Unless you have been living under a rock for the last month, you'll know that the Wiki has been having a rough time lately. There was a big oopsie, and Orv has been working pretty much incessantly to get that fixed. Given how integral the Wiki is to a lot of what we do nowadays, that is a huge deal. He's also been workign to make sure that this sort of thing doesn't happen again. With all of that work just ont he wiki, it's easy to forget how important Orv has been to work in enhancing and expanding the brotherhood.
A few weeks ago, Halc and I went through and made sure that we rewarded some of the people that often get overlooked, and we purposely left Orv off of that list because of this work. With the amount of time and energy he has invested recently, it helped expand his award into a Amethyst Kukri as a token of our esteem. Also, because we can't give him bacon through the internet. Thanks again, Orv. Keep it up. Please. ~ Muz Ashen, Dark Lord of the Sith.

Orv Desserx. Smelly Arconan, but resident bad-ass coder and saviour of the DJBWiki. When the Wiki went down a couple weeks ago, this man right here was quickly alerted to the problem and got to work as soon as possible. He found out that we had no access to the server that the Wiki was stored on, and alerted everyone of the alternatives. It wasn't long before he got to work, locating an older version from a year and a half ago. He set up a new database on the server that holds the DJBWiki's coding, and downloaded over 6,000 cached pages. Six thousand! It took him daaaays. In addition, he's written scripts that tweak the cached pages into wiki code, therefore making it much easier for pages to be restored. To do this, he wrote 2,200 lines of custom PHP code, as well as converted almost all of the custom infobox templates found on our wiki into the proper code. Over 50 of them! Overall, he's spent roughly 100 hours of hard work on restoring our Wiki. While there is still much to do, our resident bad-ass coder has made it much easier on the DJBWiki Staff, as well as the general Brotherhood member populous, to restore it to it's former glory. Backups are stored off-server and updated weekly, in order to prevent such a loss of data. While restoring the DJBWiki was part of his duties, doing almost all the work for actually bringing everything back up to date was not necessarily his job. He went above and beyond the call of duty, showing the Brotherhood just what a fantastic member he is and just how dedicated he truly is to this club. He juggles a full time job working for a university as a coder, being a dad, and coding for us. It's a lot to take on, and this man is definitely up to the task. I'd put forth my recommendation for a Sacramental Award in the name of Orv Desserx any day. Congratulations buddy, you've more than earned it. Keep up the great work. ~Anubis Annedu

Originally, Orv was going to be awarded a "smaller" medal, as a token of appreciation for his continued efforts as SCL as well as for his fantastic event in the IGs. Yet suddenly the DB had a bit of a crisis as one of our most popular activities and repository of information, the DB wiki, was suddenly lost to us. What many people hard worked so hard on over the years was gone, and things were bleak. Enter: Orv. He only had a back-up that was over a year and a half old, but no worries, he would go to google and download as much of the wiki cache as he could and then convert the html into wiki code. He would bring the wiki back to some semblance of it's former self. He would spent countless hours helping to shape the wiki back into a recognizable form. The wiki is now almost ready to be released to the public. Although much work will need to be accomplished, Orv has saved us literally years of work. He has also ensured that this can never happen to us again. I would just like to give him my heartfelt gratitude for all of the work he's put into this, and I'm sure I am speaking for the entire club when I say that. Thank you, Orv! ~Halcyon Taldrya, Sith Lord

Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu, 2011-06-05 17:46:23 UTC