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10,000 hours: Track your practice with gnuplot and wordpress

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 4, 2009

[ Thanks to Kristofer
Bergstrom
for this link. ]

“very day I add my practice times to a log file and the
system generates updated graphs nightly. When you visit my blog
site, the running tally is given in the header (or anywhere else I
want it on the website… like here! (4409.64). And the graphs
at my “10,000 hours of taiko” blog post are also
automatically updated every night.

“Howto contents

Requirements
Overview
Scripts / Files / Data
Recording your hours: gnuplot data format + Emacs and Tramp
Tallying the numbers
Generating cumulative data
Generating the total progress graph
Generating the practice categories graph
Automating the process
Using the tallies and graphs in WordPress
Conclusion
Thanks to…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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