Software As She’s Developed

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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I’m currently at an Osmosoft hackathon event, working on a tiddlywiki vertical called mediawikiunplugged. No time to say more now, but we needed a bunch of mediawiki sites for testing. So in addition to the obWikipedia and obAjaxPatterns, here are more: http://wikihow.com http://browse.workliteracy.com/examples/mediawiki/* http://www.mono-project.com/* http://www.elearninglearning.com/examples/mediawiki/ https://developer.mozilla.org/En http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page http://wowwiki.com http://www.wikia.com/wiki/c:marveldatabase http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Recipes_Wiki http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Portal http://www.aboutus.org/ http://guildwars.wikia.com And a list of the biggest wikis according to Alexa (retrieved thanks to [...]

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(This is part 3 of a 3-part series. Part 1 introduces the internals and highlights some of the key patterns and concepts. Part 2 introduces each Javascript file. Part 3 focuses on the internals of the more important classes and files.) Concluding this series, below is a list of all core Javascript files, organised into functional [...]

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(This is part 2 of a 3-part series. Part 1 introduces the internals and highlights some of the key patterns and concepts. Part 2 introduces each Javascript file. Part 3 focuses on the internals of the more important classes and files.) Continuing the series, below is a list of all core Javascript files, organised into functional [...]

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(This is part 1 of a 3-part series. Part 1 introduces the internals and highlights some of the key patterns and concepts. Part 2 introduces each Javascript file. Part 3 focuses on the internals of the more important classes and files.) This is the first in a 3-part series on the internal design of Tiddlywiki. The [...]

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'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 [...]

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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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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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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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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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