Dan Scott


About Dan Scott

I'm the systems librarian for Laurentian University, with a background in information architecture, database software development, and project planning from spending 8 years with IBM.

Heads-up: PostgreSQL security release coming on April 4, 2013

As Evergreen is built with PostgreSQL at the core, the following PostgreSQL news announcement should be of concern to Evergreen administrators: Upcoming PostgreSQL Security Release: April 4, 2013 Posted on 2013-03-28 The PostgreSQL Global Development Group will be releasing a security update for all supported versions on Thursday April 4th, […]


Google Summer of Code 2012 wrap-up: thank you!

‘Tis the season to give thanks for all that we have been fortunate to receive over the past year! Well, actually, as a Canadian that time was well over a month ago, and even the Americans in the crowd celebrated Thanksgiving last week. Given my tardiness, I hope it’s not […]


OpenSRF 2.1.2 release

OpenSRF 2.1.2 As of November 18, 2012, the OpenSRF 2.1.2 release is available for download from the OpenSRF downloads page. This release corrects a problem where OpenSRF clients were unable to access the shared configuration section of opensrf_core.xml, resulting in errors. The most commonly observed symptom of this problem was […]