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After some really good conversations last week at the Institute on Enabling Geospatial Scholarship about mobile devices and mapping as an interpretive device, I mocked up a quick page to see how OpenLayers looked on the Safari mobile browser. The theory...

I had meant to get this info out there a bit earlier, but we were sponsoring an NEH Institute on Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. That's a different post, but I did want to get back to Omeka and flush out building the RPM for Omeka. What I'm going to...

Back in the day, I used to work on the Mycroft Project. At the time, only Firefox/Netscape could actually used these plugins as they were based on Apple's Sherlock specification (Mycroft is Sherlock Holmes' brother, btw). These plugins have been a staple...

With my departure from W&M we talked about the deployment of the second Sun X4500 for the library. My original plan was to wait until the 10/08 system came out (which had the SAMBA stuff in the kernel) and then deploy the hardware with ZFS and Z-RAID....

It's been a while since I last posted, but the NEH Slave Quarters project is coming to a close and the next grant is out the door (to build a digital archive of the newspaper articles of Elizabeth Stoddard). So I showed my student worker the search...

And that's not Need for Speed :) A while back I got a couple of Sun Thumpers (24TB each) to help out with our storage needs in the library. I've gotten to the point to deploy them. I have to admit I really dig the Solaris admin tools (web based ILOM)...

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...

To get up and running with Solr, you'll need some type of Servlet container. Typically when folks start talking about servlet containers, they're talking about Tomcat or Jetty. In fact, Solr comes with Jetty 6.1.3 (they haven't upgraded to 6.1.5 yet...

As I hinted at yesterday, I was close to having some code in the pipeline to abstract using Solr. I've finished the initial code with the following built in. Here's a brief setup guide to start playing with the code. First, you're going to need to...