Unsung Koha Heroes – 18
Glen Stewart Glen Stewart was the first developer outside of Katipo to submit code to Koha. To this day, nearly 10 years later, the code he wrote for decoding cuecat barcodes is still being used. Glen was only involved in Koha for about 6 months but by being the first contributor outside of the original [...]
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Playing with plackup
I spent a little time playing with plack again this weekend, first I benchmarked apache2. Benchmarking opac.koha.workbuffer.org (be patient) Server Software: Apache/2.2.12 Server Hostname: opac.koha.workbuffer.org Server Port: 80 Document Path: /cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl Document Length: 7754 bytes Concurrency Level: 5 Time taken for tests: 356.021 seconds Complete requests: 1000 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Total transferred: [...]
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Kohacon10 presentation topics make me happy
The speakers page on the Kohacon website has been upated (Thanks Kristina) and since Jo did a great blog post about the presentations, which included her personal highlights, I thought I would do one too. I agree with all of her choices, but wanted to add a couple more myself. Anthony Ching-Chen Mao – Koha Taiwan [...]
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More useless statistics
I’ve been playing with gitdm, it generates some quite neat stats, you can view them here http://stats.workbuffer.org/gitdm/ If there is a changeset you want me to run stats for let me know. Related Posts:Full git stats for KohaUnsung Koha Heroes – 18Kohacon10 presentation topics make me happyUseless statisticsKohacon10 speakers confirmed
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Useless statistics
So, I decided on a whim to work out how many of the 4668759 lines in Koha were last edited by each person. So using this git ls-files | xargs -n1 -d’\n’ -i git blame {} | perl -n -e ‘/\s\((.*?)\s[0-9]{4}/ && print “$1\n”‘ | sort -f | uniq -c -w10 | sort -r I then [...]
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Kohacon10 speakers confirmed
I have been working on finalising the programme for Kohacon10, and the good news is all except a couple of the presenters chosen have confirmed they will present. Which means we have presenters confirmed from Nigeria, Taiwan, Pakistan, Malaysia, UK, France, USA, Australia and New Zealand. The conference will go up online in the next [...]
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Looking out for your clients, long and short term
Over the years of working in software development I have come to realise that it is as important to look after your clients long term needs as it is their short term needs. It is something that is easily overlooked when you are in the throes of resolving issues that impact the client right here [...]
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Some libraries to thank
In the course of looking through the PTFS public repository with an eye to integrating the code into koha, I thought it would be nice to pull out a list of the libraries who had sponsored the code. Apologies to anyone I have missed, and corrections accepted. East Brunswick Public Library, East Brunswick, NJ, USA [...]
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Code hits the wild
PTFS have just made a lot of previously unreleased code available in their public repository http://github.com/ptfs/Koha-PTFS This includes the just released ‘Harley’ branch. It’s great to see the code seeing the light of day, and now the release management team will have the fun job of integrating it for 3.4.0. :) Congratulations to the people [...]
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Unsung Koha heroes – Part 17
Pat Eyler Us old timers will remember Pat well, but the newer members of the community will not have had the opportunity to meet him. Pat was the first Koha Kaitiaki, and did a huge amount to promote Koha and to foster a strong community. Pat first became involved in Koha in April 2002, and [...]
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