Thursday, February 3, 2011

2011/01/31-02/03 - Goodbye, Auburn!

The big news this week is that I just turned in my resignation from the Auburn libraries. It's time to move on to other things.

Otherwise it's been a frustrating week. I'm porting our ETD site to a new server. The ETD site currently runs DSpace-1.5 in a glassfish v2 (Sun Appserver) container on an old Sun Solaris box, and we're moving to an Ubuntu VM and glassfish v3.1. I was able to copy all the data over, and boot up the server, but there's some subtle bug where DSpace-1.5 does some invalid redirects at login time that glassfish-v3 complains about. Now I'm trying to upgrade to DSpace-1.6.2 which fixes the problem, and working through the little problems that keep tripping me up.

I also spent some time preparing for next Monday's minnows project training session with Prof. Armbruster's lab.

Anyway, I have two weeks left, so I'm going to try to finish the server migrations we have in process for ETD, repo, and vufind, and make sure the minnows project is in a sane state before I leave.