The OPACs at HLT have been failing one by one, so some replacements are in order.  The previous OPACs ran Mozilla in kiosk mode on a hand modified Debian install sufficiently rickety that after ~4 years I didn’t really want to touch it.

Somewhat surprisingly, the task (taking some hardware and netbooting it into a teenage-vandal-proof web kiosk) didn’t appear to be a solved problem – there are still a lot of people rolling their own, I’ve done that once, I didn’t really want to do it again.

Webconverger almost fits the bill, with a couple of caveats: (more…)

Currently there is a bug in the Koha installer, in that one of the columns in one of the tables is using a word that is reserved in MySQL 5, but wasn’t in MySQL 4. This will be fixed for new versions of Koha, but for now the fix for it is detailed here.

The way joins are handled have changed slightly to, the way to fix them (at least until 2.2.6 is out and you upgrade to that) is detailed here.

This post is as much for me as for anyone else. We have one client who has quite a mixed printing environment and its sometimes quite tricky to get Koha printing to the many different printers around their branches. We are using CUPS to handle the printqueues, here are some links I found very useful in setting up the printqueues.

• Printing to windows PCs
• Adding your first printer
• man lpadmin

Perhaps these might be of use to someone else too.

The coporate serials module we have been working on for Koha is finally finished and has been committed to HEAD.

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So last night, for the fun of it, I tried to build the Koha opac title search using Ajax. And with the help of the most excellent CGI::Ajax module, I ended up with a module Koha::Ajax which is 138 lines long, most of that is pod and html. (more…)

So a couple of nights ago we came across a weird problem. A chunk of code in one of the Koha modules was causing a script that called it to hang. Only when called from the web though, it works fine from the command line. (more…)