My TODO list
Originally I had my TODO list here so that anybody could see what I was working on. However, I rarely updated it (bi-annually at best). Instead I have shifted my TODO list into the wiki where anyone can add items; Mik Black being the first to do so.
To add an item, it is best to email me, or write it on the whiteboard closest to my desk. Put it in the wiki, but I might not notice it for a while.
Accomplishments
Yes, I do something. I'm no goldbrick.
- Configuration of Squid cache
- Learnt LaTeX
- Documentation of James' job and server configuration
- Fixing up Apache and JServ
- Fixing proxy configuration, and thus auto updates
- Document handbook creation
- Fixing a collection of PHP sloppiness
- Fixing text counter, and stopping it spewing errors (thanks Alan)
- Replace references of James == webmaster with Stephen == webmaster
- Fixed image uploads for staff and grad album
- Started graduate forum database syndication for graduates to parse and graph
- Checked most pages for outdated headers
- Added
recent study guide
links to most courses - Change email out to do text and html multipart/optional
- IASE-only search
- stat10 rebuild (2004-07-03)
- Filming Jessica Utts visit
- SNMP and MRTG monitoring on servers
- More automation for email management, including reshuffling lists and searching alias lists
- Shifting from Sendmail
- Improved spam filtering
- New SSL certificates
- Relocated messages for closed email accounts
- LDAP server for email address completion
- Improved visitor display on internal website
- IASS 55 website
- Wrote proxy for NetAccount-poor STATS 340 students
- SNMP in graduate room, in preparation of installing Sun Grid Engine (all done from a Makefile)
- Mailman for public list subscriptions
- Installed and configured four processing machines (Ngā ika)
- Introduced and populated internal wiki
- Piles of documentation
- Design and programming of Web Survey tool for teachers and University staff
- Shift from Sendmail to Postfix
- SRTL-4 website
- Sitewide forum
- Properly signed SSL certificates (instead of self-signed)
- Rename stat11.stat.auckland.ac.nz to www.stat.auckland.ac.nz
- Use of SSH keyring
- CensusAtSchool New Zealand 2005 survey, sampler, and resources (including some translation into te reo Māori)
- Fixed up Course Advice URLs
- Improve the LDAP server
- List of arrivals
- Own CA, and signing additional certificates
- Directed Win in improvements to the Rodent Invasion Project which featured in Nature
- Filming STATS 150 guest lecturers
- Automated seminar system, including mailing list with automatic Next Week notification and reminders
- Front page redesign including news on the front page
- Automation of 10x and 20x survey closing and reporting
- Automation of 20x forum opening and closing
- Improved search placement of general education course information (second on main University search)
- Produced latest STATS 20X CD; this time with Mac OS X and Linux version of R, and s20x library ready for installation
- Improved legibility of our logo on hosted pages
- RSS feed from Invision Power Board forum
- Shifting video tapes to DVD for transcription
- Rewrote Jobs system, with better wiki integration
- Integrated wiki with central UniSign authentication
- Use of wiki for managing R-Fest conference pages
- Automated reminder system to 10x course
- Purchase of microphones and equipment for recording lectures. Diagnosing and creating audio cables for laptops.
- Automated listing of recorded lectures
- Google Images search for paintball still yields Brian McArdle's hand as the #1 result. This has been the case for nearly two years.
- Installation of the Sun Grid Engine and advocacy.
- Videos: have I mentioned videos yet? Heavily used in the BIOSCI 209 course, showing off Statistics in the field: Rachel Fewster and rats, Tim Langlois and snapper, pipis, and Sam Ferreira with elephants.
... and a collection of other minor things, as well as a bunch of really important things that were accidentally omitted.
Zaw Win Tun
This is not a formal reference.
Win worked in the Department of Statistics during second semester 2005. During that time he worked on websites and web applications for CensusAtSchool, the Rodent Invasion Project, and some minor work on the IASE website.
For CensusAtSchool he created the Data Viewer based on (frequently changing) design guidelines from Jason Florence, Maxine Pfannkuch, Chris Wild, Rachel Cunliffe, Matt Regan, Stephen Cope, Bronwyn Weston (and possibly others). It contains:
- Client-side Javascript
- Server-side R code generator (R is then called to produce the graphs.)
- Server-side PHP to tie it together
This was later modified to become the Box-Whisker viewer, which utilised much of the same technology.
For the Rodent Invasion Project he took the existing code and database (started by myself), met with the key stakeholders, and under my direction, improved existing features and added now ones.
- Added photo gallery
- Added database of sightings of invasive species
- Created a system for graphing sightings of invasive species
- Created a system to managing and approving sightings
- Created a system to keep the front pages (Project, Outputs, Links) updated
- Improved island information to list nearby islands, and to link to an external map server
For the International Association for Statistical Education Win updated parts of the database contents.
Matt Courtney
This is not a formal reference.
Matt worked in the Department of Statistics at the end of second semester 2005. During that time he worked mainly on the SRTL website. Matt has a good grasp of XHTML and converted the simple SRTL4 website into a much more comprehensive and easily updated website for the entire SRTL conference series.
David Walton
This is not a formal reference.
David worked in the Department of Statistics at the end of second semester 2006. During that time he worked on the AMA website and did some maintenance work on the SRTL website along with some other tasks. Although not originally familiar with the web model, David learnt the languages and technologies required rapidly.