With google wave just around, I am sure wave will have a new definition soon.

It is highly appreciated for Google to release to public something that’s not even beta… But I am sure Google also understand the enormous potential this new revolution will have over generations to come. Release it under open source would even magnify the impact.

The way we communicate, is going to change…

I have just updated new theme, if hope you like it!

I think I have been updating themes quite regularly. But lets see, what’s the process that I follow to update the theme.

1. Staging server

Play – play a lot with the staging server. Obviously the server is local on my PC. I am using DynDNS to make sure that the staging server, even if local, gets all the features of a full blown website. 

2. “hg ci” on the staging location.

The wordpress theme on the staging server is under hg (Mercurial Configuration management system). Its good to keep track of the changes! But this also helps to “merge” the changes! Go throught this post and you would understand what I mean by “merging”

with “hg ci” the Commit command of mercurial the changes are frozen to be taken to live server.

3. Local replica

On the live server, I have 3 sites to maintain; purnank.in, fun.purnank.in, meera.purnank.in

I have to uploading the changes via ftp. (I still don’t know how to do that using command line. But it’s on my wishlist to do that with ./command rather than at the click of mouse.)

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Another Sequel! This one to Run HackyStat on your PC

HackyStat depends on many tools! If you want to build them
on your PC, you need to have all of them and the correct versions!  

By the way,  you need to set many environment variables also!

Here is what I did to over come that trouble some process… Wrote a batch script!

This is my directory structure!
 

C:\HackyStat\development\tools\ANT_HOME
C:\HackyStat\development\tools\APACHE_COMMONS_LOGGING_HOME
C:\HackyStat\development\tools\APACHE_JCS_HOME
...
C:\HackyStat\development\tools\SLF4J_HOME
C:\HackyStat\development\tools\SVNKIT_HOME
C:\HackyStat\development\tools\WICKET_HOME
C:\HackyStat\development\source\hackystat-analysis-dailyprojectdata
C:\HackyStat\development\source\hackystat-analysis-telemetry
C:\HackyStat\development\source\hackystat-sensor-ant
...
C:\HackyStat\development\source\hackystat-sensorbase-simdata
C:\HackyStat\development\source\hackystat-sensorbase-uh

Necessary external tools in tools directory, and the actual HackyStat
source code in source directory. How intuitive!

Some thing very interesting to be noted is tools\*_HOME…
If HackyStat needs that environment variable, i have the required
files put in there! 

This is my SET_ENV.bat located at C:\HackyStat\development.

i.e. C:\HackyStat\development\SET_ENV.bat

@REM echo off
pushd %~dp0
SET JAVA_HOME=D:\JAVA_HOME
for /d %%d in ( tools\*_HOME ) DO (
    SET %%~nd=%%~fd
)

set PATH=%PATH%;%~dp0tools\ANT_HOME\bin
set HACKYSTAT_SENSORBASE_HOME=%~dp0source\hackystat-sensorbase-uh
set HACKYSTAT_DAILYPROJECTDATA_HOME=%~dp0source\hackystat-analysis-dailyprojectdata
set HACKYSTAT_TELEMETRY_HOME=%~dp0source\hackystat-analysis-telemetry
popd

So, before any development work, i run set_env.bat and all necessary
environment variables are set.

What if a new tool is added/removed? Just add/delete it from
the tools. Everything else would be taken care of.

By the way, I also wrote a shell script!

# To be sourced
for dir in  `pwd`/*_HOME ; do
    if [ -d $dir ]; then
        echo `basename $dir`=$dir
        export `basename $dir`=$dir
    fi
done

I hope this saves some time for the new HackyStat developers.

A step by step guide to start HackyStat on your PC. A sequel to Diving into HackyStat

C:\Hackystat.server\hackystat-analysis-dailyprojectdata
C:\Hackystat.server\hackystat-analysis-telemetry
C:\Hackystat.server\hackystat-sensor-ant
C:\Hackystat.server\hackystat-sensor-emacs
...
C:\Hackystat.server\hackystat-sensor-example
C:\Hackystat.server\hackystat-sensor-shell
C:\Hackystat.server\hackystat-sensor-xmldata
C:\Hackystat.server\hackystat-sensorbase-uh
C:\Hackystat.server\hackystat-ui-wicket
C:\Hackystat.server\hackystat-utilities