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<title>CUCC Expedition Handbook: Website History</title>
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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
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<h1>EXPO WebsiteHistory</h1>
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<p>The CUCC Website was originally created by Andy Waddington in the early 1990s and was hosted by Wookey. The VCS was CVS. The whole site was just static HTML, carefully designed to be RISCOS-compatible (hence the short 10-character filenames) as both Wadders and Wookey were RISCOS people then. Wadders wrote a huge amount of info collecting expo history, photos, cave data etc.</p>
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<p>Martin Green added the SURVTAB.CSV file to contain tabulated data for many caves around 1999, and a script to generate the index pages from it. Dave Loeffler added scripts and programs to generate the prospecting maps in 2004. The server moved to Mark Shinwell's machine in the early 2000s, and the VCS was updated to subversion.</p>
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<p>In 2006 Aaron Curtis decided that a more modern set of generated, database-based pages made sense, and so wrote Troggle. This uses Django to generate pages. This reads in all the logbooks and surveys and provides a nice way to access them, and enter new data. It was separate for a while until Martin Green added code to merge the old static pages and new troggle dynamic pages into the same site. Work on Troggle still continues sporadically.</p>
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<p>After expo 2009 the VCS was updated to hg, because a DVCS makes a great deal of sense for expo (where it goes offline for a month or two and nearly all the year's edits happen).</p>
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<p>The site was moved to Julian Todd's seagrass server (in 2010), but the change from a 32-bit to 64-bit machine broke the website autogeneration code,
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which was only fixed in early 2011, allowing the move to complete. The
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data has been split into 3 separate repositories: the website,
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troggle, the survey data, the tunnel data. Seagrass was turned off at
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the end of 2013, and the site has been hosted by Sam Wenham at the
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university since Feb 2014.</p>
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Return to<br>
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<a href="update.html">Website update</a><br>
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<a href="expodata.html">Website developer information</a><br>
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