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Orcmid's Lair> repaving> 2008-08-29 announcement>


Orcmid's Lair Is Being Repaved.

The Orcmid's Lair site is being repaved to correct problems resulting from movement to a new web server.   At the same time, the site is being adjusted to use the latest styles and formats that are applicable to this and other sites of the nfoCentrale.net family.

Check the Site Repaving Project pages for additional details on the approach to repaving and its tracking.  Contact the technical coordinator with questions and to report any defects that you notice.

 

 
     
     
     
  2022-05-12 Decouple Movable Type.  Before exfiltration, we need to remove as much of Movable Type material as possible that allows those generated pages to be maintained but no more.  This will matter for nfoCentrale (and maybe Orcmid's Lair) exfiltration also.
  2022-05-12 The repaving needs to be updated to reflect that we are preparing for exfiltration and there are specific things to manage including the previously-specified repaving and the cleanups before exfiltration.  A consideration in all this has to do with being able to use FrontPage as long as possible for the material that will be preserved as HTML.
  2022-05-05 I badly want to exfiltrate nfoCentrale so the status and treatment of the various components can be addressed.
  2022-05-05 Document the complete exfiltration steps in support of further exfiltration of Orcmid's Lair, Miser, and much more.  Mostly (but not always) at the blog level.  It could be in GitHub orcmid/miser or here, or even in nfoCentrale construction structure.  It is also in the province of  GitHub orcmid/docEng and orcmid/docInterop, at least for reference.
  2022-05-04 Review the MT4-created blogs for acceptable preservation.
  2022-05-04 Review the Hexo-created blogs for successful preservation.  Clean up to close-enough for preservation.
in progress
2022-05-05
2022-05-04 Repave the construction structure of Wingnut for exfilitration.
in progress
2022-05-05
2022-05-04 Adjust Construction Materials (construction/) to work with local images and templates.
in progress 2022-05-04 Begin exfiltration of orcmid.com/BlunderDome/wingnut to GitHub orcmid/wingnut as a new sandbox for authoring/blogging structures.  The exfiltration is to preserve enough wingnut history to provide a kind of retrospective example.  Note that this supplants the previous repaving but introduces new flavors.  In addition, there needs to be a local construction folder and all construction struction must be under wingnut/ as root.
  2017-11-21 Review previous (2010) work items to see what needs to be done here to complete repaving and also appropriate preservation.
  2017-11-21 Change the Disqus parameters to require all moderation if that is the only way I can receive notices.  Perhaps this is a Disqus-profile level and not a site-level function?
  2010-05-30 Make a default page for the archive folder and tie in better to the past units, the past page, etc.
  2010-05-30 Add feed-icon to mt-static if needed
  2010-05-30 Add assets_c to the Construction structure - maybe treat it like images
  2010-05-30 Reflect wlwmanifest.xml and the other MT-added items in the Construction Structure for the blog folder
  2010-05-23 Reflect presence of the blogger extract in the archive/ folder
  2010-05-23 After the blog is created in its initial provisional form, check out the wingnut/ image and synchronize back
  2010-05-23 blog: document the MT structure so I know how to replicate it further.
  2010-05-22 Find the correct addresses and settings to use in setting up the Movable Type version of Spanner Wingnut.   Record this for how it will go in the future.
  2010-04-29 nfoWorks: Fix the ClustrMap legend on that template too.
  2010-04-27 Repave Construction Structures for 2004/, 2004/06, 2004/07, 2004/08/, 2004/09/, 2004/10/, 2004/11, and 2004/12
  2010-04-27 Repave Construction Structures for 2005/, 2005/01, 2005/04, 2005/05, and 2005/06
  2010-04-27 Repave 2006/ and 2006/10 Construction Structure
  2010-04-27 Pave 2007 and 2007/06 Construction Structure
  2010-04-26 labels/index.htm: List the label pages when there are any.
  2010-04-26 c000000: At some point, it will be worth versioning this page and then splitting it with the old material on an annex.
  2010-04-24 index.htm Add additional local structure after the blog repaving and homogenizing is straightened out
  2007-06-09 See how to simplify the font information to allow the browser to do the work
  2004-08-29 Retrofit the solution from Clueless, when it is there, to here also.  The refinements and refactoring of solutions will have gone full circle.  [dh:2010-04-24 We will go with retrofit from nfoWorks.org/diary because that is the latest change-up and it is closest to the form we want for the Kiln Sitter's Diary.]
  2004-08-27 Create sources for the "Danger" and the "All Clear" that only need to be pasted into a feed and then updated to make a current element.  (It would be better to update them and then paste them, so the last-used numbers would always be known.)
  2004-08-27 SMOP Project: A great thing to make a matter of routine is the synchronizing and backup of the hosted-site pages and the development site and its FrontPage materials.  This also makes sense for comments and wikis too, so this is a worthwhile personal project.
  2004-08-27 SMOP Project: It would be really great to have one of those cool calendar blocks that points to archives by date and so on.
  2004-08-27 SMOP Project: Make the cloning of new subdirectories and such a computer-assisted process without the manual effort, though it is pretty easy. 
  2004-08-27 There needs to be an archive list here and it needs to be linked from the default page and its template.
  2004-07-10 Version this page so that completed items can be archived
  2004-07-10 The color scheme doesn't work with the notice in the default page banner.  It looks like this blog should be reverted to Rounders 2 as well, and then we can work on other cleanups.  Also, blog about slip-streaming and what that cost when I did it.
  2004-06-17 Spanner Wingnut needs own image in the title blocks, and likewise for Prof.Clueless.
  2004-06-17 Take the archive list and the Recent Posts lists from the Wingnut template and put them onto Numbering Peano.  [dh:2010-04-28 We are not doing that.  We are going a different route.]
  2004-06-17 Can cross-link between Professor Clueless and Wingnut.
  2004-06-17 For allied sites, list Professor Clueless in Orcmid's Lair and Numbering Peano.  Do not list Wingnut there.
  2004-06-17 See how to avoid the double title business and treat it as a clueless situation.
done 2017-11-21 Backup existing blog and materials before renaming default.htm and overlaying with the Hexo-generated blog.
done 2017-11-21 index.htm: Adjust to reflect introduction of the Hexo-generated blog as the latest.
done 2017-11-21 Preserve default.htm as default.mt4.htm in preparation for deployment of the Hexo-generated blog.
done 2010-05-30 Create wlwmanifest.xml and see if that helps us connect to the blog
done 2010-05-23 First update the hosted site with the prepared structure.
done 2010-05-23 Map out the overlaying of structure and prepare or identify what preparation needed.
done 2010-05-23 index.htm: Update to intercede while there is no blog structure in place.
done 2010-05-22 Make alternates of the last Blogger-created default page and RSS feed files before overlaying Movable Type. [dh:2010-05-22 wing-atom.xml renamed to wing-atom.blogger.xml and default.asp renamed to default.blogger.htm].
done 2010-05-22 Backup Spanner Wingnut before overlaying Movable Type on the material. [dh:2010-05-22 It was already done and the materials were shared to the development web already.]
done 2010-05-01 Blogger: Add in any items and folders not yet in VSS and the shared web-development project.  [dh:2010-05-01 There were none, so we are going to synchronize and then do that.]
done 2010-05-01 Blogger: Share updates to the hosted site, then synchronize back all changes and new material.
done 2010-05-01 archive/ Add the wingnut-2010-05-01-export.zip for preservation, such as it is
done 2010-05-01 2010/ correct identification of the structure each index is for here and in 04/ and 05/
done 2010-05-01 2010/05: Make another and give it construction structure
done 2010-04-30 template: Make the left title block cell beige too.  Fix the spacing between Blogger power and ClustrMap
done 2010-04-29 template: put the beige background under the bottom block too
done 2010-04-29 template: Fix the spacing in the title block
done 2010-04-29 template: Get the colors that work for Millennia-Antica and put in our template
done
2010-04-29
2010-04-28 template: Fix the title on the ClustrMap to be site-specific.
done 2010-04-28 Setup LiveWriter to do images at Wingnut
done 2010-04-28 Update the site and then bring all new blog-related material back to the hosted-site image for inspection and confirmation.
done 2010-04-28 Make a post with the image settings
done 2010-04-28 images: Use the Orcmid's Lair images settings from Windows Live Writer to set up the same uploading for Spanner Wingnut.  This is a little tricky to confirm.  The same scheme should continue to work when the blog is migrated to a new engine though, so we want it working now to see what is needed to accomplish that, if possible.
done
2010-04-28
2010-04-23 Move the Wingnut archives to now synchronize in their new location
done 2010-04-28 archives: finally, I can remove the old archives from the hosted-site image itself, refresh the image from VSS, transfer the updated material (the new archive pages) to the hosted site, and also delete the archive page from their previous location on the archive site.  That solves archive movement, since the new pull-down in the template already expects the archives to be in the new place.
done 2010-04-28 archives: Now I can delete the old archive copies from the hosted-site image on VSS, because they were never linked from Spanner Wingnut web oages.  These are simply no longer needed.
done 2010-04-28 archives: The third step is to share those moved archives to the same folder in the hosted-site image on VSS.
done 2010-04-28 archives: The second step is to move the archives here (which are all old archive pages) to the new archive folder.  FrontPage will fix any links to follow them, though I doubt there are any.
done 2010-04-28 archives: The first step in moving archives is to branch the archives here on the development web from the copies in the shared-site image on VSS. 
done 2010-04-28 Make a simple announcement post
done 2010-04-28 Synchronize the site
done
2010-04-28
2010-04-23 Enable the Features for Wingnut on Blogger
done
2010-04-28
2010-04-23 Create Transposed Template for Wingnut
done 2010-04-27 Make 2010/04/ for the first test post with the new template.  Use as model for repaving the earlier folders.
done 2010-04-27 index.htm Update to link to the new folders added to the subordinate structure
done
2010-04-26
2010-04-24 blog/index.htm Fix it so that all directory references are to their construction structures
done
2010-04-26
2010-04-23 Bring all blog changes back to the development web [dh:2010-04-26 There were none]
done
2010-04-26
2010-04-23 Synchronize changes to hosted-site
done
2010-04-26
2010-04-23 Setup Images, Labels, and Archives for Wingnut, borrowing from Blog equivalents [dh:2010-04-24 Note that located deeper from front porch, though.  This will be a model for doing the same thing for Clueless later.]
done 2010-04-26 construction: Make into construction zone page consistent with the repaving.
done 2010-04-26 c000000: Adjust this page to reflect the repaving structure and the in-progress effort.
done
2010-04-26
2010-04-24 index.htm: Customize as current Construction Structure with local construction zone
done 2007-06-09 Change template from XHTML 1.0 to HTML 4.01 Transitional like all of my pages
done 2007-06-09 Make a default.asp.template.txt for this blog
done 2004-08-27 Correct links to self on the 2004/06/index.htm page before cloning it further.  Remember to clone by copying so that the links should not update.  Because relative-up-the-tree links don't change, but some of the titles do, this makes cloning the page easy. [dh:2004-08-27 Yup, if I do a copy and paste, nothing gets fixed-up and the page works as-is except for the descriptive test.
done 2004-08-27 Clean-up the new post subdirectories by including index.htm pages: 2004/07 and 2004/08
done
2004-08-27
2004-08-26 For a successful post, update directories for the postings and backup the new site material.
done 2004-08-26 Reattempt a wingnut post, seeing what the impact is.
not needed 2004-08-26 Authorize blogger.com to post to wingnut directories.
done 2004-08-26 Attempt a wingnut posting to see what happens when FTP transfer fails (if it does).  [dh:2004-08-26 It worked.  I must not have locked Blogger out of Wingnut.  OK, we'll try that on one of the other Blogs as we turn them on one-by-one.]
done 2004-08-26 Do a firedrill with the three substitute pages.  See what timestamps and web caching do to us.
done 2004-08-26 Make default.asp firedrill, quarantine, and standby pages for use in restoration of this blog.
done
2004-08-26
2004-07-02 Set up Muddleware "Restore Point" for quickly removing any corrupted result and performing a roll-back.
done
2004-07-15
2004-07-10 In addition to the current incident process, add a lab note that reflects the current status of the blogs and links to any incidents being worked on.
done
2004-07-15
2004-07-02 Create a manual modification to a restored atom feed that provides notification of the lockdown and links to wherever resolution is developed
done
2004-07-15
2004-07-02 Create a place where I document the FTP problem and progress outside of the blog, and can refer to that from the lock-down pages and blog postings.
done 2004-07-10 Review the construction zone materials here and make sure they are ready for company.
done 2004-07-10 Clean up the index page to be more clear where the blog is and have the notice reflect that it is on the index page, not the blog
done 2004-07-10 Capture items from the pending "Troubles in FTP City" posting to here as well, since the posting may fail.
done
2004-07-08
2004-07-02 Mention that the atom feed is impacted by the corruption
done
2004-07-08
2004-07-02 Have strong warnings about the feed here and other instabilities while I work on the problem.
done
2004-07-08
2004-07-02 Announce the suspension of all blogs but this one.
done
2004-07-03
2004-07-02 Lock out blogger access from the "production" blogs and do screen captures demonstrating how I did that.
done
2004-06-26
2004-06-17 Get Atom feed working and replicate to Professor Clueless
done
2004-06-21
2004-06-18 Create the 2004/06 posts subtree and synchronize with the site.
done 2004-06-18 Change the title to "Spanner Wingnut's Muddleware Labs"
done
2004-06-18
2004-06-17 Consider Web Cellar (or maybe Root Cellar) and remember to work Steve Ciarcia into it.  And also Don Tarbell's Incredible Secret Money Machine.  Well, that is [Incredible] Secret Cellar, then.
done
2004-06-18
2004-06-17 Have the inaugural entry provide an "explanation" for how this Blog is named and how it will be used. [dh:2004-06-18 I delayed this to a second entry, and then did it along with a name change.]
done 2004-06-17 Capture creation of a hosted (FTP site) blog
done 2004-06-17 Update BlunderDome entrance to reflect what we have here
done 2004-06-17 Mirror the site content into the site image and share that into the development site.
done 2004-06-17 Use the settings for Professor von Clueless to make the initial Spanner Wingnut site having the same settings.
done 2004-06-17 Use the bCentral administration interface to grant user "blogger" write privileges to wingnut.
done 2004-06-17 Publish this update to nfoCentrale.net/orcmid and confirm that it is established.
done 2004-06-17 Create this minimal Construction Zone for BlunderDome/wingnut by cloning from /clueless.

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