http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog TWiki is a Web-Based Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise. en-us Copyright 2009 by contributing authors Peter Thoeny [peter.thoeny.public@twiki.net] The contributing authors of TWiki TWiki http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog http://www.twiki.org/p/pub/TWiki/TWikiLogos/T-logo-140x40-t.gif http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200901x1 Incredibly, TWiki is now 10 years young! Although I started TWiki in 1998, the oldest TWiki distribution I found is TWiki19990120.zip, e.g. 20 Jan 1999. TWiki re defined the wiki space from a pure shared publishing platform, to an enterprise wiki, to a web application platform. JostSpot copied the application wiki concept, but was later relaunched as Google Sites with stripped out application programmability. Other wikis follow the TWiki foot steps, such as XWiki and TikiWiki. From the bottom of ... (last changed by PeterThoeny) 2009-01-02T07:05:11Z PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x9 There are some tremendous opportunities for our project. In order to take full advantage of these, today Peter Thoeny and the management team at NET decided to re launch the TWiki.org project with a new governance model. We want to reach out to all community members to explain: why we decided to do this some thoughts on our new top level direction our invitation to re confirm your membership in the community We invite you to participate in this exciting new direction. Please read ... (last changed by PeterThoeny) 2008-10-27T19:55:29Z PeterThoeny http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x8 Introduction CPM/PERT diagrams (which Microsoft Project refers to by the ambiguous name of "network diagrams") are useful for planning what needs to be done in what order. Often thought of as a "one off" project planning aid, more generally these precedence diagrams can be used for visualizing recurring procedures like the operations in a manufacturing assembly line, or even a guided procedure for business processes (like on boarding an employee, which can include orientation, provisioning of equipment ... (last changed by SeanCMorgan) 2008-11-04T01:12:15Z SeanCMorgan http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x6 There we go! I would like to announce that there will be the first book about TWiki in German language available from November this year! Being passionate about TWiki since more than one year I thought that TWiki certainly deserves some more attention as it is the greatest Wiki ever! Since the twiki.org website and the documentation are of no real marketing benefit I wrote a book to introduce the power of TWiki to the market. The book starts with installing TWiki to write your first small plugin ... (last changed by WolfMarbach) 2008-10-22T05:09:09Z WolfMarbach http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x5 Having just made some positive comments in my last couple of blog posts, I must also, sadly, make some negative ones. The capability of the configure script to import plugins is I think a great advance a great shame I can't use it. My ISP has a certain set structure to its direcotries and my TWiki installationis therefore undera "TWiki" sirectry alongside the "cgi bin". The configure scriptseems to think the subdiredtories of TWiki are at the same level as cgi bin, so it copies the installer scripts ... (last changed by ChrisHogan) 2008-10-24T08:01:03Z ChrisHogan http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x4 On the same theme as my last post, we;ve also been able to implement an ISO 9000 compliance monitoring system. We're members of the Professional contractors Group who ahev a scheme which is approved and has many accredited users: http://www.PCGQS.ORG.UK It has its own system, based on an SVN repository, but it didn't have the dynamic capability of a TWIki based system. We've subsituted the static word excel documents the PCG provided with interactive TWiki forms. It's already had a major impact ... (last changed by ChrisHogan) 2008-10-17T18:51:09Z ChrisHogan http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x3 A somewhat belated posting. Last year I started to port a number of spreadsheets I had into TWiki. I based topics on someexamples I found on the main TWiki site, such as the account ledger which used a "mashup" of the Spreadsheetplugin the Commentplugin. The result is a number of different tools: a petty cash balance, a mileage caulcator for expenses; a credit card reconciiation; bank statment reconciliation. Obviously, I've used attachmentsto hold scans of invoices to us. It now has an invoicing ... (last changed by ChrisHogan) 2008-10-17T18:41:48Z ChrisHogan http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x2 I've fixed a security issue in the TWiki:Plugins.ToolTipPlugin. Any sites using this Plugin should upgrade to the newest version. If your site uses any topic or web view access restrictions, it's especially important to update. The exposure has existed going back at least a couple of years. TWikibug:Item6040 addresses the issue. The fixed plugin is version 17565 (02 Oct 2008) or later. (last changed by GeorgeClark) 2008-10-04T00:31:26Z GeorgeClark http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x1 TWIKI as foundation for NEST 1.1 Project Platform Hi TWIKI community! I am Marko "NarsuMan" Rintamäki and I am working at Ixonos PLC (http://www.ixonos.com/en) as Senior Test Engineer/Consultant. I have been using TWIKI now 5 years with a good spirit! I would like to share my "internal feelings" about using TWIKI as foundation for Project Platform :) Background for TWIKI usage Last couple years I've been working with "large" ~70 100 person multisite project where TWIKI has been used as knowledge ... (last changed by MarkoRintamaki) 2008-10-03T12:18:31Z MarkoRintamaki http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200809x2 A case study that shows improving the performance of TWIKI has been published on the https://lrwpinjava.dev.java.net/ LRWPinJava website. Glassfish/LRWPinJava improves TWIKI performance more than 2x with 10x less load compared to Apache 1.3/cgi bin on Solaris 10 and T2000, a Sun/SPARC CMT based system. is a J2EE open source Application Server while LRWPinJava is an open source implementation of the http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/WebServices/javaC LRWP/lrwp.html LRWP protocol ... (last changed by RafaelAlvarez) 2008-09-29T23:18:39Z RafaelAlvarez http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200808x7 My group in our company had the same problem as all groups: How to coordinate annual holiday for the group members? Recently we used the wall calendar in my office to remember each members holiday plan. After plans had changed, it looked odd. And it worked only inside my office. As we already use TWiki for project management and knowledge base, I looked for a Wiki based solution. I browsed through the rich TWiki plugin area, but nothing fulfilled my wishes. Especially no plugin was able to show ... (last changed by ArthurClemens) 2008-09-07T13:47:31Z ArthurClemens http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200808x6 Gardening, the K. way (last changed by MichaelDaum) 2008-08-17T11:52:47Z MichaelDaum http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200808x5 I just built and released a patch release TWiki 4.2.2 that fixes the following issues found by users: Registration with verification fails in 4.2.1 REVINFO with web specified in topic param renders as though topic does not exist. TWiki::Compatibility has undefined variable error A number of other small issues were resolved, including updating the release process. I Hope this will be the begining of a tradition of creating patch releases as soon as fixes are available. Please go ahead ... (last changed by MartinSeibert) 2008-08-10T18:06:42Z MartinSeibert http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200808x3 In his article, Introducing The Conversation Prism, Brian Solis writes: Over the last month, I worked with Jesse Thomas of JESS3, to create a new graphic that helps chart online conversations between the people that populate communities as well as the networks that connect the Social Web. The Conversation Prism is free to use and share. It's our contribution to a new era of media education and literacy. The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as ... (last changed by VickiBrown) 2008-08-27T16:54:16Z VickiBrown http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200808x2 Here is the release manager's (KennethLavrsen) reflection on TWiki 4.2.1 As release manager for TWiki for almost 3 years I have been managing the releases of quite many TWiki versions now. But the release 4.2.1 is probably the release I have put more heart and energy into and also the release I have felt most pleased with getting finished and made available for our many users. TWiki release 4.2.0 was a significant release feature wise. It introduced a fantastic new Wysiwyg editor. It introduced the ... (last changed by KennethLavrsen) 2008-08-04T22:29:45Z KennethLavrsen http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200808x1 The TWiki community has just released a big patch release for the newest TWiki version 4.2. In the new release, that can be found at http://www.twiki.org/cgi bin/view/Codev/TWikiRelease04x02x01 both stability and performance have improved . One main focus was to improve the reliability of the WYSIWYG editor : "We have made big improvements with this feature that brings TWiki one more step closer to the community of non tech savvy people." says Kenneth Lavrsen (Motorola), who is in charge of release ... (last changed by PeterThoeny) 2008-08-05T05:57:15Z PeterThoeny