Archives for March 2005

Details, Details, Details

Note to proprietary software developers: if you throw an exception put some details in there about the values of the variables involved with the exception. Telling me something doesn’t compare but not telling me what was being compared is not much use. Reason number 433 that I like open source software… I could just put [...]

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MARC Down

Lorcan Dempsey has posted about the recent XML4LIB discussions. He highlights one posting that escaped my notice (because, to be honest, I was originally trying to avoid jumping into the discussion). He says (of someone else who posted on the topic): “He reminds people of the three layers in the classical library metadata stack: encoding [...]

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