Barreraicus Maximus

The NYC regional code4lib is moving right along, with it’s third meeting occurring January 29th, 2009.  If only the darn Metro projector system would work properly.  For this meeting there were roughly 20 people in attendance, a few were new faces.   Here’s a quick rundown of the planned talks.  There was also a short discussion on Omeka.

FreERMS project – Touro College Libraries development of a Electronic Resource Management System – open source.

• uses PHP Symfony
• jQuery Theme Roller for dynamic Tabs and Accordion style link expansions

CakePHP – PHP Application Framework

• Columbia example

Mapping WorldCat Holdings

• Using a standard number via the API to find the closest holding library – Google Maps API, WorldCat Registry/Search, xOCLCNUM, SIMILE Exhibit
• Using Python – geopy, web.py

I haven’t written a darn thing here in almost a year.  So…I figured it is about time.  Funny thing is I managed to keep the software up to date.

I’m presently reading a book Productive Programmer by Neal Ford (Safari Tech).  I’ve barely gone through one chapter, since I found it at Princeton Public Library the day my LIS classes were to start.  Anyway, it has a lot of tips for doing things faster, so you have more time and are more efficient while programming (or just wastin’ time on the ‘puter).    I installed Enzo Launcher (Windows) which can launch apps and open folders for you simply by holding CAPS LOCK and typing a command (either built in or learned).  Seems fairly decent so far, but I don’t think as robust as QuickSilver is for the Mac.