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| Social Media Software: A Crowded Space - Not Just Facebook |
| 2012-05-19 - 08:22 by PeterThoeny in Social Business 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 ... |
| Book: Information System Design Using TWiki |
| 2012-05-14 - 08:08 by PeterThoeny in Deployment 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 ... |
| How to Debug Networked Apps Using Tcpdump |
| 2012-05-06 - 02:06 by PeterThoeny in Deployment 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 ... |
| TWiki Screenshots: How to get work done using TWiki |
| 2012-04-23 - 22:20 by PeterThoeny in Deployment 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 ... |
| Public TWiki Sites |
| 2012-03-29 - 06:44 by PeterThoeny in Deployment 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 ... |
| TWiki Foundation Plan & Personal Change for TWiki Founder |
| 2012-03-01 - 05:10 by PeterThoeny in Community 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. ... |
| TWiki.org Blackout to Fight Internet Censorship a Success |
| 2012-01-19 - 07:46 by PeterThoeny in General 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 ... |
| New TWiki-5.1.1 Release: Easy to Use, Easy to Upgrade |
| 2012-01-16 - 09:49 by PeterThoeny in Deployment 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 ... |
| TWiki I/O Architecture Explained |
| 2011-12-20 - 05:51 by PeterThoeny in Development 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 ... |
| Case Study: How 10,000 Researchers at CERN Collaborate Using TWiki |
| 2011-11-15 - 01:17 by PeterJones in Deployment 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) ... |
| How to Export TWiki Data in CSV Format for Use in Excel |
| 2011-11-11 - 21:25 by PeterThoeny in Development 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 ... |
| Two Adopted Real-World Solutions for Enterprise Collaboration |
| 2011-11-01 - 06:16 by PeterThoeny in Deployment 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 ... |
| Super Angel Ron Conway Talks About Entrepreneurship, Early Google and Facebook |
| 2011-10-27 - 09:43 by PeterThoeny in Social Business 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 ... |
| How to: Turn Text Upside Down |
| 2011-10-19 - 08:23 by PeterThoeny in Development 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 ... |
| Case Study: Morgan Stanley has Globally Replicated Intranet TWiki With 30,000 Users, 500,000 Pages |
| 2011-10-03 - 20:56 by JitendraKavathekar in Deployment 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 ... |
| How to Use Regular Expressions to Parse Nested Structures |
| 2011-09-15 - 08:09 by PeterThoeny in Development 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 ... |
| How to Run a Long Background Process in a Web App |
| 2011-09-07 - 05:48 by PeterThoeny in Development Web applications need to respond quickly to user actions. From a usability point of view, anything that takes longer than a second or two will distract the user from the task at hand. What can be done if a process ... |
| TWiki Has a New Solution for Point & Click TWiki Upgrade |
| 2011-09-06 - 07:07 by PeterThoeny in Deployment TWiki has a reputation of being difficult to upgrade. The TWikiUpgradeGuide describes how to upgrade TWiki, which is a manual and elaborate process that can take a long time. No more. TWiki has now a point click ... |
| TWiki.org Announces TWiki-5.1 General Availability |
| 2011-08-29 - 04:57 by PeterThoeny in Deployment New TWiki 5.1 release for enterprise collaboration with primary focus on usability for non technical users. TWiki's user base consists of millions of users on 50,000 installations in over 130 countries, backed ... |
| Wiki Applications and The Long Tail |
| 2011-06-04 - 05:38 by PeterThoeny in Social Business First, what is Long Tail? From Wikipedia: "The Long Tail refers to the statistical property that a larger share of population rests within the tail of a probability distribution than observed under a 'normal' or ... |
| Social Media at Work: Viral Shift towards Information Age |
| 2011-05-30 - 23:47 by PeterThoeny in Social Business Over the last decade I have seen organizations change fundamentally by applying wikis and other social media technologies at work. I was recently invited to speak at a panel on "Social Business as the New Organizing ... |
| How to Create an Amazon EC2 Instance (and Install TWiki) |
| 2011-05-28 - 19:53 by PeterThoeny in General I recently installed TWiki in the cloud, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). I am sharing my installation experience for all to enjoy. EC2 is part of Amazon Web Services (AWS), allowing users to rent virtual ... |
| How to Create Image-less Gauges |
| 2011-05-25 - 05:12 by PeterThoeny in Development Do you have a need to show gauges in your TWiki or HTML pages? TWiki has a GaugePlugin to show images like or %PUBURL%/Plugins/GaugePlugin/tambar1.gif or %PUBURL%/Plugins/GaugePlugin/trendup.gif. Those are bitmap ... |
| Introduction to QR Code, a Matrix Barcode |
| 2011-02-13 - 08:51 by PeterThoeny in General QR Code is a two dimensional barcode developed by Denso Wave in Japan. It is very popular in Japan and is getting more popular in the USA. For example, offers a QR Code for each shortened link. Many smartphones ... |
| Twiki robot in Super Bowl car commercial? |
| 2011-02-08 - 05:01 by PeterThoeny in General There was a short glimpse of a robot getting loaded into a car in a commercial of yesterday's Super Bowl. Was it the Twiki robot from the old television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century? Almost, but not really ... |
| Web 2.0 Primer: How Does Ajax Work? With Ajax Example |
| 2011-01-07 - 11:24 by PeterThoeny in Development By now you are very familiar with Ajax: Photos on Facebook load in the background without reloading the whole page, and when you type a word into the Google search box, the search results updates while you type ... |
| Point and Click: Color Picker / Color Code Generator |
| 2011-01-05 - 07:56 by PeterThoeny in General Color: Do you need to pick a color for your web pages? Use the color picker to the left; point and click, then copy the hexadecimal color code to your website or TWiki. The color picker uses the intuitive HSL ... |
| New TWiki-5.0.1 Release: Focus on Usability and Quality |
| 2010-10-15 - 23:03 by PeterThoeny in Deployment New TWiki 5.0.1 Release With Magic Release Date: 10 10 10 It took 4 month to release the first patch release after TWiki 5.0.0, not seen since the very early days of TWiki. This is the result of the community ... |
| How to Create a TWiki Application |
| 2010-09-10 - 00:18 by PeterThoeny in Applications TWiki applications are a wonderful part of TWiki. They help automate workflows you have at the workplace. I am writing this how to blog because not many people know about this very useful feature TWiki offers as ... |
| New TWiki-5.0.0 Release, Growing TWiki Community |
| 2010-06-03 - 18:07 by PeterThoeny in General TWiki.org has a new look. We just released TWiki 5.0.0. We enjoy increased contributions in the community. You can join us! TWiki 5.0 has many enhancements in features, security and usability. We also strengthened ... |
| New OpenID integration for TWiki to login with AOL, Google, Verisign and other OpenID accounts |
| 2010-05-03 - 09:22 by IanKluft in Deployment TWiki has a new OpenID login feature. It allows users to log in to TWiki sites which have enabled this feature, using accounts from an OpenID provider. OpenID has been growing around the Internet recently. In ... |
| New TopMenuSkin for Better Usability and Functionality |
| 2010-04-23 - 21:55 by PeterThoeny in Deployment TWiki has a new skin called TopMenuSkin that will be part of the upcoming TWiki 5.0 release. The default PatternSkin is very functional and has been refined over time. The new TopMenuSkin is derived from the PatternSkin ... |
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