Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Thoughts on crosswalking

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For the second Integrating Digital Papyrology project, we need to develop a method for crosswalking between EpiDoc (which is a dialect of TE...
Monday, October 20, 2008

On Bamboo the 2nd

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I spent Thursday - Saturday last week at the second Bamboo workshop in San Francisco. So some reactions: 1) The organizers are well-intenti...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Go Zotero!

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The Thomson Reuters lawsuit against the developers of Zotero is getting a lot of notice , which is good. I've noticed that in the lib...
Friday, August 15, 2008

Back from Balisage

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I never made it to Extreme, Balisage's predecessor, despite wanting to very badly, so I'm very glad I did go to its new incarnation....
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Balisage Presentation online

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I just rsynced up my presentation on linking manuscript images to transcriptions using SVG for Balisage , that I gave this morning. It'...
Saturday, May 31, 2008

New TransCoder release

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This is something I've been meaning to wrap up and write up for a while now: thanks to the Duke Integrating Digital Papyrology grant fr...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

D·M·S· Allen Ross Scaife 1960-2008

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On Saturday afternoon, March 15th, I learned that my friend Ross had died that morning after a long and hard-fought struggle with cancer. H...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Catching up

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My New Year's resolution was to write more, and specifically to blog more, but so far all of my writing has been internally focussed at ...
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Monday, October 22, 2007

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I've been at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science since yesterday, presenting on the Colonial and State Re...
Monday, May 21, 2007

Note to job seekers

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When applying for a programming job, listing Dreamweaver as a skill is an automatic 50 demerits.
Thursday, March 01, 2007

I'm going to be a digital librarian!

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As of March 15th, I will be working for the UNC Library as a digital library programmer. I'm going to miss Lulu a lot. It's been...
Tuesday, February 06, 2007

How has Ruby blown your mind?

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... asks Pat Eyler I had the opportunity to learn Ruby as part of a work project last year and was immediately impressed by its object-orien...
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Saturday, January 20, 2007

Prototype grows up

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http://prototypejs.org is the new site for Prototype 1.5. As the Ajaxian blog noted: Now with Documentation ! Of course, Prototype always...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

XSL-FO 2.0 Workshop 2006

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International Workshop on the future of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL-FO) Version 2.0 XSL-FO 2.0 Workshop 2006 I have two suggesti...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Boycott Blackboard!

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I knew Blackboard had a patent application for their LMS, but apparently it has been granted and their first act was to file a lawsuit agai...
Friday, October 21, 2005

Google Library

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I just read John Battelle's post on the AAP's lawsuit. The comments are particularly interesting, with a couple of very strident o...
Thursday, April 28, 2005

When SEOs Attack

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Search Engine Foo: iUniverse Book Publishing: Book Publisher for Self Publishing and Print on Demand . Care to guess what terms they're...
Friday, March 18, 2005

Writing Code

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I'm coming to the conclusion that writing code, as an activity, really is like writing prose. I find myself treating code projects just ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Tagging Notes

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From a conversation this afternoon: the tags used in folksonomies are deliberately stupid. They are atomic units of information. So a tag ca...

adaptive path » ajax: a new approach to web applications

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adaptive path » ajax: a new approach to web applications . Web application development is starting to get really exciting again. The funny...