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This is a brief outline of the work I've done over the past two weeks, comprising the bulk of the conversion to static build:

• All entities and documents have unique URLs and complete pages.
• All content is rendering correctly as far as I know.
• Schedules have been hidden on the main menu, since they're a mess.
• The map gallery has been simplified into a table. I see no reason not to show all maps at once.
• Individual map rendering is very simple, and none of the tagged maps have any interactivity. This is for a future work block based on BreezeMap, I think.
• The browse tree is working, and is richer in terms of information.
• The static search is basically working well, but there are some tweaks that really need to be done at the level of the staticSearch codebase. There isn't (yet) a special search page for people or places or any of those vague things we've planned, but you should be able to search only biographies, or only place write-ups, so no worries there.
• The snippets are now handled via JSON and the home page snippet changes randomly every 20 seconds. There's remaining work to do to convert the old approach to snippets to the new one, but GL is doing that.
• Facsimile browsing is better, using the FacsBrowser codebase I wrote for DVPP, and now allows rotation of images. It's a bit slow to load when there's a huge collection of images, but short of splitting them into batches (which would involve a lot of extra work), I think we should just live with that.
• Placeography maps are working, having been re-coded using OL/OSM.
• There is still some work to do writing specific citation forms for e.g. maps.

As soon as possible, I propose to push a recent build of this to home1t/coldesp/www, and ask sysadmin to repoint the subdomain so that we can bring down the old Cocoon app.

worked 3.5 hours

adding in xml id for places.

In early, stayed late: trying to get Despatches static build working by the end of the week.

Static sites often require a CORS- and AJAX-supporting server to function properly, so it's helpful to run one locally. This is the script I've put together for doing that:

# This was created based on info from various online instructions sites.
# First you need to create a cert so that SSL will work.
# Generate server.pem with the following command:
#    openssl req -new -x509 -keyout server.pem -out server.pem -days 365 -nodes
# run as follows:
#    python pyserve.py
# in the folder where the web materials are.
# Then in your browser, visit:
#    https://localhost:4443

import http.server
import ssl

# Not that we're allowing CORS here, because we need to run local sites which 
# use remote resources.
class CORSRequestHandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def end_headers(self):
        self.send_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
        self.send_header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET')
        self.send_header('Cache-Control', 'no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate')
        return super(CORSRequestHandler, self).end_headers()

# If you don't need remote resources, just use this:
#httpd = http.server.HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443), http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd = http.server.HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443), CORSRequestHandler)
httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket, certfile='/home/mholmes/WorkData/scripts/pyserve/server.pem', server_side=True)
httpd.serve_forever()

I usually add an alias link in my .bashrc file like this:

alias pyserve='python ~/WorkData/scripts/pyserve/pyserve.py'

so I can just run "pyserve" in the folder where the static site is.

In early and stayed late, working on the place maps in Despatches.

Worked 3 hours.

which Thersander is it in this passage?

there are three so far.
thersander who is the son of sisyphus
thersander who is the son of agamedidas
thersander who is the son of polynices

so, my issue is the location of which the name thersander is placed in the english version that we are using.
since polynices, has 2 other sons, timeas and adrastus (who is not the same adrastus who is the father of Aegialeus)
so, if the thersander who is listed, if he is polynices son, why is he not listed with his bothers?
which is why I think it's one of the other two, but the other statues are people who did an expedition. which is what thersander who is son of polynices participated.

question to ask bowmen.
along, with, how to mark up the the bride that was stole from the unknown bridegroom, to be ravaged by Bryas, but she stabbed his eye, and ran.
and the family of neocles.
can the name of biton and cleobis' mother be named, even if it's from a fragment by Plutarch, which was found circa 1900s?

also, note, that when I realized that there were 3 thersander, the mark up had them combined as one person. but they are not, hence, the person profile had different fathers. I've corrected them.

NOTE: there is a chance that other person's names, that have more than one mother or father, might not just be a conflict of info from the 3 current texts that the web site uses, but actually one xml id that is used by more than one person with the same name. some one might have to go back and check this later. (or me)

note: this might be the case, with 3.15.6

NOTE: I will have to go back to book 1, to make new id of places, even if I don't know the location.
eg. cave of pan. pan is marked up as a person. but it's referring to a place.
and add new id of groups and persons. eg aeropus. Molurian

Pausa 2.21.2
Hypernmestra, daughter of thesius is the mother of Amphiaraus, she married oicles.

source found from Diodorus Siculus book 4.68.5
source: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html

worked 3 hours.

didn't finish checking and editing pausa 3.15.6
which is part of the family tree of Polynieces

HT wants Blüh to sort Blue Blüh Blum Blz rather than the default Blue Blum Blz Blüh

Here's the original code to sort the json by name using just the raw unicode
thisCatFeatures.sort(function(a, b) {
var aName = a.getProperties().name.toUpperCase();
var bName = b.getProperties().name.toUpperCase();
if (aName < bName) { return -1; }
if (aName > bName) { return 1; }
return 0;
});

Here's a modification I made which transforms each accented character to its base character (ä to a) by splitting the base from the combining diacritic and then stripping the diacritic. This addresses the immediate problem, but does not conform with e.g. the German convention which requires that ä actually sort as ae.
thisCatFeatures.sort(function(a, b) {
var aName = a.getProperties().name.toUpperCase().normalize("NFD").replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, "");
var bName = b.getProperties().name.toUpperCase().normalize("NFD").replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, "");
if (aName < bName) { return -1; }
if (aName > bName) { return 1; }
return 0;
});

Here's a variation using the Collator object with an argument telling it to use German (de) spelling conventions. The "{sensitivity: base}" argument in combination with the German localization might be redundant or might generate slightly different results than no such argument, I haven't tested and this makes it explicit.
thisCatFeatures.sort(function(a, b) {
var aName = a.getProperties().name.toUpperCase();
var bName = b.getProperties().name.toUpperCase();
return new Intl.Collator('de', { sensitivity: 'base' }).compare(aName,bName);
});
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Collator

The new machines (NUC8) support WOL but only in S3 or S4 sleep. Right now I've got suspend/hibernate disabled so WOL won't work on the new machines. This is on the todo list.