Depts

Four new student pictures thumbnailed and included on the abroad part of the site, on DR's instructions.

JQuiz and JCloze files all lacking keypad settings -- consumes a bit more time than it should.

Lots of files missing keypad switch and content, so that has to be added manually in the config. Also I've edited the jcloze6.ht_ source file to add a second keypad at the top; this helps with long exercises. TB is up to around unit 26, so I'll try to do another 5 units tomorrow.

Simple update to Pacific Asia site on DR's instructions, and some significant updates to Hispanital (including lots of photos from the year abroad program).

Received a new version of the Spanish 100A test from 2009, much expanded from before. Rebuild the Masher file, recreated the unit, tested and uploaded it. The old data has been archived.

Tonight's talk cancelled because the speaker can't travel due to the weather. Posted warning messages on the home page and the Lectures page.

PAB requested that a Humanities page about the Beck Trust Travel Award be linked from the main menu of the Beck Trust site. Rather than do that, I've written a page on the Beck site that curls the core content from the Humanities page and displays it, so that it will stay in sync with changes to the Humanities page, but the Beck site still gets a page about its own travel award. Had to do a bit of preg_replace to get rid of some invalidities in the curled code.

Converted the remaining JBC files to JQZ on Onion, and amended Masher files where required. I then looked at the possibility of doing the keypad conversions on all files on Onion in advance, but it turns out that many are unchanged from the days before the keypad was even available, so it makes more sense to let them all get edited by TB first, thus updating them to the current HotPot 6 structure, and then run the search-and-replace operations on them.

KE provided a new video of the JL talk for the CityTalks site, but it was extremely large (900 x 565, and well over 500MB). I've created a version at the same size as the previous video, using HandBrake, and I'm currently generating an OGV file. Both are still pretty big -- the MP4 is 156MB -- but it's a long video. As soon as the OGV is done, I'll post them on the site.

In the process of working on units 8-12, I discovered that there is an issue with the creation of titles for the index page in the Masher when the file itself is an old .jbc file. I've therefore started renaming all the JBC files with the JQuiz extension. Occasionally, it seems that I have to load them into JQuiz and save them as well, before they end up in a format where the Masher correctly reads the exercise title.

So this is what I'm currently doing for each new unit that TNB has finished with:

1. Use my MultiReplace app to do two search-and-replace operations on all JCloze files and JQuiz files containing short-answer questions. These are the changes:

   <keypad-characters></keypad-characters>
   
   to:
   
   <keypad-characters>&#x0100;&#x0112;&#x012A;&#x014C;&#x016A;&#x0101;&#x0113;&#x012B;&#x014D;&#x016B;</keypad-characters>
   
   and
   
   <include-keypad>0</include-keypad>
   
   to: 
   
   <include-keypad>1</include-keypad>
   
   

2. Rename all .jbc file to .jqz.
3. Use gedit to search and replace .jbc with .jqz in the Masher file.
4. Open the Masher file and rebuild the whole unit.
5. Check that the index has the right titles; if one appears as "Exercise title", then open the data file in JQuiz and save it again.