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Category Archives: Coding
Blockchain: Merits, Issues, and Suggestions for Compelling Use Cases
* This post was also published in ACRL TechConnect.*** Blockchain holds a great potential for both innovation and disruption. The adoption of blockchain also poses certain risks, and those risks will need to be addressed and mitigated before blockchain becomes … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Library, Technology
Tagged bitcoin, blockchain, distributed ledger technology, DLT
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Using the Stripe API to Collect Library Fines by Accepting Online Payments
*** This post was originally published in ACRL TechConnect on Sep. 10, 2014.*** Recently, my library has been considering accepting library fines via online. Currently, many library fines of a small amount that many people owe are hard to collect. As … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Conference, Library, Technology, Web
Tagged api, library fines, online payment, Stripe
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Query a Google Spreadsheet like a Database with Google Visualization API Query Language
***Â This post was originally published in ACRL TechConnect on Dec. 4, 2013. *** Libraries make much use of spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are easy to create, and most library staff are familiar with how to use them. But they can quickly … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Library, Technology, Web
Tagged data, google query language, google visualization api, spreadsheet
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Do You Feel Inadequate? For Hard-Working Overachievers
I have not been a very diligent blog writer in the year of 2013. So on the last day of 2013, I decided to write a post. I thought about writing a post with the title of “Adieu 2013!” but … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Librarianship, Library, Technology
Tagged career development, impostor syndrome, inadequacy, mid-career, new year
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LITA Forum 2013 – My Talks on Google Visualization API and Faculty Bibliography
I did two presentations at LITA Forum last week. One was a concurrent session and the other was a lightning talk. This was the first time I attended a LITA Forum and it was a really great conference. All of … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, presentation, Technology
Tagged #litaforum, api, database, demo, faculty bibliography, google visualization api, lita forum, talks
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Fear No Longer Regular Expressions
*** This post has been originally published on ACRL TechConnect Blog on July 31, 2013. *** Regex, it’s your friend You may have heard the term, “regular expressions” before. If you have, you will know that it usually comes in … Continue reading
Posted in Coding
Tagged programming, regex, regular expression, text
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Playing with JavaScript and JQuery – the Ebook link HTML string generator and the EZproxy bookmarklet generator
***This post has been published in ACRL TechConnect on April 8, 2013. *** In this post, I will describe two cases in which I solved a practical problem with a little bit of JavaScript and JQuery. Check them out first … Continue reading
Using Git with BitBucket: Basic commands – pull, add, commit, push
If you do coding, you will be making lots of tiny little changes to a file. You are also likely to be working on multiple computers at different locations. For documents and other types of files, we often use Dropbox … Continue reading
Posted in Coding
Tagged bitbucket, git, version control
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Effectively Learning How To Code: Tips and Resources
*** This post has been originally published in ACRL TechConnect on Dec. 10, 2012. *** Librarians’ strong interest in programming is not surprising considering that programming skills are crucial and often essential to making today’s library systems and services more … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Continuing Education, Librarianship, presentation
Tagged codeyear, coding, libcodeyear, programming
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More APIs: writing your own code (2)
*** This blog post has been originally published in ACRL TechConnect 0n October 9, 2012. *** My previous post “The simpest AJAX: writing your own code (1)” discussed a few Javascript and JQuery examples that make the use of the Flickr … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Web
Tagged ajax, api, code year, codeyear, coding, jquery, libcodeyear, pinboard, programming, pubmed, reddit, yahoo pipes
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