I’m back from ALA. What a time! It was the first ALA conference I’ve been to and, I must say, I was amazed at the sheer number of librarians (I’ve been to AALL and MLA, but they aren’t anywhere near as large). It was a bit mind boggling, to me, to see librarians at every [...]
Archives for June 2005
Relevance In Time?
Update: The following was written when this weblog was called Kevin’s Worklog (and my personal journal was called The Bruised Edge). Now this is called The Bruised Edge and my personal journal is Kevin’s Journal. Confusing, I know… anyway, here it is. Interesting… I recently changed the URL of my worklog from “/worklog” to “/weblog” [...]
Funny Quote
Very funny quote on object-oriented design… Imagine if the Perl cafe and Javahut were across the street from each other. You walk into Javahut, and ask to sit down. “I’m sorry,” says the person at the door. I’m not actually the hostess, I’m a Factory class that can give you a hostess if you tell [...]
SVG Open 2005
Hooray! I’ve been approved to attend SVG Open this year. It looks like a very interesting conference. We are not currently doing anything with SVG (I’d be interested to hear from libraries who are), but are very interested by many of the possibilities that it offers. We currently have an image navigator/page-turning site, but there [...]
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