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Over the last year our library has used its Facebook application to let students see where their friends are in the library and expose library resources to users without needing to go to another website. It's been used pretty heavily and there are a lot...

Yesterday Sourceforge was doing some work on their SVN projects. We've been using them for the Vufind project. I was attempting to finish putting in a snapshot of the solrmarc code to use that codebase for indexing marc. I put in the stuff out of the...

Phil and I (mostly Phil) have been working on getting the code for our Facebook application ready to be released on Google Code. Phil has done a phenomenal job in getting the code ported to FBML so we don’t have to use the lib_gd stuff any more to...

I saw this on SmashingMagazine this morning and just had to have it! I haven't been posting to this blog much and figured this would be as good a time as any to pick things back up.  While I was in there I upgraded from WP 2.4 to 2.6. Wow. Talk about a...

If you've ever worked on a project that involved Coldfusion's bundled version of Verity, you've no doubt run into the issue of trying to confine your fields into the structure that Verity imposes, and those custom fields are really precious in these...

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...

I've been kind of silent here as I've been trying to keep this blog at least somewhat focused on ColdFusion and I've been doing development in some different languages as of late (Java, PHP, and Ruby). However, when Facebook released their API for...