Since Code4Lib, we’ve made a few significant changes to the 0.8.5 alpha tag.  Many of these are related to issues due to migrating to Rails 2.0, including issues with some pagination, changes to how rails handles posted data and then my favorite, issues with Rails defaulting to ActiveRecord caching (something that’s generally desireable, but causes […]

At present, I’m wrapping up the back-end changes to what will be LibraryFind 0.8.5.  Yup, we’ll be skipping 0.8.4 in part because I’d like the release point to represent the broadness of the changes being made.  In fact, had the UI portions of the code been modified to completely support the new back-end searching, we’d […]

One of the things I was really impressed with while attending DLF was the presentation on the lightweight web platform being built at NCSU.  Leveraging their endeca catalog, the folks at NCSU have been able to produce a set of REST-based api for querying the catalog.  With those services, they’ve designed a mobile interface and […]

At some point, I’ll likely move this to the LibraryFind blog.  I just realized that I couldn’t remember my login information to post to the blog — so, I’ll post here.
I’m not exactly sure if the UI changes will be made in 0.8.4 to incorporate the new spawning/pinging (I think that they will), but the […]

Jeremy I’m sure will get the tgz version of the file up and ready on the LF site soon, but the 0.8.3 instance of libraryfind has been tagged.  If you are interested in finding out more about libraryfind, see: http://www.libraryfind.org.
 
–TR

I still have to create the tar-ball, but I’ve officially tagged 0.8.2.  This includes a number of fixes, as well as the inclusion of the smart_session_store plugin.  This plugin was necessary to solve some sessioning issues caused by timing, and our Ajax implementation. 
–TR

I’ve been profiling CSA for LibraryFind and have had to deal with the SUTRS format.  I hate it.  How this is easier than MARC or XML…Anyway, it just had to be said.
 
–TR

I’ve been spending time this weekend refactoring a major piece of the LibraryFind code partly in an effort to make it easier to add protocol classes.  This change affects a lot of the current API code-base, but the biggest change comes in the meta_search.rb file where nearly all the business logic relating to searching, etc. […]