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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...

On the Vufind project, I've been migrating the Solrmarc codebase to use Solr 1.3. It's got a lot of nifty changes (the multi-core and DataImportHandler are really nice additions), including moving to Lucene 2.4 for the actual indexing. On the down...

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...

I've been offline for a while (and there are a flurry of posts about that coming up), but I had a very strange thing happen yesterday. Earlier this year, I published the Facebook API Developer's Guide. It seems to be selling reasonably well on...

As I mentioned in my last post, I've been silent for a while. I've had a major project in deploying some institutional repository software (DSpace) to collect the research that students here at William and Mary are doing in a systematic way. Generally...

It's been a long while since I posted anything here. Things have been a bit hectic with the launching of a new institutional repository service (using DSpace), taking a computer graphics course (linear algebra, ray tracing, scientific visualization,...

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...