Moving a DSpace collection
Found out how you can move a collection from one community to another with just a couple of commands. This came up when we decided to make a sub-community under… Read more »
Author Archives: Wally
Deep link to an object on MARS
While the MARS system uses handles to give a persistent address to items in the collection, it is also possible to build a URL that goes directly to the bitstream… Read more »
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 »
Tiger Server Upgrade
Now that I managed to upgrade the server hosting the MARS system from 10.3.9 to 10.4 I thought I’d share some notes on the experience…not because they’ll interest very many… 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 »