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Youtube API and cURL

cdunne — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:32:42 +0000

I was recently working with the YouTube API, and was having some frustrations getting a particular piece of data I was looking for. After a bit of Googling, I quickly discovered that other people were having a similar issue. I…

SIP Strings For Patron Accounts

cdunne — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:07:00 +0000

Previously, we’ve looked at how to make our web server talk to our SIP server, and how to make PHP talk to our SIP server. Let’s start to retrieve some…

Connect To SIP With PHP

cdunne — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:02:55 +0000

Last time, we took a look at how to make sure your web server can see your SIP server. This time, we’re going to carry on with actually making the two talk to each other.

Conceptually, all…

How To Connect To SIP

cdunne — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:24:41 +0000

This post is the start of a series. I’m going to be releasing all of the bits and pieces that make up the online payments system at my library. It should be a good model for most libraries to follow,…

Hitler Get’s Hacked

cdunne — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:59:18 +0000

Note, NSFW language in the subtitles.

This video has so much truth behind it, that I wanted to pass it along to other developers considering certain frameworks on the market.

It’s also hilarious.

Acknowledgement: I got this by way…

Aggregating ISBNs From Horizon

cdunne — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:21:57 +0000

I’m working on creating a spreadsheet that will be imported into another application. The format for the spreadsheet is fairly picky, as it expects to match titles, authors, ISBNs, etc. The problem is that it wants each bib to be…

Pretty Search Results

cdunne — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:53:45 +0000

Something that I do quite commonly is link to a search result. This might be linking to a collection, linking to a subject heading, linking to multiple subject headings, or linking to something that is heavily faceted.

This can often…

Get Jacket Covers From BC API

cdunne — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:45:22 +0000

Here is a little function for getting jacket covers from the BiblioCommons API.

I keep a folder with functions like this, so that I’m never re-writing code to retreive data from the API. It’s also handy in…

Adding BiblioCommons Widgets To Your Site

cdunne — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:35:37 +0000

I’ve had several libraries ask me about the carousel of items that we feature on our website at Oakville Public Library. Many seem to have difficulty setting this up.

Documentation

I think the problem really goes further…

Hello world!

cdunne — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:00:12 +0000

Herro World! This is my obligatory introduction post.

I am currently the web developer for a public library. A big part of library culture is sharing with other libraries, to help make the service better for all. Many libraries have…