a peek at implementing a feature in Evergreen
In PINES, catalogers work mostly through OCLC, so the functionality for directly creating local MARC records was always being pushed low on my priority list. But today is their lucky day, and perhaps an unlucky day for you, because I’m going to share some of the process. 😀 Warning: If you’re not a software developer, … Continue Reading about a peek at implementing a feature in Evergreen →
Escape!
In case anybody happens to need some C that can take a char* and encode any UTF-8 byte sequences in there (as I needed to — our cribbed UTF-8 encoder proved brittle), here’s a little bit of code that may help. It’s probably more verbose than it needs to be, but it works — and … Continue Reading about Escape! →
Insert Clever Snake Metaphor
In an effort to maintain some mental stimulation while we go through our post-migration shake-down (i.e. Bugzilla and feature request wrangling), I’ve decided to learn Python in the off-hours. I also figured while I was at it, I might as well get some useful code out of it.