Category Archives: Scripting

oh.. ouch… ajax slammed

robinna/ September 10, 2007/ Scripting, web 2.0+/ 2 comments

The Web and AJAX have many deficiencies, including security holes, and much more needs to be done to iron out these problems, according to a keynote speaker at The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday evening After taking the audience through a history of computing interfaces beginning with Hollerith cards to time-sharing and finally to the

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migrating to a new user name in blogger.

robinna/ September 1, 2007/ Scripting, tools/tips, web 2.0+/ 0 comments

I started blogging at blogger long before google purchased it. Once google purchased it, users were given the option of continuing to blog the old way, or move on over to the google way. To entice people to move on over to the g way, google offered enhanced blogger with lots more functionality (widgets!!!!!!!! love widgets. thank you ajax. another

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Mini presentation on Web 2.0 technologies

robinna/ August 21, 2007/ software, Libraries, publishing, social media, semantic web, Design, my projects, Scripting, XHTML/XML/CSS, Training, web 2.0+, networking/ 0 comments

Overview What we are doing IM External (Chat Ref) Internal (Serials, Ref) Blogs Del.icio.us The cataloging del.icio.us page has been up for about a month. We have 7 users linked to this page and we will be in a list of libraries using del.icio.us in Library Journal http://del.icio.us/url/db7b6b3059612ca00876d4a393f3747c Wikis External (FAQs) Internal (Reference, Serials Cataloging) Looking to the future Higher

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tag you’re it..

robinna/ January 19, 2007/ Libraries, Scripting, web 2.0+/ 0 comments

Here are a couple of swell ideas about tagging the library catalog. The first generates tags based upon subject headings from the catalog by using a particular table in the db. http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/127/ and then there are user contributed tags:http://tags.library.upenn.edu/ It seems that ajax is the magic.