History of Lesters roadmap
<p>Really need to allow ' in the page titles ...</p>
<p>Anyway at least now the page is available.</p>
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<li><s>First item that has come up is to seriously consider <a href="https://www.webtrees.net/">webtrees</a> as an alternative to phpgedview. The note about Postgres support is encouraging and so enabling Firebird may not be the problem it once was. </s><br />
After a couple of false starts I have my gedcom and media all running fine on webtrees, so I think it's a no brainer that the phpgedview port gets it's retirement! There will obviously be a new package page for webtrees, and currently the live site is running on an sqlite database which obviously I need to look at, but one of the roadmap items that had not even been writen yet was to get my father and son's deaths actually recorded on the family tree which I do not have! Much better to be adding material rather than messing around with the spanners. </li>
<li>So next on the list is to battle with the old server and at least get sftp working again. I am still using it's 16Tb of disk space as backup and for the media server so being able to run BeyondCompare over sftp is essential and it has not worked since the name changes.</li>
<li>One underlying area that I have been targetting for many years is on-line access to my growing library of searchable PDF files. I have documented on the medw site the processing of my paper collection of mags and converting them to searchable pdf's. The next step is to tidy the pdf import into Bitweaver so that the text layer is treated in the same was as a normal wiki page and can be searched. Having restored the highlight facility to wiki and blog entries, the display of a similar highlight while reading a pdf would be nice, but is at odds with the browsers pdf display actions. ((Bitweaver - Advanced Document Handling|A separate second step on the roadmap)).</li>
<li>A longer term project has always been animation. The modelling of things like my traction engine parts in FreeCAD gave static models, but then animating them to move around should not be a difficult step. Just been reviewing where we are today, of cause when *I* am looking for 'rigging' it is for model ships, but the first results always tend to be rigging animation models. ((Blender)) seems to be the choice of the day for this area and I've just been flicking through the documentation to see what is involved. Even found an example of modelling a dragon which could be fun ...</li>
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<p>Anyway at least now the page is available.</p>
<ol>
<li><s>First item that has come up is to seriously consider <a href="https://www.webtrees.net/">webtrees</a> as an alternative to phpgedview. The note about Postgres support is encouraging and so enabling Firebird may not be the problem it once was. </s><br />
After a couple of false starts I have my gedcom and media all running fine on webtrees, so I think it's a no brainer that the phpgedview port gets it's retirement! There will obviously be a new package page for webtrees, and currently the live site is running on an sqlite database which obviously I need to look at, but one of the roadmap items that had not even been writen yet was to get my father and son's deaths actually recorded on the family tree which I do not have! Much better to be adding material rather than messing around with the spanners. </li>
<li>So next on the list is to battle with the old server and at least get sftp working again. I am still using it's 16Tb of disk space as backup and for the media server so being able to run BeyondCompare over sftp is essential and it has not worked since the name changes.</li>
<li>One underlying area that I have been targetting for many years is on-line access to my growing library of searchable PDF files. I have documented on the medw site the processing of my paper collection of mags and converting them to searchable pdf's. The next step is to tidy the pdf import into Bitweaver so that the text layer is treated in the same was as a normal wiki page and can be searched. Having restored the highlight facility to wiki and blog entries, the display of a similar highlight while reading a pdf would be nice, but is at odds with the browsers pdf display actions. ((Bitweaver - Advanced Document Handling|A separate second step on the roadmap)).</li>
<li>A longer term project has always been animation. The modelling of things like my traction engine parts in FreeCAD gave static models, but then animating them to move around should not be a difficult step. Just been reviewing where we are today, of cause when *I* am looking for 'rigging' it is for model ships, but the first results always tend to be rigging animation models. ((Blender)) seems to be the choice of the day for this area and I've just been flicking through the documentation to see what is involved. Even found an example of modelling a dragon which could be fun ...</li>
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