Once again, apologies for the delay in getting the script available!
introduction
At Huddersfield, we've recently gone live with a bespoke Perl script for generating pre-overdue emails:
advanceNotices.pl
settings.ini
To run the script, use the following command:
perl advanceNotices.pl settings.ini
You can use multiple settings files and then just tell the script which settings to use, e.g.:
perl advanceNotices.pl settings1.ini
perl advanceNotices.pl settings2.ini
To run [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2005’
advance notices / pre-overdues
Horizon "reconst" in Perl
Apologies to everyone who was interested in this for the delay in getting it posted!
The Horizon database stores several fields (e.g. title, author, etc) in the format "processed" / "reconst", where the "processed" column contains the text stripped of punctuation and the indefinite/definite article, and "reconst" contains the stripped characters.
For example, the title "The great [...]
Been way too busy!
No posts for ages because I've been too busy at work getting things ready for the start of term – we're launching out new MetaLib service on Monday. Hopefully things will start to calm down after that!
Anyway, just found this on my hard drive – unfortunately I don't know who created it, but I'm [...]