Autor-membro da LibraryThing: Christopher Holland

Sobre mim Real name: Christopher Holland
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Work as a web/technology consultant, currently working on LibraryThing itself. I've worked on the in-place editing for your catalog. I wrote most of the code behind Common Knowledge. I wrote most of the code for displaying reviews on the site. I prototyped most of LibraryThing Local. And I've dabbled in most of other code at some level or another. See my WikiThing page for more information about my past and current LibraryThing projects.

You can get me at christopher at librarything dot com.
Also do quite a bit of photography, drawing, and painting. You can find some of my photos on Flickr under the username of conceptDawg.

I graduated from Mississippi State University and on weekends in the Fall you can most likely find me back in Starkville for a football game and some tailgating. Feel free to contact me and hang out at our tailgate if you're going to a game at MSU.

My ideas about design and interface were summed up rather brilliantly by Mr. Emerson quite a while before I came along:
"The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary."
"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends."
Goodness, that is perfect.

Sobre a minha biblioteca Most of my books are related to either art and art history or computer technology. I have a few fiction paperbacks, but those usually end up being given to friends or "loaned" out permanently when I am finished with them.

I have eclectic interests: archaeology; history; technology; history of technology; secret societies (freemasons, templars, mostly from my interest in archaeology as I've been to many of the places where their histories played out).

Página pessoalhttp://exordium.concepthouse.com/

Também em ("conceptDawg"), AIM, Cork'd, Facebook, Flickr, Wikipedia, Yahoo Messenger

Adesão LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Nome verdadeiroChristopher Holland

LocalidadeMobile, AL

E-mailchristopherlibrarything.com

Tipo de contapública, vitalício

Novidade de conexãoNovidade de conexão

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/conceptDawg (perfil)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/conceptDawg (biblioteca)

Membro desdeJan 22, 2006

Most recent activity

conceptDawg resenhado, adicionado:
1 por Christopher Holland (ler resenha)

conceptDawg adicionado(s):
Watch Me por Adda Mai SharpNOVO!

conceptDawg adicionado(s):
The Soul Of A New Machine por Tracy KidderNOVO!

conceptDawg adicionado(s):
Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 6) por M. C. BeatonNOVO!

conceptDawg avaliados, adicionados:
Font Bureau: One-Line Type Specimens, Third Edition por Font Bureau Estrelas:

NOVO!

conceptDawg avaliados, adicionados:
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Avon Nonfiction) por Piers Paul Read Estrelas:

NOVO!

Comente

Christopher, As a software developer, I thought you might have some answers for me. I kind of stumbled into the Library Thing while surfing for book related sites and saw your name as sofware design/developer to Library Thing.

My question: I have a library of approximately 3-4,000 books that I want to catalog based on the dewey decimal or Library of Congress or other such respected cataloging system. The software I've Googled is for much larger libraries which need to be able to check books in and out and a whole lot more than what I need. I'm looking for fairly basic library sofware for a home library that will allow me to inventory and organize my books in keeping with standards utilized for much bigger libraries. Do you or any of your friends or acqaintances know the names of software packages that do this?
Any direction or advice you can give me would be appreciated.

jvm@onemain.com

escrito por Vandervort, à/s 8:30 pm (EST) , Aug 30, 2008

hi
would you tell me how can i my books plz?
i have add some book but i donot know how to use and rede them
when i click on edith on the cover of my book(ex.Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical Surgical Nursing ) under the the review box is writhen none.
pleaze help me!!!!

escrito por raziehmontazeri, à/s 6:49 pm (EST) , Aug 27, 2008

Thank you very much for fixing my index. This has been bugging me for ages and I thought it was just one of those things. It just shows that one should always ask. Thank you,again.

escrito por Foxhunter, à/s 3:54 pm (EST) , Aug 27, 2008

Bug problem- No direct link from book's main page here on lt to amazon. For instance, when I click on amazon.com under "buy, borrow, swap, or view", it takes me to amazon's homepage and not the book listed. This is with any book, new or old.

escrito por homegirl, à/s 5:24 am (EST) , Aug 23, 2008

Hi,

I may not be telling the right person, so forgive me and hopefully you can pass this information onto the correct department.

In the gallery, author Ridley Pearson is identified as Ellen Rimbauer which is a character in his book, The Diary of Rose Red. Just thought I'd let you know.

Thanks,

Dana

escrito por DanaJean, à/s 7:36 am (EST) , Aug 19, 2008

RE: my post from the problems page, one user's stars don't show on my homepage but it still tells me that she has rated a book. The user is BCCJillster and her library isn't private. Thanks for looking into this. It's no big deal if it is too time consuming or little for you to bother with, just a small annoyance. Thanks!

escrito por xmaystarx, à/s 1:14 pm (EST) , Aug 15, 2008

Christopher,

For the life of me I'm not sure just what it is you're competing for. Most of the dedicated LibraryThing users are "keepers" as well as readers and have paid the lifetime membership already because we appreciate all the sort and tag functionality. Meanwhile, I think the social network aspect, while by no means bare bones, doesn't seem quite as attractive as the way it's done on GoodReads or Shelfari!

I'm not looking for LibraryThing to make my 5,000 book database available to Goodreads - well, now that I think on it I suppose in a sense I am - so much as I'd like an "import my reviews" sort of functionality.

But, I guess this goes back to proprietary use. If I'm building the personal database from mostly Amazon data and writing my own reviews, once you have my membership fee what exactly are you protecting or competing for? This looks to me more like fish and kelp competing over who gets to use the ocean.

Can my tagging schemes be sold as some sort of geek algorithm?

I hope you're not planning to billboard this out like MySpace or Facebook where the functionality drowns in the net noise.

- Barney Dannelke

escrito por Dannelke, à/s 10:47 am (EST) , Aug 2, 2008

Hello Christopher,

I'm not sure if you would be the go-to developer for this but I'm a lifetime member of LibraryThing

http://www.librarything.com/profile/Dann...

and a new-ish member of the book site Goodreads

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/72162

which are fairly complimentary sites - and I was wondering if there were any plans in the works to more closely link or integrate these two sites.

Regards and best wishes - Barney Dannelke

--
(Any & All Books)
http://www.amazon.com/shops/anyandallboo...

History is a vast early warning system.
-Norman Cousins (1915-1990)

Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it. - Brigid Brophy (1929-1995)

escrito por Dannelke, à/s 5:43 pm (EST) , Jul 30, 2008

I'm having problems with Library Thing. It will not let me delete books now and it will not let me change covers the books. Do you have any idea what the problem might be?

escrito por dsdmd, à/s 12:02 am (EST) , Jul 19, 2008

Hi Chris, is there a way to add spell check soft ware so when I am leaving a comment after I am done writing I can run spell check. I am a terrible speller with that feature I would feel more comfortable leaving comments. Thank you
Michael

escrito por michaelbartley, à/s 5:21 pm (EST) , Jul 18, 2008

I Christopher,

Not sure if you are the correct person, but I was unable to add my Facebook "fan" page to my profile. It would be great to be able to do that. Thanks!
Heather

escrito por socscilib, à/s 11:41 am (EST) , Jul 1, 2008

Just to let you know - assuming you don't read the thread on the new customization option from the top every time - I posted a new message on the "Members with your books" problems over at Bug Collectors:

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

escrito por koffieyahoo, à/s 12:40 am (EST) , Jul 1, 2008

Chris -- (and Tom)

I like the new member page and have just one suggestion: Under the section entitled "Member's Zeitgheist", why not list the number of the rating of the size of the member's library as it grows. I was chatting to Tim one day and he easily told me I was 16,500 in size that day. I believe you have an easy way to do this, and I would be sooooo happy to see my numbers bring me up the ladder. And yes, I suppose it IS PURE ego and against my theology, but I just think it would be the neatest thing!

escrito por andyray, à/s 10:41 am (EST) , Jun 22, 2008

Dear Christopher:

Re: http://www.librarything.nl/talktopic.php...

At present, I cannot even ping LT.com (www.librarything.com) any more. When trying and pinging LT.com, I get : "host www.librarything.com cannot be found". Because of this, of course, a call for whatever LT.com page is returning a 404 error.

I can ping (and reach) LT.nl [72.12.88.181] though. Then again, LT.nl (as a whole) is crippled far beyond the original report.

Yours,

boekerij.

escrito por boekerij, à/s 9:10 am (EST) , Jun 12, 2008

Help!

Downloads of my own library, access to titles for editing are running incredibly slow - 3 to 5 minutes to download library or re-sort.
What's up with that? My speed test indicates normal download timesthrough my modem, generally.

Thanks for looking.

escrito por mayreh, à/s 7:02 pm (EST) , Jun 10, 2008

My Connection News is behaving beautifully now. Thank you.

escrito por Thrin, à/s 6:43 pm (EST) , Jun 9, 2008

Hi,
I am unable to access the 50 similar libraries under Connections. This has been going on quite a long while and I actually do miss it. I think it's a nice feature. I did report this to Abby a while back and I think she said she would report it to Tim? Thanks!

escrito por cranmergirl, à/s 11:50 pm (EST) , Jun 3, 2008

Congratuations on the new addition to your family!

escrito por An_Fear_Glas, à/s 1:53 am (EST) , May 16, 2008

Congrats!

And thanks for the help with my problem.

escrito por celestria, à/s 4:32 pm (EST) , May 11, 2008

Congrats on your beautiful little girl!!

escrito por sqdancer, à/s 1:33 am (EST) , May 10, 2008

I found the pics of your daughter. She gorgeous!!

escrito por SqueakyChu, à/s 12:35 am (EST) , May 10, 2008

Best wishes, Chris, to you and your wife on your new parenthood!! So where is the information about your little one?!

escrito por SqueakyChu, à/s 12:31 am (EST) , May 10, 2008

Just FYI
Your changelog on the wiki is displaying "March 2008" instead of "May 2008" at present.

escrito por Avron, à/s 7:15 am (EST) , May 4, 2008

on zeitgheist, largest libraries: keeping in the tradition of listing the top one percent the largest libraries, coiuld you please expand the number from 3,000 to 4,000? Now that we have more than 400,000 members? Of course, you couild expand it to 5,000 members since we shall meet 500,000 by the end of the year if not by the end of summer.

Thank you.

escrito por andyray, à/s 8:12 am (EST) , May 2, 2008

The bubbly is on ice. All the best to you and your wife. All LT expects a "Yellow Box" on the home page -- "It's a ....."

Jim

escrito por justjim, à/s 5:25 am (EST) , Apr 24, 2008

I just want to thank you for all the hard work you do for this site, and especially for all the recent bugs you have been fixing and working on fixing. It really is impressive. Thank you!

escrito por Heather19, à/s 12:01 am (EST) , Apr 18, 2008

I was just editing a book's information under via the 'Edit' pencil, and got an error when I accidentally included a ' instead of a ". I was able to reproduce it with another book, adding a ' to the end of the Novelization tag. The message I got was:

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '12 Monkeys: A Novel', books_sortcharacter=1, books_authorunflip='Hand, Eliza' at line 3

UPDATE bookstack SET books_tags='Science Fiction,Novelization'', books_title='12 Monkeys: A Novel', books_sortcharacter=1, books_authorunflip='Hand, Elizabeth', books_date='1995', books_ISBN='0061056588', books_admin_sameness=1819554821, books_yourrev='0', books_sort_author='handelizabeth', books_rating=0, books_datebought = 0, books_datestarted = 0, books_dateread = 0, books_sameness_resolved = 2033384120, books_copies = 1, books_lang = 'eng', books_lang2 = '', books_lang_original = '', books_indexed = 0, books_refresh = 1 WHERE books_id=15279005 AND books_userid='dnorum'
- fatal error (31.1)

I apologize if this is mentioned elsewhere, but it looks like there's something buggy with whatever code handles the SQL commands (queries? - I'm not familiar with SQL).

escrito por dnorum, à/s 9:27 pm (EST) , Apr 13, 2008

How do I turn off "Community Knowledge"? When people start renaming books in order to indulge their private fetishes -- disregarding the actual title on the book itself -- it is beyond stupid.

Nor -- again -- are any of my Orwell part of any "Complete Works of" -- yet that is how they are repeatedly MIScategorized.

escrito por JNagarya, à/s 11:33 am (EST) , Apr 5, 2008

Hello Chris .. new member here .. great site/concept .. I would like to change my user name but the function shows as unavailable (in the Tools tab) .. do you know if it will be available soon? Thanks.

escrito por writingstix, à/s 1:44 pm (EST) , Mar 31, 2008

sphece, I can't answer you since you don't have comments enabled nor do you have your email public. The best place to ask is in Talk under Bug Collectors group. That way we can have some back-and-forth without you needing to enable stuff on your profile.

escrito por conceptDawg, à/s 12:55 am (EST) , Mar 28, 2008

Can't figure this out.. The system will not let me log back into two groups that I created and made "private" , and now I would like to delete them. How can I do that?
Thanks

escrito por sphece, à/s 11:30 pm (EST) , Mar 27, 2008

Are you back to work?
Just a bump about Other Authors problem.
Get well soon. You ARE missed.

escrito por sassysinger, à/s 8:43 pm (EST) , Mar 16, 2008

Thanks for getting back to me...once specific example is with the author Elizabeth Zimmerman...if I enter Elizabeth in the Search it returns all of the books in my library by Elizabeth Zimmerman...if I type in Aimmerman or Elizabeth Zimmerman or Zimmerman, Elizabeth it returns NO books...strange. Thanks for looking into this for me. DJNL

escrito por djnl07, à/s 4:08 pm (EST) , Mar 2, 2008

Congratulations on the "new" job. Also, you have a face! Who knew?

escrito por sabreuse, à/s 6:45 pm (EST) , Feb 29, 2008

Congratulations on your full-time employment (shacklement?) Chris, it is long overdue! :)

escrito por AndrewB, à/s 6:39 pm (EST) , Feb 29, 2008

Hi, Love your site...am new to it...question in Search...when I type in just the last name of an author to search for in my library it comes back with no results (I know the name is there), but if I type in the same author's first name, the correct results show and if I type in the whole name, with last, first ot first, last..again no results??? What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
djnl07

escrito por djnl07, à/s 5:50 pm (EST) , Feb 29, 2008

I can test when on that computer, which will depend on the weather tonight.

escrito por infiniteletters, à/s 11:28 am (EST) , Feb 21, 2008

Hey cD, got a question for you... on Common Knowledge, on the book pages, is it possible to have a 'misc notes' spot? I'm thinking it would be interesting to notate an author's first novel or similar info. I don't think it belongs in the disambiguation notice though. What are your thoughts?

escrito por VictoriaPL, à/s 10:28 am (EST) , Feb 20, 2008

My Profile page frequently superimposes over other pages. What is going on here? Anything I can do to stop this?

escrito por InCahoots, à/s 2:11 am (EST) , Feb 10, 2008

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