Merlin Libraries

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Merlin 1.2

Merlin 1.2 03/31/2005 05:50 PM
Project management software exclusively for Mac OS X.

Update: Merlin 1.2

Update: Merlin 1.2 04/01/2005 11:56 AM
The project manager adds enhanced Gantt charts with interactive adjustments, new project views, improved performance, and other changes.

Merlin Reboot

Merlin Reboot 04/15/2004 10:17 AM

Update: Merlin 1.1

Update: Merlin 1.1 01/03/2005 12:45 PM
Merlin is a project management application that includes data, risk, and customer relations management along with traditional project management functions.

Merlin Generator

Merlin Generator 03/24/2005 11:56 AM
Sources Available

The amount of office space that
corporations allocate to their libraries
has fallen by 8.36% over the past five
years, according to a new survey of
corporate libraries "Corporate Library
Benchmarks, 2004-05 Edition" ISBN:
1-57440-069-X.

The amount of office space that
corporations allocate to their libraries
has fallen by 8.36% over the past five
years, according to a new survey of
corporate libraries "Corporate Library
Benchmarks, 2004-05 Edition" ISBN:
1-57440-069-X. 09/03/2004 02:51 AM
Reports on results of a major survey of corporate and other business libraries. Gives extensive data on management policies and practices and details on spending trends for salaries, electronic and print materials, and library services. [PRWEB Sep 3, 2004]

Merlin Computers launch new Website

Merlin Computers launch new Website 07/04/2004 04:04 AM
Times Of Malta Jul 4 2004 7:29AM GMT

A touch of Merlin magic at Jodrell

A touch of Merlin magic at Jodrell 05/18/2004 06:02 AM
Manchester Online May 18 2004 10:20AM GMT

Merlin Project Manager 1.2 (Default
branch)

Merlin Project Manager 1.2 (Default
branch) 04/16/2005 07:32 PM
Merlin is a project management application. Apart from the necessary and included functions for project management, Merlin offers important features which are needed during projects. Merlin contains a complete risk manager, a file manager with version control, and also an issue tracker. A specialized CRM is also firmly integrated in Merlin. Each activity and event can be sent to iCal. A specialized Web site created by Merlin offers an easy base for communication to project members working with other operating systems.

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Changes:
This release features a fully interactive Gantt-chart with labels and critical path, Spanish and Italian localizations, a resource-based view on a project, a multi-project-view, the ability to save projects as templates, highly increased performance, and more.

3 Hong Kong launches Merlin U530(TM)
UMTS wireless data card

3 Hong Kong launches Merlin U530(TM)
UMTS wireless data card 06/14/2004 11:41 AM
EMAILWIRE.com Jun 14 2004 3:39PM GMT

Novatel Wireless Announces New Orders
for over $7 Million of Market Leading
Merlin UMTS PC Card

Novatel Wireless Announces New Orders
for over $7 Million of Market Leading
Merlin UMTS PC Card 05/18/2004 07:34 PM
EMAILWIRE.com May 18 2004 11:19PM GMT

Merge old iPhoto libraries on CD with
iPhoto 5 libraries

Merge old iPhoto libraries on CD with
iPhoto 5 libraries 03/19/2005 02:40 AM
I had several iPhoto libraries burned to CD backups from iPhoto 3 or 4 that I wanted to merge with my nearly complete iPhoto 5 library. However, because I burned the libraries directly to CD from the Finder or Toast, and not ...

Libraries and the Internet

Libraries and the Internet 12/19/2004 03:00 PM
Kudos to Google and its new university allies -- including my alma mater, the University of Michigan, as well as Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford -- for their exciting project to open the stacks (Wall Street Journal, via Paul Kedrosky). It's a great day for the dissemination of knowledge! Bloggers from these institutions are relaying the emails received from their administrators: ...

New IM Record in Libraries

New IM Record in Libraries 03/14/2005 06:23 PM

I've been so short on time lately that I've been trying to avoid using what little blogging time I do have to simply repost what other library bloggers are already putting up. This one, however, was just too good to pass up.

when was the last time you had this kind of response to a new library service?

"Brian didn’t give me permission to publish a portion of his email, but I’m so excited about it I’m going to throw caution into the wind. He wrote [emphasis mine]:

'Rule number 1: Don’t send out IM reference fliers to every middle school and jr. high classroom on the same day!

Had to have been at least 100 IMs in the first 2 hours after the kiddies got home. For a while, I had about 20 IM windows up at once.' "

Someone recently observed that there are a lot of Eeyo res in the library community, but I think we can officially declare IM reference a Martha-Stewart-good-thing for (at least) public libraries and move it to Pooh status.

Cost of purchasing the AIM software: $0.
Cost of staff time to "man" the AIM service during those two hours: already paid for.
Satisfaction of having 100 kids respond positively and view the library in a new light: PRICELESS.

slack-get 0.3 (Libraries)

slack-get 0.3 (Libraries) 05/26/2004 10:49 PM
A tool like 'apt-get' for Slackware.

Essential in Libraries?

Essential in Libraries? 04/27/2004 10:48 PM
SMS an Essential Communication Tool

"The Mobile Data Association (MDA) reports that 2.1 billion text messages were sent in March 2004 in the U.K which is a 25% rise on the total from the same month last year.At present, on average, around 69 million text messages are sent each day in the UK.This article from the BBC states.'It is evident that in the last five years texting has grown from a popular craze among teenagers to an essential communication tool.'
Text messaging reaches new high" [Smart Mobs]

2D Graphics Libraries

2D Graphics Libraries 05/05/2004 07:45 PM

While platforms these days have fairly good 2D graphics support like Quartz on OSX, GDI+ on XP, and , and Gnome Canvas, developers like me often have to use third-party libraries for whatever reasons.  On Win32, for example, GDI+ support is missing in legacy platforms which means either giving up on fancy graphics, redistributing GDI+ binaries, use a third party library, or writing one yourself.  Writing one yourself is fun (I have done it a couple of times over 20 years) but, unless it offers some unique features, you'll always end up migrating to a third party library.

BTW, Flash has an excellent 2D graphics engine but it's lacks an API so it's like a sports car without a driving wheel.  Yes, you can embed the Flash ActiveX and generate SWF on-the-fly but it's unwieldy for dynamic interaction and even handling gets tricky.  Embedding Adobe SVG ActiveX is just as unwieldy if not more.

While there are proprietary 2D engines out there, typically written by a few guys at a small company, they tend to disappear within a couple of years, either bought by companies (i.e. Apple, Adobe, Macromind, and Microsoft), or abandoned out of lack of interest or workable revenue model.  Besides, they charge fairly steep fees so I tend to avoid them.

Out of all the freely available 2D libraries out there, Libart stands out in features and quality. It offers fast anti-aliased rendering and it's use in Gnome Canvas over the years means most of the bugs have already been stepped on.  Libart is also used to drive librsvg, a SVG engine, and Java 2D, Java's graphics API, although Sun made extensive changes to tap hardware acceleration.  While Libart can and has been used cross-platform, it's not exactly cakewalk to use in non-Linix platofrms.  Cairo has some interesting features and rising interest could mean it will replace Libart someday, but it's still in development.

Third-party 2D graphics library I really like these days is Anti-Grain Geometry (AGG) which, although dormant for the last two years, has been rejuvenated with the released of version 2.1.  AGG is written in C++ and uses templates extensively like ATL does.  AGG is lightweight, very fast, flexible, and full of features.  It even comes with a partial implementation of SVG viewer as an example.  AGG supports Win32, X11, and SDL as is.  It doesn't yet support features variable stroke effects like Creature House's Expression 3 engine and Fractal Design's Painter support but then it's just me being unreasonable. :-)

I should note that subpixel graphics was first done 20 years ago in Word Handler to display 70 columns of hi-res text on Apple II.Silicon Valley Systems, the company that published Word Handler, was based just 5 minutes from where I live now and I enjoy fond memories of working there every time I pass by the old office on El Camino.  I guess everybody remembers their first job.  LCD screens were just starting to replace LED on calculators at the time, so Steve Gibson and Microsoft ClearType can claim to be the first to use subpixel graphics on LCD screen.  Lenny Elekman, where are you now?

'UK libraries out of use by 2020'

'UK libraries out of use by 2020' 04/26/2004 09:46 PM
The public will stop using libraries if visitor numbers and book loans continue to fall, according to a new report.

slack-get 0.2 (Libraries)

slack-get 0.2 (Libraries) 05/04/2004 04:41 PM
A tool like 'apt-get' for Slackware.

NB Parser Libraries

NB Parser Libraries 06/11/2004 09:55 AM
Project started

It’s the Libraries, Stupid

It’s the Libraries, Stupid 06/09/2004 11:39 PM
Via Jeff Dillon, some insightful words on programming in Java and in the C#/.NET/Mono ecosystem. I hadn’t thought about it that way.

Echidna Libraries

Echidna Libraries 07/15/2004 07:16 AM
Added 8Bit Targa Support

"http://p2p.libraries.psu.edu/"

"http://p2p.libraries.psu.edu/" 11/18/2003 03:32 AM

England Libraries May All Get Wi-Fi

England Libraries May All Get Wi-Fi 12/04/2003 01:07 PM
The majority of libraries in England already have broadband access but now the government is working on adding Wi-Fi: Most of the libraries in King County, outside of Seattle, have Wi-Fi. It's a great, low-cost way for libraries to offer Internet access without having to provide computers for everyone. My library always has a line of people waiting to get on its computers so perhaps with Wi-Fi some people could come in with their own computers to use the Internet. But I wonder how many of the people I see waiting in line there actually have laptops that they could bring with them instead....

Libraries 8, Amazon 0

Libraries 8, Amazon 0 12/09/2003 12:13 PM

Have You Ever Wondered....

"Have you ever wondered if the library were like Amazon.com?" [The J-Walk Blog]

Salon in Libraries?

Salon in Libraries? 03/19/2003 10:45 PM

Last year I said I thought Salon should look into licensing content to libraries, and now they're finally doing something about it. Adrienne Crew, their Content Licensing Manager, sent me the following:

"Thought you'd like to know that Salon's Premium Institutional Subscription program for libraries is finally up and running.... Currently we are offering a one year subscription in the $300-400 range and feeds all access to the articles on the site via an IP authentication system or a single password."

More details as I get them.

PlanetaMessenger.org Libraries

PlanetaMessenger.org Libraries 11/01/2003 10:43 AM
JMML 0.4 released

YSL Coding Libraries

YSL Coding Libraries 12/11/2003 06:12 PM
Transfer of CVS repository in progress

Building Testing Libraries

Building Testing Libraries 05/07/2004 07:22 PM
Save time, test more, and use what the CPAN has made available to enhance your development. Casey West demonstrates examples of good techniques when testing Perl-based software.

Libraries and culture, from a trench

Libraries and culture, from a trench 07/02/2004 01:28 PM
Today (July 1, 2004) marks a new chapter for many libraries across the US of A. Today is the first day of mandatory Internet filtering, if your library accepts federal telecommunications funds. Mine does.

Libraries Wired, and Reborn

Libraries Wired, and Reborn 04/21/2004 09:03 PM
Public libraries have been transformed over the last decade as Internet - connected computers have increased their traffic - and, in some cases, even their book budgets.

Libraries try to fit into a Google world

Libraries try to fit into a Google world 06/21/2004 09:16 AM
Source: News.com - Librarians have increasingly seen people use online search sites not to supplement research libraries but to replace them....

Advice for Libraries from My Aggregator

Advice for Libraries from My Aggregator 04/29/2004 11:11 PM

PC Mag Says Death to 802.11b (Almost)
"PC Magazine rounds up several 802.11g routers, and says they're cheap enough, they're good enough: 802.11b no longer enjoys a large enough (or any) price differential for quality Wi-Fi gateways that include WPA encryption support, PC Mag says. So while you can still find 802.11b devices on the market, they recommend new gear have 802.11g built in...." [Wi-Fi Networking News]
Lesson: Make sure you buy 802.11g for your library.

Making CD-R's Last
"From Doug Kaye I learned of an interesting article on how long CD-R's will last and things you can do to increase or decrease that time. I've always just popped down to Staples and bought the cheapest disks I could find. For some of my uses (the latest Suse distro, for example) that's fine. But this article makes the point that if you're using the disk to archive important material, you need to be more careful. The article contains information on how to select good media and media that's appropriate for the drive that you'll be recording on. This may be especially important for organizations building large collections of CD-R's that they need to keep to meet regulatory or other business requirements." [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]
Lesson: If your library is using CD-Rs for backups, archiving, or preservation, pick the right ones!

Google to index libraries

Google to index libraries 12/17/2004 06:37 PM

In yeste rday's link dump, I inexplicitly buried a link to the big news about Google's plan to index the books at The Libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and The New York Public Library. Wow!

In the meantime, Microsoft released a toolbar suite. Uhmmm, wow?

Note to Microsoft: I like your OS, but you're falling waaay yy behind.

BBC NEWS | UK | 'UK libraries out of use
by 2020'

BBC NEWS | UK | 'UK libraries out of use
by 2020' 04/28/2004 11:04 PM
die britischen Bibliotheken im Jahre 2020 unbenutzt seien .. 'UK libraries out of use by 2020' .. failing users .. BBC

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3661831.stm
track this site | 5 links

CyberInfrastructure Needs Libraries and
Archives

CyberInfrastructure Needs Libraries and
Archives 07/12/2004 06:00 AM
CyberInfrastructure Needs Libraries and Archives
http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues40.html#comm

A new American Council of Learned Societies initiative provides a unique opportunity for libraries and archives to collaborate with scholars in defining the requirements of the new digital infrastructure -- what the National Science Foundation calls the "cyberinfrastructure." Libraries and archives are asked to redefine their roles, responsibilities and funding strategies while focusing on the needs of scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Humanists, social scientists and engineers will define and build this infrastructure to meet the needs of researchers and scholars in all disciplines. The ACLS commission's areas of emphasis will be applications like Geographic Information Systems, three-dimensional modeling of built environments, and text mining -- ones that have already begun to change the ways in which scholars interrogate primary sources. Libraries and archives are encouraged to attend public information-gathering sessions, participate in discussions, and contribute to the commission's work. The commission is especially interested in these groups' understanding of the impact of current intellectual property and privacy rights on access to information; the value of standards for information markup and searching; the need for interoperable information technology systems; and the imperative of preservation in a world of scholarly inquiry founded on an uninterrupted record of research.

Robots get bookish in libraries

Robots get bookish in libraries 07/21/2004 04:21 AM
BBC Jul 21 2004 8:39AM GMT

None of which Could *Possibly* Apply to
Libraries, Too

None of which Could *Possibly* Apply to
Libraries, Too 06/09/2004 06:58 PM
The Internet Search on Mobile Race

"IDC analyst Mr Keith Wayras expects 30 million people, or 17 per cent of US mobile subscribers, to use the web on phones in 2006,while currently in Japan about 44.8 million people, or 58 per cent of internet users, access the web on their mobile phones.Internet access will be available on most of the approx 600 million mobile phones expected to be sold worldwide this year.While it is already possible to run a Google search on phones, it is not always easy with websites built for desktop computers and not small-screened devices.This article says that "Google itself said in April that if it doesn't launch products that improve Web searches on handheld devices, it will fail to win a significant share of an increasingly important part of the online market."The article goes on to analyse Microsoft,Yahoo and AOL's moves in the internet search on mobile race.
Google could change the wireless internet" [Smart Mobs]

Webl0gs: Do They Belong in Libraries?

Webl0gs: Do They Belong in Libraries? 08/01/2004 06:44 AM
Weblogs: Do They Belong in Libraries?
htt p://www.ariadne.ac.uk/area-dna-155ue40/public-libraries/

Penny Garrod takes a look at weblogs and weblogging activities in libraries and considers some of the ways they can be used to support public library users.
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qmwedit

qmwedit 01/07/2005 04:41 AM
I'm back!!!

Binary XML

Binary XML 10/28/2003 11:07 PM

Mig uel comments on the "Binary XML" postings from Omri and Dare, pointing out that only two standards would probably be needed (one for size, one for speed) to cover the majority of scenarios.  I think this is correct, but in my opinion it's not the number of encodings that is a problem, but simply the existence of any "standard" encoding beyond XML 1.0.

If you can remember just five short years ago, it was once a major decision for IT developers to choose what encoding to persist and send their data:

• Should it be fixed-width or delimited?
• Should it be delimited with tabs or commas?  What about quotes?
• Should it be binary or text?  ASN.1? DXF? IGES?

Every system used a different encoding technique, and every time you wanted to interop you had to write a parser.  Most of us have written at least a few parsers for formats like IGES, W3C Log File, and so on.  How much money was wasted by people writing parsers?

Now fast-forward to 2003.  When a system developer thinks about persisting and sharing data, she automatically thinks "XML".  In 90% of cases, XML is the obvious choice and no debate occurs.  Do you think that this happens because XML is a superior format based on size, speed, or any othe technical criteria compared to the options available in 1998?  Of course not!  XML is the obvious choice because programmers are lazy, many parsers are freely available, and it's "good enough" for most uses.  The fact that XML is ubiquitous leads to plenty of parsing options being available, and more parsing options and tools leads to greater ubiquity.  Developers can use XML in most cases and be confident that everyone else in the world will be able to parse out their data with trivial effort.  Developers can argue about data schemas now instead of wasting time bickering about parser code and syntaxes.  This is a huge contribution!

The thing that many people fail to understand, though, is that none of this virtuous cycle could exist if XML parsers were not trustworthy.  XML depends on the fact that well-formed XML can be processed by any parser, and non-wellformed XML can be processed by none.  People deploy XML because they know it will "just work" no matter which parser is being used.  People deploy XML because they know it will work no matter whether it is IBM or Microsoft in favor that week.  Nothing about XML matters more than this promise matters.

So, consider what happens when we introduce some new encodings which are not wellformed XML 1.0, but we call them "XML" anyway.  When Jane in the IT department configures her EDI software to send an "XML" file to a partner, and the partner's machine rejects it, who is to blame?  Jane will claim that "my vendor says that XML 1.0bin is a W3C spec, so your vendor is non-standard", while the partner will claim "my vendor accepts XML 1.0 so your vendor is non-standard".  In fact, it is quite likely that vendors with multiple XML-enabled products would end up in situations where their own products failed to communicate with one another.  Note that this danger exists with any variations from XML 1.0, and not just "binary XML".

Reasonable people might argue that this is OK, and that IT pros will simply have to learn to distinguish between the four different incompatible types of XML (XML 1.0, XML 1.1, XMLfast, XMLsmall) and will have to manage the compatibility mismatches between all of their systems.  But that starts to look a lot like 1998 to me.  Developers will bicker about which XML to use, and will have to switch parsers based on the choice of data format.  Systems will have to offer and consume multiple formats and negotiate formats between one another.  I have a good memory, and I remember how badly things used to suck.  Having a solid, reliable "obvious choice" like XML 1.0 means freedom from pain for millions of developers.  Let's please don't mess with that too hastily.

Binary Boy v1.94

Binary Boy v1.94 05/17/2004 03:15 PM
Download files from multiple news servers or from other users. Subject cache speeds up searches and preserves bandwidth. NZB support. Browse manually or schedule a search to collect files while you sleep. Hyper-Threading compatible. Search using single words, wildcards or AND, OR and NOT logic. Apply custom search rules to each newsgroup. Decode damaged or incomplete mpg movies for previewing. yEnc, MIME, QP-Lite, etc. [Shareware $29.95 30 Days 768 KB]

Convert-Binary-C-0.48

Convert-Binary-C-0.48 11/02/2003 10:51 PM

Convert-Binary-C-0.54

Convert-Binary-C-0.54 07/01/2004 05:43 AM

Binary Converter

Binary Converter 01/05/2004 01:28 PM
Pardon my dust...

Convert-Binary-C-0.53

Convert-Binary-C-0.53 05/25/2004 05:55 PM

Convert-Binary-C-0.52

Convert-Binary-C-0.52 05/25/2004 12:39 AM

Parse-Binary-0.02

Parse-Binary-0.02 02/13/2004 06:37 PM

Parse-Binary-0.01

Parse-Binary-0.01 02/13/2004 06:37 PM

Parse-Binary-0.03

Parse-Binary-0.03 02/14/2004 06:32 PM

Parse-Binary-0.04

Parse-Binary-0.04 02/15/2004 11:45 PM

Parse-Binary-0.06

Parse-Binary-0.06 02/17/2004 06:25 PM

Binary Vortex v2.8

Binary Vortex v2.8 04/25/2004 07:17 PM
BinaryVortex pulls down pictures from Usenet Newsgroups. It is fast, efficient, reliable and easy to use. You can be up and running with BinaryVortex after typing in only a few simple setup options. [Shareware $19.95 30 days 779 KB]

Tree-Binary-0.01

Tree-Binary-0.01 08/12/2004 06:18 AM

SendDiff 1.0 (Binary)

SendDiff 1.0 (Binary) 08/18/2004 01:12 AM
A script that provides notification about any change in a CVS repository.

Binary Search

Binary Search 02/21/2003 01:09 AM
Programmers can be so damned stupid sometimes. Take me for example. I've been working to optimize and adjust some code at work. I can't tell you what it does but I can tell you that it's too slow and uses...

SendDiff 1.3 (Binary)

SendDiff 1.3 (Binary) 09/08/2004 10:59 AM
A script that provides notification about any change in a CVS repository.

Convert-Binary-C-0.56

Convert-Binary-C-0.56 09/19/2004 05:41 AM

Parse-Binary-0.08

Parse-Binary-0.08 09/08/2004 10:35 AM

Parse-Binary-0.05

Parse-Binary-0.05 02/16/2004 06:41 PM

SendDiff 1.2 (Binary)

SendDiff 1.2 (Binary) 09/01/2004 09:55 AM
A script that provides notification about any change in a CVS repository.

Tree-Binary-0.04

Tree-Binary-0.04 08/31/2004 05:19 PM

Binary DB insertion using PHP

Binary DB insertion using PHP 10/02/2002 01:58 PM

Convert-Binary-C-0.55

Convert-Binary-C-0.55 08/22/2004 05:23 PM

binary-clock 0.5

binary-clock 0.5 09/08/2004 12:30 PM
A console-based binary clock.

OpenBSD binary patches

OpenBSD binary patches 05/05/2004 07:56 PM
An alternative and convenient way for patching OpenBSD systems when sufficient resources are not available for patching the source tree.

Scripting a Binary Tree Using Tcl

Scripting a Binary Tree Using Tcl 02/01/2005 09:17 PM
Michael J. Norton: "But here's a thought that will surely make the pragmatic C programmer's head spin. I'm going to put the Tcl language to work with managing binary trees. I hope that concept didn't give any of you compiler pilots whiplash."

Binary distribution moves

Binary distribution moves 03/13/2003 10:15 AM
The Fink binary distribution has moved to a new location. All Fink users wishing to use the binary distribution will have to make sure they are using the new binary distribution (many of you already are using it, maybe without even noticing). If you want to know how to switch and why we do this, read more here..

"Iraq did not have such binary shells"

"Iraq did not have such binary shells" 05/23/2004 03:21 PM

Merlin Libraries

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