I’ve been having difficulty in reading SVN status, which tells you which files in a project have been modified, added, or having a conflict with other developer’s changes. Status code in front of each line alone doesn’t help me quickly identifying one status code from another so I wrote a script to color code the lines with different colors according to their statuses. If you’re having the same issue, feel free to use the code below
#!/usr/bin/python
"""
Author: Saophalkun Ponlu (http://phalkunz.com)
Contact: phalkunz@gmail.com
Date: May 23, 2009
"""
import sys, os, re
# add more status & color codes
colors = {
"M": "31", # red
"\?": "32", # green
"C": "30;41" # black on red
}
# build a paramter list
parameters = "";
for i in range(1, sys.argv.__len__()):
parameters += sys.argv[i] + " ";
status = os.popen('svn st ' + parameters);
for line in status:
passed = False
# remove newline character from the line
line = re.sub("\n", "", line)
for color in colors:
match = re.match(color+(" "*6), line)
if match:
os.popen("echo '\E[" + colors[color] + "m" + line + "\E[m'", 'w')
passed = True
if(passed):
continue
os.popen("echo \"" + line + "\"", 'w')
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From time to time, I want to see what changes I have committed to a project that I work on. The following is a shell command for doing so.
svn log | grep "author_name" | awk '{print "svn log -"$1}' | bash
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Today, I had a chance to go webstock (web conference & workshop) for the first time. Overall, it was good even though it wasn’t as great as I expected. The talks were given by famous speakers from different countries, well mainly from US and UK. There were 9 speakers today and I liked the talks from 2 speakers the most. Derek Powazek talked “The Wisdom of Communities” and Matt Biddulph talked about “Made of Messages“. Tomorrow is the last day of Webstock ‘09. Look forward to it
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Yay! New Silverstripe sites went live yesterday, not just one but two (http://silverstripe.com & http://silverstripe.org) at a time
By the way, I’ve been working for Silverstripe for 5 months and enjoying my time there. Silverstripe is a company that makes an award winning and kick-ass open source PHP web development framework and CMS (Content Management System).
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I just finished writing a wordpress widget that grabs a list of books from GoodReads (book readers social network) and I’d like to share it with whoever needs it
If you want to use this widget you have to use Wordpress and of course have a GoodReads account.�
Features
- Choose any shelf that you want to display
- There are 16 sorting options
- Choose one of the 3 book cover sizes
- Show or hide book title
- Set the length of book title
- Show or hide author name, isbn, user rating, and average rating
- You can also change the display labels for�author name, isbn, user rating, and average rating
Download
GoodShelf (1593)
Installation
To install it, simply unzip the download file and move/copy�goodshelf.php�to�/wp-content/plugins�folder of wordpress. In the admin page, go to Plugin and activate the GoodShelf plugin.�After that, you need to configure to get it working. Go to Design or Presentation and select GoodShelf. There is a list of options (mentioned in Features) that you can choose from.�The final step is go to Widget to add GoodShelf widget to your sidebar.�
Customization
If you like to customize the widget, below is a list of CSS classes and id associated with the widget that you can style:
- Book list: .goodshelf_ul
- Book item: .goodshelf_li
- Book cover: .goodshelf_cover
- Book description: .goodshelf_text
- Profile link: #profile_link
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