COLLEEN ROBLEDO Web Developer | Librarian | Researcher | Genealogist

EveryBlock, the Django-powered hyperlocal news and data site, has included feeds of items recently added to the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County online catalog.

Mecklenburg county (North Carolina) residents can find out about the newest books and DVDs added to the more than 20 branches in that library system.

This site, launched in January 2008, continues to impress me with its rapid inclusion of different localities and data.

While doing further development work today on the customer service module for our Grails-based web site administration tool, I encountered hibernate object retrieval failure exceptions when trying to access the Show views for some of our users. The console indicated these exceptions are due to rows referencing non-existent identifiers, or foreign keys.

Our redesigned web site launched late last night, which includes an entirely new inverted e-commerce application.

Our original site was built upon a hybrid e-commerce framework (part in-house Java, and part open source PHP-based osCommerce), implemented purely for expediency's sake to make our holiday shopping season 2007 launch date. However, this temporary solution quickly proved inflexible and difficult to maintain.

Ancestry.com has released a new browser toolbar, which allows you to save web page links and attach them to an individual in your Ancestry family tree.

I just down downloaded and installed the Firefox version, but haven't had time to actually try it out yet.