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This entire Wiki is maintained with several fantastic tools. The primary ones are Vimwiki and Vim. Some supplementary tools those make life eaiser (or those insidiously move me toward the purely technical end...) are Dropbox, Git, and cron.

Dropbox & Github. Dropbox enables me to crowd-store my files. Leaving important files solely in your hard drive is a dangerous decision. I lost a laptop along with tons of invaluable files once. Dropbox solves the problem. Github serves a similar purpose.

Git. Generally, after I editted an existed .wiki file or created a new one, I did the following commands to make sure Git tracks my progress and push to my repos:

git add .
git comm 'MESSAGE'
git push
git push dh

And boom. My files are instantaneously tracked and pushed to the repos on Github and on my dreamhost server. To actually update the .html files so that people can visit me.geotakucovi.com to view the latest version, these commands are needed:

$ mkdir /me.geotakucovi.com
$ cat > hooks/post-receive
#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/me.geotakucovi.com git checkout -f
$ chmod +x hooks/post-receive

It sets up a git post-receive hook, and the hook will update the actual files whenever the git repo is updated. See Using Git to manage a web site.

Last Modified: March 19, 2012 11:00:04