Ravi S. Iyer: Worldly

I recently created a shortcuts directory on my desktop for me to be able to easily access the latest versions of my Blogger and WordPress blog book gen(erator) programs. I then wrote an info.txt file explaining what the shortcuts are and how to use them. While these shortcuts are meaningful only on desktop, I thought I should put up this blog post version of the info.txt file where I replace the desktop directory and file names data with links to related Google Drive directory and file names. For Blogger blogs A) Generate Blog Book From Blogger Export/Backup XML file: VB.Net program location (info.txt file has the github link for the source code):  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zxJOGtFWXeKqH0LaJNnwMktnpo1BsDbK   Minor known issue: The footer in output file refers to an older post. It should instead refer to post mentioned below. Related blog post: Ported ExportFileFilterAndGenBook and ExportFileFilterByIndexList from VBA to BlogBackupToBook VB.Net single project of V...

Quick-Info WPBlogFeedToBook VBA program for WordPress blogs' RSS feed:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vGqaEQJmnfwpWPeEOuryW7ZhSqvm05kS?usp=drive_link BloggerBlogFeedToBook VBA program for Blogger blogs' RSS feed:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_DEvH8MHiXXMe-3htCPhnOB5nE0lSfN-?usp=drive_link Above programs may work for any WordPress and Blogger blogs respectively but I have tested them only for my blogs as that is my need. ------------------------ It would be convenient for me to be able to periodically create an HTML blog book of my recent posts in my ravisiyer.wordpress.com blog. This would be a useful backup file for me. The XML backup/export file for the whole blog is vital but it is for the whole blog and is not easily readable content. I can create a blogbook for the whole blog using a VBA program I had created some months ago  but that is more stuff than required in such cases. As of now, I do not have a filter program that filters the WordPress ...

BlogBackupToBook software creates HTML blogbook(s) from Blogger blog XML Backup/Export files. It also allows for filtering the output HTML blogbook(s) by content matching strings, by published and/or updated date range and by an index(es) list where the index(es) are positions of posts and pages entries in the Blogger XML Backup/Export file.  Github: https://github.com/ravisiyer/BlogBackupToBook As compared to release v3, the latest release v4 has undergone more tests but it has not been thoroughly tested. I do not have the time now to do that thorough testing and bug-fixing as I have got busy with other stuff. This is the release interested persons can try out and see if it meets their needs. If I recall correctly, the setup file program in v3 release had some issues which were not easily getting resolved. The setup file part has been dropped in this release v4 as I don't have time for refreshing where I was on it, and then taking it forward. This current v4 release does not have ...

BlogToBook, https://github.com/oormicreations/BlogToBook , seemed to be a promising software when I first came across it. My first attempt to install the software had failed some months ago, if I recall correctly. But when I installed it again today, it went through! I think the difference is that I now have Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition set up on my system and so it would have installed some libraries needed by the program executable. I also tried cloning the Github repo using Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition. Visual Studio said I need to install some more software and prompted me for it. I started that install but for some issue from my side (I was fiddling with the Internet link), the install tripped up. Perhaps if I try installing it again it will work (Visual Studio gives a link for the components to install). But is it worth it? While I may quickly browse through the C++ source code, I don't think I want to understand its working and attempt modifications. So I do...

I provide link URLs as directly visible content in my blog posts as shown in an example below: I think that is a reasonable assumption as Kalyan and Sopara of Thane district seem to have been more well known than Mumbai in this period. If this assumption is right then the rulers of Kalyan in this time would be same as in my blog post: Chronological list of empire/kingdom level rulers of Mumbai (Bombay) and nearby areas from 3rd century BCE (over 2000 years ago), https://ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com/2022/10/chronological-list-of-empirekingdom.html , October 2022.  --- end example --- Some readers may wonder why I do it that way instead of simply linking the url to the title of the post/page as follows: Chronological list of empire/kingdom level rulers of Mumbai (Bombay) and nearby areas from 3rd century BCE (over 2000 years ago)  (note that the url is not directly visible on the post).  To explain to such readers why I provide link URLs as directly visible content, I decide...

Last updated on 2 Nov. 2023 This post is based on a message I sent to a fellow Indian software techie who is younger than me perhaps by around two decades. Listed below are some of my blog posts related to tech. history where I felt I should write about it as I had some exposure to these companies/technologies in my industry career. In other words, I felt I should contribute my small bit to tech. history info. via just some blog posts (which are surely not in the class of serious academic history accounts or media history articles). Wang computers were a major technology for me in the initial years of my industry career which laid my foundation as a software techie. So I had felt an urge to capture Wang computers history in some looong blog posts. Naturally this history also covered history of the (main) founder of the company. The related posts are given below: Chinese-American computer pioneer An Wang (1920-1990) and Wang Laboratories founded by him: some aspects of their history of ...

This post tries to capture straightforward usage of Github for maintaining various versions of code, but without branches, and to make releases of setup files, using Visual Studio 2022 (Community Edition) and github.com Main reference: How to use Github with Visual Studio 2022,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWqpTpo1kfw , around 24 mins. From around 6 min. 48 secs: Simple Windows Forms app.  From around 7 min. 33 secs: Creating a github repository for above app. From around 8 min. 48 secs: Effect of creating and pushing repository to Github.com (master is main branch of repository); New repository can be seen in github.com From around 9 min. 50 secs: Commit a change to repository (1. Commit change to local repo, 2. Push change to origin (remote)) From around 13 min. 3 secs: When to commit (to local repo) and when to push (local repo changes to origin (remote)) ----- To make a release, use Releases (or Create a new release) link-button in home page of project in Github....