Week_1

Week summary

This week I was working on several things:

• getting global mercurial class archive
• finding a tool to document my progress
• getting the tool to work on my home server
• thinking up and documenting a possible_final_project for the course

Diary - Thoughts and experiences

Mercurial is not a new concept to me, so I didn't have any problems with actually working with it and getting the class archive was a matter of getting to know the server address.

I decided to test a new documentation tool. Which is known as "Hatta-wiki". It is a python program, available freely and able to work on a local machine and also on a server. Hatta is a simple wiki-like application with a web-browser interface to input text. The core feature of it is a mercurial aided back-end, which allows the application to track version changes for each page. This integration allows Hatta to be lightweight. The other benefit is the ability to update server pages with literally one mercurial "push" command.

I had a lot of trouble to get hatta to work with apache web-server though. Hatta is not well documented in this point and some of the technologies which let python programs run as server-scripts (like cgi, or php) were not known to me. Anyway everything is working now and I enjoy the first experience of using the tool.

Main objective for the week was making a presentation of the final project's ideas. Those are presented in a separate section.

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