Confession of a Credit Card Deadbeat
The roiling economy has uncomfortably squeezed the profits of various huge financial mega-corporations. As the bottom-of-the-barrel customers are no longer ...
Multi-Threading with VFS
One of the new features in the BagIt Library will be multi-threading CPU-intensive bag processing operations, such as bag creation and verification. Modern ...
Human Beings Are Big-Endian
I always have trouble remembering the difference between big-endian and little-endian. The names don’t make any sense, so it ends up being a mere definition...
Funny Smelling Code – Endlessly Propagating Parameters
We’re currently working on a new version of the BagIt Library: adding some new functionality, making some bug fixes, and refactoring the interfaces pretty he...
Useful PDF ImageMagick Recipes
It turns out that ImageMagick is really quite good at reading, writing, re-arranging, and otherwise mucking with PDFs. Unfortunately, you need to know the p...
What You Learn
Version 2.0 of Chronicling America went online yesterday. Congratulations are in order to David, Ed, Dan, Curt, and everybody else on the team!
And Then There Was Wordpress
My last post here was October, 2008. I’m sure nobody missed my rantings and ravings here, but I missed the ranting and raving. There were dozens of times o...