A person again
I have an ID! And email! And access to employment records! And email! Lo, I exist!
My first trick is going to be doing a DSpace install on the staging server. And lo it is wholly beyond my capacity… but my boss is good-naturedly going to walk me through it the next time our schedules coincide (which could be a few days, as I have to meet with HR tomorrow morning and he has to do something else tomorrow afternoon).
I tried. I really did. I followed instructions, and got completely stuck when “adduser” inexplicably failed to work.
“By the way,” said my boss a few hours later (hours during which I occupied myself with other things), “you have to ignore the adduser stuff; in OS X a user called “appserver” owns everything. So you have to make sure that the folder you install into has appserver as its owner.”
Oh. Righty-ho, then. That’s more or less when I decided I needed help. I mean, I know from chown, but I’m sure there are other little nasties waiting for me.
In the meantime, I’ve been taking the nickel tour of Java Server Pages, just enough to be dangerous. (Because the default DSpace HTML is yucko, emphasis on the yuck, and the information architecture is even worse, for reasons I intend to bloviate upon at some length when I have time. This will change.) The wall is being scrawled upon, however; I need to learn me some Java. Fortunately, the local community college teaches it online.
Need to learn me some PostgreSQL, too. That’s a mite scary. I wonder if the community college teaches that too, or if they just stick to Access and generic db-design courses?
Eh, well; I’ll find out. Matters are progressing on the human side of the job, so I’m not unhappy with what I did today.