When last we left this project, most things were working except freetype/truetype text used in dynamic graphs and maps

 On paper, this seems easy. Just move 70 GB of images and a dozen database tables to a brand new mac, and we’re done.
Well, not quite…
Step 1: prepare the mac out of the box
This was mostly straight-forward; however, I did a couple of things a little different hoping it would minimize problems down the road.
 
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Finally finished the Dublic Core mappings document. See here (well, if you have the right NetID!).

More LCP => Dublin core mapping. Not as easy as it looks/

Continued research on LCP => Dublin Core mappings

Finished up last debugging of Mac version of Thumbnail/Zoo script. Discovered some missing image folders, but found out it was Ben who deleted them. The script ran perfectly, al images now have zooms and thumbnails. It was fast, too!

Scripts debugging of all sorts: why don’t some images respond to batch thumbnail generation or batch zoomify generation. Wil need to fix a bunch of images manually, but what does that portend for long-range batch loads and interactive updates/submissions ?

Discussed variety of minor issues with team, corrected and restarted thumnail script

restarted thumnail job — had lost DCE credentials
doublechecked SQL generate by Ben’s last changes to quickSearch.php — missing + before 3-character expanded terms, not escaping embedded apostrophes

Met with Paul and interns, hammered out latest changes and responsibilities

I have updated the Quick Search button to use mySQL Full text indices. Searches pretty much follow the Google model:

search for

Skiing Stowe

searches for skiing AND stowe. Normal mysql behavior is to search for skiing OR stowe, so secret + signs are prepended to the words

search for

Stowe -skiing

searches for Stowe but NOT sking

search for

Mount Mansfield

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I spent a good portion of today updating MY code to

reflect the new structure and thumbnails
zoomify images
fixed situation where, say, you were looking at search results page 3 of 5, clicked the i icon to display details of a thumnail, then click the Thumbnails tab so that you return to page 3 of 5 rather [...]

Seems the offending image was somehow corrupted as far as my batch utilities (including "make Zoomified") were concerned. Opened the file in Photoshop, made a small change, re-saved it, and the script ran fine.
I also put a check in the code to issue an alert but continue processing should it hit a similar snag.
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Continued to investigate bad image memory problem.

batch script failed on image, reporteing out of memory. Jumped through same hoops, now adding libjpeg to the mix, trying to make it process.