I haven’t broken radio silence in a while so I thought I would have a general discussion of some of the fun code I’ve been exploring. OPAC development has been interesting as of late in part because of its evolution into an almost fully dynamic client side application. Our extensive use of JSON and XMLHTTPRequest … Continue Reading about Fun with Javascript and JSON →
Getting along with the neighbors
If you had asked me three weeks ago how one might go about creating a federated search interface that could intelligently combine the results from academic and public libraries, I would have shrugged. If you had then asked how one might go about integrating search results from other sources, such as online journal indexes, weblogs, … Continue Reading about Getting along with the neighbors →
Filler
So I’ve been pretty slack about posting dev stuff as of late. I can blame most of my silence on being busy writing code, but I won’t have that excuse pretty soon. With any luck we’ll be able to slow down a bit after July (watch for the alpha release!) and I’ll get to do … Continue Reading about Filler →
Circulation Demo Release
The Evergreen software development team has spent the past couple of days attending the PINES Annual Membership meeting and demonstrating the progress we’ve made so far with Evergreen. We are now ready to release the circulation demo to everyone, and instructions are below for accessing the software. Also, on a related topic, we’ve come to … Continue Reading about Circulation Demo Release →
Development Schedule Update
After some discussion here at PINES central, we’ve decided it would be advantageous to change the release date for the Evergreen Circulation Demo to coincide with the PINES Annual Membership meeting. Our original release date was May 13th. We have decided to change the release date to May 18th, the day that the Evergreen development … Continue Reading about Development Schedule Update →
Cataloging Demo Release
We’re very proud to announce the release of the Evergreen Cataloging (Pre-Alpha) Demo. Again, this is a pre-alpha version meant simply for demonstration and proof of concept. There are many, many bugs in this release, and it has limited functionality. The purpose for this release is to gather feedback and to determine if we’re generally … Continue Reading about Cataloging Demo Release →