Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive. Bitbucket is a free code hosting site for the popular Mercurial distributed version control system. You know the reason why I chose Bitbucket/Hg as opposed to GitGub/git. This tutorial is my regular workflow involving Mercurial and BitBucket. I hope its useful to you too.

1. Create or Fork a Repository at BitBucket
There are two ways to start with bitbucket. Either create a new project repository or fork/join existing repository. By forking you will create a new repository which is an exact copy of the original repository with you as admin. You can also contact the admin of existing repository and join as contributer. Make sure you have write access so you can push the changes.

2. Install TortoiseHg on your local machine
TortoiseHg is a Windows shell extension and a series of applications for the Mercurial distributed revision control system. It also includes a Gnome/Nautilus extension and a CLI wrapper application so the TortoiseHg tools can be used on non-Windows platforms. Its available for Win, Linux and MacOS.
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At some point of time course material of Processing will go online. I believe in true web and hence the presentations are in HTML. Last two days I was struggling to put some mathematical formulas with out breaking the web. The best I could find was MathJax. Its an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all modern browsers. No plugins required and uses @font-face for displaying. Its future proof as I am writing all my formulaes in MathML. Its good to know its compatible with screenreaders used by people with vision disabilities.
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Wanted to write about this from long time but never got that blogger urge until today. I had noticed this during my sabbatical but then it became much more after I quit. In most of those social meets I get asked

“So where are you working now?”

It seems for some reason where we work is more important than what we do. So all of a sudden the interesting stuff that I am doing doesn’t seem to have any value. I am reduced to the most irresponsible thirty year old who doesn’t have any plans for future. It’s quite interesting how people are not a bit curious in what I am doing (and probably earning more than them in the process!) but more interested where I am working. Why brands are such a big deal?

My friends think it is Colonial Mentality where we take pride in working for big people, big companies, big foreign companies. Its insecurity that is playing which has its root in colonial mentality. It’s the reason we feel comfortable, good and secure working for big companies. It’s the same reason why my parents think Govt jobs are the best and my grand parents thought British Govt jobs were the finest. It could also be our education system which is just Job Oriented Training. I think thats how we are conditioned and unless we break the fish bowl we wont come to know world is big.

Coming back to the question. Initially I used to get offended. Now I explain the difference between what v/s where. Most of them get it and some don’t. Can’t help much, right?