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September 10, 2007

Diagnosed another markup oddity resulting in display problems

Posted by on 10 Sep 2007 in Activity log

The display problems with Looking more closely at LDev151-TM1091 are caused by a markup oddity, which also afflicts LDev047.2-Troilus:

Both of these poems contain <note> elements as children of the <bibl> tag in the head element of the poem. However, the normal procedure is to put <note> elements as following siblings of the <bibl> element, not inside it. There are 551 instances of <note> elements appearing as following siblings to <bibl> elements inside the <head> tag, but only three instances of notes appearing inside the <bibl> tag, LDev047.2-Troilus (which contains two), and LDev151-TM1091, which has one. Since this particular structure screws up the presentation of the page, because the XSLT isn't expecting it, and since it's actually hard to rewrite the XSLT to accommodate this oddity, I've suggested to Karin that these three instances be fixed.

Instructions for wildcard searching

Posted by on 10 Sep 2007 in Activity log

These are the basic instructions for wildcard searching in the Mariage Recherche page. They need to be translated into French.

When searching for individual words (n'importe quel mot, tous ces mots), you can use wildcards in your search. ? (a question mark) matches zero or one character, and * (an asterisk) matches zero or more characters. Thus "mar?" would match both "mari" and "mary", while "mar*" would match "mari", "mary", "marié" and "mariée". You can't use wildcard searches in the "phrase exact" search, because it is searching for an exact phrase.

September 9, 2007

Tomcat on lettuce

Posted by on 09 Sep 2007 in Servers, Activity log

I got an email that tomcat on lettuce was dead. This is not abnormal, but I usually get a follow-up within a few minutes saying that it's up again. I didn't get such a message this time.

The "dead" email came at 8:12pm (I got it about 8:25pm) and I didn't see an "alive email come in so I logged in to lettuce and found that tomcat was not flying out of control as I suspected. Rather, it wasn't running at all.

I started tomcat at around 8:50pm.

September 7, 2007

allow empty search string in francotoile

Posted by on 07 Sep 2007 in Activity log

modified code in search page to allow user to include an empty search string (e.g. so they can specify all subjects that are male regardless of contents of transcript).

Modified code to show search interface at top of page and search results at bottom of page

In course of doing that, decided to comment out simple search and leave only advanced (which is a superset of the simple).

Also modified code to maintain values previously selected in filters.

Also modified code in the locations field so that all tests are against internationalized string value derived from array ($lang->GetEntry('keyword')) rather than literal strings. Will likely implement same sort of thing in the origin and topics fields when I get values for them from Catherine. Required some modification in code doing testing for creation of search query as well.

JN: Administration

Posted by on 07 Sep 2007 in Activity log

September 7/07: Attended Administrative meeting regarding daily operational tasks and assorted upcoming administrative items.
Action items designated, correspondence underway.

Next meeting set for Tuesday, Sept. 11/07.

request to host .net application

Posted by on 07 Sep 2007 in Activity log

Gerlinde and Thomas asked about hosting a site with following requirements:
- running MSWindows Server 2003 with IIS
- asp.net 2.0
- .net framework
- mssql server express (mssee)

connectivity for developer to site: ftp, ideally remote desktop

Will enquire with sysadmin on availability and terms for service, and will enquire informally about other developers working with this technology and report back to Gerlinde and Thomas.