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Status: Web-Tools (2024 - September)

(Text as at 10/10/2024 00:47:31)

*** THIS IS NOT THE LATEST VERSION OF THIS NOTE ***

Rationale for this Project

• This Project was alluded to briefly in a footnote on research methodology in my original Research Proposal¹ under the head Research - Internet Technology². When last at Birkbeck, I wrote a more extensive paper³ defending the Project and describing its rationale. I continue to take this Project further. There’s still a lot to do: still quite a few items on the “wish list”. It is fairly critical as an enabler for my research, so I need to get a move on as I had wanted it all out of the way before I re-started₄ formal research.
• For documentation on my website follow the links below:-
  1. Functional₅ Documentation⁶.
  2. Technical₇ Documentation.
• Other Websites⁸
  1. Active
     1. Billericay Mayflower Bridge Club: since November 2021, on and off
     2. Old House Friday Bridge Club: a website that I’d created (amongst the other ‘small sites’) back in 2013. Revitalised in 2023.
     3. Enigma Ensemble: I created and maintained a small website for a music group Julie and I attend and which I now run. I lapsed the bespoke URL in favour of this sub-site of my own website but now intend to reinstate it. I’ve updated the site in the light of the retirement of our Director and to reference our new location.
  2. Inactive
     1. Sometime around 2005, I created a website for Dr. Sophie Botros, one of my supervisors at Birkbeck, but we then lost touch and it got maintained (very badly) by some desktop support outfit. In 15Q2 I took it back on again and spruced it up a bit, and maintain it periodically until 19Q3, when it was taken on by a professional outfit, Bookswarm. The “Sophie Botros” link in this bullet is now to their version of the site. My site looked like this.
     2. I created and / or ran a multitude of other bridge websites, but as of January 2018 I have either handed them over or mothballed them₉:-
        1. I established the Hutton Bridge Club (Defunct) Website in 11Q4 using the standard Bridgewebs service, but with a couple of competitions using my own routines. This was handed over in 15Q3. I briefly took it on again in March 2020. It needed a spring clean, but I was waiting to see whether the club (and its members) survived the coronavirus pandemic, and I handed it back on that account. The club went ‘on-line only’ but has now closed for lack of support.
        2. In 15Q1, I took over the support and development of the Essex Contract Bridge Association (ECBA) website, which also uses Bridgewebs, but is very much larger. I wrote a lot of code₁₀ to make this job less tedious. The site was handed over in 17Q4.
        3. For several years, I collected data₁₁ on bridge activity in the Billericay/Brentwood area (initially needed for a project to set up a new consolidated club) by “scraping” data off web pages, consolidating it into a database and modelling it in various ways.
        4. I used this data to generate websites with a multitude of ladders for small clubs (8 small Essex Bridge websites). These are now mothballed, with the exception of the Old House one noted above.
        5. I created and maintained a new website for the First Class Bridge Academy, giving it “small clubs” ladders (8 further “small sites” for Bernie) as these were easy to maintain with little intervention.
        6. As of March 2020 I took over the Mountnessing Bridge Club (Defunct) website. Earlier, in 16Q3, I created the Mountnessing Bridge Club Archive website, using the vast bulk of the pages from their legacy site, as the club had moved to Bridgewebs and lost its historical data. Sadly, the Club has now been wound up, but I intend to keep the historical record.
           
     3. I created a website₁₂ for displaying the textual and grammatical analyses and appendices of Pete’s PhD on the Acts of the Apostles: Acts: Test Site.