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Well, I've been slacking a bit on the diary entries recently... so here goes...

We got the mac up and running... then david accidently formatted the disk yesterday (or was it the day before, I can't remember), remember everyone e2fsck -f is not what you really want to do to check the disk :) Ah well, its back on its way again.

I've just spent a week at my dads away from work. He took the week off too, so its been kinda fun. We even sorted the car out (*YAY*).

Anything else? hrm - probably... ahhhh... the OAI layer is more or less done, it supports the neccessary verbs for the minimal implementation but should be easily extendable for further use (yay!).

Hrm - nah - that's it for now :)

Ho hum, been a 'fun' day... went to do some shopping earlier in the car (which was slowly but surely dying anyways), parked in Tesco car park, did the shopping, came out, and hey presto, ignition system appears screwed :( decided that as it was a nice day I'd wander back home, nice hours walk. Ah well, does however mean that the car is still at tesco, and I have no idea what to do with/about it for the next little while, may just have to get it towed away and scraped (ho hum). Ahh well.

But, on the otherhand, we got a powermac remote booting for the setup of debian (*YAY*), that was fun, and sommit that worked... it's still chugging through the install at the mo.

Hrm, what else... Oh, I've not felt like coding at all this weekend, just not been in the mood for constructive stuff. (Saturday was 'fun' too, my machine kinda died for a bit, at least now X is back up and ssh working :).

Tra la la, oh well, back to work tommorow.

Well, OAI-PMH layer for cocoon more or less finished, couple finishing touches and its there, then the testing schedule and we'll show the rest of the world and (obviously) release the code to the rest of you :)

Happy bunny, just spent the last few hours in da pub with the usual crowd playing cards, been kinda fun as always :)

Ho hum, now, all that's left to make life totally great is a good woman that can put up with me!

That's it for now... signing off, slightly pished.

Brett.

Well, its been a while since the last post so here goes...

I've now taken a different approach to the OAI-PMH layer for cocoon, using Xindice as the backend and writing my own 'crawler' solved a *LOT* of the problems I was having with using Lucene. Almost got bits working now, GetRecord is more or less done, just about to start writing in the rest of it. Its not back for 2 XSP files, a Xindice database, and a couple of stylesheets all in all :)

Had a reasonable week at work so far too, which is good, even got to go home early yesterday (*YAY*). Hoping to have a demonstratable copy of the OAI stuff by the end of tommorow, which will be nice :)

Been a bit of a pain that I have been stuck in this office with the phones most of the week rather than doing exclusive OAI work, but hey, it could have been worse. Generally I've not been bothered and have been able to get on, but it would have been nicer to have been in the other office with my home machine :)

Hey ho, anything else? Probably. Dunno what yet though...

Maybe more later. Lets see :)

Well... its all good fun, innit. Been playing with PRCS with slef and the jewel project. We've now got the icon menu more or less sussed, only bug that I can see currently is that when we have windows with no titles they appear as blank entries in the menu (which is a pain), thinking about fixing this using the WM_CLASS as the text.

Still need to get the root menu sorted for jewel, but that's currently behind getting a debian directory in there so that we can create .deb files quickly and easily from the source tree (which will be handy).

Still hacking at OAI when I get the chance, should get lots of time to play in the next couple of weeks (*YAY*), and hope to have a working version by the end of it.

What else? oh, life, well... currently a little skint which is fun so awaiting payment at the end of the month. Also got a bloody parking ticket for parking in a street that I have a permit for, grrr. Sent them a letter today, hope that that should get sorted by the end of next week.

Think that's it for now :)

cooo - so, its been quite some time since my last entry then... well... what's happened? hrm. we've made more changes to jewel, got all manner of fixes in there now, including changes to the keyboard handling (not being able to change desktops with the numlock key on *REALLY* bugged me) and some changes to the icon menu so that it now also lists normal windows.

Also got the oai components to compile in to cocoon without cocoon falling over, so hope to get some more done to actually use them (the current XSP doesn't work, not sure where its wrong though, it could be the java behind it at fault...). Still not sure if I'll stick with lucene for it, but I need a test case before I can tell.

Well, having now met savs other half I must say that I'm quite impressed, she's attractive, intelligent, and well travelled... not to mention that she didn't run on meeting "us lot". Best of luck to him.

Right - been doing some playing with cocoon and stuff since the last entry, now got a sort of OAI view working, and just need to implement the harvesting side of things, taking quite some time to develop due to getting back from work and not feeling like touching a machine quite regularly at the moment. Hope to get "quite a bit" done on it tommorow, but there's no garauntees.

In other news... its almost time to go to the pub and harass savs and his other half. Hell, its only taken him 3 years to doing sommit about it... best of luck to him, will comment on views later, maybe (after meeting the poor girl).

Thats is for now!

Nyet. Grr. Was in the office yesterday morning to fix a couple of small issues (like a server falling over). Ho hum, that's the way it goes some days though... Its all up and working now which is good, as is the all singing all dancing PII 300 running tomcat, c2, apache et al, hopefully we'll start shifting things off the now somewhat old p150 that's currently handling our php sites.

In other news, I'm currently looking at ways of bolting OAI2 into cocoon, and hope to have a prototype version done by the end of the week. Its been a while since my last battles with cocoon, and Sundays bouts with Cocoon 2.0.3-dev where non fruitful, it appeared to break on such useful things as sub sitemaps, which is all well and good until you want to read the documentation. Got round it by using the 2.1 branch.

Oh, and now I get to go home early *YAY*

Ho hum... bad bad bad day at work, headache setting in, MDs that just don't understand that you don't need to pay £500 for something stupid like Adobe PhotoShop (grrr) and that for what we do free software is a far better plan... they just don't appear to understand the principles, development lifecycle and and stability of free software. I'm getting the feeling that they're just not going to learn (grrr).

Anyways - enough of that... at least I don't have to sit in front of a windows machine all day (even if I do have to support windows users, and mac users). I'm quite happy with my little linux machine... except I appear to be suffering a HDD failure, my /home partition keeps keeling over, which aint fun, keeps remounting readonly and then not letting me mount it rw, even after fsck.

Ahhh well, picking stuff up for savs's bbq tonight, ready for sunday and the first england game of the world cup.