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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I only came across the MHTML image hack over the weekend, while listening to @jeresig on the new jQuery podcast (incidentally not the only

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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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Tonight, I was thinking of making a Twitter app to manage my various accounts (I have ~dormant accounts related to projects like @webwait and @listoftweets). The app would be holding username and password details for each of these accounts, so it made sense to build it as a Single Page Application (SPA). This way, a [...]

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We're designing a setup for TiddlyDocs (and potentially other "TiddlyCMS"s) where there will be an instance for each group of contributors. This is one TiddlyWeb design pattern, where you say "we all trust each other" (although there are still audit logs!) and so everyone can add, delete, or modify all the content freely. That [...]

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Scrumptious is a web framework I've begun working on at Osmosoft. It's a web app and web service for sharing bookmarks and comments about websites, and pretty much anything else with a unique URL. Things it is related to: Delicious (bookmarking), Digg (threaded comments), JS-Kit and Disqus (embedded comments with common identity across multiple sites). Scrumptious [...]

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