It seems like this could be a useful exploration in quite a few ways. For one, having an intimate understanding of data probably isn’t a creative developer’s strength. In the past, I considered understanding data structures and sources to be not necessary for the sake of specialization. Since I’ve been at EVB, I’ve been continually exposed to the contrary aspects of this misconception. More-so, recently I’ve been bombarded with ideas that require a better understanding of data visualization concepts and in some cases, I didn’t realize it. For instance, I bought a Lemur a few months ago and sadly I’ve had not much of a chance to play with it yet for a lot of reasons. Fundamentally, my plans are to visualize the data that is being transmitted from this device within a java/processing environment. — I will be starting with a plan to research and may need to further break down the oscP5 library before I can get there. — Additionally, any consumer generated content being managed within the sites I’ve recently worked on have been some simple form of data visualization, i.e. upload your mom’s face sites… yeah it’s a stretch but still! Lastly, and more classically, there are a opportunities both discovered and undiscovered far more plentiful than I had ever previously imagined in the social media track of our industry. And this kind of stuff is actually useful. This is particularly exciting for me because of my multiple converging passions/fascinations: motion design, generative imagery, generative sound, generative… stuff, heuristics, genome project shit, this era of sociology, experimental hardware. As vague and/or vast as this term may be, I have a good feeling that this exploration will lead me to some excellent material and new ways of thinking.
Here are a couple great places that got my heart racing:
http://processing.org/exhibition/features/koblin/
http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/

Here’s the skinny.  I use subclipse since i’m a as3 guy and eventually this site will naturally contain a great deal of flash for front-end, so what i want to do is have a repository on my gridserver and be able to svn up my live source.

Here are some resources to get you started:

http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/143/Using+Subversion

http://www.breakitdownblog.com/using-mediatemples-subversion-svnssh-with-eclipse/

http://mitchellhashimoto.com/subversion-on-mediatemple/

http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1060

You’ll find that there is some conflicting material and if you get frustrated with the eclipse part, jump to bit-101.  His stuff finally set me straight.

So, if you got this far, the final step is to set up your live source… in my case, i am using www/src in my repository, but bladamir.com/html

before you run these next commands make sure that you are in your ./html directory!

svn co svn+ssh://serveradmin%<domain>@<domain>/home/#####/data/<your repository>/trunk/www/src ./

if you already have stuff in your html directory like i did:

svn add ./ –force

svn ci –message “www/src first commit”

all done! if everything worked out, for you, now you can svn up from your html directory via ssh and blam! it’s live. thanks to Husani and Tim for their guidance.