COLLEEN ROBLEDO Web Developer | Librarian | Researcher | Genealogist

EveryBlock, the Django-powered hyperlocal news and data site, has included feeds of items recently added to the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County online catalog.

Mecklenburg county (North Carolina) residents can find out about the newest books and DVDs added to the more than 20 branches in that library system.

This site, launched in January 2008, continues to impress me with its rapid inclusion of different localities and data.

While doing further development work today on the customer service module for our Grails-based web site administration tool, I encountered hibernate object retrieval failure exceptions when trying to access the Show views for some of our users. The console indicated these exceptions are due to rows referencing non-existent identifiers, or foreign keys.

So, last night I downloaded the new MySpace application for Blackberry, which was just released.

I rarely even use MySpace anymore (thanks to Facebook's increasingly better features), except to connect with the younger members of my family, and with the few friends and colleagues who haven't made the switch yet to Facebook.

I just couldn't help myself!