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Last Day at NRCan Library

Posted in Evergreen, VuFind, tagged , on December 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Today is technically the last day of my co-op placement at the NRCan Library. It has been a fantastic four months and, frankly, I’m not looking forward to heading back for my final MLIS term in January.
Not willing to let the work go just yet, I’ve put in a few longer days this week. I’ve [...]

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“Vulnerability Freedom Day” for Firefox and IE

Posted in Applications, tagged , , , , on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I saw this marketing graphic on the Mozilla Europe site this morning and thought it wonderfully clear and simple (kind of like a “Tax Freedom Day” calendar).

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Major Security Flaw in MS IE

Posted in Applications, tagged , , , , , on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just in case you were looking for a reason to finally switch to an open source web browser, it turns out that a(nother) major security vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Internet Explorer. From the BBC:
As many as 10,000 websites have been compromised since the vulnerability was discovered, he said.
“What we’ve seen from the exploit [...]

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Evergreen Driver for VuFind

Posted in Evergreen, VuFind, tagged , , on December 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It has been a while since I started thinking of adding an Evergreen ILS driver to VuFind. After months of neglect, last week I picked up the latest version (1.0-RC1) and continued writing it up.
Currently, holdings info from Evergreen is displayed when viewing records and I’ve added support for ILS authentication. Patrons can log in [...]

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My Final MLIS Term Takes Shape

Posted in School, tagged , on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I drove down to London (Ont.) this weekend to look for an apartment/sublet. The entire trip was a bit of a fiasco but I managed to find a place and get home at a decent time on Sunday (despite localized snowstorms over Ottawa and London during both voyages – fortunately the road between them was [...]

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Evergreen for Canadians

Posted in Evergreen, tagged on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last week, I submitted a large set of updates for Evergreen’s fr-CA translation. There’s still a few more to do but the bulk of the new strings are now ready (including the new Conify and Vandelay interfaces, which are completely done).
While mucking about with the fr-CA PO files, I also opportunistically went in and did [...]

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