Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I couldn’t agree more
“[S]training-to-be-clever acronyms department”… Project names are very important to me in a “the clothes make the man” sensibility. I’d prefer to leave an application untitled rather than have a contrived or pedestrian name attached to it (which is why my EAD publisher app never had a title — nothing non-EAD-derogatory ever came to me). Often,…
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Working around Ruby with XSLT
My relationship with Ruby nowadays is roughly akin to somebody addicted to pain killers. I know it’s not good for me (since everything I work on nowadays is RDF, XML or both) but I’m able to still be productive and the pain of quitting, while in the long run would be better for everybody, just…
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Risk, reward, and the in-between
I have been following a thread on the VuFind-Tech list regarding the project’s endorsement of Jangle to provide the basis of the ILS plugin architecture for that project. It’s not an explicit mandate, just a pragmatic decision that if work is going in to creating a plugin for VuFind, it would make more sense (from…
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Whew
Thank God I’ve already been hired. Hopefully this won’t be on my annual appraisal.
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Dear Innovative Customers
Why do you put up with this crap? Maybe it’s about time you all started to explore this idea again.
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Blindly groping towards ActivePlatform
Something I’ve taken it upon myself to do since I joined Talis is make ActiveRDF a viable client to access the Platform. While this is mostly selfishness on my part (I want to keep developing in Ruby and there’s basically no RDF support right now, plus this gives me a chance to learn about the…
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Mea Culpa
Jangle-discuss is now publicly viewable. Since I’m always logged into the Googles, I never noticed that it was blocked to non-subscribers. Sorry about that.
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Bootstrapping Jangle
After several months of trying, Jangle.org is finally starting to take off. I set up a Drupal instance yesterday on our new web host. When I was still at Georgia Tech, one of the things I was trying to work on was a framework to consistently and easily expose the library’s data from its various…
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Buy me
Our house is back on the market.
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Real men go to conferences with their mothers
In most cases, the suggestion that I travel across the country with my mom to attend a library technology conference would be greeted with incredulous shock. It would be about the same reaction I’d have to the expectation that I take my one and a half year old son across the country. However, that was…
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