Stuff I've been working on
and I still have 300 browser tabs open from the small proportion of talks I wanted to go to.
Open source conferences are astounding, hyper-rich information funnels, where hundreds of bright, enthused people open each other’s eyes to little details and big projects that can help us do more.
wow – I hope I can find the time to go to LCA2012 in Ballarat next year.
Thankyou everyone for a really fun LCA2011 in Brisbane
Google Labs has just added DataWiki – it looks like one of the features Foswiki (and its parent) have been doing for 10 years…
Google Labs has just added a GoogleAppEngine based Java application called – DataWiki.
So far, project information is very minimal, but it looks like one of the features Foswiki (and its parent) have been doing for 10 years…
The timing is excellent, as I’ve been working with others in the Foswiki Community to improve Foswiki’s mashup-ability:
enable easy input/output from a variety of endpoints, e.g. via Twitter, ODK or SMS from a remote location
Right now we’re working on a proper REST API for foswiki data – enabling us to retrieve and save changes to datasets in formats that are convenient to the external endpoints – and to simplify the development to dynamic visualisation and editing tools for complex data.
Perhaps what we’re looking at is a combination of the acquired and shut down JotSpot, and a response to Yahoo Pipes 🙂
Foswiki is an extremely mature (10 years) DataWiki capable enterprise wiki, with significant traction in workplaces around the world, and a strong, motivated developer and user community.
google has released mod_pagespeed and I’ve turned it on on home.org.au, and I think there is a noticeable improvement in rendering speed.
brilliant – a simple, effective way to make your wiki load faster!
Using the WebDAV for foswiki Extension, you can seamlessly edit Microsoft Office files in Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and then save directly back into the Wiki.
Using the WebDAV for foswiki Extension, you can seamlessly edit Microsoft Office files in Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and then save directly back into the Wiki.
Using WebDAV, users can get direct access to Wiki topics and attachments, via the WebDAV URL – making it possible to attach documents by drag and dropping them directly in Windows Explorer.
WebDAV for foswiki requires advanced libraries on the server – including Apache 2 mod_perl support. For full integration mode, some trust settings need to be changed in Internet Explorer, or an extension installed to Firefox.
Foswiki::Plugins::JQueryPlugin
I guess having other people see what you’re working on is too threatening for the not-quite open source project TWiki.
It seems that allot of the developers that moved their main attention from TWiki to Foswiki have been kicked out of the public mailing list without warning, explanation or permission.
I guess its somewhat consistent with the password protection of the irc logs of the #twiki channel on Freenode (snigger).
I initially though that my mailing list password had been hacked, or maybe theirs, but thinking further, it feels consistent with the lack of deep understanding of the idea of ‘open’
I thought I’d try out what font-face support is like now, by using Font Squirrel’s Dustismo GPL font ‘it just works’ package. Last time I worked with it, I reverted back to using a image to get the top-left ‘fosiki’ logo – I’ll leave that for now, because the font sizes and spacing is a bit off.
All that to get a web site that looks ‘similar’ to my business card.
Its running live here on this blog – and it looks to me like it works!
IE6 looks a bit haggard, but then how old is it?
Next up I’ll have to update my fosiki Foswiki theme – good to see this technology actually works this time – I’ve tried it out since IE5.5 got some ‘sortof support’ :}
All I had to do was upload the @font-face package built by Font Squirrel, add a single css file containing the font-face definitions, and update my stylesheet to use that named font.
I’ve just started work adding Matteo Bicocchi’s rather stunning mb.Components – starting with mb.Menu. Along the way, adding foswiki Macro’s to make it simpler for us to use, I’ve also made some changes to the code (which hopefully I can get integrated into an mb.Menu release) that I have attached to the live demo.
Here’s the all important Screenie:
I haven’t been blogging for a while, because I’ve been devoting all my time to working on features for the next Foswiki release.
We’re aiming to get it out the door in June 2010 – and to make this timeline, we’re about to go into feature freeze mode – and the end of this month.
So far, result paging support for SEARCH is almost done, I’ve upgraded the icons we ship to the attractive FamFamFam icon set, simplified the Template definitions for skinning SEARCH results, improved the handling of the zeroresults parameter, and I’ve completed much of the FOREACH/format extraction code refactor.
I’m looking forward to the next month’s bug finding fest 🙂
foswiki 1.0.8 and windows installer released
I built and uploaded foswiki 1.0.8 installer for windows last night – hope you like it, cos i’ll be on holidays for a few days 🙂
For the last 2 weeks I’ve been working on an SAP connector for foswiki – I can display most SAP Tables, and call most SAP functions – all via ‘RFC’ – right now we’re working towards a proactive system healthcheck report, but it pretty much will allow us to build any SAP process right into foswiki. Cool huh.
and for fun I’ve been working on making a replacement DocumentGraphics icon set based on FamFamFamContrib for foswiki – the 10 year old hand drawn one really is dated.
Our project fork hit the one year milestone a week or so ago, and Arthur noticed this amazing ‘factoid’ on ohloh..
Very large, active development team
Over the past twelve months, 36 developers contributed new code to Foswiki.
This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh.
For this measurement, Ohloh considered only recent changes to the code. Over the entire history of the project, 43 developers have contributed.
All I can say, is WOW and thank you, to everyone that has worked on our project, and to all who discover it.
The Foswiki Association & Summit is happening in Hannover at the end of this month – I wish I could be there, but its a long way from Australia – maybe next year 🙂