Archive for November, 2008

Translating Listserv archive to mbox format

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

We wanted to import our old mailing list entries from the OpenMRS mailing list Listserv archives into Nabble.  No problem.  Finding the GET listname FILELIST and GET listname file1, GET listname file2, … commands was easy enough.  A quick search of Nabble support made it clear that I needed to send them mbox files.  So, [...]

Creating a Desktop Shortcut on a Mac

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Making a desktop shortcut icon on the Mac is pretty easy.  Open up the AppleScript script editor and make a script like this:do shell script “/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P Developer -no-remote &”
Then save as an application on the desktop.  Done.
This example shows how to pass parameters from AppleScript.  In particular, it shows how to open a 2nd [...]

Three-and-out Rodriguez

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Rich Rodriguez, besides achieving the most number of losses in 129 years of Michigan football and ending the longest bowl streak, has managed to stand out in the NCAA this year for going three-and-out.  Well you got three wins this year, Mr. Rodriguez.  You’re out.

One small problem at AMIA…

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Some of our Regenstrief presentations are too crowded to attend. Here, Marc Overhage shows a packed room for Jeff Friedlin’s presentation.

AMIA 2008 … A one two punch!

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

I’m sitting in the opening ceremony for AMIA 2008, where they announced the three student paper competition winners. I’m thrilled to say that Regenstrief fellows captured both first (Martin Were) and second (Jeff Friedlin) place! Way to go Martin & Jeff! And way to go Regenstrief!!

Logic-a-thon Wrap-up

Friday, November 7th, 2008

This was a great hack-a-thon.  We tackled a lot of different issues for the logic service.  Unfortunately, a number of these will require additional effort to be completed.
We knocked out some of the simpler tickets:

Rules tokens need to be case insensitive (#1104)
Encounter datasource expansion (#1105)
Creating an Operand interface (#1106)

We made some decisions (like not moving [...]

OpenMRS Logic-a-thon

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

So far, so good at the OpenMRS! To our surprise, we’re actually getting code written. We’re not sure if it’s because of Tammy’s amazing prep work or because Paul & Hamish couldn’t make it.
Looking forward to tomorrow…