• Name: Alex Ma
  • Login Name: macat
  • Email: ama@caida.org
  • Office Phone: 858-822-3506
  • Location: LaJollaOffice
  • Comment: CAIDA Webmaster starting 2000

Things I've been working on that I don't want to forget about

Sep 2013 Document the caidawebmaster@gmail.com account to list what it's being used for: doodle, webmaster tools, custom search tool on caida, youtube account, google docs
Sep 2013 Continue setting up the 4th NDN Retreat page (populate Participants list, create/update mailing list, post updated hotel information); related files on cider:
/www/cgi/www-xml-443/cgi-bin/FormHandler/config/formcfg-ndn1311.pl
/www/cgi/www-xml-443/cgi-bin/FormHandler/templates-ndn/ndn_1311*
/www/cgi-var/www-xml-443/ndn/logs/registration_*
Sep 2013 Lightbox needs to get hooked into XSLT at the right place so that it sets up the IE conditional directives correctly, so it can be deployed on a sitewide level rather than just in Publications Posters; related files on cider:
/www/content/www-xml-443/c2supportfiles/lightbox2.6/
/www/backend/www-xml-443/stylesheets/page2html.xsl (maybe pagecontentwrapper.xsl needs involvement instead)
Sep 2013 Follow up with brad about the IRNC Map page. Ready to unorphan it?
Sep 2013 Identify and address PublicationsDB bugs
* Filter by Year in Presentation tab causes 500 int server error
* How to remove venue names that aren't used anymore?
* Adding special characters like # to Presenter name causes "can't call method tabletname on an undefined value at RowController.pm line 156"
* After a new Paper is created, its state doesn't seem cleared, e.g. searching after creating a new paper. Clicking the Papers tab again seems to clear the state.
* When adding new Authors through the Authors tab, if you add a second author after the first one successfully completes, the name of the second author actually is writing over the same author ID as the first. You have to click the Authors tab to clear the state in order to add multiples.
* When creating New Presentation, the Affiliations pulldown sometimes shows a grey selector, or is offset by a few lines
Sep 2013 Confirm with kc and follow up with Dan about turning off redirect on pam2014.caida.org so google won't accidentally index it again.
Sep 2013 Foswiki NDNpub.caida.org user general maintenance, the emails aren't showing up in the Users list, had to add them in manually, even tho .htpasswd shows them all.
Oct 2013 Follow up resumes and consider hiring a new REU by mid October
Oct 2013 Follow up with kc about posting the Program Plan to the website. The files need to be moved from WIP and added as new to the proper place in the WCS tree. related files on cider:
/www/backend/www-xml-443/caida-sitemap.xml
wcs:www-caida-org/home/about/progplan/
cvs:WIP/web/home/about/progplan/progplan2014/
wcs:www-caida-org/home/about/progplan/2014 (needs to be created)

Annual Goals 2012-2013

Deploy and evaluate the second generation of a CAIDA Publications Database that manages CAIDA presentations and slidesets. In development. Presentations still needs work.
Document how to maintain the AS Rank website and how to further develop it. DONE.
Update the research and data for the CAIDA public website with a new information architecture to reflect recent activities and deliverables in those areas. More work to be done.
Deploy a new version of AS Rank that uses a database backend in place of flat datafiles. DONE. June 2013
Provide assistance to new employees to orient them to the CAIDA workflow environment. DONE. Oriented Edgardo, Pol Colomer
Take a leadership role in capturing updated content and populating the annual report on a weekly/monthly basis. DONE. 2012 Annual finally published Jul 2013.
Continue exposure to the LaTeX document preparation system to support the creation of PDFs for CAIDA papers and documents. Did not do. No LaTeX tasks this year.
Establish and maintain regular in-person contact hours for coworkers and collaborators. DONE.
Increase technical, leadership and management skills by enrolling in relevant technical/business courses at UCSD Extension or with UCSD HR/staff education. Did not do.
Provide consistent, timely feedback on my weekly activities via weekly reports. DONE.

Annual Goals 2011-2012

Take over the design, development, evaluation and deployment of the first generation publications/presentations database. DONE. New development owned by jon
Learn the LaTeX document preparation system to support the creation of PDFs for CAIDA papers and documents. DONE. Prepared Papers/2012/imc-topocompare LaTeX. More learning to be had.
Establish and maintain regular in-person contact hours for coworkers and collaborators. DONE.
Hire another webmaster's assistant from the UCSD student pool to replace graduating/outgoing student Alex Dodge. DONE. Sep 2011. Hired Jon Yuan
Update the research and data for the CAIDA public website with a new information architecture to reflect recent activities and deliverables in those areas Partially DONE. Added images, in progress
Take a leadership role in capturing updated content and populating the annual report on a weekly/monthly basis DONE. Staged and published 2011 annual by July
Promote accessibility by implementing sections of the website that orient a site visitor with a limited background in networking research DONE. (in some capacity, it's an ongoing effort)
Funding permitting, increase leadership and management skills by enrolling in relevant business courses at UCSD Extension or with UCSD HR/staff education NOT DONE.
Provide consistent, timely feedback on weekly activities via weekly reports DONE. weeklies sent tuesdays
Increase communication and feedback with others in the group by holding periodic web design meetings DONE. meet one-on-one, group meetings minimized

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