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Updating and Upgrading Technology 22 Oct 2011 | 06:47 am
Performing updates and upgrades is something that all technologists have to do. Since switching jobs I’ve had to do a lot less of it because it really isn’t part of my job anymore. But that doesn’t m...
Theming an RSS feed in Drupal 21 Oct 2011 | 06:41 am
I still do a bit of work with Drupal as part of my job at OCLC. Mostly that involves making tweaks to the Developer Network website which runs on Drupal. In the last couple weeks I’ve wanted to create...
Why I moved my book collection list to Goodreads 30 Aug 2011 | 02:46 am
I’ve been using LibraryThing for a long time to keep track of what I’m reading, since 2006 in fact. But recently I decided to make the move to Goodreads instead. I like LibraryThing alot but I’ve been...
Building a Presentation that Works 29 Jul 2011 | 01:39 am
There are lots of things I take for granted knowing how to do and do reasonably effectively. However, as I’ve progressed in my career I’ve learned that some of these things: coding, writing, presentin...
Setting a Custom Header in a View Using Arguments 15 Jun 2011 | 03:34 am
In Drupal Views can have a Header or Footer that appear before or after the View. Often one will use this to put in information related to what the view is displaying. However, sometimes you need this...
On a coding streak 4 Jun 2011 | 08:41 am
The last few months I’ve been working on a couple of projects that have required me to write a lot of code. I’m coming to the end of the projects and came to the realization that I haven’t written thi...
Development Methodologies 29 Apr 2011 | 02:00 am
One of the most frequent questions I get from people when I teaching them about web services, mashups and coding is “how do you get started”. Typically what they mean by this is how do I go about buil...
Amazon Cloud Player and Drive 2 Apr 2011 | 09:18 am
This week Amazon debuted its new Cloud Drive and Player service. It generated a ton of buzz in the library Twitterverse and Jason Griffey has a nice post on ALA TechSource blog about how it changes th...
Library Ebooks Showdown 2 Mar 2011 | 03:12 am
There has been a tremendous amount of discussion about the upcoming changes to Overdrive as a result publisher’s changing their policies (specifically Harper Collins). I’ve been using Overdrive since ...
Login Usability Tweak for Drupal 1 Mar 2011 | 11:59 am
One of the things that has been annoying me about one of the Drupal sites I work on is the fact that I want people to be able to login and end up back on the page they clicked the login button from. I...
