I once had a job at an internet company that described themselves as a news aggregation service.
They took in news feeds from sources ranging from Associated Press to Farm Machinery Monthly. My job consisted of writing queries in Unix’s wonderful vi editor. News feeds were run against these queries, and resulting matches [...]
I am here to make a plug. Is it a plug if I don’t stand to profit?
Maybe profit constitutes a shameless plug, but I digress. I have been watching a tutorial called Ruby on Rails: Beyond the Basics, produced by a company called Lynda.com. It is really good. The narrator encourages the viewer to [...]
One can get pretty far with a bit of confidence and Google. It came as a surprise to me that anyone who can read can install and troubleshoot open source software. It’s as simple as jumping in and running with it until you hit an error message, copying said message into a Google search box, [...]
My boss has been organizing the Labs project schedule and in turn we are all organizing our individual project schedules. I am a librarian stereotype in my love of to-do lists. I love to make them, and I love to cross things off. I have a good memory and I rarely [...]
Friends have been asking how I like my new job here at Labs. I respond by telling them I love it and/but I am on a serious learning curve. For the three weeks I’ve been at Labs I’ve been working on my first Ruby on Rails application. I’ve been lucky to have a clever and [...]
I am experimenting with a new retrieval system for the finding aids and possibly digital images. It is open source from the fine people at California Digital Library. So far, I have indexed all the EAD encoded finding aids and am currently working to test some TEI files. Full-text indexing is based on the [...]
