Getting Around Drupal’s Prohibition of @ Characters in User Ids
A while back we created an LDAP directory to consolidate account information for various back-room services, and when we created it we decided to use the ind...
Recent posts
Building an Institutional Repository Interface Using EJB3 and JBoss Seam
This tour is designed to show the overall architecture of a FEDORA digital object repository application within the JBoss Seam framework while at the same ti...
Looking Forward to Version 2.2 of FEDORA
Sandy Payette, Co-Director of the Fedora Project and Researcher in the Cornell Information Science department, announced a tentative date for the release 2....
Managing a Gentoo Linux Server Configuration with Subversion, GLCU, and Trac
Keeping track of configuration changes to servers is a tough job made tougher when some of the sysadmins work from home. Questions of who did what when and w...
Pocket-sized Graph of the Theory of Disruptive Innovation
I really like Christensen's Theory of Disruptive Innovation (as he proposed in his book The Innovator's Dilemma). It succinctly describes the challenges, if...
IAB to Address Concerns About Internet Routing Scalability
An e-mail from Leslie Daigle, chair of the Internet Architecture Board, crossed my inbox tonight through the IETF-announce list (excerpted below) that brough...
What a NASA/Google Mashup Might Mean for Libraries
Ron Murray (no relation) from the Library of Congress sent me this announcement about a joint NASA/Google partnership, which starts: NASA Ames Research Cente...
ODCE 2007: Preliminary Program, Online Registration Now Available
ODCE 2007: The Convergence of Learning, Libraries and Technology conference is set for March 4-6, 2007. You can view the preliminary program and pre-conferen...
Child Rearing Through HTTP Status Codes
Long time readers of DLTJ know that I rarely post commentary outside the realm of disruptive library technology to this blog, much less reflections of person...
Java Application for Batch Processing FEDORA Objects
We had a need today to transform an XML file with a custom DTD into Dublin Core; the custom XML file is a datastream in our FEDORA repository and we want to ...
Traditional Development/Integration/Staging/Production Practice for Software Development
Recently, I was asked to outline a plan for a structured process for software development that maximizes productivity and reduces bugs that reach the user. ...
“Applying the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Model to Libraries” — A Presentation
There was a great crowd at the University of Windsor "Future of the ILS" symposium. The presentation is available from http://dltj.org/wp-content/uploads/20...