes trying to identify a replacement for Apple’s blog server…needed to move the blog off the XServe (to free up a development/test environment). Not knowing much about… Read more »
Category: General
RSS to your webpage…
I recently decided to freshen the Library Systems Office website, planning to integrate a few headlines from this weblog & add a few new RSS feeds. I was using some… Read more »
Firefox->Greasemonkey->Amazon->Mason
If you’re using Firefox (I’ve tested this using Mac OS X but it surely works with Windows), here’s an interesting experiment… First, go to http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ and install the Greasemonkey extension…. Read more »
Images from Amazon
Stumbled upon a website that explains the syntax needed to pull images from Amazon…with nothing more than an ISBN number (for a book, anyway): http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html Should be able to write… Read more »
The Six Stages of a Project
1. Enthusiaism 2. Dissillusionment 3. Panic 4. Search for the guilty 5. Punishment of the weak 6. Praise and Honors for the non-participants
Top 20 programmer responses when told a program doesn’t work…
This list is commonly found on the net but it’s worth putting here for future reference… 20. “That’s weird…” 19. “It’s never done that before.” 18. “It worked yesterday.” 17…. Read more »
CiteULike – Free service to organize papers
Kevin Simons, our EndNote guru, just told me about this site which is pretty interesting. Connotea.org (run by Nature Publishing and focusing on science) is somewhat similar. If you file… Read more »
Quote of the day…
The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.” — attributed to William Gibson (author of Neuromancer) Check this thread on tracking down the quote.
Moved iNODE…
We’ve moved the iNODE blog from phobos (and Apple’s blog server software) to WordPress…over here on timesync. The reason? To set up a server that others in the library can… Read more »