Matomo: Boon or Bane?

Although it was previously thought that Grammar Captive’s WordCloud functionality had been rendered dysfunctional by a change in Matomo’s reporting API, it has fortunately turned out not to be the case. In fact, it is quite the opposite, the new functionality turns out to be complementary with even more potential than previously available.

Hooray! Hooray!

Roddy

Neglected Credits

Elated by Grammar Captive’s recent success in getting the Mecab parser to work I have updated Grammar Captive’s Credits menu to include a credit to the people at MySQL responsible for the Mecab parser.

To the same menu has been added a section for Technical Assistance with credit going to Chris Barnett.

In order to avoid confusion the section entitled Revision has been renamed Text Revision. Finally, my good friend Prof. Dr. Peter P. Baron was added to this section under the new subtitle German.

The Ex-Macabre Mecab

The Mecab Parser is no longer macabre.

After several months of dysfunction the corrupted newsletter database has not only been restored, but the Mecab parser is now fully functional.

This means that Japanese newsletters can now be searched in the same way that the English, French, and German versions of the newsletter can be searched. Simply type in a Japanese word and the newsletters in which it is contained will appear.

In addition, the search engines for Q&A and Podast queries has also been restored.

How was the above achieved? It was not by magic.

Apparently the Mecab parser will only work when the default language of the entire table is set to the language of the parser. Previously, only the columns were set.

Will other new developments follow soon. It is unlikely, as a stable podcasting environment has yet to be found. Maybe in the fall of 2019.

Roddy

Visitor Profile Dysfunction Repaired

While waiting to rebuild the MySQL data table that houses the Sevengates Newsletter the dysfunction in the Sponsor Overview pages has been repaired. The following panels are now fully functional: Your Data and You, Sponsor Overview, Event Profiles, and Splash Panel.

The Word Cloud functionality will remain dysfunctional until the MySQL data table has been restored, and the lack of correspondence between the number of Unique Visitors and Total Visits in the Graphs and Charts panel remains an unsolved mystery.

The corrupted MySQL data table appears to be related to the overall performance of the site. This problem is currently under investigation.

Roddy

Mecab or macabre?

In an effort to make the multilingual letter data table searchable in Japanese Grammar Captive installed a Japanese language parser built for MySQL. The result has been a corrupted data table and a complete breakdown in one’s ability to view any of the newsletters no matter the language or edition.

It is likely that the entire table will have to be rebuilt.

Roddy

Restoration of RSS Feeds

In “celebration” of the New Year Yahoo closed down a free service that sustained Grammar Captive’s WordPress RSS feeds. A new free service has been found and the feeds have been restored.

Other than the several projects that were still under way at the end of the year, no further development is being planned until a suitable place to podcast has been found and podcasting can begin.

Roddy

Happy Solar New Year!

One can only hope that this New Year ends on a happier note than the year just ended.

For the moment, I can only write that Grammar Captive will move forward. How far, how fast, and to what extent is momentarily difficult to say.

Important is that significant progress was made last year, and there is some reason to believe that the same can happen this year.

I wish you well in the year ahead.

Roddy

Merry Christmas!

This year is finishing with great disappointment, for the fall launch of Grammar Captive did not occur.  This said, much good did occur this past year despite tremendous setbacks.  And, the good news is that I have not lost hope.

Roddy