Welcome Pat! I enjoyed browsing your cemetery website, quite interesting :)
I just wanted to give a heads up regarding developing Arches offline: last time I tried this on an airplane I ran into trouble loading static files (javascript, css). I think at that time some of those files were loaded over an (online) CDN. A quick look through the code indicates that this is not the case anymore, but I would be sure to test it before boarding! (Background info: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/CDNsFailButYourScriptsDontHaveToFallbackFromCDNToLocalJQuery.aspx ) Best, Vincent On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 1:03 PM Edmund Lee < [email protected]> wrote: > Welcome! Many thanks for signing in Pat and sharing your experience and > interests with us all. What a fascinating life! You have definitely come to > the right place. Here you will find the gurus that you seek to help you on > the next stage of your learning journey, and make sure you are not 'all at > sea' when you are at sea. > > Contributions to improve the install script based on your experience would > be a great help. Do start that as a separate thread if you want to discuss > it with the group. > > All the best > > Ed > > On Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 12:05:47 AM UTC+1, Pat Lurcock wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> After half a lifetime working as a government administrator in South >> Georgia in the south atlantic, where I slowly developed a strong interest >> in the cultural heritage (whaling, sealing, military, cemeteries) I am now >> back in the UK and want to develop an online register of the Island's >> Cultural Heritage sites as a public resource. Arches looks like the perfect >> tool for the job. It covers all the angles that I have learned are >> important for data management, is spatial, and free. >> >> My background is quite IT strongish - I developed a lot of fishery and >> harbour management databases, learning by reverse-engineering Access and >> then MySQL databases to improve them. So I have set up MySQL servers, >> apache, Access, MySQL (with Access front end). Also self-taught web >> programming to develop my website documenting the island's cemeteries ( >> http://www.cems.wildisland.gs) first with a text editor then learning >> to use a CMS (Joomla). More recently I have started learning GIS stuff >> using QGIS, providing mapping and GPS support for a six-month rodent >> monitoring project on South Georgia. >> >> So now I am learning again. Virtual machine on my windows laptop running >> Ubuntu - the Xenial version for Arches specifically. That was an uphill >> struggle but I think I am there now. >> >> Now I am installing Arches. The first try failed and I am hoping some >> patient guru(s) might kindly guide me when I hit problems that I cannot >> easily solve. I am dealing with a whole raft of new (to me) technologies so >> there will be some very basic stuff that will have you rolling your eyes >> skywards. >> >> It seems the install script is not quite perfect and I'd like to >> contribute by tweaking it in the light of my experience so that it will be >> a smoother job for the next person. >> >> My aim is to have a working installation on the laptop by the end of the >> month. Then I can develop the actual application over the next few months >> when I will be at sea without Internet. Then next year I want to put it >> online, probably using AWS. More learning. >> >> Out of the window? The south Devon coast. On a good day, the heritage >> coast of Dorset glows red in the distance. And just over the sea wall is a >> post that used to stretch a chain to keep the U-Boats out of Teignmouth. >> >> Cheers all, >> Pat >> >> On Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 4:29:37 PM UTC+1, Edmund Lee wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the >>> Arches Discussion Forum recently. >>> >>> This online group was initially set up for the project team, and has >>> just recently been opened up as the public, so some of us haven't met >>> before. How about we all share a bit of background, just like we would if >>> we were meeting in the real world? If that sounds good to you, reply to >>> this thread and share with the group some or all of the following: >>> >>> - what is your interest in Arches? >>> >>> >>> - where in the world are you working? >>> >>> and, just to make it a bit more fun, >>> >>> - what can you see out of the window? Is there any heritage in your >>> view? >>> >>> I look forward to getting to know everyone a bit better! >>> >>> >>> Ed >>> >> -- > -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, > send email to [email protected]. For more > information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Arches Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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