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Recently I got a Dell Inspiron Mini 9.  It came packed with version A01 of the bios.  Gee thanks big box store, I'm not complaining, just saying is all.  I was a bit worried because I scrubbed Windows off of it in a matter of hours and it looked like a windows environment was needed to apply the patch.  That was until I saw this.

Addthis is a great way to make a website look fancy without doing much work.  In the most simple of senses it is a bookmarklet that will transport the page you are looking at to a huge stack of different web based services.  Stuff like Delicious, FURL, Facebook etc.  The extra bonus is that there is no cost involved and setup doesn't take very long.  If you've been developing in a CMS or with a consistent template system it should be a trivial task.

Since Dspace is my most current project I thought it would be a good idea to include the Addthis button to that as well. Now Dspace is a bit of a bear when it comes to rendering pages so it won't be as straight forward as with a PHP or HTML site. 

 This is a great idea: http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/trico/sys/sms.html

By going off the books it is possible to add some javascript to a typical III Catalogue and get a very neat 'Send to Cell Phone' feature.  Going along with the suggestions on the page I modified the script (sms.pl) and changed it into PHP.  I even added a tiny amount of statistical gathering.  My thought is if this thing is very popular it might be worth creating more interesing options.  Something along the lines of 'Send this to an email address' or 'Recommend this to a friend'.  Anyway here is my version of sms.php:

Getting Dspace up and running is a bit of a handful.  The difficulty is mostly due to the fact that it is Java based,  (In my opinion anyway)  Every different distro has a different way to setup the prerequisites so a standard install guideline won't be very useful.  The following are the key points required to get Dspace up and going on a FreeBSD system.

SaskScript on Demand

Sometimes it would be great to run SaskScript if you have a new database or collection activated in your SFX knowledge base.  The only problem is there is no simple way of resolving one single target with SaskScript .  SaskScript is an all or nothing deal if you use the GET style resolving where it queries your SFX server live to get the data.  I've put together a little app that will do the MANUAL style resolving of one or two particular targets.