Dspace is a fairly complicated piece of software.  There are a lot of knobs and buttons to tweak to get it going. My biggest pet peeve with it is that it natively works on the Tomcat default port 8088.  That creates a very ugly URL that could create problems down the road.  The neat thing to do would be to set it to port 80 (and port 443 for your secure traffic) the problem is that Tomcat needs to run as the dspace user who doesn't have admin privledges and can't use port numbers in the restricted range.  To get around that you need to cook up some scripts that can be run as root that will start Dspace for you.

My presentation material for the 2009 ECIUG conference in Toronto.

 The Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dorner

I originally first came across this book as an assigned reading in Project Management class.  That was some time ago but the book ages well.  In fact my edition was published in 1997 so it was out for a few years before it hit my reading list.

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.

We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code Code4Lib Issue 5.

I saw this first presented at Access 2008 in Hamilton.  It was a great talk that I think I needed to hear.  The big drawback I think with what Systems departments do is not structure code in a sharable way.  How often do we have time to properly document something let alone add it to a repository.