Oh, thank heavens I'm not the only one who noticed the bug in WIRED. Go ahead, read the code and see if you can spot the problem. As a veteran of Atari BASIC, I frowned instantly.

The article, Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World (printed as "The Ages of Innovation"), is about chronological age and technology leadership.


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With #code4lib's help, I've now got an XSLT stylesheet that lets browsers turn the existing RSS feed into something resembling HTML. This is a big step for all of the work I'm planning to do, since it means I can apply that knowledge to all the rest of the XSLT stuff ( Read more... )

My Perl script returns valid RSS for items added in the last 7 days at any given SunCat library. I need to make it cache results and use the cache, or else I can't share the URL without getting our database slammed by broken RSS aggregators querying once per minute. But I've got valid RSS, which is a good start.

Next parts of the project:

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I'm trying to install DBD::ODBC so I can use ODBC-Sybase to make some interesting additions to our drab catalog. Sadly, it's becoming so much of a PITA that I'm already tempted to backtick a call to isql, which just seems like the Wrong Way.

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This is extraordinary. In just one day, I appear to have been able to learn to program the PSC Falcon PT40 barcode scanner and write a program that gathers barcodes in the very peculiar format required by HorizonThey've got a very good tutorial file, but I'm still surprised I caught on so quickly because I've never programmed like this before. It ( Read more... )