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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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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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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G’Day, here’s a new tiddlywiki plugin I’ve been working on: InfoBoxPlugin. It’s based on the equally-monikered infoBox in MediaWiki/Wikipedia, which you’ll see in any article that is marked “current event” or “controversial”, for example, on the big W. I find infoBoxes elegant, as they are unobtrusive enough to let you get on reading the article, [...]

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To simplify TiddlyGuv message rendering, I made “SimpleMessagePlugin”. It removes the message box 1 second after a message was shown (using displayMessage). In the event another message appears in that time, it appends the message (as it normally does) and extends the message box’s lifetime by a second. In other words, it always closes a [...]

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Quick notes from today’s FOSSBazaar event at Open World Forum in Paris. Usual caveats on typos etc as I was writing these notes live. Martin Michlmayr overviews FOSSBazaar Procurement – might like to avoid, but they have a really important role to play. With open source, it’s easy to ignore procurement – why go through procurement when [...]

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We are working on a design that will keep TiddlyDocs as generic as possible. The core TiddlyDocs product will have a concept of “rooms”. This is the same kind of room you see in online forums or chat sites, where everyone inside the room contributes and sees content inside the room they’re in, and can’t [...]

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TiddlyWeb-JQuery Comments Plugin – Screencast @ Vimeo I’ve extracted from Scrumptious a nested comments plugin you can integrate into any POJA (plain ol’ Javascript app). You can find it here in the repo: TiddlyWeb-JQuery Comments Plugin. As the README explains, usage is a one-liner once you’ve set it up. Just do $(selector).comments(”topic”). The topic is an identifier [...]

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Osmosoft, Hackathons At Osmosoft, we have been engaging in a one-day hackathon about every month or so. There are several benefits: It helps us prove our tech in a range of application contexts. It helps improve and demonstrate our capabilities for reuse. Reuse can be as simple as slapping a Javascript file with inline comments on a server [...]

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