Theo Todman's Web Page - Notes Pages
Status Reports
Website - Progress to Date (2020 - March)
(Text as at 04/04/2020 00:14:24)
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Rationale for this Document
Items Completed In6:- - 20Q1
- Abstracts: As revealed by Spider: Link to PaperCitings failing (2 items) - Timing issue
- Authors: As revealed by Spider: Philosophers_Index_List_OA.htm. Author Names Scrambled. 133 items. Dud page (Ontological Argument) deleted.
- Authors: Restrict jump-table at top of Authors pages to relevant items, and include the item counts.
- Bridge: As revealed by Spider: Bridge_Code_Archive.htm (14 items) & Bridge_Code_Archive_Recent.htm (5 items)
- Notes: Solve the problem of the size limitation for Notes by allowing their concatenation.
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: Blackberry links from archived Note 1010 (Maintenance Dashboard). 38 items.
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: #Reference links: fail for Printable Notes. 24 items.
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: Blog7 Achived Notes - sundry links to Printable Notes. Live Note OK. 97 items outstanding.
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: Old links from Archive Notes to (non-existent) Archived Printable Notes. 42 items.
- Papers: Make use of Comments for large Abstracts seamless by appending Comments (if > 5k) to Abstracts.
- WebRefs: As revealed by Spider: WebLinks_Tester_Brief_12.htm (etc). Refs failing. 41 items. res://ieframe.dll/ in Returned_URL.
- WebRefs: WebRefs checker failing for Aeon - if a link fails, I get the message 'The page you were looking for could not be found (404)', but since the URL doesn't change, I don't spot it. This may happen for other sites as well. Fixed for Aeon - watch out for others.
- WebRefs: As revealed by Spider: WebLinks_Tester_Map_3.htm (etc). Refs failing. 51 items outstanding. res://ieframe.dll/ in Returned_URL.
- WebRefs: As revealed by Spider: WebLinks_Tester_4.htm. Refs failing. 32 items. res://ieframe.dll/ in Returned_URL.
- 19Q4
- Animadversions: Create Aeon_Files table & code to generate Aeon Page8 (to simplify processing and get round the 64k character limit).
- Authors: Improve author-citations process:-
- Show author-citation counts on Author Summary pages.
- Only have an author-citation link on Authors pages if the author is cited!
- Import Authors from Aeon_Files table.
- Notes: Create procedures (manual and via Functor_17) to add Audio Files to Notes
- Process:
- Full Website Regeneration failed in Notes Regen because the first Private Note (1339) couldn't be copied from the Transfer directory as the private note hadn't been created there by then.
- It should have been, from looking at the code.
- Also, the private note itself (116310) is not regenerated until later.
- In the start-December 2019 run, no such problem occurred. Maybe the problem was caused by copied between laptops. So, I've flagged it as complete for now, pending a recurrence.
- Process: Fix Functors to enable previous quarter's Status Reports after Time period roll-over
- 19Q3
- Own Website
- Authors: As revealed by Spider: Author pages not regenerated when name corrected, leading to Sundry broken Links from other pages.
- Books/Papers: Print Write-up Notes (not just the links) for appropriate Papers in BookPaperAbstracts
- Bridge: NGS Refinements
- Bridge: Synchronise Documentator with main website generator
- Bridge: Add Mountnessing archive links to Results
- Infrastructure: Purchase & Commission new Lenovo Laptop: awaiting replacement following motherboard failure!
- Infrastructure: PDFelement: Purchase & Commission upgrade from Version 5 to Version 7 for $39 - await new Laptop
- WebRefs: As revealed by Spider: Hits_Pages_Total_Crosstab_Descending.htm.
- Other Websites
- Sophie: Dismantle my old version of Sophie Botros.
- 19Q2
- Authors: Added Jump Table to sections of Authors Pages
- General: Created 'Chess' Home Page
- Created as a main menu item and Note11
- Created consolidated results pages
- Added games & links to pgn4web
- Status: Corrected Quarterly Reporting for uneven Plan (Holidays)
- 19Q1
- Books/Papers: Removed Blackberry processing and associated pages as no longer needed with fast broadband.
- Photos: Timeline software: Added photos of Coxes Farm
- Photos: Created Photo-logging usage via Images table.
- Photos: Created Timeline software
- Technology: Investigated the Hit Stats provided by Webalizer and produced web-pages to show the most active pages.
- 18Q4
- Own Website
- Architecture: As revealed by Spider: Old links in unregenerated pages. 8 Items.
- Documenter: Outstanding Developments by Category appearing all in Bold, and links to lists failing.
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: Links from Blog in Level 1 or 2 Printed Notes 51212 and 98113 failing. 141 items.
- Notes: Create Priority Task List Report14.
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: Consciousness Status Report15 Achived Notes - links to BookCatalogCategorised_16_115_471.htm failing. Live Note OK. 46 items. 24 items outstanding.
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: Links to sundry 'static' pages failing.
- 13 items fixed.
- 7 items outstanding: to do with Pete's PhD Test site. Links seem to be OK, so may be a problem with the Spider. Directory "Petes_PhD" was the only one set to "do not parse". The file wasn't in the site map. Reset; hopefully it'll work!
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: Sundry links failed for Supervisions. 30 items.
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: Status Reports - Achived Notes - sundry links failing. 50 items in total. Live Notes fixed.
- Website: Maintenance Dashboard16. 14 items.
- Personal Identity Status Report17. 11 items.
- Summary Status Report18. 4 items.
- Actual Detail Summary Report19. 6 items.
- Chess Status Report20. 12 items.
- Etc. 3 items.
- Process: Added 'time to regenerate' sub-totals & grand-totals to Website Maintenance Dashboard21.
- Spider: Determined why Full_Link_Up_Levels_Gen takes so long - approximately 4 hours. Re-architected to reduce database reads.
- Status: Links occasionally missing from Summary Task List22 and Summary Task List (YTD)23.
- WebRefs: Added Display text to WebRefs for Links to Stanford, Wikipedia & Aeon
- Other Websites
- Enigma: Added 'EE' shortcut icon on all Webpage browser tabs
- Sophie: Added 'SB' shortcut icon on all Webpage browser tabs
- 18Q3
- Architecture: Added 'TT' shortcut icon on all Webpage browser tabs
- Authors: Authors Narrative: enable footnotes.
- Authors: As revealed by Spider: 'Extra' Links to Notes from Citations List have the wrong directory (clumped in 1,000's like Papers rather than 100's). 7 items. Problem with AddCitations_List, so not just an issue for Authors.
- Books: As revealed by Spider: BookCitings. 405 items. Fixed problem with CreateBookCitingsWebPages not checking for change of Book during 'Repeats' processing.
- Books/Papers: Paper & Book Abstracts - Make 'Disclaimer' more prominent & show 'Paper Statistics' rather than 'Paper Summaries'
- Bridge: Reformated + Fixed Hand-dealing pages to CSS standards
- Documenter: Created Functor using Form_Documentation_Links to automatically add control-links to documentation Notes.
- Documenter: Fixed Bug where a variable has the same name as a procedure, and is thereby confused with one. Produced a warning query (Variable_Code_Name_Clashes) for manual correction.
- Footnotes: Enabled the re-use of Footnotes in the same Note24. They appeared multiple times, now just once. Fixed for:-
- Notes (OutputNotesWebPage)
- Printable Notes (NoteForPrinting), and
- Archived Notes (OutputNotesWebPage_Archived)
All of which use Notes_Text_Format and the Note_Footnotes table. Also, - Book & Paper Abstracts & Comments used to use an array in Reference_Footnotes, but changed to use a new table25 Abstract_Footnotes.
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: Bridge Status Report26 Achived Notes - sundry links failing. Live Note OK. 70 items.
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: Notes_List_Control links fail for Supervisions. 58 items.
- Notes: Created new '+LL+' Functor for links to Note_Link pages; fixed associated Notes.
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: Links to Notes_xxx_Links, from Abstracts (94 items), Notes (25 … corrected manually), NotesPrint (1916). Fixed by +LL+ functor implementation.
- Notes: Automatic Key-word Hyperlinking to Notes Project: Phase 2
- Added links based on Book & Paper Titles
- Added ***Read***-marker to Lists
- Allowed links to be ignored (rather than suppressed) during approval process
- Skip links to Status Reports, etc.
- Notes: Blog: Created Functor to generate Blog from Blog.
- Notes: Created auto-regen of all Note Link (Note_nnn_Link) Pages
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: Religion Status Report27 Achived Notes - sundry links failing. Live Note OK. 59 items.
- Notes: As revealed by Spider: Languages Status Report28 Achived Notes - links to Dissertation failing. Live Note OK. 43 items.
- Photos: As revealed by Spider: Fixed ImageRef to work for both embedded ('SRC') & linked images on the same page - eg. Carthusians29. 12 items.
- Photos: Fix Bug: photos in Abstracts with embedded Notes - eg. "Grossman (Lev), Kurzweil (Ray) - 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal" - not displaying
- Status: Status: Summary - Actual versus Plan30 between quarters says "previous quarter"; should be "current quarter"
- 18Q2
- Architecture: Adjusted MS Access Control Page31 to feature new functions (Development Log & Automatic XRef) and consolidated the categorised Notes Lists into one button.
- Documenter: Investigated the error reports from the Documenter:
- Improved the diagostics
- Removed unused variables from the Generator code.
- General: Website Tidy-up:-
- Wrote a function to delete - with specified exceptions - items not regenerated in the last full website regeneration.
- Tidied up Site - deleted non-updated pages (especially old Printed Notes). Automatically on the local site, manually - using the audit log - on the live site.
- Investigated setting up an FTP link as a drive so I could automatically delete from the live site, but couldn't get it to work. Easy to set up as a drive, but not to assign a drive-letter so the drive can be used by VBA.
- Notes: Created automatic key-word referencing (ie. to Notes in the Notes-Group "Personal Identity"). This was complicated for a number of reasons:-
- There are always false positives, so there needed to be a way of "proofing" what's to be done before doing anything.
- There will be times where it is inappropriate (eg. in quoted work by other authors). So, there had to be a way of permanently suppressing such links.
- The referencing differs depending on whether the term is in a Footnote or not.
- I needed to check for already-existing links, variant grammatical forms, etc.
- I created a MsgBox routine - providing context - so that what needed to be done with potential links could easily be decided when the linking process was (re-)run.
- Links are always to Notes, but are from Notes, Archived Notes, Authors and Book & Paper Abstracts & Comments.
- Notes: Added a process to 'fix' - by adding the Note-ID - those note-links added without stating the ID. This will save processing time.
- Papers: Papers associated with broken links:-
- Created an area to hold pdfs, and automated links thereto.
- Created a pop-up to say I'd remove such pdfs if requested by their authors.
- Consequently, haven't password protected the area yet.
- Process: Re-engineered Website Maintenance Dashboard32 to show extra topical links (and show them at the top of the page).
- Status: Added extra items to Functors to facilitate Quarterly Reporting:-
- Automatically calculated QTD & YTD time statistics in the quarterly reports.
- Provided a YTD task list for Status Reports for projects "in abeyance" to make reporting easier.
- Modified the statistics - to be just YTD - for YTD Status reports.
- Created table for - by Project - "Plans for the near future" tasks, and a functor to add them to the status report.
- Took "items competed" and "plans for the near future from the development log for the Web-tools status report.
- Created another functor to add these lists to the Summary report.
- WebRefs: Created Functor to add stats to Website Generator Documentation - Web Links33 page.
- 18Q1
- Bridge: Corrected format of Links from Bridge Page
- Documenter: Documenter Bug-fixes: Objects in Comments, MsgBoxs & Debugs
- Documenter: Created consolidated Development Log, and updated "Progress to Date" and "Outstanding Developments" Reports
- Infrastructure: Migration of Website from UKServers to Namesco. Test out.
- Notes: Automated format-change of old tables in Notes and Notes_Archive
- Notes: Notes Functor34 Processing: Phase 1
- Basic processing to interpret comments in HTML code
- 01: Quarterly Report: Activity insert35
- 02: Development Log report - Completed Items by Date36
- 03: Development Log report - Outstanding Items by Priority37
- 04: Development Log report - Outstanding Items by Category38
- 05: Development Log report - Completed Items by Category39
- 06: Quarterly Report: Priority 1 Outstanding Developments by Category40
- Notes: Removed old "Printable Notes" links from Archived Notes
- Notes: Extended deduction of Note links to Papers, and Papers with embedded Notes.
- Papers: Correction of narratives on Note time-recording pseudo-papers
- Process: Improved efficiency of daily changes regeneration (removed msgboxes)
- Process: Wrote a routine to update a set of .htm files, replacing text in them all
- Status: Created web-page generator for Development items (ie. Created the Web-Project "To Do" List and "Outstanding Developments" directly from this list).
- WebRefs: Documentation & Bug-fixes: Phase 1
- Completed "as is" functional documentation so I could see what's going on.
- Re-engineered so it made sense and ran efficiently without bugs
- Fixed the obvious data errors that confused the statistics - ie. where the returned URL differs from that requested and https issues.
- Wrote / improved diagnostic reports (web pages)
- WebRefs: Determined & reported usage directly using embedded +WnnnW+ encoding rather than via the Spider. Reconciled the two methods.
- 17Q4
- Architecture: Automated links between Quarterly reports (Task Lists)
- Books/Papers: New "Recent Acquisitions" Book List - Uncategorised
- Documenter: Code Archive: Hadn't been working - fixed and recovered a selection from backups
- Documenter: Code Archive: Created Web-pages of Recent Code Changes
- Notes: Enabled deduction of Note link by omitting the Note ID from the mark-up and doing a look up on the key-word and its varients.
- Notes: Added %age complete to Notes Reading Lists
- Timesheets: Separated Time Recording for Aeon
- 17Q3
- Notes: Added Colour-coded "quality markers" to Notes: included them in lists and jump-tables
- 17Q2
- Bridge: Created hyperlinks from my consolidated results pages to the actual results
- Search: Wrote routines to create a cut-down Website excluding pages with irrelevant or duplicated information. Used this to create the ZoomSearch facility.
- 17Q1
- Bridge: Added new features (70s Club & Monthly Pairs Winners) to my Bridge mini-websites.
- Bridge: Created Master Point Lists & Promotions for the ECBA website.
- 16Q4
- Spider: Added “.shtml” and “.shtm” to the list of web-suffices.
- 16Q3
- Acts: Developed a website for displaying the textual and grammatical analyses and appendices of Pete’s PhD on the Acts of the Apostles. Two versions: Live (Acts: Live Site) and Test (Acts: Test Site).
- Bridge: Revived the archive website for Mountnessing Bridge Club (Mountnessing Bridge Club Archive).
- 16Q2
- Clock: Created a "chess clock" application to help time tasks. Not much use in the end.
- 16Q1
- Own Website
- Books/Papers: Created direct links from Subject, Topic & Sub-topic (in Book and Paper Summaries) to their link pages.
- Documenter: Created an automatic Forms documenter – with links to the code.
- Notes: Stopped (I hope!) “private” Notes showing in Paper Abstracts.
- Notes: Allowed Note- & Footnote-links from multiple words41. This is such a useful feature!
- Notes: Enabled direct links to Notes from within Footnotes.
- Notes: Completed converting “static” pages to Notes.
- WebRefs: Some tidying up of the 3,000-odd external links from my website.
- Other Websites
- Bridge: Accommodated Alaric’s new scoring system for St. Edith’s.
- Bridge: Created Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s ladders for my mini-websites.
- Bridge: Reconciled my X-IMP calculations with a new feature provided by Bridgewebs.
- 15Q4
- Own Website
- Abstracts: Corrected data format on Identity Abstracts
- Aesthetics: Reduced font + changed text in ubiquitous THEO'S PAGE heading
- Authors: Provided easy links to works by the same author; Books, Papers; Joint authors
- Authors: Corrected author's names (SN (FN)) for all papers and books
- Backups: Enhanced my backup system to prune items backed up multiple times (eg. if they moved directory).
- Books/Papers: Neatened up the linkage headers in Book & Paper Abstracts.
- Books/Papers: Updated booklists to include shelf-identifiers
- Data: Corrected data content on Identity Sub-topics
- Documenter: Segregated the code-archive, which was bloating42 the generator database.
- Notes: Converted the “static” pages in my website to Note format (so they can change and retain history).
- Notes: Fixed problem of images not appearing in "Printed" Notes (wrong directory level) unless the images are repeated
- Process: Created a consolidated processor to enable overnight regeneration of the whole website.
- Spider: Finally cracked the Spider for external links, and used it to check the 3,000-odd links from my website. Some tidying up outstanding.
- Other Websites
- Bridge: Segregated the Bridge website generators from those for my own website. They now live in separate databases and have their own documenters.
- 15Q3
- Own Website
- Architecture: Made a lot of progress on improving the hyperlinking in my own website – I’ve made a good start on this project. The links now work accurately, but I need to ensure the efficient propagation of linkage changes across the site without requiring a complete regeneration.
- Notes: Tidied up the archived Notes.
- Other Websites
- Bridge: Ported my “handicap / improvers” routines from Hutton to “Mini Websites”.
- Bridge: Created a new website (using Bridgewebs) for the First Class Bridge Academy (First Class Bridge).
- Enigma: Created a small website for a music group Julie and I attend – the Enigma Ensemble.
- Sophie: Completed the upgrade of Sophie Botros43’s website; see Sophie Botros.
- 15Q2
- Bridge: Development of the “Eve Goblets” (victor ludorum) software for the ECBA, and roll-over to the new season.
- 15Q1
- Own Website
- Architecture: Vastly improved the “bulleting” options in Notes, etc.
- Authors: Improved the format and content of “Authors” pages.
- Timesheets: Segregated time-recording so I can easily see how much time is spent developing and supporting my own website, and how much is spent on those of other organisations.
- Other Websites
- Bridge: Took on the ECBA Website (ECBA Website (Defunct)), at the cost of considerable effort by way of reformatting & tidy-up.
- Bridge: Started a project to provide small websites for bridge clubs without sites: Essex Bridge Results.
- Bridge: Further improvements to my Butler-IMPs and Cross-IMPs calculation routines.
- 14Q4
- Own Website
- Notes: Made improvements to the regeneration and referencing of archived Notes.
- Spider: Fixed the bug wherein the Spider ran out of system resources on large runs: now compacts & repairs the slave database as it does along (every 200k links; parameterised).
- Other Websites
- Bridge: Improvements to my Butler-IMPs and Cross-IMPs calculation routines – different formats, including the Jeff Smith format, and extension to Butler-scored Pairs events. This work has been taken up by the ECBA selectors for county-team selection.
- 14Q3
- Own Website
- Notes: Created a progress-tracker44 for my Thesis.
- Notes: Improved error-recovery where encoding fails for Notes links.
- Notes: Started to split Paper Abstracts from Write-ups.
- Spider: Continued working on my Spider and started to use it to clean up my website by diagnosing broken links.
- Other Websites
- Bridge: Created a suite of programs to extract data and calculate Butler-IMPs and Cross-IMPs from the travellers on Bridgewebs Teams events, and output ranking-lists to the Web.
- 14Q2
- Architecture: Added extra linkages between pages (eg. on Author).
- Authors: Created the facility for Author Narratives.
- Backups: Used a clone of my Spider routines to create a backup and restore system.
- Documenter: Created multiple secure areas on my website, so that Documentation is no longer hiding under my Supervision Notes.
- Notes: Wrote routines to import old (but missing) archived Notes into the database so they can be (and have been) re-exported in the current format.
- 14Q1
- Architecture: Repaired / updated my Website site-map.
- Notes: Made a lot of improvements to my Site generators, in particular the pesky bug that stopped the links to archived Notes working correctly.
- Process: Created a “Website Regeneration Dashboard” to show when the various elements of my website have been refreshed, and how long the routines took to run. Links to this appear in the footer to each webpage.
- Process: Improved the regeneration routines for the various classes of webpage, and got them to record statistics in support of the “Website Regeneration Dashboard”.
- 13Q3
- Architecture: Sorted conflicts between Subject, Topic & Sub-Topic IDs
- Books/Papers: Made enhancements to "Books & Papers Collection Categorised" Pages
- Books/Papers: Improved linkages between Book/Paper Lists and Summaries or Abstracts
- Notes: Allowed "Authors Works Lists" to be linked-to from Notes
- Notes: Simplified / Re-engineered Notes processing
- Notes: Created Archived Notes Re-Export facility
- Notes: "Single Image" development for Notes
- Status: Re-engineered Monthly Reporting on Change of Year
- Technology: Converted Tables to CSS3 standard
- Technology: Used CSS in all manually-crafted and automatically-generated pages
- Timesheets: Re-engineered Time-Recording, so that actuals are held against Papers (and Books) in a separate table, rather than as columns by year in the Papers / Books tables themselves. Retained the grand totals only.
- 13Q2
- Own Website
- Architecture: Improved error-recovery where encoding fails for links to Books, Papers and Authors. That is, where one of my bespoke tags (eg. +B45) doesn’t match with its corresponding anti-tag (eg. B+).
- Architecture: Replaced macros with code.
- Books/Papers: Improved the linkage between Papers and Books.
- Books/Papers: Developed "Books by Location" Pages
- Bridge: Created “Consolidated Bridge Results” webpages (for my own results).
- Documenter: Wrote the Code Documenter.
- Documenter: Created a code & query archive facility as part of the Code Documenter.
- Notes: Improved "Concatenated Notes" production
- Photos: Reduced the size of photos (to make the pages quicker to load).
- Spider: De-bugged the Spider.
- Status: Improved "This Month's Summary" Reporting
- Status: Improved Quarterly Reporting
- WebRefs: Some pages render oddly in Chrome (and maybe other browsers) – investigated46.
- Other Websites
- Bridge: Merged47 Philosophy & Bridge Databases
- 13Q1
- Status: Re-engineered Monthly Reporting Tables & improved Monthly Reporting
- Technology: Standardised to HTML548
- 12Q3
- General: Improved Titles for Search Results display optimisation
- 11Q4
- Books/Papers: Showed Percentage of Paper / Book Read
- 11Q2
- Authors: Created Author Cross-reference
- Books/Papers: Added “changed dates” to Paper and Book abstracts, and produced “recently changed” pages for them
- Books/Papers: Created Inter-Book-Paper Citings Cross-reference
- 10Q3
- Notes: Investigate Note_Links: needs versioning, and section of calling Note
- Notes: Wrote routines to automatically generate the “Printable Notes” footer – and to create the corresponding web pages – from the control table. Very useful.
- Notes: Add “Date Created” to Note_Links (for audit purposes; I’m still not convinced that links disappear when they should).
- WebRefs: Improved the functionality for automatically generating external Web-links in Notes, Book Abstracts and Paper Abstracts. Corrected current data to accommodate the new code.
- 10Q2
- Footnotes: Added intra-Note footnotes – a real breakthrough (strange I’d not thought of this before). It will enable me to convert to Note form all the old .pdfs from my undergraduate days – which are replete with footnotes – if this is any use.
- Spider: Wrote my own Web Spider.
- It’s a little bit of a cheat, in that it doesn’t actually invoke the web-links, but crawls through my directory structure selecting all the .htm files, and rummages through the HTML looking for links which it then copies to a table.
- It also maintains a table of the directory structure and files therein, and then works out the real address from the relative addressing.
- It then allows cross-checking between the links and the files.
- Links external to the site have to be investigated manually (at least I have a list of all the links) – unless I can work out how to use the list to power a browser to check.
- There are about 333k links in 55k files – the full run took about 8 hours.
- It now runs incrementally based on file last-updated dates.
- 09Q4
- Notes: Restricted the size of the “previous versions” tables for Notes to 12.
- Process: Set up my database system to roll forward to the next academic year, and generate web-pages appropriately.
- 09Q3
- Books/Papers: Completed a full 2-way link from Book/Paper Summaries to Notes.
- Books/Papers: Made a lot of changes to the way Books and Papers are categorised; in particular:-
- Added 2-level jump tables, to save the browser being crowded with hundreds of cross-categorisations in the same page.
- While it’s OK for Books, it seems to have a few potholes for Papers, as some of the links fail.
- The problem may be something to do with my economical way of suppressing redundant sub-categorisation - ie. where one or more of Subject, Topic and Sub-topic are the same.
- Notes: Functionally enhanced the Notes-generation processing options; to make niftier production possible. In particular, where individual Notes are selected, I made the re-generation of the cross-references optional (so that if only textual variation is being iterated, the iterations are quicker).
- Notes: Improved the performance of “All Notes” regeneration. The problem was with the generation of the generic reading lists based on Note Title. These only apply to the “Identity” Notes, and it was taking a long time to determine there was no list to produce.
- Notes: Ensured that the Notes Reading-list is generated from all 3 sub-topics.
- Notes: Enabled Concatenated Notes (by Group). This is only allowed for “Identity” Notes at the moment, which is what I’d wanted it for. It allows all Notes for a Group to be printed off in Title sequence, for ease of review.
- Notes: Enabled automatic immediate promotion to Live Website of selected Temp Notes.
- Process: Created a “performance stats” database and routines to write to it – though I only implemented them for the Notes generator.
- 09Q2
- Architecture: Created Site-map for Website
- Books/Papers: Added "quality marker" to Paper & Book Abstracts
- Books/Papers: De-duplicated Books / Papers to Notes links
- Books/Papers: Improved, and corrected errors in, the Blackberry-friendly formatted lists of Books and Papers.
- Notes: Added a table of Notes history at the end of each Note (ie. not just previous version) - to save tedious chaining
- 09Q1
- Books/Papers: Enabled links from Books to the Papers contained therein
- Books/Papers: Provided an automated link from Books / Papers to the Notes referencing them
- Books/Papers: Enhanced Books to Papers links to include papers multiply held
- Books/Papers: Created automatic links from Paper Summary to Book Summary
- Books/Papers: Improved the Books / Papers to Notes links to include the right Version and Section (and historical Title) of the Note
- Notes: Fixed the problem of the overpopulation of the Notes directory
- Notes: Created optional "don't print" feature for specific footnotes.
- Notes: Option for Notes-Regen:
- Changed-only
- Changed, and all impacted by Change
- All
- Notes: Added reading-list (of works cited) at the end of the Note, as well as in the Printed Note
- 08Q4
- Timesheets: Updated Book totals from totals of the Papers contained therein
- 08Q1
- Notes: Allowed regeneration of Temp Notes only
- 07Q4
- Architecture: Added password-protection to selected pages
- Notes: When a Note is archived, ensured a printable note is also archived49 (if this Note has a print)
- Notes: Added referenced Books / Papers as footnote jump table to Notes
- Notes: Added referenced reading lists to printable version of Notes
- Notes: Improve "Temp" note processing. Suppress "_T" suffix (just don't copy to Transfer)
- Search: Created search facility using ZoomSearch
- 07Q3
- Animadversions: Added a "hot topics" link - things that I'm currently working on and want feedback ("Animadversions")
- Footnotes: Improved transparency of Footnote referencing in printed Notes
- Notes: Created50 a "quick lookup" table of responses to a note and its sub-notes (recursive function on Notes_Links)
- Notes: Created "respondent notes" - database identifier & red indicator + text
- Notes: Enabled generation of printable version of Notes
- Notes: Made Note-change-history available on-line (added status + publishable flags)
- 07Q2
- Abstracts: Added "Extra Data" parallel to Abstracts; ie. "More …" (Location etc.)
- Abstracts: Created auto-backup of Abstracts, and more efficient maintenance web-routines
- Abstracts: Segregated Abstracts into multiple directories
- Architecture: Segregated database51 into Master and Slaves (code, papers, books, notes, web control, … vs PI)
- Architecture: Tidied up Footers throughout Philosophy Papers site (made into tables)
- Books/Papers: Jump-Tables: added "by topic" option
- Books/Papers: Added Book Comments and Abstracts (as "More…") to Book-lists
- Books/Papers: Added multiple Jump-levels for BB Lists (to keep pages small)
- Books/Papers: Created "BB-friendly52" lists: Papers (Full) and Books
- Books/Papers: Created "Papers by Title within Topic" list
- Books/Papers: Added "read" column in papers / books lists
- Books/Papers: Created "Identity Papers Full by Sub-Topic" list
- Books/Papers: Added change of author or title in "Abstracts audit"
- Books/Papers: Added Flags for "laptop" and "photocopy"; removed document location from Comments
- Books/Papers: Created "Identity Read Papers by Sub-Topic" list
- Footnotes: Created auto-backup of Footnotes53, and more efficient maintenance web-routines
- Footnotes: Created auto-renumbering54=53 routine for Footnotes
- General: Improved "Disclaimer55" Page. Reduce font, add ref to philosophy databases + hyperlinks
- Notes: Added "footnote" pages56=53 for Carthusians & King's
- Notes: Allowed two sorts of Note - document-specific ("Write-up") and general
- Notes: Added "outgoing links" summary footer to Notes pages
- Process: Improved ease of FTP process by use of Transfer Directory
- WebRefs: Made Web Refs in Comments / Abstracts into Hyperlinks
Items Completed by Category: - Own Website: Completed Items By Category:-
- Abstracts
- 20Q1: As revealed by Spider: Link to PaperCitings failing (2 items) - Timing issue
- 15Q4: Corrected data format on Identity Abstracts
- 07Q2: Added "Extra Data" parallel to Abstracts; ie. "More …" (Location etc.)
- 07Q2: Created auto-backup of Abstracts, and more efficient maintenance web-routines
- 07Q2: Segregated Abstracts into multiple directories
- Aesthetics
- 15Q4: Reduced font + changed text in ubiquitous THEO'S PAGE heading
- Animadversions
- 19Q4: Create Aeon_Files table & code to generate Aeon Page57 (to simplify processing and get round the 64k character limit).
- 07Q3: Added a "hot topics" link - things that I'm currently working on and want feedback ("Animadversions")
- Architecture
- 18Q4: As revealed by Spider: Old links in unregenerated pages. 8 Items.
- 18Q3: Added 'TT' shortcut icon on all Webpage browser tabs
- 18Q2: Adjusted MS Access Control Page58 to feature new functions (Development Log & Automatic XRef) and consolidated the categorised Notes Lists into one button.
- 17Q4: Automated links between Quarterly reports (Task Lists)
- 15Q3: Made a lot of progress on improving the hyperlinking in my own website – I’ve made a good start on this project. The links now work accurately, but I need to ensure the efficient propagation of linkage changes across the site without requiring a complete regeneration.
- 15Q1: Vastly improved the “bulleting” options in Notes, etc.
- 14Q2: Added extra linkages between pages (eg. on Author).
- 14Q1: Repaired / updated my Website site-map.
- 13Q3: Sorted conflicts between Subject, Topic & Sub-Topic IDs
- 13Q2: Improved error-recovery where encoding fails for links to Books, Papers and Authors. That is, where one of my bespoke tags (eg. +B59=45) doesn’t match with its corresponding anti-tag (eg. B+).
- 13Q2: Replaced macros with code.
- 09Q2: Created Site-map for Website
- 07Q4: Added password-protection to selected pages
- 07Q2: Segregated database60=51 into Master and Slaves (code, papers, books, notes, web control, … vs PI)
- 07Q2: Tidied up Footers throughout Philosophy Papers site (made into tables)
- Authors
- 20Q1: As revealed by Spider: Philosophers_Index_List_OA.htm. Author Names Scrambled. 133 items. Dud page (Ontological Argument) deleted.
- 20Q1: Restrict jump-table at top of Authors pages to relevant items, and include the item counts.
- 19Q4: Improve author-citations process:-
- Show author-citation counts on Author Summary pages.
- Only have an author-citation link on Authors pages if the author is cited!
- Import Authors from Aeon_Files table.
- 19Q3: As revealed by Spider: Author pages not regenerated when name corrected, leading to Sundry broken Links from other pages.
- 19Q2: Added Jump Table to sections of Authors Pages
- 18Q3: As revealed by Spider: 'Extra' Links to Notes from Citations List have the wrong directory (clumped in 1,000's like Papers rather than 100's). 7 items. Problem with AddCitations_List, so not just an issue for Authors.
- 18Q3: Authors Narrative: enable footnotes.
- 15Q4: Corrected author's names (SN (FN)) for all papers and books
- 15Q4: Provided easy links to works by the same author; Books, Papers; Joint authors
- 15Q1: Improved the format and content of “Authors” pages.
- 14Q2: Created the facility for Author Narratives.
- 11Q2: Created Author Cross-reference
- Backups
- 15Q4: Enhanced my backup system to prune items backed up multiple times (eg. if they moved directory).
- 14Q2: Used a clone of my Spider routines to create a backup and restore system.
- Books
- 18Q3: As revealed by Spider: BookCitings. 405 items. Fixed problem with CreateBookCitingsWebPages not checking for change of Book during 'Repeats' processing.
- Books/Papers
- 19Q3: Print Write-up Notes (not just the links) for appropriate Papers in BookPaperAbstracts
- 19Q1: Removed Blackberry processing and associated pages as no longer needed with fast broadband.
- 18Q3: Paper & Book Abstracts - Make 'Disclaimer' more prominent & show 'Paper Statistics' rather than 'Paper Summaries'
- 17Q4: New "Recent Acquisitions" Book List - Uncategorised
- 16Q1: Created direct links from Subject, Topic & Sub-topic (in Book and Paper Summaries) to their link pages.
- 15Q4: Neatened up the linkage headers in Book & Paper Abstracts.
- 15Q4: Updated booklists to include shelf-identifiers
- 13Q3: Improved linkages between Book/Paper Lists and Summaries or Abstracts
- 13Q3: Made enhancements to "Books & Papers Collection Categorised" Pages
- 13Q2: Developed "Books by Location" Pages
- 13Q2: Improved the linkage between Papers and Books.
- 11Q4: Showed Percentage of Paper / Book Read
- 11Q2: Added “changed dates” to Paper and Book abstracts, and produced “recently changed” pages for them
- 11Q2: Created Inter-Book-Paper Citings Cross-reference
- 09Q3: Completed a full 2-way link from Book/Paper Summaries to Notes.
- 09Q3: Made a lot of changes to the way Books and Papers are categorised; in particular:-
- Added 2-level jump tables, to save the browser being crowded with hundreds of cross-categorisations in the same page.
- While it’s OK for Books, it seems to have a few potholes for Papers, as some of the links fail.
- The problem may be something to do with my economical way of suppressing redundant sub-categorisation - ie. where one or more of Subject, Topic and Sub-topic are the same.
- 09Q2: Added "quality marker" to Paper & Book Abstracts
- 09Q2: De-duplicated Books / Papers to Notes links
- 09Q2: Improved, and corrected errors in, the Blackberry-friendly formatted lists of Books and Papers.
- 09Q1: Created automatic links from Paper Summary to Book Summary
- 09Q1: Enabled links from Books to the Papers contained therein
- 09Q1: Enhanced Books to Papers links to include papers multiply held
- 09Q1: Improved the Books / Papers to Notes links to include the right Version and Section (and historical Title) of the Note
- 09Q1: Provided an automated link from Books / Papers to the Notes referencing them
- 07Q2: Added "read" column in papers / books lists
- 07Q2: Added Book Comments and Abstracts (as "More…") to Book-lists
- 07Q2: Added change of author or title in "Abstracts audit"
- 07Q2: Added Flags for "laptop" and "photocopy"; removed document location from Comments
- 07Q2: Added multiple Jump-levels for BB Lists (to keep pages small)
- 07Q2: Created "BB-friendly61=52" lists: Papers (Full) and Books
- 07Q2: Created "Identity Papers Full by Sub-Topic" list
- 07Q2: Created "Identity Read Papers by Sub-Topic" list
- 07Q2: Created "Papers by Title within Topic" list
- 07Q2: Jump-Tables: added "by topic" option
- Bridge
- 20Q1: As revealed by Spider: Bridge_Code_Archive.htm (14 items) & Bridge_Code_Archive_Recent.htm (5 items)
- 19Q3: Add Mountnessing archive links to Results
- 19Q3: NGS Refinements
- 19Q3: Synchronise Documentator with main website generator
- 18Q3: Reformated + Fixed Hand-dealing pages to CSS standards
- 18Q1: Corrected format of Links from Bridge Page
- 17Q2: Created hyperlinks from my consolidated results pages to the actual results
- 13Q2: Created “Consolidated Bridge Results” webpages (for my own results).
- Clock
- 16Q2: Created a "chess clock" application to help time tasks. Not much use in the end.
- Data
- 15Q4: Corrected data content on Identity Sub-topics
- Documenter
- 18Q4: Outstanding Developments by Category appearing all in Bold, and links to lists failing.
- 18Q3: Created Functor using Form_Documentation_Links to automatically add control-links to documentation Notes.
- 18Q3: Fixed Bug where a variable has the same name as a procedure, and is thereby confused with one. Produced a warning query (Variable_Code_Name_Clashes) for manual correction.
- 18Q2: Investigated the error reports from the Documenter:
- Improved the diagostics
- Removed unused variables from the Generator code.
- 18Q1: Created consolidated Development Log, and updated "Progress to Date" and "Outstanding Developments" Reports
- 18Q1: Documenter Bug-fixes: Objects in Comments, MsgBoxs & Debugs
- 17Q4: Code Archive: Created Web-pages of Recent Code Changes
- 17Q4: Code Archive: Hadn't been working - fixed and recovered a selection from backups
- 16Q1: Created an automatic Forms documenter – with links to the code.
- 15Q4: Segregated the code-archive, which was bloating62=42 the generator database.
- 14Q2: Created multiple secure areas on my website, so that Documentation is no longer hiding under my Supervision Notes.
- 13Q2: Created a code & query archive facility as part of the Code Documenter.
- 13Q2: Wrote the Code Documenter.
- Footnotes
- 18Q3: Enabled the re-use of Footnotes in the same Note63=24. They appeared multiple times, now just once. Fixed for:-
- Notes (OutputNotesWebPage)
- Printable Notes (NoteForPrinting), and
- Archived Notes (OutputNotesWebPage_Archived)
All of which use Notes_Text_Format and the Note_Footnotes table. Also, - Book & Paper Abstracts & Comments used to use an array in Reference_Footnotes, but changed to use a new table64=25 Abstract_Footnotes.
- 10Q2: Added intra-Note footnotes – a real breakthrough (strange I’d not thought of this before). It will enable me to convert to Note form all the old .pdfs from my undergraduate days – which are replete with footnotes – if this is any use.
- 07Q3: Improved transparency of Footnote referencing in printed Notes
- 07Q2: Created auto-backup of Footnotes65=53, and more efficient maintenance web-routines
- 07Q2: Created auto-renumbering66=53 routine for Footnotes
- General
- 19Q2: Created 'Chess' Home Page
- Created as a main menu item and Note67
- Created consolidated results pages
- Added games & links to pgn4web
- 18Q2: Website Tidy-up:-
- Wrote a function to delete - with specified exceptions - items not regenerated in the last full website regeneration.
- Tidied up Site - deleted non-updated pages (especially old Printed Notes). Automatically on the local site, manually - using the audit log - on the live site.
- Investigated setting up an FTP link as a drive so I could automatically delete from the live site, but couldn't get it to work. Easy to set up as a drive, but not to assign a drive-letter so the drive can be used by VBA.
- 12Q3: Improved Titles for Search Results display optimisation
- 07Q2: Improved "Disclaimer68=55" Page. Reduce font, add ref to philosophy databases + hyperlinks
- Infrastructure
- 19Q3: PDFelement: Purchase & Commission upgrade from Version 5 to Version 7 for $39 - await new Laptop
- 19Q3: Purchase & Commission new Lenovo Laptop: awaiting replacement following motherboard failure!
- 18Q1: Migration of Website from UKServers to Namesco. Test out.
- Notes
- 20Q1: As revealed by Spider: #Reference links: fail for Printable Notes. 24 items.
- 20Q1: As revealed by Spider: Blackberry links from archived Note 1010 (Maintenance Dashboard). 38 items.
- 20Q1: As revealed by Spider: Blog69 Achived Notes - sundry links to Printable Notes. Live Note OK. 97 items outstanding.
- 20Q1: As revealed by Spider: Old links from Archive Notes to (non-existent) Archived Printable Notes. 42 items.
- 20Q1: Solve the problem of the size limitation for Notes by allowing their concatenation.
- 19Q4: Create procedures (manual and via Functor_17) to add Audio Files to Notes
- 18Q4: As revealed by Spider: Consciousness Status Report70 Achived Notes - links to BookCatalogCategorised_16_115_471.htm failing. Live Note OK. 46 items. 24 items outstanding.
- 18Q4: As revealed by Spider: Links from Blog in Level 1 or 2 Printed Notes 51271 and 98172 failing. 141 items.
- 18Q4: As revealed by Spider: Links to sundry 'static' pages failing.
- 13 items fixed.
- 7 items outstanding: to do with Pete's PhD Test site. Links seem to be OK, so may be a problem with the Spider. Directory "Petes_PhD" was the only one set to "do not parse". The file wasn't in the site map. Reset; hopefully it'll work!
- 18Q4: As revealed by Spider: Status Reports - Achived Notes - sundry links failing. 50 items in total. Live Notes fixed.
- Website: Maintenance Dashboard73. 14 items.
- Personal Identity Status Report74. 11 items.
- Summary Status Report75. 4 items.
- Actual Detail Summary Report76. 6 items.
- Chess Status Report77. 12 items.
- Etc. 3 items.
- 18Q4: As revealed by Spider: Sundry links failed for Supervisions. 30 items.
- 18Q4: Create Priority Task List Report78.
- 18Q3: As revealed by Spider: Bridge Status Report79 Achived Notes - sundry links failing. Live Note OK. 70 items.
- 18Q3: As revealed by Spider: Languages Status Report80 Achived Notes - links to Dissertation failing. Live Note OK. 43 items.
- 18Q3: As revealed by Spider: Religion Status Report81 Achived Notes - sundry links failing. Live Note OK. 59 items.
- 18Q3: As revealed by Spider: Links to Notes_xxx_Links, from Abstracts (94 items), Notes (25 … corrected manually), NotesPrint (1916). Fixed by +LL+ functor implementation.
- 18Q3: As revealed by Spider: Notes_List_Control links fail for Supervisions. 58 items.
- 18Q3: Automatic Key-word Hyperlinking to Notes Project: Phase 2
- Added links based on Book & Paper Titles
- Added ***Read***-marker to Lists
- Allowed links to be ignored (rather than suppressed) during approval process
- Skip links to Status Reports, etc.
- 18Q3: Blog: Created Functor to generate Blog from Blog.
- 18Q3: Created auto-regen of all Note Link (Note_nnn_Link) Pages
- 18Q3: Created new '+LL+' Functor for links to Note_Link pages; fixed associated Notes.
- 18Q2: Added a process to 'fix' - by adding the Note-ID - those note-links added without stating the ID. This will save processing time.
- 18Q2: Created automatic key-word referencing (ie. to Notes in the Notes-Group "Personal Identity"). This was complicated for a number of reasons:-
- There are always false positives, so there needed to be a way of "proofing" what's to be done before doing anything.
- There will be times where it is inappropriate (eg. in quoted work by other authors). So, there had to be a way of permanently suppressing such links.
- The referencing differs depending on whether the term is in a Footnote or not.
- I needed to check for already-existing links, variant grammatical forms, etc.
- I created a MsgBox routine - providing context - so that what needed to be done with potential links could easily be decided when the linking process was (re-)run.
- Links are always to Notes, but are from Notes, Archived Notes, Authors and Book & Paper Abstracts & Comments.
- 18Q1: Automated format-change of old tables in Notes and Notes_Archive
- 18Q1: Extended deduction of Note links to Papers, and Papers with embedded Notes.
- 18Q1: Notes Functor82=34 Processing: Phase 1
- Basic processing to interpret comments in HTML code
- 01: Quarterly Report: Activity insert83
- 02: Development Log report - Completed Items by Date84
- 03: Development Log report - Outstanding Items by Priority85
- 04: Development Log report - Outstanding Items by Category86
- 05: Development Log report - Completed Items by Category87
- 06: Quarterly Report: Priority 1 Outstanding Developments by Category88
- 18Q1: Removed old "Printable Notes" links from Archived Notes
- 17Q4: Added %age complete to Notes Reading Lists
- 17Q4: Enabled deduction of Note link by omitting the Note ID from the mark-up and doing a look up on the key-word and its varients.
- 17Q3: Added Colour-coded "quality markers" to Notes: included them in lists and jump-tables
- 16Q1: Allowed Note- & Footnote-links from multiple words89=41. This is such a useful feature!
- 16Q1: Completed converting “static” pages to Notes.
- 16Q1: Enabled direct links to Notes from within Footnotes.
- 16Q1: Stopped (I hope!) “private” Notes showing in Paper Abstracts.
- 15Q4: Converted the “static” pages in my website to Note format (so they can change and retain history).
- 15Q4: Fixed problem of images not appearing in "Printed" Notes (wrong directory level) unless the images are repeated
- 15Q3: Tidied up the archived Notes.
- 14Q4: Made improvements to the regeneration and referencing of archived Notes.
- 14Q3: Created a progress-tracker90 for my Thesis.
- 14Q3: Improved error-recovery where encoding fails for Notes links.
- 14Q3: Started to split Paper Abstracts from Write-ups.
- 14Q2: Wrote routines to import old (but missing) archived Notes into the database so they can be (and have been) re-exported in the current format.
- 14Q1: Made a lot of improvements to my Site generators, in particular the pesky bug that stopped the links to archived Notes working correctly.
- 13Q3: "Single Image" development for Notes
- 13Q3: Allowed "Authors Works Lists" to be linked-to from Notes
- 13Q3: Created Archived Notes Re-Export facility
- 13Q3: Simplified / Re-engineered Notes processing
- 13Q2: Improved "Concatenated Notes" production
- 10Q3: Add “Date Created” to Note_Links (for audit purposes; I’m still not convinced that links disappear when they should).
- 10Q3: Investigate Note_Links: needs versioning, and section of calling Note
- 10Q3: Wrote routines to automatically generate the “Printable Notes” footer – and to create the corresponding web pages – from the control table. Very useful.
- 09Q4: Restricted the size of the “previous versions” tables for Notes to 12.
- 09Q3: Enabled automatic immediate promotion to Live Website of selected Temp Notes.
- 09Q3: Enabled Concatenated Notes (by Group). This is only allowed for “Identity” Notes at the moment, which is what I’d wanted it for. It allows all Notes for a Group to be printed off in Title sequence, for ease of review.
- 09Q3: Ensured that the Notes Reading-list is generated from all 3 sub-topics.
- 09Q3: Functionally enhanced the Notes-generation processing options; to make niftier production possible. In particular, where individual Notes are selected, I made the re-generation of the cross-references optional (so that if only textual variation is being iterated, the iterations are quicker).
- 09Q3: Improved the performance of “All Notes” regeneration. The problem was with the generation of the generic reading lists based on Note Title. These only apply to the “Identity” Notes, and it was taking a long time to determine there was no list to produce.
- 09Q2: Added a table of Notes history at the end of each Note (ie. not just previous version) - to save tedious chaining
- 09Q1: Added reading-list (of works cited) at the end of the Note, as well as in the Printed Note
- 09Q1: Created optional "don't print" feature for specific footnotes.
- 09Q1: Fixed the problem of the overpopulation of the Notes directory
- 09Q1: Option for Notes-Regen:
- Changed-only
- Changed, and all impacted by Change
- All
- 08Q1: Allowed regeneration of Temp Notes only
- 07Q4: Added referenced Books / Papers as footnote jump table to Notes
- 07Q4: Added referenced reading lists to printable version of Notes
- 07Q4: Improve "Temp" note processing. Suppress "_T" suffix (just don't copy to Transfer)
- 07Q4: When a Note is archived, ensured a printable note is also archived91=49 (if this Note has a print)
- 07Q3: Created "respondent notes" - database identifier & red indicator + text
- 07Q3: Created92=50 a "quick lookup" table of responses to a note and its sub-notes (recursive function on Notes_Links)
- 07Q3: Enabled generation of printable version of Notes
- 07Q3: Made Note-change-history available on-line (added status + publishable flags)
- 07Q2: Added "footnote" pages93=53 for Carthusians & King's
- 07Q2: Added "outgoing links" summary footer to Notes pages
- 07Q2: Allowed two sorts of Note - document-specific ("Write-up") and general
- Papers
- 20Q1: Make use of Comments for large Abstracts seamless by appending Comments (if > 5k) to Abstracts.
- 18Q2: Papers associated with broken links:-
- Created an area to hold pdfs, and automated links thereto.
- Created a pop-up to say I'd remove such pdfs if requested by their authors.
- Consequently, haven't password protected the area yet.
- 18Q1: Correction of narratives on Note time-recording pseudo-papers
- Photos
- 19Q1: Created Photo-logging usage via Images table.
- 19Q1: Created Timeline software
- 19Q1: Timeline software: Added photos of Coxes Farm
- 18Q3: As revealed by Spider: Fixed ImageRef to work for both embedded ('SRC') & linked images on the same page - eg. Carthusians94. 12 items.
- 18Q3: Fix Bug: photos in Abstracts with embedded Notes - eg. "Grossman (Lev), Kurzweil (Ray) - 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal" - not displaying
- 13Q2: Reduced the size of photos (to make the pages quicker to load).
- Process
- 19Q4:
- Full Website Regeneration failed in Notes Regen because the first Private Note (13395) couldn't be copied from the Transfer directory as the private note hadn't been created there by then.
- It should have been, from looking at the code.
- Also, the private note itself (116396) is not regenerated until later.
- In the start-December 2019 run, no such problem occurred. Maybe the problem was caused by copied between laptops. So, I've flagged it as complete for now, pending a recurrence.
- 19Q4: Fix Functors to enable previous quarter's Status Reports after Time period roll-over
- 18Q4: Added 'time to regenerate' sub-totals & grand-totals to Website Maintenance Dashboard97.
- 18Q2: Re-engineered Website Maintenance Dashboard98 to show extra topical links (and show them at the top of the page).
- 18Q1: Improved efficiency of daily changes regeneration (removed msgboxes)
- 18Q1: Wrote a routine to update a set of .htm files, replacing text in them all
- 15Q4: Created a consolidated processor to enable overnight regeneration of the whole website.
- 14Q1: Created a “Website Regeneration Dashboard” to show when the various elements of my website have been refreshed, and how long the routines took to run. Links to this appear in the footer to each webpage.
- 14Q1: Improved the regeneration routines for the various classes of webpage, and got them to record statistics in support of the “Website Regeneration Dashboard”.
- 09Q4: Set up my database system to roll forward to the next academic year, and generate web-pages appropriately.
- 09Q3: Created a “performance stats” database and routines to write to it – though I only implemented them for the Notes generator.
- 07Q2: Improved ease of FTP process by use of Transfer Directory
- Search
- 17Q2: Wrote routines to create a cut-down Website excluding pages with irrelevant or duplicated information. Used this to create the ZoomSearch facility.
- 07Q4: Created search facility using ZoomSearch
- Spider
- 18Q4: Determined why Full_Link_Up_Levels_Gen takes so long - approximately 4 hours. Re-architected to reduce database reads.
- 16Q4: Added “.shtml” and “.shtm” to the list of web-suffices.
- 15Q4: Finally cracked the Spider for external links, and used it to check the 3,000-odd links from my website. Some tidying up outstanding.
- 14Q4: Fixed the bug wherein the Spider ran out of system resources on large runs: now compacts & repairs the slave database as it does along (every 200k links; parameterised).
- 14Q3: Continued working on my Spider and started to use it to clean up my website by diagnosing broken links.
- 13Q2: De-bugged the Spider.
- 10Q2: Wrote my own Web Spider.
- It’s a little bit of a cheat, in that it doesn’t actually invoke the web-links, but crawls through my directory structure selecting all the .htm files, and rummages through the HTML looking for links which it then copies to a table.
- It also maintains a table of the directory structure and files therein, and then works out the real address from the relative addressing.
- It then allows cross-checking between the links and the files.
- Links external to the site have to be investigated manually (at least I have a list of all the links) – unless I can work out how to use the list to power a browser to check.
- There are about 333k links in 55k files – the full run took about 8 hours.
- It now runs incrementally based on file last-updated dates.
- Status
- 19Q2: Corrected Quarterly Reporting for uneven Plan (Holidays)
- 18Q4: Links occasionally missing from Summary Task List99 and Summary Task List (YTD)100.
- 18Q3: Status: Summary - Actual versus Plan101 between quarters says "previous quarter"; should be "current quarter"
- 18Q2: Added extra items to Functors to facilitate Quarterly Reporting:-
- Automatically calculated QTD & YTD time statistics in the quarterly reports.
- Provided a YTD task list for Status Reports for projects "in abeyance" to make reporting easier.
- Modified the statistics - to be just YTD - for YTD Status reports.
- Created table for - by Project - "Plans for the near future" tasks, and a functor to add them to the status report.
- Took "items competed" and "plans for the near future from the development log for the Web-tools status report.
- Created another functor to add these lists to the Summary report.
- 18Q1: Created web-page generator for Development items (ie. Created the Web-Project "To Do" List and "Outstanding Developments" directly from this list).
- 13Q3: Re-engineered Monthly Reporting on Change of Year
- 13Q2: Improved "This Month's Summary" Reporting
- 13Q2: Improved Quarterly Reporting
- 13Q1: Re-engineered Monthly Reporting Tables & improved Monthly Reporting
- Technology
- 19Q1: Investigated the Hit Stats provided by Webalizer and produced web-pages to show the most active pages.
- 13Q3: Converted Tables to CSS3 standard
- 13Q3: Used CSS in all manually-crafted and automatically-generated pages
- 13Q1: Standardised to HTML5102=48
- Timesheets
- 17Q4: Separated Time Recording for Aeon
- 15Q1: Segregated time-recording so I can easily see how much time is spent developing and supporting my own website, and how much is spent on those of other organisations.
- 13Q3: Re-engineered Time-Recording, so that actuals are held against Papers (and Books) in a separate table, rather than as columns by year in the Papers / Books tables themselves. Retained the grand totals only.
- 08Q4: Updated Book totals from totals of the Papers contained therein
- WebRefs
- 20Q1: As revealed by Spider: WebLinks_Tester_4.htm. Refs failing. 32 items. res://ieframe.dll/ in Returned_URL.
- 20Q1: As revealed by Spider: WebLinks_Tester_Brief_12.htm (etc). Refs failing. 41 items. res://ieframe.dll/ in Returned_URL.
- 20Q1: As revealed by Spider: WebLinks_Tester_Map_3.htm (etc). Refs failing. 51 items outstanding. res://ieframe.dll/ in Returned_URL.
- 20Q1: WebRefs checker failing for Aeon - if a link fails, I get the message 'The page you were looking for could not be found (404)', but since the URL doesn't change, I don't spot it. This may happen for other sites as well. Fixed for Aeon - watch out for others.
- 19Q3: As revealed by Spider: Hits_Pages_Total_Crosstab_Descending.htm.
- 18Q4: Added Display text to WebRefs for Links to Stanford, Wikipedia & Aeon
- 18Q2: Created Functor to add stats to Website Generator Documentation - Web Links103 page.
- 18Q1: Determined & reported usage directly using embedded +WnnnW+ encoding rather than via the Spider. Reconciled the two methods.
- 18Q1: Documentation & Bug-fixes: Phase 1
- Completed "as is" functional documentation so I could see what's going on.
- Re-engineered so it made sense and ran efficiently without bugs
- Fixed the obvious data errors that confused the statistics - ie. where the returned URL differs from that requested and https issues.
- Wrote / improved diagnostic reports (web pages)
- 16Q1: Some tidying up of the 3,000-odd external links from my website.
- 13Q2: Some pages render oddly in Chrome (and maybe other browsers) – investigated104=46.
- 10Q3: Improved the functionality for automatically generating external Web-links in Notes, Book Abstracts and Paper Abstracts. Corrected current data to accommodate the new code.
- 07Q2: Made Web Refs in Comments / Abstracts into Hyperlinks
- Other Websites: Completed Items By Category:-
- Acts
- 16Q3: Developed a website for displaying the textual and grammatical analyses and appendices of Pete’s PhD on the Acts of the Apostles. Two versions: Live (Acts: Live Site) and Test (Acts: Test Site).
- Bridge
- 17Q1: Added new features (70s Club & Monthly Pairs Winners) to my Bridge mini-websites.
- 17Q1: Created Master Point Lists & Promotions for the ECBA website.
- 16Q3: Revived the archive website for Mountnessing Bridge Club (Mountnessing Bridge Club Archive).
- 16Q1: Accommodated Alaric’s new scoring system for St. Edith’s.
- 16Q1: Created Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s ladders for my mini-websites.
- 16Q1: Reconciled my X-IMP calculations with a new feature provided by Bridgewebs.
- 15Q4: Segregated the Bridge website generators from those for my own website. They now live in separate databases and have their own documenters.
- 15Q3: Created a new website (using Bridgewebs) for the First Class Bridge Academy (First Class Bridge).
- 15Q3: Ported my “handicap / improvers” routines from Hutton to “Mini Websites”.
- 15Q2: Development of the “Eve Goblets” (victor ludorum) software for the ECBA, and roll-over to the new season.
- 15Q1: Further improvements to my Butler-IMPs and Cross-IMPs calculation routines.
- 15Q1: Started a project to provide small websites for bridge clubs without sites: Essex Bridge Results.
- 15Q1: Took on the ECBA Website (ECBA Website (Defunct)), at the cost of considerable effort by way of reformatting & tidy-up.
- 14Q4: Improvements to my Butler-IMPs and Cross-IMPs calculation routines – different formats, including the Jeff Smith format, and extension to Butler-scored Pairs events. This work has been taken up by the ECBA selectors for county-team selection.
- 14Q3: Created a suite of programs to extract data and calculate Butler-IMPs and Cross-IMPs from the travellers on Bridgewebs Teams events, and output ranking-lists to the Web.
- 13Q2: Merged105=47 Philosophy & Bridge Databases
- Enigma
- 18Q4: Added 'EE' shortcut icon on all Webpage browser tabs
- 15Q3: Created a small website for a music group Julie and I attend – the Enigma Ensemble.
- Sophie
- 19Q3: Dismantle my old version of Sophie Botros.
- 18Q4: Added 'SB' shortcut icon on all Webpage browser tabs
- 15Q3: Completed the upgrade of Sophie Botros106=43’s website; see Sophie Botros.
In-Page Footnotes
Footnote 6: - There have been continual changes and bug-fixes that are not worth reporting.
- A quarterly release - or the equivalent - of small changes is to be understood passim.
- There were gaps in the development log that have been filled in from old reports. I've ignored developments for now-defunct sites.
- However, for my own site I've erred in the direction of plenitude to remind me of what went on. I may prune the list in due course.
Footnotes 24, 63: - This situation occurs in these reports, and elsewhere.
Footnotes 25, 64: Footnotes 34, 82: - An eccentric use of this term.
- By it I mean the extraction of data from a database, formatting it, and inserting the resulting text in line into a web-page.
Footnotes 41, 89: Footnotes 42, 62: - I subsequently found a bug whereby it was backing up the entire code-base each time!
Footnotes 43, 106: - Sophie is an old friend and supervisor from Birkbeck.
Footnotes 45, 59: - Naturally, I can now say precisely what I mean, by using a plus-sign, as it no longer causes the process to fail!
Footnotes 46, 104: - Fixed – it was very long blank-free URLs in the Source column.
- I now call my “WebRef” function to convert these to hyperlinks.
Footnotes 47, 105: - This was a mistaken idea, and was subsequently reversed!
Footnotes 48, 102: - Rather irritatingly, when I checked my site in all browsers, I found that it appeared a right mess in some of them (I forget the details).
- It all stemmed from the DocType parameter, which I had to revert.
Footnotes 49, 91: - I must have unwound this one - presumably it didn't work - and need to re-do it.
Footnotes 50, 92: - Did I - or was this an intention?
- The whole "respondent" process didn't work out well as it fragments the discussion, so this might be important.
Footnotes 51, 60: - This must have been unwound if it was ever implemented.
Footnotes 52, 61: - "BB" = "Blackberry" (for when I had one!)
- Response times - eg. in bookshops - used to be awful. This "binary chop" approach is no longer needed.
Footnotes 53, 54, 56, 65, 66, 93: Footnotes 55, 68: - Presumably this was the ancester of this page before it was converted to a Note?
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