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Category: umlaut

  • 12/17/07 – Resurgens – 1/11/08

    Last Thursday, Johns Hopkins University Libraries went live with the Ãœmlaut (Ãœ2). This comes slightly less than four weeks after Georgia Tech took theirs down (although they were using the much more duct tape and bailing wire version 1), and it’s nice to see a library back in the land of Röck Döts. Ãœ2 shares…

  • Ãœps

    Argh.  I’ve recently migrated to using Opera on our desktop at home (long story, but basically the experiment with Ubuntu didn’t go over well; we went back to Windows; and IE7 is too slow to be considered useful in any capacity.  And Selena uses Firefox.).  While in the middle of a long post about how…

  • Another Chudnov-et-al joint

    Ariadne #48 includes “Introducing unAPI“, written by Dan, Jeremy, Peter, Michael, Mike, Ed and me. It explains the potential of unAPI and shows some examples on implementations. Like the last article I “wrote” with this group, I didn’t have to do much. On the flipside, publishing has such a minute effect (if any) on my…

  • Post-mortem

    The Umlaut “launched” last Monday. I wouldn’t call it the most graceful of take-offs, but I think it’s pretty much working now. We immediately ran into a problem with ProQuest as a source. ProQuest sends a query string that starts with an ampersand (“&ctx_ver=foo…”) which Rails strongly disliked. Thankfully, it was still part of the…

  • Pödcäst

    Dan Chudnov “interviewed” me about the Ãœmlaut for the first “Library Geeks”. It’s crude and show obvious signs of “learning as we’re going”, but if you want to hear more about the Ãœmlaut from my voice and hear my favorite curse word (and boy is it a doozy), take a listen. Note the “3-2-1″ at…