Monthly Archives: January 2009

Confluence: Sustainable community

By jts | Published: January 9, 2009
Collecting some thoughts here: This edition of E2 almost makes me wish we’d moved to Portland 10 years ago when we were considering it.  What’s most inspiring is that the city commissioners, mayor, and other spearheaders interviewed don’t just talk about emissions and traffic, but about reviving the city while also drawing boundaries to preserve farmland [...]
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Drupal: Display a taxonomy as a faceted list in a panel

By jts | Published: January 8, 2009
I need a way to display taxonomy terms as a filtered menu/list within a panel. Ideally, I’d use Faceted Search but it doesn’t seem to hook into Panels and take advantage of the context.  I can’t send it a Term ID as an argument and have it automatically filter other vocabularies accordingly.  Here are the [...]
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Research Data in the Cloud

By jts | Published: January 6, 2009
Although I haven’t really dabbled with AWS I do know anecdotally that it appears to be gaining ground among the library computing community for hosting (meta) data sets and experimental projects.  I have also heard rumors of adoption of AWS by my employer. Having been a frequent reader of Deepak Singh’s business|bytes|genes|molecules blog over the last [...]
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