Boxcar Books 6-Year Anniversary Dessert Party and Open House

February 1st, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Boxcar Books 6-Year Anniversary Dessert Party and Open House

Boxcar Books 6-Year Anniversary Dessert Party and Open House
Saturday, February 2nd 2008
7pm
at 310A S. Washington St.
Boxcar Books is turning 6 years old on February 2nd, and we’re
throwing an open-house and dessert party! For six years, Boxcar has
been proud to be one of many centers of community, culture, and
activism in Bloomington, and we owe our [...]


craft night for boxcar prom @ microcosm hq (nw corner of 3rd + rodgers). 4p.

March 29th, 2007 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

craft night for boxcar prom @ microcosm hq (nw corner of 3rd + rodgers). 4p.

hey y’all! come help make prom decorations so we can make the
bluebird look sweeeet! this is the biggest fundraiser of the year for
both boxcar and pages, so we really need your help!

details-
- 4pm on sunday (we’ll go for hours, so show up whenever you can)
- sparky’s house/microcosm headquarters (north-west corner of 3rd & [...]


boxcar technology wg project ideas

December 18th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | 1 Comment

boxcar technology wg project ideas

Mass inventory edit feature to Boxcar inventory.  This would allow user to change inventory details for multiple inventory entries all at once. Essentially this would allow you to change everything that you can in the inventory edit form.
Barcode-based inventory entry
Integrate POS and inventory
Make pages card catalog/inventory electronic


Uke of Spaces Corners, Rivulets @ Boxcar Books. 7-9p.

December 14th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Uke of Spaces Corners, Rivulets @ Boxcar Books. 7-9p.

Uke of Philips also known as Uke of Spaces, is Dan Beckman from Impractical Cockpit and will play interesting, experimental-acoustic songs.


Boxcar Inventory Development Update

November 12th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Boxcar Inventory Development Update

The top seller queries weren’t working properly so I re-wrote them.  The update implementation is contained in the ‘book top sellers’, ‘books sold in last 2 months’, ‘comic/zine top sellers’, and ‘comics/zines sold in last 2 months’ queries.


online inventory replication batch program update

September 7th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

online inventory replication batch program update

The Boxcar online inventory replication program wrapper batch file wasn’t working right because the SSH tunnel to the MySQL server kept dying. So, I modified the wrapper to test to make sure the server was up and then restart the service if it’s not before running the replication. The code looks like this:

mysql [...]


Boxcar Inventory Development Update

August 21st, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Boxcar Inventory Development Update

I updated the new_order form so that textbooks from MBS and Nebraska are automatically entered in as used:
Private Sub Form_BeforeInsert(Cancel As Integer)
Me.datestamp = Now()
If Me.distributor = “MBS Textbook Exchange” Or Me.distributor = “Nebraska Book Company” Then
Me.book_state = “Used”
Else
Me.book_state = “New”
End If
Me.status = “On Order”
If IsNull(Me.Order_date.Value) Then
Me.Order_date = Format(Now(), “DD-MMM-YYYY”)
End If
End Sub
I also created a query, [...]


new boxcar role: ordering consultant

May 23rd, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

new boxcar role: ordering consultant

Last week’s Boxcar planning meeting seemed to move too slow for me, which is largely my fault because I was facilitating.  It made me realize that its a bad idea to try to facilitate a discussion when one has a lot to try to think about or say about ideas.  I felt like I was [...]


Boxcar Inventory Development Notes

March 15th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Boxcar Inventory Development Notes

Feature Request

Books from Nebraska Book Company and MBS should always show up as used when entered into the inventory. (Also, I need to create a query to fix the existing entries.)  The reason why this needs to be done is because currently, the inventory automatically enters all books from distributors as new, but with textbooks [...]


Protected: boxcar computer configuration log

March 10th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | Enter your password to view comments

Protected: boxcar computer configuration log

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