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I've been using Ruby version manager (rvm) for a while now, but hadn't really been paying too much attention to its new features. Over the weekend, I ran in to perhaps one of the coolest new features: project-level configurations. Essentially this allows...

I recently wanted to add a highlight link to a navigational element if the navigation was on the current page. I thought this would be pretty straight forward with Rails' link_to helper. Turns out it was a little less-than-intuitive. So, to remind myself...

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...

We've been hosting an NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship this week and we have a lot of different folks coming together to talk about mapping issues in higher education. I almost haven't been able to keep my delicious tagging up with all...

As a part of my research time, I've started dusting off an old project I always wanted to get back to. Back in 2005 I started working with some folks who were starting to write an article on the development of architectural identity in the early...

I've been working with the folks over at the Center for Archaeological Research with a bibliography of their research reports. It's a bit of an offshoot of the NEH Slave Quarters research I've been working on, but I wanted to have a way to work through...

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...

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 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...