It is often claimed that only a few developers moved from TWiki to Foswiki, therefore the first article will look at who are/were active core developers of both projects.

Tags: community, foswiki, opensource, twiki

One year after the commercial take over of TWiki.org its time look how TWiki and its successor Foswiki performed. A small blog series will cover facts and give you insight into the development status of both projects.

Tags: community, fork, foswiki, opensource, twiki

The amount of improvements is impressive. The bug fixing carousel passed another lap and pace increases noticeably as new high potential contributors have joined the Foswiki core team. This is easily the best release we ever had.

Tags: community, foswiki, opensource, release

We are all quite excited about the recent and upcoming changes on the Foswiki project. Now Koen Martens has set up a new hardware for the Foswiki main server and migrated the site. Big big thanks to Koen and his company Sonologic hosting it and all people that donated money to buy the new iron.

Tags: community, foswiki, hardware, server

Is there any interest in such an interface?

Tags: clearquest, foswiki, ibm, integration, plugin, tracking, wikiapps

The new WebDAV plugin provides direct access to files stored within the Wiki for desktop applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Tags: documentmanagement, foswiki, integration, webdav

I've been thinking about doing some more work on the PublishContrib, to make it more useful for people who want controlled publishing processes, for example those who publish process manuals.

Tags: automation, cms, content, foswiki, plugin, publishing, wikiapps, workflow

The community formerly known as TWiki.org has entered the home stretch to strip off its burdens of the past.

Tags: community, fork, foswiki, opensource, twiki

Yesterday, 2008-10-27: 21:00 GMT, just a minute before the regular TWiki release meeting, the company TWIKI.NET announced unilaterally that the best for the TWiki.org project would be for them to take over governance. With it comes a complete lock down of the community site. From that minute on, all long-time contributors have lost access to their code. Counter-reaction: the community has left the building, leaving TWIKI.NET without a contributing community. Question: is it a sensible move for a venture capital firm that depends on a healthy Open Source community to lock it out?

Tags: community, fork, opensource, twiki

A new plugin uses the Safe module in Perl to constrain perl scripts in TWiki topics so they are safe to execute on your server.

Tags: perl, plugin, security

How to convert Jot Spot data to TWiki

Tags: conversion, google, jotspot

A Long, Long Time Ago Rafael Alvarez contributed a REST architecture for TWiki that until relatively recently had been largely ignored. That's a shame, because TWiki has fallen behind the curve on effective interaction, partly because it is so difficult and inefficient to interact with TWiki from Javascript. More recently we have been able to re-architect big sections of the core to make REST more useful. Writing a REST script still isn't all that easy, however. This post is intended to try and make it easier.

Tags: ajax, javascript, json, rest, wysiwyg, xmlrpc

Getting the values of TWiki variables into Javascript can be a trial. This article describes one simple technique for doing that.

STC Spring Event highlights issues of Technical Communicators, and reveals an interesting new way of assessing "Web-2-ness"

Tags: collaboration, user, web2, wiki

The current TWiki::Cache implementation has been proposed for integration to the next TWiki release (code name freetown).

Tags: caching, performance

Dinky little quiz plugin adds value to TWiki-based training

Tags: collaboration, plugin, wikiapps

I was talking to James Matheson of Saikore a few months ago, and we thought it was about time that there was a 'Wiki-Wednesday' in Sydney, Australia. James has organised it while I was in Zurich.

Tags: meetup, saikore, sydney, tuesday, wiki

WikiGardens.com is a new TWiki-based web site aimed at plant lovers. Developed with technical services provided by WikiRing, the site features a host of features designed to allow both professional and home gardeners to share information about plants, gardening, and all related matters.

Tags: gardening, wiki, wikiapps

It's a common scenario; a manager unplugs their laptop and goes travelling for a week. During their time away they want to work in the team wiki, but often don't have a suitable connection. It would be good if there was a way to let them roam, and re-synch their changes when they have a good connection again.

Tags: ajax, database, repository