Painfully Irregular Almanac Update
One more vacation-like activity to report: I’ve been making a few meager efforts to get TXPoliticalAlmanac.com updated. And while that’ll be a never-ending task, I’m at least to the point where all of the State House districts have been given a map and color-coded for the statewide election results.
A bigger issue, however, is that my webserver upgraded their version of PHP and that forced me to upgrade from an archaic version of the MediaWiki software the site operates on? Meaning??? There are now some growing pains that are driving me nuts. Namely, one of the extensions I lean on the most heavily is woefully out of date and does not appear to be supported anymore by the original coder. So that means I have to really get my programming chops honed for some deep surgery on MW code. Or, I have to find a new extension to do what the old one did and updated every page that makes use of it. None of this is wonderful news. For now, I’m able to go about my business as usual. I just have to live with an “Internal Error” result when I save the page even though the page is really saved.
But enough whining for now. The HD137 page is usually the likeliest to be up-to-date since that’s home for me. I’m probably going to do a bit more work on the House Districts to beef those up. There’s still nothing done for the Congressional Districts and that eats away at me. But it’ll have to serve as motivation to get cracking on the other stuff.
If there’s anything that you election nerds out there might like to see included, let me know. Otherwise, you can always sign up for an account and give editing/updating a try. Oh, and if you have any experience coding MediaWiki, I’m willing to spend a little bit of money tweaking things under the hood.