I just wanted to write this down somewhere.
As part of the University of Saskatchewan's Indigenous Voices program, I had the privilege of sitting and listening to Elder Darlene Speidel. I believe there may have been other Elders present, but I don't remember. (Cool, I found an article about her!) It was a group setting, with several of us sitting in a circle. We were talking about education, and how to create environments that are more welcoming so that all people can be comfortable enough to learn, take risks and create their own knowledge.
Anyway, here is what I wrote down after the the group discussion. "Spirituality gives you the familiarity (grounding) to bring many subjects, ideas, concepts together and create your own new knowledge. Don't ask people to check their spirituality at the door when they come into an educational space."
I thought that was really interesting!
But my next question is -- how do you create a space that allows spirituality, BUT so that people of a dominant spirituality don't abuse the space to try and "convert" everyone else to their own religion! (such as what happened during colonization of the Americas)
How to include third party libs in your Jar using Ant
Want to make an executable jar file and have it include all your 3rd party libs? Building your jar file with ANT? This page helped me a lot:
https://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/jar.html
In particular, this excerpt:
https://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/jar.html
In particular, this excerpt:
Creates an executable jar file with a main class "com.acme.checksites.Main", and embeds all the classes from all the jars inlib/main.
Install make on OSX, and svn2git
Want to know how to quickly and easily install make on OSX? Thank you, Stack Overflow! Download Xcode, then under Preferences -->Downloads, install the "Command Line Tools".
Want to know how to take a subversion repository and use all the glory of GitHub? Thank you, Emmanuel Bernard! (Note, there might be a typo in his post; the directory on mine was /opt/local/libexec/git-core)
Want to know how to use svn2git? Thanks, GitHub!
First, make sure you're in the directory where you want the git repo files to be created, then execute:
Want to know how to push the above translated svn2git onto GitHub? We'll do that next, but first we need to know how to keep this Git "clone of our svn repo" up to date. Do this:
Now, want to know how to push your local git repo onto GitHub? (by GitHub, I mean the web based tools. Hopefully I got the terminology right!)
First, cd into the the local git repo. Then, execute these two commands:
For some reason, it creates an extra project folder for me. i.e. it creates https://github.com/slb534/myproject/myproject, where the first "myproject" is totally empty except for another folder of the same name, and all the files are under that.
But this will have to do for now! I'm lucky I can sync my stuff from SVN into Git and then push everything up onto GitHub!
With this being GitHub, somebody might send you a pull request and provide you with sweet updated code. So you can pull that in. But now how do you update your local svn2git? Just pull it again:
Want to know how to take a subversion repository and use all the glory of GitHub? Thank you, Emmanuel Bernard! (Note, there might be a typo in his post; the directory on mine was /opt/local/libexec/git-core)
Want to know how to use svn2git? Thanks, GitHub!
First, make sure you're in the directory where you want the git repo files to be created, then execute:
svn2git http://svn.example.com/path/to/repo Want to know how to push the above translated svn2git onto GitHub? We'll do that next, but first we need to know how to keep this Git "clone of our svn repo" up to date. Do this:
svn2git --rebaseNow, want to know how to push your local git repo onto GitHub? (by GitHub, I mean the web based tools. Hopefully I got the terminology right!)
First, cd into the the local git repo. Then, execute these two commands:
git remote add origin https://github.com/mygithubusername/myproject.gitgit push -u origin master For some reason, it creates an extra project folder for me. i.e. it creates https://github.com/slb534/myproject/myproject, where the first "myproject" is totally empty except for another folder of the same name, and all the files are under that.
But this will have to do for now! I'm lucky I can sync my stuff from SVN into Git and then push everything up onto GitHub!
With this being GitHub, somebody might send you a pull request and provide you with sweet updated code. So you can pull that in. But now how do you update your local svn2git? Just pull it again:
git pull https://github.com/yourSvnClone master Satisfied, layout
More work on layout this week! Although I haven't done everything I wanted on the new blog, I think I have established the same "mindset" here that permits me to start writing entries without being overwhelmed with the number of things I want to change. :) The more I use Blogger, the more I like it.
Layout stuff
Hi Everyone!
I'm slowly moving into Blogger. I'm trying to make it look the same, or similar, as my old blog. I have some work to do in the margins still, literally, and I'll have to accept some of the things I could control in MovableType but I can't in Blogger. 'Some pros and cons:
Cons:
For example, I used to have a spider image in my blog entry footers, but I couldn't bring the spider into the new blog because I can't seem to insert HTML wherever I want; I can only override CSS classes. (and I don't think you can have multiple background-images for a given div!) I don't like how it forces me to have the date above each blog entry (because the date is already in the footer, come on, it's just cluttering the screen to have it there twice!) UPDATE! I discovered the "Edit HTML" button. It looks like I *can* do everything here that I could in MovableType. But now, with syntax colouring! Oohh la la!
By the way, the reason I like having the spider image on my blog (
) is that I like to watch them. They sit still a lot (or hang still) and they make beautiful webs. Although I am generally uncomfortable around bugs (I usually don't like bugs crawling on me, unless I am specifically interested in watching them), I do like to have the spider on my blog because it reminds me of "watching things". Like simulations!
Movable Type let me control a tree of category types, but on Blogger I just have labels. But I'll get over that.
Pros:
Anyway, overall, it looks like the new hosting service will be fantastic. I'm really enjoying Blogger's layout options and "Gadgets". I can't help but observe how much easier and faster things are nowadays than they were just a few years ago, when I started this blog in 2005! The "Pages" menu bar is awesome. Comments are going to be way, way easier, both on the moderation side and for anyone leaving a comment. I also love the Translate button. I have visited non-English blogs before and have appreciated the Translate button, so I like to have it on my blog too! And it has a mobile version, too!
Hmm, now, I wonder if I can even get my phases of the moon script to work on Blogger!
To Do list:
I'm slowly moving into Blogger. I'm trying to make it look the same, or similar, as my old blog. I have some work to do in the margins still, literally, and I'll have to accept some of the things I could control in MovableType but I can't in Blogger. 'Some pros and cons:
Cons:
By the way, the reason I like having the spider image on my blog (
) is that I like to watch them. They sit still a lot (or hang still) and they make beautiful webs. Although I am generally uncomfortable around bugs (I usually don't like bugs crawling on me, unless I am specifically interested in watching them), I do like to have the spider on my blog because it reminds me of "watching things". Like simulations! Movable Type let me control a tree of category types, but on Blogger I just have labels. But I'll get over that.
Pros:
Hmm, now, I wonder if I can even get my phases of the moon script to work on Blogger!
To Do list:
- phases of the moon script
- creepy vines along vertical margins
- margins
- delete the redundant date on top of each post
- find a place to put my pet spider
- do I want facebook/twitter buttons back? hmm
- put the stat counter thing back - but maybe I don't have to, as Blogger seems to have one built in
- put the creative commons thing back
- can I have a search box on here?
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