Thursday, May 5, 2022

Spring Check-In

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In February, when we realized this year's Ruby and Rails EOLs had significant implications for our shop, I tilted a lot of effort toward...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

ActiveRecord, SQLite, URI Database name tokens

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Blogging an answer I posted at Stack Overflow : I ran into an issue recently with a library I was testing - the in-memory SQLite database wa...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Featured Searches in a Blacklight/Solr Web Application

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We've been working on a project to allow a Solr-backed application (an institutional repository built on Blacklight ) to display configu...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

Follow up on pulling Internet Archive ebooks data for reuse

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Following up on  a recent post  - and making belated good on a promise to a colleague, sorry Alex! I touched on pagination in that post, ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Numpy Surprise: "Non-string object detected for the array ordering. Please pass in 'C', 'F', 'A', or 'K' instead"

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You've got to hand it to the numpy contributors, it's a pretty forthright error message. If you are working with some old python an...
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Monday, May 11, 2020

Rough and Ready Guide to Pulling Columbia University Libraries eBooks from IA for Reuse

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As the basis for the examples here, I am referring to Columbia University Libraries' Muslim World Manuscripts upload, browsable at https...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

A Job on a Team I know Very Well

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This post will be elaborated ASAP, but I'm excited to start describing a job on the team I manage: https://opportunities.columbia.edu/...