Software As She’s Developed

TiddlyWiki Screencast: Multi-User Forum in 15 Minutes from Michael Mahemoff on Vimeo. This screencast is how I finished up the 12Days project, as it captures a lot about what I have come to appreciate in TiddlyWiki. It shows how you can do some simple hacking in the browser, in a single-page web app, reusing and configuring [...]

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I’m going to be moving on from Osmosoft soon. It’s been 18-odd months since joining and 3 years at BT. I’ve had a wonderful time here, worked alongside so much dedicated talent and energetic passion, and learned a ton about working according to the principles of open source, as well as new ways of working [...]

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I’m listening to this excellent BBC podcast on Unintended Consequences of Mathematics. In his book The Mathematician’s Apology (1941), the Cambridge mathematician GH Hardy expressed his reverence for pure maths, and celebrated its uselessness in the real world. Yet one of the branches of pure mathematics in which Hardy excelled was number theory, and it [...]

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usual live blogging caveats – spelling errors, messy, etc etc @premasagar is visiting the Osmoplex today (thanks @jayfresh for arranging it) and is taking us through his work on iframes, widgets, and sandboxing. I’ve realised we could perhaps be collaborating as my jquery-iframe plugin is so close to his. Different emphases, but much overlap. GitHub is where [...]

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There have been a dizzying array of Tiddly* products spun off recently. I’m talking merely about the core infrastructure stuff rather than applications like TiddlyPocketBook. We’re starting to get some convergence within the team, as we’re working on a high-level product called TiddlySpace. It’s basically the manifestation of earlier discussion too.the ideas we were discussing [...]

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Amid the tablet hype is an interesting article from Derek Powazek – http://powazek.com/posts/2234: “”” I’ve been thinking about how to make money from online content since I launched Fray in 1996. Really, I can’t tell you how many nights I’ve sat up, obsessed with it. It’s been my white whale. And here’s what I’ve come up with: [...]

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Last week saw a confluence of excellent events. In the same week as a house move, it proved to be a week of much learning and little sleep. I’d hoped to do a better write-up, it never happened, a combination of being too busy and new MAC BATTERIES SUCK, meaning the lappy couldn’t last [...]

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It’s been said that the world hasn’t been this excited about a tablet since Moses came down the mountain. January 27, 2010, is the day Apple is slated to finally put us out of our misery and tell us what it’s all about. But imagine Steve Job moseys onto the stage, launches a forceful history [...]

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Quick mention of projects and writings outside this blog: jQuery iFrame plugin – Stepped up work on this, as it was buggy and not very jQuery-plugin-like. Whacked it in GitHub along with test cases. Not all are passing on the 3058 day old browser, yet. This was a good opportunity to play around [...]

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TiddlyWiki MU is what I’m calling – in the absence of an official name – an effort within Osmosoft to pull together a bunch of work into something that will be very useful in the enterprise and beyond. You could also call it “tiddlywiki as a service” or “multi-room tiddlywiki”. Similar to Wikia or WordPress [...]

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