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A couple of years I went to up the Center for History and New Media with a few folks here at William and Mary and talked with Roy Rosensweig about this cool new thing they were working on for Firefox. He told us the story of how they were searching for a...

Growing up, I didn't watch football. When I got to college, it was one of the few pleasures I had on Sundays while stuck on post at VMI. At that point, I picked the Detroit Lions as the team to pull for. Bobby Ross was the head coach (a VMI alum), Barry...

I found some great tutorials on implementing ACL authentication in CakePHP. However, for the longest time I couldn't get the actual example code to work. The way to authenticate everything in your application is to create an app_controller.php file in...

I saw this morning that Sun released VirtualBox 2.0 (it was released last Thursday, but had missed that). The big update (at least to me) is that it now supports 64-bit guests (on 64-bit hosts). I added the deb packages for my Ubuntu box and installed the...

I committed a bunch of small fixes into the Solrmarc and Vufind projects today to deal with the release of Solr 1.3 RC 2. We're using the multicore functionality of Solr for Vufind and we were having some issues with the resource loaders for the different...

I'm working on an NEH funded collaborative research grant entitled "Measuring the Social, Spatial, and Temporal Dimensions of Virginia Slave Housing." The project is exciting because it's taking existing architectural, archaeological, and documentary...