Back into Free Law Reporter today. I’m adding additional meta data to SCOTUS opinions. Also decided the PRO case dump from 2008 would be represented as Free Law Reporter 3rd. BTW, I enjoy making up my own reporter series.
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More bans on the Drupal system today. An IP address that belongs to Verizon FIOS and the panscient.com spider. Both repeatedly opened thousands of connections to seemingly random pages on the site over the course of 90 minutes this afternoon. Bad Spiders.
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Turns out unpacking the Fastcase Advance Sheets .MOBI version is pretty straight forward. There’s a hunk of python for that at http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Mobi_unpack. Once unpacked it’s all about processing the HTML into individual opinion files.
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Some helpful MySQL commands:
mysql> STOP SLAVE; SET GLOBAL SQL_SLAVE_SKIP_COUNTER=1; START SLAVE;
mysql> CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=’mysql.server.name’, MASTER_USER=’a-user’, MASTER_PASSWORD=’password’, MASTER_LOG_FILE=’mysql-bin.000000′, MASTER_LOG_POS=’742507236′;
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Issues with MySQL slave may require a complete rebuild to get replication back in sync. That will eat up a lot of a weekend at this point. Should be able to do it with little production downtime though.
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Doing cleanup on the MySQL Slave after the mess of last month. I learned that “slave-skip-errors = 1062” is your friend when resetting a slave that has gotten out of sync with its master.
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Building ECR Topic Sites
Here are the steps for creating ECR Topic sites. This should be a pretty detailed outline of what needs to be done.
- Remove block on topic name
- most “top level” subject names are reserved by the system.
- Create Classcaster blog
- Set theme to eLangdell
- Configure theme
- Activate plugins
- Anthologize
- Audio Plugin
- Bulk Slug and Description update
- Category import
- Easy stats
- Hackadelic sliding notes
- Improved simpler CSS
- Login redirect
- My link order
- WordPress video plugin
- Convert topic grid into text formatted for category import
- Paste text into category import, test to make sure it lays out properly and then add categories
- Add “Press this” tool to browser bookmark bar, rename to match topic
- Open subject outline page on CALI website
- Follow link to each Lesson and use “Press this” tool to add Lesson description to blog. Link each Lesson to the category it matches
- For podcasts, use the short tag to embed a payer linked to the MP3.
- Break eLangdell casebooks for subject into chapters in Word
- Publish each chapter to blog from inside of Word linking to appropriate category
- Use db to locate appropriate cases for inclusion.
- Remove block on topic name
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Quick update to the website theme to add a slogan we’re trying on. Needed a bit of styling to fit in.
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Adding a MIME type for .a2j files to the Classcaster network. That’s text/xml for those of you following along at home.
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Correcting spelling errors in the CALI Courses module. Committing changes to git, pushing to GitHub, and cross committing to SVN. All because I can’t remember “i” before “e”…
