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Maybe I shouldn't be trolling code4lib for my personal interests, but I'm asking not about a mission-critical application, but a platform for keeping my personal skills up, and that would be accorded the proportionate amount of time. So I'd rather that not be a time sink for management, and I don't want to create a hacker-cracker's delight. My college is not enthused about librarians creating code or platforms that the college becomes responsible for maintaining - we're very abstemious in that regard. So I'm seeing how I can do this personally spending my personal cash without burdening my college. Sorry to bother you all with it. Everyone's happy family is different, to hash a quote, but I hope I'm still welcome in Code4Lib, even if I'm not hired to be a library coder. Just a library (Windows) sys admin. Or maybe we need a spin-off code4lib for the amateurs among us. Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian Colgate University Libraries [log in to unmask] 315-228-7363 On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Bill Dueber <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > You can probably find an curious intern to do it. > > > > Oh, for the love of god, please don't go this route. This is why libraries > tend to be a huge mishmash of unsupported, one-off crap that some outgoing > student did for extra credit six years ago. > > To ask the obvious question: You're at a real, > honest-to-god prestigious college. Why are you trolling code4lib for cheap > hosting environments? If IT won't give you a piece of a machine somewhere, > or at least set up a Mac running OSX, they're failing to support a critical > mission of the college and someone needs to be up in arms about it. If you > haven't even asked them, well, maybe you should. > > -Bill, who spent his first two years in a library dealing with crappy old > PHP code from long-gone students > > -- > Bill Dueber > Library Systems Programmer > University of Michigan Library >