Right then - first workday of 2004 is a Friday. Time for a bit of planning before the office fills up next week.

My current to-do list looks like this:

unchunk entries tim bruce unassigned 2004-01-02 edit - delete
January release tim bruce unassigned 2004-01-02 edit - delete
fix long extract tim bruce unassigned 2004-01-02 edit - delete
Fix the link to your search results tim bruce unassigned 2003-12-19 edit - delete
ZDOTB tim bruce commenced 2003-12-09 edit - delete
optimise dtables for release tim bruce commenced 2003-12-03 edit - delete
indent on p tag tim bruce waiting_signoff 2003-12-01 edit - delete
checkout visualisation magazine tim bruce commenced 2003-11-25 edit - delete
handle russian search tim bruce unassigned 2003-11-24 edit - delete
checkout shibboleth tim bruce commenced 2003-11-13 edit - delete
clear superceded vols tim bruce commenced 2003-11-13 edit - delete
summarise outstanding v2 work on hawkins blog tim bruce unassigned 2003-11-05 edit - delete
next mapper iteration tim bruce commenced 2003-10-13 edit - delete
person find by descriptor to use full forenames tim bruce commenced 2003-09-30 edit - delete
fix contributor links for mapper tim bruce unassigned 2003-09-26 edit - delete
speed up indexing tim bruce unassigned 2003-09-24 edit - delete
adam/paper tim bruce unassigned 2003-09-18 edit - delete
Upgrade to Athens 3.6 tim bruce unassigned 2003-09-15 edit - delete
evaluate java 1.4.2 tim bruce commenced 2003-07-03 edit - delete
annual stats for clients tim bruce waiting_signoff 2003-06-16 edit - delete
derive alphabetical heading from simple heading tim bruce unassigned 2003-05-30 edit - delete
Upgrade to lucene 1.3 when released tim bruce unassigned 2003-04-28 edit - delete
switch to UIL for admin jms tim bruce commenced 2003-04-08 edit - delete
add num xreferences to meta fields for search tim bruce unassigned 2003-04-03 edit - delete
speed up list clients page on admin tim bruce unassigned 2003-03-10 edit - delete
add account expiry field to admin system tim bruce unassigned 2003-02-18 edit - delete
Remove withdrawn titles tim bruce waiting_signoff 2003-02-10 edit - delete
web service interface tim bruce unassigned 2003-01-15 edit - delete
integrate media update into import tim bruce unassigned 2002-12-05 edit - delete
integrate generation of search thumbnails into import tim bruce unassigned 2002-12-05 edit - delete


The plan is to clear the decks with the January release, which will be going up on Tuesday the 13th. I'd like to put dynamic tables live at that point and include any server-side changes we anticipate for the next version of the mapper. I'll include all other fixes which I can fit in. Once the January release is up, I'll finish work on version 2 of the mapper, put that live and move on to look at the atlas implementation.

Unchunking entries will speed up entry display and simplify administration (in particular the removal of withdrawn books). The chunker was put in to work around limitations on field size with postgres 6.5 - now that we're up to 7.3 it's no longer needed. Will write a small app to de-chunk the data after this month's release.

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- posted by Tim Bruce @ 11:05 AM