Behind the Curtain
In about every meeting or presentation we participate in, we’re asked about the PINES/Evergreen servers, what they are, where they live, how many there are… basically, what is behind the green curtain? Some PINES librarians that attended the focus group meetings we held in February got an opportunity to take a tour of the datacenter … Continue Reading about Behind the Curtain →
A few quick platform updates
We’ve decided to move all RDBMS development to MySQL. MS Sequel Server was a close second, but since Oracle bought up all the MySQL storage engines of consequence, what could go wrong?!?! We’ll be moving all first generation OpenSRF applications to Python, because, well, I was wrong. Whitespace is syntax. Also, no more JSON. We’re … Continue Reading about A few quick platform updates →
Evergreen Pre-Beta Release
The Evergreen Pre-Beta is here. For the impatient that just want to jump in: the OPAC is at http://demo.gapines.org. We strongly recommend Firefox when viewing the OPAC. The staff client is available for download from http://www.open-ils.org/cvs.html. Okay, for those that are still reading: there is still a ton of work to do before Evergreen hits … Continue Reading about Evergreen Pre-Beta Release →