Last night, I discovered that some old comments from about a year ago were no longer showing up on this blog with the Journalist 1.9 theme. So, I've spent far too much time playing around with themes tonight. I hate…
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OK, the title for this post sucks. You know what else sucks? When your blog goes down all of a sudden due to a line in an .htaccess file that had worked fine for months. I had to change this:…
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If anyone's interested, MXMLiszt version 0.9.2 is now available for download. MXMLiszt is a web-based delivery and search/retrieval environment for MusicXML files and their manifestations. The documentation and source-code download links are available here. Here's the changelog: 0.9.2 – included…
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It's funny that GoDaddy.com uses a race car driver as their spokesperson, given that their service doesn't always "go". Anyway, I created a new MySQL db in my Go Daddy account and I had all kinds of connectivity errors. Sometimes…
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When MuseScore first came out, I think a lot of people knew it was going to be great. And it is. It's also getting better all the time. One thing that wasn't great initially was the Lilypond export. But MuseScore…
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I've uploaded a new version of PubMed2XL, a Windows application that converts article lists from PubMed.gov into Microsoft Excel files. Unlike downloading the CSV directly from PubMed.gov, PubMed2XL gives users (OK … advanced users) the ability to customize the output…
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I wanted a way to track downloads available through my blog without having to do a lot of work and without having to check server access logs. So I installed Simple Download Manager (v. 0.21). It's great. I did do…
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I've uploaded a new version of PubMed2XL, a Windows application that converts article lists from pubmed.gov into Microsoft Excel files. If you'd like to use the software you can download it for free. For those who are interested, here's the…
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It looks like things are afoot at PubMed.gov. They've apparently added a CSV option for downloading citations. This is great and will facilitate people getting citations into spreadsheets. Having this new option sure beats that FLink thing. I'm not sure…
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My other site, opensourcelibrarian.org, is back online. I'm actually glad I had to have my VPS provider, KickAssVPS, rebuild my VPS and that I, in turn, had to reinstall the site, including the MXMLiszt project. The reason being that the…
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