March 18, 2008 | In: Projects
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,...
October 31, 2007 | In: General
I've been knocked out by a really bad cold the last couple of weeks and I'm just starting to get things back to normal. I did want to send a quick post on the status of the SolColdfusion project. After seeing Ray's Seeker project, it reminded me that...
October 5, 2007 | In: Programming, Projects
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...
October 5, 2007 | In: Computing, Programming, Projects
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...
October 4, 2007 | In: Computing, Programming, Projects
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...
October 3, 2007 | In: General
I've spent the last few months working on some projects that didn't really have anything to do with ColdFusion (lots of Java and PHP). One of the projects I've been working with (Vufind.org) uses Solr as it's indexing/search engine. That's starting to...
April 30, 2007 | In: General
Ok, it's been a while. I've been working on some non-ColdFusion projects so I've been a bit remiss in keeping things up-to-date here. But big news (at least for William and Mary). Her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II will be visiting William and Mary...
February 2, 2007 | In: General
We recently made the move from an IIS Windows web server to an Apache *nix based web server as part of our efforts to consolidate our library's server infrastructure. And for reasons I won't expound upon, we had one MS Access DSN that didn't get...
September 21, 2006 | In: General
I've been playing with some form validation stuff for CF. I had been usign , but I wanted the HTML interface to act a bit more like the Flash interface, but I don't really want to use Flash. I've also been doing a lot more work with some of the DHTML...
August 23, 2006 | In: General
I ran into a bit of a situation that was really blowing my mind. I have a rather large XML file (around 20,000+ lines) marked up in TEI that I wanted to do some transformations on (a day book and ledger from the 1850s). Essentially the code follows...