Latest Additions: www.footnotez.org http://www.footnotez.org/feed/ 2008-11-20T14:48:05+01:00 text/html 2008-11-13T16:35:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/programming-citations/#1 The perl function below takes a call number (with some level of sloppiness) and returns a string suitable for comparisons with other strings returned by the function. text/html 2008-11-10T19:24:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/programming-citations/#2 In two previous post ("When Basket Checkout isn't RESTful" and "What a RESTful Basket Checkout might look like") I have referred to the question of where basket state should be stored in a RESTful system. A number of conversations have ensued from these posts that I feel warrant a deeper post specifically about this question. text/html 2008-10-21T08:36:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/programming-citations/#3 The goal of MARC4J is to provide an easy to use Application Programming Interface (API) for working with MARC and MARCXML in Java. MARC stands for MAchine Readable Cataloging and is a widely used exchange format for bibliographic data. MARCXML provides a loss-less conversion between MARC (MARC21 but also other formats like UNIMARC) and XML. text/html 2008-09-23T06:16:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/programming-citations/#4 This one goes out to all of the MacOS X users out there. (For the rest of you, why aren't you switching?) Perhaps you have seen PocketMod -- the origami-like manipulation of an 8 1/2" by 11" piece of paper into an 8-page booklet. Example PocketMod, court text/html 2008-09-07T13:19:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/programming-citations/#5 From: Asshole Driven development (ADD) - Any team where the biggest jerk makes all the big decisions is asshole driven development. All wisdom, logic or process goes out the window when Mr. Asshole is in the room, doing whatever idiotic, selfish thing he thinks is best. There may rules and processes, but Mr. A breaks them and people follow anyway.