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Mongrel Cluster as a service on Solaris 10

By jts | Published: April 1, 2009
I was excited to finally get Bibapp installed and running on a local Solaris 10 test server. The installation instructions for Bibapp are very good and certainly sufficient for testing if you’re a SSH user. However, as soon as you unleash it on your staff or development team you’ll find as I did [...]
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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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Best of JA-SIG 2008

By jts | Published: April 30, 2008
Lots of great Open Source and Community Source work was showcased at JA-SIG this week. Here’s a list, in no particular order, of the most interesting, most relevant projects for me: OpenCollection collections management and online access application for museums, archives and digital collections. Sophie software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. SEASR/NEMA rich media [...]
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Tip: Add .Mac iCal to Google Calendar

By jts | Published: January 30, 2008
If Google Calendar is your primary calendaring spot but you also need to keep track of events in a Mac group, you can subscribe GCal to a .Mac calendar like so:1. Visit your .Mac group calendar2. In the left-hand column there’s a “Subscribe” link and a “Download” link.  Copy the URL for the “Download” link.3. Go to your [...]
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Drupal for OPAC

By jts | Published: January 30, 2008
I wish this was around when I was working with a Millennium system. Of course, it still would have been hard to use since we were in a Microsoft-only shop. I wonder if it’s adaptable to Voyager?
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