Subversion Desktop Widget

I learned about the Serious Samurize desktop customizer from Lifehacker. I started using it, and it made me started wondering: what technical information would be useful displayed on my desktop. Subversion (SVN) logs was the first thing that popped into my mind.

Serious Samurize Desktop Example

This was pretty straightforward to implement in Samurize.
1. Open your Samurize Config Editor.

Serious Samurize Config

2. Add a new meter, and select console meter (tutorial)
3. In the meter config tool bar on the right, select the source tab.
4. This requires the SVN command line application application installed (available here)
5. Enter the source to be this command:

svn log https://nant.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nant -l 10

This is an example URL from Nhibernate’s SVN Repository
Note: You may need provide a path to the svn command.

view of the widget

This will return the last ten entries as a command line entries as a Samurize meter.
Simple way create a cool little desktop control displaying information that is relevant to a developer.

Quick Links:

Serious Samurize
http://www.samurize.com

Lifehacker
http://lifehacker.com/

Subversion
http://subversion.tigris.org

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I am a software developer, mostly web,  in Des Moines, Iowa. I take a very opinionated stand concerning development, you will never regret a simple design or architecture. My education was at Drake University in Biology and Computer Science. Offline I am recently married to my wife Heather. I try my hand at many hobbies currently I am gardening till the snow comes in.



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