#make a working dir
mkdir sandbox
cd sandbox
#checkout
svn co svn://svn-repo-machine/repo/path myproject --username myusernameatsvnserver
#go to work on items
cd myproject
#pull latest from server
svn up 
#queue a file for addition
svn add newfile.c
#queue for deletion
svn delete anoldfilewedontneed.c 
#get the info on what is different in your local vs server
svn status 
#list commit comments on a file
svn log AFILESOMEONECHANGED.c 
#commit one file. * will commit all that changed.
svn ci -m "Edited this file for ..." filethatgotchanged.c 

Now, configure vim as the svn diff tool.

 
cd ~/Dropbox
mkdir -p gitroot/research.git && cd !$
git --bare init
 
cd ~/Projects
git init
git remote add dropbox file://$HOME/Dropbox/gitroot/research.git
git add testfile.txt
git commit -m "initial"
git push dropbox master
 
ssh anothercomputer
cd ~/Projects
git clone -o dropbox file://$HOME/Dropbox/gitroot/research.git
cd research
ls >> testfile.txt
git commit -m "just testing"
git push dropbox master
git pull dropbox master

For the first computer, once you fill the bare repo with some stuff, you can delete the folder and do a clone like how you did with the second computer.

In 1995, I got into a data warehouse project and all the ETL was through some bunch of shell utilities followed by sql*loader. This certainly would've helped!

assoc .otl=outliner
ftype outliner=c:\tools\vim\vim72\gvim.exe --remote-silent "%1"

Usually, I end up prototyping using static HTML - works very well if you are good at making quick templates and has an editor you are comfortable with. When too many things are changing and you don't want to code it like that, Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice works as a quick prototype tool. Very easy and you don't get into situations when the audience think that prototype looked very nice and the finished product doesn't look as good. This is a common issue with graphical mockups (like Powerpoint or Photoshop - there you get great resolution, but that doesn't materialize when application UI actually comes up). Here is how to go about this. We will make a simple master-detail prototype.

Get xmledit plugin to help with tags.

<condition property="test.properties" value="default.properties">
   <not>
	<isset property="test.properties" />
   </not>
</condition>

If test.properties is set, then that is carried over. If it is not, default.properties is set as the value for the properties.

Quick HTML encoder

Download a sample project that illustrates how to use both of these to automate testing of web sites. It has testing code as both easyb and junit tests. Unzip the file into a folder and read README.txt on how to use it. The project opens Google, searches for my name and verifies the search results.

Often, I will need to set environment variables in DOS, Unix/Cygwin environments. I end up creating scripts to do this. However, it is quite painful to have one script with commands starting with export (for bash) and set (for DOS). Most of the time I would rather like to have a simple property file - like key=value in each line - that I can use to set the environment variables.

Download this Leo file. It has a script in one of the nodes. You put your property file in child nodes with @url node types. Then, when you run the script, each such child node is taken and written out as batch file or shell script as identified by the node header text. A silly little solution that took 5 minutes and has already taken lot of pains out for me!

1. Leo Outliner
2. Abstractspoon Todolist
3. Wikidpad
4. Jello Dashboard
5. MonkeyGTD
6. TVO – The Vim Outliner

So, what is the pick?

Main features are listed below:

• Configure your accounts as you wish
• Configure categories of expenses
• For categories you want to monitor, set monthly budget and track against it
• At any given point of time, you can see how much money you've with you!
• Expenses by categories are reported on a monthly basis and on YTD basis
• Quick check to see your monthly net flow (earnings - expenses)
• It takes about 3 seconds to record one transaction :-)

If you are interested, you can download the zip file (108KB) that has the Excel file. It has couple of macros - that is only for sorting data. Excel will still work without the macros - you just have to do sorting once in a while. Extract the zip file. Open the Excel file and look at Instructions sheet. The Excel has some sample data that you can use as a starter.

One easy solution is to just select only the range that has the data, as opposed to full columns, while choosing the input to pivot. What it means is that just select the rows and columns in the grid, but not using the header bar. One drawback with this approach is that when the data changes or more rows are added to it, you will need to redefine the input to the pivot table. Read on to see how to get around this problem using dynamic ranges.