Stone Soup
(my first code4lib post)Ed Summers and William Groppe have jumped in head-strong to crafting a Ruby DSL to Solr. solrb is coming along nicely thanks to our collaborations.Another early adopter asked a...
View ArticleRails Edge Reston
Pragmatic Studio does it again, putting on another top notch event: Rails Edge Reston. I was fortunate enough to attend and pick up a few more gems of Ruby wisdom. Some of the highlights:Met William...
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Delicious! Flare + SIMILE Exhibit
In looking for a solution to organize a local elementary school library, Delicious Library was my first stop. And perhaps my last... except for faceting it with Flare, of course.I scanned a few books...
View ArticleNINES: formally released
NINES, has announced its formal release. Collex is the technology driving NINES, developed with Bethany Nowviskie's leadership and elegant sense of design. Thanks to the others on our team that made...
View Articleself-promotion: Open Source Retreat Lucene/Solr course
This self-marketing thing is hard. Thus far I've been blessed with word-of-mouth success for the reputation from the various open source communities in which I've participated. But it does take a...
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Solr/Lucene training in Hong Kong
ObLibTopic: I'll be demonstrating and discussing Collex and Blacklight!read more
View Articlesolr-rusty
I gave a solr-ruby presentation at rubyconf this past weekend. My timing was off, didn't cover as much as I would have liked, and one of my demos flubbed and I punted on it (turns out all I did was...
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OLA Super Conference - Collex and Blacklight
I'm honored to be speaking at the upcoming OLA Super Conference 2008. I'm presenting "Collex: Collecting and exhibiting scholarly materials" (session #406, Thursday January 31, 10:40am) and "...
View ArticleSolr-powered Buddhist texts?
I'll be leading a Solr workshop this February, in Taiwan, for the EBTI/CBETA Conference. This is a synergy of several interests of mine: library-related findability, Asian culture, and Buddhist...
View ArticleOpen Source Blacklight!
I wasn't sure I'd ever see the day that the UVa library would, as an institution, agree to open source Blacklight. But they did! [A dirty little secret is that the bulk of it, including a basic example...
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