Dilettante’s Ball

I realize I’ve been extremely quiet for the last several months (probably around the time I left Tech for Talis). While there are a slew of reasons for this (holidays, settling into new job, trying to shore up some projects, writing some articles, family, etc.), I’ve let it get out of hand. One of the downsides to not writing here, is that it makes writing elsewhere much more difficult. My goal is to be much more prolific here. I don’t want to give myself mandates that I’m going to post daily or weekly, since I don’t want to the things I write about to be contrived, but I think output here increases my productivity elsewhere, so I want to promote that.

I also want to read more.

Anyway, since I last posted here, I’ve written two columns for the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship (of which the first one doesn’t even come out until May) and one about the Communicat for the new Code4Lib Journal. A colleague of mine from Talis and I have been working on a generic API application for libraries. I’ve completely refactored ROpenURL, dipped my toes back into Ümlaut development (in the meantime, Georgia Tech has done away with their Ümlaut implementation which is frustrating and somewhat embarrassing), and have been playing around a lot with JRuby, especially with regards to Ümlaut2 (or 3, which I hope to integrate with the Platform).

I’ll be writing about some my reflections from these experiences soon.