Ok.  Anyone who has been online in the past 5 years should know everything in this book.  In particular for Librarians out there this should be old hat.  However I can see how this wouldn't jive with some.  Essentially the role of the Librarian is to de-miscellaneous the world of information. The term meta-data is used heavily in the book. 

Much like many other institutions Brock uses EZproxy to connect users to off-campus resources.  In theory everything works perfectly however not always.  I wanted to create a web-app that would form an EZproxy request to a particular website and return yes if the URL was in the ezproxy.cfg file.  My first attempt at this was using a straight PHP based command line approach.  The bad news is that security settings in EZproxy wouldn't allow this to happen, which makes perfect sense looking back at it now.  So I tried to see if EZproxy had built in support for this.&nb

  PhpDig is a great multi use search engine.  All you really need to power it is SQL and the obvious PHP.  Installation is a simple as untaring and setting up your database. 

A new version of the Sask::Script set of tools has recently been posted.  Link to source code  Invoking it is pretty simple:

sfx_resolve_urls.pl --first-time

The real benefit to the new version is the reduction of source code files.  It is still written in PERL however.