The Gordian Knot

Session title: “A New Server CPU for you?”

Presenters: Wes Osborn, Central Library Consortium

Originally presented: Wednesday 4 October 2006

Session description from the CODI 2006 conference program: “Looking to buy a new server? Learn the differences between three popular processor manufacturers: Intel, AMD, and Sun. Discover how MultiCore, HyperTransport, Front Side Bus speed, Performance per Watt and many other industry terms affect real world performance.”

Slides to accompany this presentation: PDF format

Additional accompanying materials and links: http://del.icio.us/wesochuck/codi06cpu

Update 2006-11-20 1848 UTC: This file has been taken down temporarily to correct a problem with the mp3 encoding that affected some players. We hope to have it posted again as soon as possible.

Update 2006-11-21 1157 UTC: Okay, let’s try this again.  I’m posting the repaired mp3 — please let me know if you find any problems with it.

 Wes Osborn - A New Server CPU for you?: Play Now | Play in Popup

Session title: “Getting Your Acq Together”

Presenters:

• Colleen Medling, Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System,
• Trish Pelletier, Apache Junction Public Library, and
• Jonathan Helmke, University of Dubuque

Originally presented: Friday 6 October 2006

Session description from the CODI 2006 conference program: “Delving into Horizon Acquisitions can be a challenge. Learn some great tips from these panelists on how to VIP your vendors and create magical HIP lists with ACQ records.”

Slides to accompany this presentation (these links may require CODI password):

• Helmke: DOC, PDF, PPT
• Medling: PDF, PPT
• Pelletier: PDF, PPT

 CODI panel - Getting Your Acq Together: Play Now | Play in Popup

Session title: “Java Without Java”

Presenter: Casey Durfee, Seattle Public Library

Originally presented: Wednesday 4 October 2006
Session description from the CODI 2006 conference program: “Horizon 8.0 provides Java-based APIs which give customers the power to adapt Horizon to their needs. If you know Java programming, this is exciting, but Java can be difficult to learn and tedious to program. Learn to use simple scripting languages like JRuby and Jython to extend HIP, Horizon and other Java-based software without having to know Java.”

Slides to accompany this presentation (these links may require CODI password): PDF format and PPT format

 Casey Durfee - Java Without Java: Play Now | Play in Popup

Finally, at long last, the first episode of our “Podcast” of sessions recorded at the 2006 CODI Conference that took place in Salt Lake City last month. More episodes will be coming soon!

To subscribe to our Podcast, add the following feed address to your podcatcher or podcast-compatible RSS reader:

http://www.gordian-knot.org/index.php/category/podcast/feed/

Our first episode was recorded at the “First-Timers’ Breakfast” on Wednesday 4 October 2006.

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I am hoping to be able to record some sessions here at CODI 2006 and post the audio files here as a “mini-podcast.” If any other attendees or presenters have audio files from CODI 2006 sessions and would like to make them available (with the presenter’s permission, of course), please contact me at lukethelibrarian at gmail dot com and I’ll work on converting them and getting them posted.

More info to come.

Update: We have some recordings; I’m just working on getting them gathered, encoded to mp3, etc. If you’d like to plug in the feed address to your podcatching software so you’ll see them when they come out, please subscribe to: http://www.gordian-knot.org/index.php/category/podcast/feed/