{"id":1138,"date":"2006-04-11T12:59:53","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T17:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2006\/04\/11\/new-apl-librarylookup-bookmarklet\/"},"modified":"2006-04-11T12:59:53","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T17:59:53","slug":"new-apl-librarylookup-bookmarklet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/new-apl-librarylookup-bookmarklet\/","title":{"rendered":"New APL LibraryLookup Bookmarklet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/so_much_for_con.phtml\">posted a couple of weeks ago<\/a> that I&#8217;d lost one of the little marvels of technology that brightened my day when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.austin.tx.us\/library\">Austin Public Library<\/a> upgraded to a new online catalog.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I tried to access the catalog to double-check the due date on my latest read. Attempts to login to my account resulted in a &#8220;Unable to create socket: errno = 24&#8221;. After e-mailing the library about this, they translated the error from computer to english. Apparently, it meant<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The catalog was down from 9:00 pm last night until almost 8:00 am this morning.  It was necessary to run a full back up of the system because of changes to the server done over the weekend.  Please try again today.<br \/>\nWe regret the inconvenience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s cool, although figuring out a way to have that message displayed on the site as opposed to the one I got would be even cooler. Since I was e-mailing them anyway, I offhandedly mentioned the broken Library Lookup and pointed them to a couple of links, asking if they could perhaps fix it?<\/p>\n<p>I was pleasantly surprised this morning to get an e-mail from Carlos, APL Web Developer Extraordinaire. He&#8217;s fixed what I couldn&#8217;t pull off on my own (I was missing an extra &#8220;\/x&#8221; in my attempt.) and I&#8217;m very happy to report that the LibraryLookup is functioning again. He even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.austin.tx.us\/library\/apllookup.htm\">created a page for it<\/a> with some instructions on the APL site. How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p>Carlos, I&#8217;m telling Toby Futrell here and now that you deserve a raise. You rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a couple of weeks ago that I&#8217;d lost one of the little marvels of technology that brightened my day when the Austin Public Library upgraded to a new online catalog. Last night, I tried to access the catalog to double-check the due date on my latest read. Attempts to login to my account <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/new-apl-librarylookup-bookmarklet\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-im","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}