Provisioning Windows to do RiseVision development

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These are my notes on provisioning Windows (W7PRO, SP1 x64) for working on the open source RiseVision stuff.

Here’s where the RiseVision stuff lives on GitHub. https://github.com/Rise-Vision

Here are Donna Peplinski’s instructions for provisioning your machine.

  1. Get GIT.
  2. Get node.js from http:://nodejs.org/ and install it. Use the Windows binary. Run a simple node.js acceptance test according to these instructions.
  3. Open up a power shell or cmd and type npm install -g bower to get the Bower Package Manager. As it runs npm announces the installation of a lot of dependent packages.
  4. Type npm install -g gulp to get the Gulp build manager. As it runs npm announces some more dependent packages.

That’s the stuff you need.

To download and build the stock open-source calendar widget, do this sequence of commands in a git-enabled powershell.

git clone https://github.com/Rise-Vision/widget-google-calendar.git
cd widget-google-calendar
npm install
bower install
gulp build

The npm and bower steps chatter a lot, with some deprecation warnings, etc.

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