C000000: Orcmid's Lair /blog Job Jar

Status	Date	Description




done	2004-04-17	Backup this blog, creating the necessary monthly sections. Then update the status page. Go on to create updates for the other sections. Be sure to go get Numbering Peano also.
	2004-04-17	Implement "nofollow" in the bottom blocks here and also in the Blog template. Carry this to the other blogs too.
	2004-11-25	On roll-over to 2005, freeze the archives, capturing them on the archive page and its template. Then start a new archive series in the 2005/ folder instead of the top level.
done	2004-10-06	Alter the shading behind the logo block to see if I can make sharper. Try column color and then try white. [white works, and we raised the links on the right side to the middle of the title bar]
in progress 2004-10-03	2004-09-29	Cycle the updates to the Orcmid's Lair template back through the other blogs: Professor von Clueless, Numbering Peano, Spanner Wingnut [dh:2005-04-17 I don't know what this is any more, but I better leave it open.]
done	2004-09-29	Post "Hugging the Monorail" to try out the updated template.
done 2004-10-02	2004-09-29	Add privacy and status links to the template. [dh:2004-10-02 Posted "Space-Age Meter Reader" to verify the update.]
done	2004-09-29	Bring the bottom block in from the edges so it isn't quite so startling and lines up with the body more nicely.
done	2004-09-29	Correct the history block on the template to identify the template being what the history is about.
	2004-09-02	Include dependence on the C000010 and C000011 material, and have that material take over the site-wide lock-down pages as well as the ones here.
	2004-09-02	Update the Construction Zone page to provide a narrative of what is where and what its function is, in terms of the directory tree.
	2004-09-02	Move the Praxis101 screen shots from blog/2004/ to some place where they are useful.
done 2004-09-04	2004-09-02	Prepare the 2004/09 postings folder and prepare to back up the site.
	2004-09-02	Celebrate filling in this job jar and archive most of the material for easier maintenance of this page.
done	2004-09-02	Bring features of the von Clueless template over here to the Orcmid's Lair template. I'm thinking of the table properties, the recent articles in the sidebar, and the bottom-strip with the construction history and Hard Hat logo.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	Resume posting as appropriate. It will be useful to have Clueless running first, because there are some cross-connects to be engaged.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	Check off our having cloned the technique from Numbering Peano in miser/astraendo/C000000.
done 2004-08-30	2004-08-28	Retrieve the template for Orcmid's Lair Blog and make sure that it doesn't have any direct links to lair.asp.
done 2004-08-30	2004-08-28	Make the lair.template a name that FrontPage won't mess with, and then edit it in jEdit or something where it can be kept clean and also validated. [dh:2004-08-28 See the 06-01 note on this topic too.]
done 2004-08-30	2004-08-28	15. The titles of entries need to be repaired here, just as they need to be repaired for Numbering Piano.
done 2004-08-30	2004-08-28	14. Make new blog/2004/ post message directories and put index.htm pages in them.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	13. Do a backup of the hosted site to the development site on compagno
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	12. Update the Site Status page to reflect that Orcmid's Lair is operating (or not) and the Live Test is completed.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	11. Send the test posting and confirm that everything is working.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	10. Generate a test posting. It should be a new all-clear message, just in case earlier ones weren't seen!
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	9. Enable blogger.com posting to Orcmid's Lair by setting user permissions at nfoCentrale.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	8. After the standby message has been fed, update the feed to include the "all clear" message and update the site so that the standby message is replaced. a. Update the standby master to the next number (#2) b. Update the all-clear to the next number (#1) c. Post the all-clear to the atom feed.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	7. When the caution message has been there for about 30 minutes, do the slamdown and confirm that it is detected.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	6. When we're ready to test the slamdown within an hour of the message, insert the "caution" message into the feed and make corrections needed until it takes.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	5.5 Start by confirming that the "all clear" 0 message works, and put out a surprise all-clear feed. This way, we know the ending process works (it just happens that there was no preceding caution message, but now we can always make an all-clear).
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	5. Create a source for the "all clear" message that can be used in the lair-atom feed.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	4. Create a source for the "caution" message that can be used in the lair-atom feed.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	3. Create a lair-atom.standby.xml message that can be used to indicate when an incident has been detected and we are in early incident-response state.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	2. Test standby, quarantine, and firedrill slamdown and confirm. Leave the firedrill announcement there. It will be removed by successful posting of a new default page from Blogger.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	1.3 Make C000011 as holder for the feed testing and slamdown materials
done	2004-08-28	1.1 Make C000010 as holder for the blog and site slamdown templates.
done	2004-08-28	1. Make default.firedrill.asp, default.quarantine.asp, and default.standby.asp pages for Orcmid's Lair.
done	2004-08-28	After the clonings are complete, borrow the check-list from miser/astraendo for turning on Numbering Peano and customize it for operation here. [dh:2004-08-28 See 15 to 1 above.]
done	2004-08-28	Then clone C000010 and C000011 from the construction section of The Miser Project and customize them in the orcmid/construction section here. C000010 applies to any pages here, and C000011 applies to orcmid/blog. 1. Share C00010-C00011 files from miser/construction to orcmid/construction. 2. Then branch the top levels but not the images. C000010C1.gif through C000010C4.jpg can stay shared in VSS. 3. Then share all of the C0010-C0011 files from miser/construction on compagno to the image of miser/construction for bCentral. 4. Do a FrontPage Recalculate Hyperlinks in the Compagno development site and work through the checklist to make everything ship-shape (above) to make everything ship-shape.
done 2004-08-29	2004-08-28	Tell Blogger.com to use default.asp page from now on too, with blog URL that goes to the directory. This means the first new posting after we unlock the site will appear on the default page and obliterate any test message, lock-down notice, etc. Dandy.
done 2004-09-02	2004-08-28	With a default.asp page in operation, I need to look at how the index.htm page works as a default when the default.asp page is momentarily absent (as when doing a lock-down). [dh:2004-08-30 The index.htm is out-of-date and it is referenced by the Hard Hat logo of the current template, so there is something to do about this. Make it a priority to turn this page into a complete blue flush.]
done	2004-08-28	Create default.asp for the Orcmid's Lair Blog. Do the usual way - push-pull, click-click, branching lair.asp to default.asp. Then set lair.asp to redirect to the directory itself: 1. Branch compagno orcmid/blog/lair.asp in VSS. 2. Rename compagno orcmid/blog/lair.asp to default.asp in FrontPage. 3. Share bCentral orcmid/blog/lair.asp back to compagno orcmid/blog/ in VSS. 4. Edit that compagno orcmid/blog/lair.asp to do a redirect to the root of the blog folder. 5. See how it works.
done	2004-07-15	Add a lock-down message to the atom feed in the same manner done for the others while the FTP-update troubleshooting problem is being researched.
done	2004-06-27	On the compagno/orcmid development site, delete the B000000 and B000001 tombstone pages here. They are in VSS and can be re-shared from the published-site image if needed. Removing them here eliminates a distraction and may have me think they need to be maintained here instead of over in BlunderDome.
done 2004-08-30	2004-06-27	I know how the blog entry titles got lost when I was mucking around in the template. I should document that and then put the title back in.
done 2004-08-30	2004-06-27	The Blogger template needs to be backed up, with an accurate backup procedure. [dh:2004-08-28 This needs to be handled all the way around. As we start making modifications to templates, the idea will be to bring a template back from Blogger.com, tuck it away with a file extension that FrontPage won't mess with (but that jEdit will handle), then go from there. I will do that as part of some refreshing here. See 06-01 below]
done	2004-06-27	I have updated the template in Blogger to link to Clueless Castle and also to locate the atom button with an absolute URL.
done	2004-06-02	Correct index grounding link on 2004/05
done	2004-06-02	Come up with a provenance for the image I am including in the article I'm working on.
done	2004-06-02	Add an index page to month 06
done 2004-06-02	2004-06-01	It's a new month. Roll-up my archive backups to allow for 2004-06 having started.
done 2004-08-30	2004-06-01	Add something to templates about not editing them in FrontPage, because it loses the Blogger <$ ... $> elements, replacing the brackets by character entities. This is an important matter for templating.
done 2004-06-27	2004-06-01	Update the lair.template to carry the links that I added from the pn.template (and adjusted).
moved 2004-06-02	2004-06-01	Elevate the propagation of new headings to /construction and from there to the other sections of Orcmid's Liar and ultimately all of nfoCentrale. At some point, we may meet CSS in all of this too. Maybe in nfoWare when we learn to programmatically manipulate and transform material of the blog. That would be the cool way to do it..
done 2004-09-02	2004-06-01	Propogate the simpler heading format, using <p>, through the rest of /blog. (See 2004-05-11 item on this topic.)
done	2004-06-01	The heading style that is more like <h2> than <h1> in the big parts is less jarring. Change it here.
done 2004-08-28	2004-05-16	Correct the Blog job jar to use left justification in the descriptions [dh:2004-08-28 I can't figure out what page is being referred to. This one does not have that problem. Oh, it is the part of B021001 that I moved, maybe? Yup.]
moved 2004-09-02	2004-05-16	Use the catalog [2004-08-28 up in orcmid/BlunderDome now, but it could be on the site too] to create thematic indexes and linkings into archive material for future reference, repurposing, etc.
done	2004-05-16	Introduce a blogger catalog and job jar, and see how to handle the difference between the blog and the blogWare.
	2004-05-11	Build a new lair-chive index page that has the locked-down portion be permanent and for which Blogger only adds the new still-regeneratable archives.
abandoned 2004-09-02	2004-05-11	Find out how to lock down or remove from Blogger control all pages and weekly archives prior to 2004-05-02. [dh:2004-05-16 There does not seem to be any way to do that on bCentral. I can't find a way to do file-level permissions. I have backed up all of the pages to Compagno. In addition, Blogger Reloaded does not provide for suspension of any archive. Note: on the individual post items, starting with 2004-05, I can shut off Blogger updating of those subdirectories whenever I want.][dh:2004-09-02 There is no effective way to split the rights of older ones versus newer ones in the same directory, and they can't be moved because we don't know what external links there might be.
done	2004-05-11	Confirm that no comments have been recorded and synchronize the hosted site to Compagno
done	2004-05-11	Checkout the files that I don't want locked down: The May 2004 weekly indexes, lair.asp, lair-atom.xml, lair-chive.asp, and all of the 2004/05 pages so far (except that index.htm)
done	2004-05-11	Share all new files and republish to the nfoCentrale/orcmid/blog site image on Compagno
done	2004-05-11	Add minimal construction structure to the 2004 and 2004/05 subfolders that now hold content.
done	2004-05-11	Backup the new template and archive templates that I developed as part of adjustment to the revised Blogger organization. Put the checked-in templates with updated construction history back into Blogger too.
done 2004-09-02	2004-05-11	Make the title blocks of all other construction-zone and content pages use the same style - propogate this up to the orcmid/construction section and from there to all other sections. Done: C000000.htm, index.htm, construction.htm.
done	2004-05-11	Repair the title blocks of the construction-zone pages here to have a smaller font, without italic, on the top line
done 2004-05-11	2004-04-11	Change index.htm to use the site-wide red horizontal rule instead of blue
done	2004-04-11	Change the default frame on construction.htm links to _top
done	2004-04-11	Modify the construction.htm page to link up as a Construction Zone
done	2004-04-11	Review the construction.htm page here for conformance to HTML 4.01 construction structure
done	2004-04-11	Add a Construction Zone Diary (this page) to the blog section
done	2004-04-11	Change the Orcmid's Lair default page link to the blog to drop cloaking
done	2004-04-11	Conform index.htm to standard construction structure and HTML 4.01 style
done	2004-04-11	Repair index.htm to link to the blog in case that is how anyone reaches this area.