Q1 FY21 Update: What’s Been Going On, and What’s to Come?

Over the past forty-five days, I have been slowly trying to transition back to working in the office.  In of itself, that isn't a bad thing.  However, it has meant that I've had to rework a lot of my scheduling that I've been using throughout 2020.  It took time to get into it, and it'll take some time to get back out of it.  As such, any semblance of a schedule for the Havoc has gone completely out the window.  I can't guarantee timelines just yet, but I'd like to believe that by the end of Q1 of FY21, we will have new content and a new site.  I've already started kicking around design ideas in my mind while working on these other two projects, so we'll see how that shakes out.

I'm still sitting on piles of books, reports, and data to comb through that dwarves pretty much anything else in comparison - such is the life of a historian to never be done with research.  I also have some grad school and General Staff College material to go through, notwithstanding flight school manuals, leadership training materials, and research on two firearms that came into my possession earlier this year (two M1 Garands).

Over the course of the last 15 years that I've been doing web stuff, I have run generally the same design schemas and the same layouts.  The one you see now is the most recent of those, and the limitations I've found within them are starting to show.  The two projects that I've been working on have shown me that the future forward does not use designs such as these and, as such, I will be retiring the classic "scroller madness" designs that I've been using.  These old designs originated back in 2004 with the old XMB forum software, and I can no longer see a reason to carry them forward while staying relevant.  Change is always hard, but it's something that is inevitable here.

I had considered the potential of keeping a classic format with the new, but that will take more time than I'd really like to invest at this time.  With that being said, I have decided to keep the classic design on the new database site that I will be moving some content to later this year or (more likely) next year with others in my office.  The Alter site will also be getting renovated, though it's facelift will probably come in early Q2 of FY21.  I'll break this all down at the bottom of this post.

When I started scanning in documents and finding documents, it had occurred to me to keep things locked down just a little bit more.  As time has gone on, I have been converting data that has office data in it to publicly consumable information.  Most of those are presentations, others are technical data.  Technical Data will be moved to a site that I am currently referring to as ARCHANGEL.  ARCHANGEL's origins started as a repository for equipment drawings, but I believe that it's function could serve to better house technical data in addition to drawings.  As such, any accounts on The Havoc will be migrated to that site, and most - if not all - restricted material will be moved over there as well.

Again, the data I had stored here behind an account wall wasn't sensitive - it was all retrieved from public space.  I just simply wanted to better track where those materials were going and who had access to them.  The same can be said of the ARCHANGEL site.

I will probably leave accounts on here anyway, just so if anyone wants to comment or add anything to posts, they can.

To break this down for everyone, lets go with the timetable below...