TWiki - the Open Source Enterprise Wiki and Web 2.0 Application Platform used by millions http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog Copyright 2012 by contributing authors 2012-05-20T08:45:20Z http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201205x3 2012-05-20T08:45:20Z

Social Media is everywhere. As it is with many things, new technology is first pushed in the consumer space, then enters the enterprise market. Friday was a big event for social media when Facebook went public and was valued at $100B (that is a 1 with 11 zeros). Everybody defines social media differently. Wikipedia defines it currently as follows: Social media includes web based and mobile based technologies which are used to turn communication into interactive dialogue between organizations, communities ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201205x2 2012-05-19T08:05:42Z

Book by PhilGochenour, XML Press, ISBN:978 0982219171, Apr 2012. "Combining real world experience with a veteran teacher’s ability to communicate, Phil Gochenour’s Information System Design Using TWiki demonstrates the basic principles behind any system design, whether it’s a cookbook or a software company’s wiki. Gochenour’s book builds an information system step by step, starting with the building block of all information systems, the topic, and continuing through metadata, search, to usability ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201205x1 2012-05-14T08:14:47Z

I recently did yet another LDAP / Active Directory integration for a TWiki installation. LDAP has many knobs to turn, it can be challenging to configure it properly. In this case we had an issue where some users could authenticate, and others not. You can turn on debugging in the LdapContrib, but it did not help pinpointing the issue. TWiki communicates with the LDAP server over port 389. Wouldn't it be nice to see what gets sent back and forth across the network? That is where network monitoring ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201204x1 2012-04-27T18:47:18Z

TWiki.org has a new gallery of screenshots illustrating how TWiki is used to get work done. These screenshots just scratch the surface: TWiki has a lot of functionality, it can further be enhanced with hundreds of extensions. The screenshots show some of the enterprise wiki functionality: The editing experience, user profile pages, admin functionality, and functions for power users. Some screenshots of TWiki applications demonstrate the application platform feature of TWiki. Finally there ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201203x2 2012-03-29T08:02:41Z

TWiki as an Open Source Enterprise Wiki and Web 2.0 Application Platform is primarily designed to be used at the workplace. Millions of people in over 50,000 organizations use TWiki at work, from small deployments to some large ones that have several 100,000 pages and over 10,000 users. Most TWiki sites are access restricted, nevertheless there are also many public TWiki sites. Here are a few examples. RenderMan TWiki, Escape Studios, Pixar, Disney Nice case study of a public ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201203x1 2012-03-01T05:10:20Z

TWiki was born as a collaborative project 14 years ago. The TWiki project changed the workplace for many people in a fundamental way, bringing more transparency, accountability and flexibility to the workplace. In the last release meeting we briefly discussed the idea of creating a foundation for the open source TWiki project. I believe it is time to initiate a foundation so that we can get broader participation by the community. I would also like to share some related news with the TWiki community ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201201x2 2012-01-19T07:46:45Z

On Tuesday I was asked if TWiki.org was going to participate in today's blackout campaign to protest against SOPA and PIPA, the legislation to combat piracy currently in discussion in Washington DC. I first intended to just add a yellow box on the homepage asking to contact a representative to oppose these legislative bills, because they would censor the Internet and stifle innovation. There is a lot of coverage on the issue. I found these two most striking: 1. TED talk by Clay Shirky: Defend our ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201201x1 2012-01-16T23:57:42Z

Great work, TWiki.org team! Year over year you create rock solid code. You guys rock! We just released TWiki 5.1.1 aka Istanbul Release. A big THANK YOU to everybody who contributed to this release! And special thanks to our release manager GeorgeTrubisky who built this release. We invite developers who appreciate to work on quality code to join us, get involved! TWiki 5.1.1 is now available for download from the http://twiki.org/ website. This is a patch release that adds some minor new features ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201112x1 2011-12-21T01:34:37Z

TWiki as an enterprise wiki is frequently used across many teams in an organization. Over time more and more content is maintained in TWiki. Teams use many other enterprise systems in their daily activities, such as bug trackers in Engineering, CRM and ERP systems in Sales, and inventory systems in IT. With this there is a need to make these systems talk to each other. When an enterprise wiki is used as an intranet it lends itself to become the platform to glue these enterprise systems together. ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201111x3 2011-11-15T01:17:37Z

CERN, the Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research. At the European Laboratory for High Energy Physics, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator is colliding beams of protons at energies of 3.5 TeV, recreating conditions close to those at the origin of the Universe. The four main LHC experiments, Alice, Atlas, CMS and LHCb are complex detectors with millions of output channels. These experiment detectors, large as cathedrals ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201111x2 2011-11-14T23:57:48Z

Sometimes it is desirable to export TWiki forms based data from TWiki applications. CSV (comma separated values) is a simple file format that is widely supported by many applications, including spreadsheet programs such as Excel. This blog introduces the CSV format and explains how to generate a CSV file on the fly in a TWiki application. The CSV format is not clearly defined, there is no real CSV standard. In common usage almost any delimiter separated text data may be referred to as a CSV file ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201111x1 2011-11-01T08:06:39Z

I gave two technical sessions last month at the Valley Code Camp, one on How to Run a Long Background Process in a Web Application, the other one on How to Create a TWiki Application. Video blogger David Spark of Media Solutions and Dice interviewed me about real world examples of enterprise collaboration. I mentioned two TWiki related examples. David Spark interviewing Peter Thoeny:%BR% Two Adopted Real World Solutions for Enterprise Collaboration. David Spark: Collaboration across the enterprise ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201110x3 2011-10-28T16:19:13Z

Yesterday I attended a Rajeev Circle event at Stanford University. Professor Rajeev Motwani was an extraordinary connector between Stanford University and the entrepreneurial world in the Silicon Valley and beyond. The Rajeev Circle meets regularly to further his legacy in the areas of science, mentorship, investment and philanthropy. In yesterday's meeting we had the honor of getting advise from Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, Ron Conway, super angel of the Silicon Valley, and others ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201110x2 2011-10-20T17:13:12Z

Want to surprise your friends on Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus? How does this work? The text appears to be upside down (flipped), and it is possible to paste it into text boxes on Facebook and other websites, even though there is no such thing as an upside down character set. Some drawing programs offer text rotation, but that is handled at the application level. So how does upside text work in normal text input fields? Most websites nowadays support Unicode, which is a universal standard to represent ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201110x1 2011-10-06T17:29:12Z

At Twiki we are fortunate to have a large and active base of users. Due to the long term success of the TWiki open source project, we estimate about 50,000 teams use the collaboration platform world wide, across Fortune 500, Governments, Universities, and SMB. One of the perks of selling enterprise software is the opportunity to meet a range of great customers using our technology in interesting ways. This blog is a shortened version of a Inc blog. Recently a VP of IT at Morgan Stanley submitted ... - last change by PeterThoeny

PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201109x3 2011-09-17T05:48:30Z

This is an advanced topic that teaches how to to parse nested tree structures such as programming languages and spreadsheet formulas using regular expressions in Perl. The article is generic enough to be used in other languages that support regular expressions. expressions are very powerful to parse and modify text. They are also very fast to process large text over and over again. For example, the TWiki engine makes heavy use of regular expressions to turn TML (TWiki Markup Language) into HTML. ... - last change by PeterThoeny

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