‘Wiki’ derived its name from the Hawaiian for “quick”. But acronyms sell better in the corporate world, as anyone who’s ever won a business case for working with POJOs will be acutely aware, or anyone who’s found AJAX 0wns Ajax. JAVA beats Java when you’re selling a $2K seminar and you wouldn’t be the first […]
WIKI sells, Wiki doesn’t
May 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments
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Documentation As Conversation
April 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I’m busy preparing a list of desirables for Web 2.0 APIs. One of them is good documentation, and I came up with this term - “Documentation As Conversation” - to articulate much of what is needed in modern software docs - documentation which belongs to the community of users/end-developers as it does to the people […]
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The Wiki Twitch
July 27th, 2006 · 1 Comment
I can feel a case of the Wiki Twitch coming on … Victims of the Wiki Twitch have a perfectionist tendency which causes them to optimise content they come across, for the benefit of others and for reasons of “enlightened selfishness” - the motivation to improve what they will likely read again in the future. Many […]
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Got Captcha? Antispam on AjaxPatterns
May 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments
I’ve been blabbing on about how I’m going to open up the AjaxPatterns wiki for as long as it’s been online (about a year), blah blah, talk is cheap. Anyway, it’s a few steps closer now. The main issue has been protection against spam - some entrepeneurial folks behind numerous proxies have discovered there’s a […]
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Wikipedia as a Honeypot
December 7th, 2005 · No Comments
How long until wikipedia becomes a honeypot? “Who wants to be a millionaire” contestant is struggling to answer the question, “What year did the Fonz jump the shark?”, and calls out to Lifeline Buddy. Back in 2005, Lifeline Buddy would have googled for the answer. But this is 2007, and “wiki” is now a household name […]
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An Ajax Framework a Day!
November 29th, 2005 · No Comments
Today’s Ajax framework is JsRia. Yesterday’s was ZK, with the Backbase entries updated too. In the past week, there were Smartclient, Ajax JSP Taglib, Ajax JSF Framework, Cajax. Here’s the diff. The week prior to that saw introduction of XOAD, Rialto, and Lotus Notes info. Have the Ajax frameworks entered the enlightened age of singularity? (I’ve […]
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