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AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a term describing a web development technique for creating interactive web applications using a combination of HTML, Style...

AJAX Instant Messenger ajax im (`asynchronous javascript and xml instant messenger`) is a browser based instant messaging client. It uses the XMLHTTPRequest object...

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AaronLWalker Would Like to Check in Who am I? WebSphere Admin (10 years?). Utility programmer, in whatever language is reasonable or available. I`ve rather hijacked...

JohnAbbe`s Wiki site, based on PikiePikie good source of information on RichSiteSummary. RichardDonkin 30 Jun 2002

Who am I? I am the local TWiki fanatic at work. I inroduced TWiki into our software development team a few months ago. I am a thirty something father of a couple of...

NOTE: This is a legacy rule, replaced by AcceptedBy7DayFeedbackPeriod Accepted By 14 Day Rule The 14 day rule is defined in TWikiRelease04x01Process and TheFourteenDaysRule...

Accepted By 7 Day Feedback Period Details: TWikiReleaseManagementProcess and SevenDayFeedbackPeriod. Contributors: PeterThoeny 2010 02 16 Discussion

Accepted By Release Meeting Change proposals raised according to the TWikiRelease04x01Process will discussed and voted for at the release meetings. Anyone that shows...

Accepted Proposal A proposal has been accepted. This state is used when a proposal has been accepted according to the TWikiReleaseManagementProcess. Either by ConsensusReached...

ActivePerl is a version of Perl for Windows, ported by ActiveState. It`s worth knowing that `Perl for Win32`, mentioned in some older Perl docs, was a completely...

ActiveState is a company that receives money from Microsoft to do very nice ports of Perl (ActivePerl), Python and Tcl/Tk to Win32. http://www.activestate.com...

Advanced Hypertext Summary: To manage a huge, worldwide information space, users need proven features like fat links, typed links, integrated search and browsing...

If `AffectsContrib` is selected in WhatDoesItAffect, this field must be filled in to indicate which Plugin/Addon/Skin/Contrib is affected.

Which Extension(s) (Plugin/Contrib/Addon/Skin) the code changes in a ChangeProposal affects. E.G. bug may only be reported for a particular plugin but to fix it may...

For BugReport ChangeProposals, which releases are affected by this bug. You should tick all releases affected by the bug. Discussion I`d like to expand on the above...

ChangeProposalForm affects a specific Plugin/Contrib/Addon/Skin. The report must indicate exactly what is affected. If this is not checked, it is the core that is...

ChangeProposalForm affects public documentation (docs shipped with the release). This should not be ticked if the change only affects internal documentation.

ChangeProposalForm increases or decreases end user functionality. If functionality has changed but not reduced or increased this should not be ticked.

ChangeProposalForm affects the look and feel for an end user. An example might be the position or size of a button, or the colour of a message.

ChangeProposalForm has a significant positive or negative effect on performance. Performance of the core code is normally measured in AthensMarks, and end user performance...

ChangeProposalForm affects an API published outside the core. At the time of writing this relates to the Func interface only, but it is anticipated that this will...

Ajax Like AJAX is a well defined term, but the definition doesn`t leave much space for applications that behave in an AJAX like way, but don`t employ all the technologies...

AlexBernegger Would Like to Check in Who am I? I`m from Salzburg / Austria and 28y old. Right now, I`m finishing my studies in Information Technologies at Applied...

Who am I? `My name is Ned. I do not like my little bed.`, Dr. Seuss AlexKane Software Developer: testing, debugging, profiling tools for Java, C#,...

AlexeyDegtyarev Would Like to Check in Who am I? I`m Alexey Degtyarev What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: trunk What can I do...

Ames`s Law: From http://www.mang.canterbury.ac.nz/writing guide/writing/starbuck.shtml#Make Active verbs Adverbs Adjectives Nouns Passive verbs or To Be verbs...

`AmphetaDesk is a free, cross platform, open sourced, syndicated news aggregator` `AmphetaDesk is developed with Perl and XML` See: http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk...

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Who am I? My name is Andrew Pantyukhin. I`ve been a member of the FreeBSD Project as a ports committer for some time now. I support TWiki installations for a couple...

Who am I? I am a student at Bournemouth University, UK, studying a BSc in Business Information Technology. At the moment I am gaining work experience at Ltd, which...

This is a proposed new topic classification, that is the opposite of feature brainstorming. Any proposal that involves cutting down, removing features, or moving features...

AnttiHaapakangas Would Like to Check in Who am I? I #39;m an experienced SW developer from Finland. In my profession I do C programming, but I have learned Perl...

Apache Benchmark is also known as ApacheBench See ApacheBenchmark for more information on the Apache HTTP Server Benchmarking Tool. Sample header output of ab...

ab Apache HTTP Server Benchmarking Tool ab is a tool for benchmarking your Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server. It is designed to give you an impression...

Apache HTTP Server The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache, is the most widely used web server software powering 100 million websites. It is the webserver...

There is Apache::Tidy However, if you are running Apache2, is available. mod tidy is even nicer than Apache::Tidy because Apache2 provides a native filtering framework...

An TWikiApplication is defined inside a specific web normally as a collection of topics, forms, templates, attachments and settings An application web is a `bundle...

Which release does this feature, enhancement proposal, change requres, or bug report apply to? This field allows to sort out issues depending on the various releases...

The feature of allowing users to enter arbitrary html code adds risks of cross site scripting attacks, and the reason why virtually all wikis don`t allow arbitrary...

Archiving on ibilio.org http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/HOW.TO.SUBMIT.html fill out http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/LSM TEMPLATE upload form and software to ftp...

The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation A book written by Jono Bacon, http://www.jonobacon.org/, community lead of the Ubunty project. `Online...

This is a commercial Windows based database with the ability to handle unstructured text as well as structured data fields. Has impressive searching and reporting...

AsmaPathan Would Like to Check in Who am I? Final Year Student of M.Sc. Tech. at Wadia College, Pune University, India. Working on Student Project...

Atom Editor This page is for those using Atom editor a hackable editor for the 21st century. It brings tips to make you efficient in creation of TWiki topics. Syntax...

ATOM (instead of RSS) From http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer 697 topic 14 ` http://AtomEnabled.org proclaims: `AtomEnabled finally makes it possible for...

Atom Syndication is a new syndication format, somewhat like RichSiteSummary RSS but solving some of its problems. It`s been adopted by Google and has a number...

AuthCAS CAS authentication Testing the TWiki CasLogin Contrib module CharlieReitsma has written a Contrib module for TWiki in order to add CAS authentication (further...

Some TWiki scripts (at present these are ViewCgiScript and RdiffCgiScript) can be accessed through two filenames (and hence invoked through two URLs), with or without...

A TWiki SubSystem for Registration, Authentication, Authorisation and Privileges MartinCleaver 01 Oct 2004 See CodevDocumentationProject MartinCleaver...

WikiPedia:AWB WikiPedia`s AutoWikiBrowser is a semi automated Wikipedia editor for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP (or newer), designed to make tedious repetitive tasks...

AutomatedBuild here`s a script i`ve used to perform a completely automated installation, from building the TWikiKernel from SVN, including packaging all conformant...

Avoid `Click here` Links From W3C`s Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: Good link text should not be overly general; don`t use `click here.` Not...

Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) Benevolent Dictator For Life (commonly known as `BDFL`) is a title sometimes given to an individual inside open source development...

see Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol

NOTE: This topic is a direct INCLUDE from website. Clicking on any links (including section edit) will send you to Wikipedia.org. However, the comments section is...

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Bring your own device (BYOD) (also called bring your own technology (BYOT), bring your own phone (BYOP), and bring your own PC (BYOPC...

Something that`s not good. Often used in the form Bad Thingtm. A clich . ChrisJanuary 28 Sep 2002

Not sure if there are any of the TWiki users/developers who still use BeOS as their desktop OS on regular basis, but there should be some who at least tried it. This...

Beijing Architecture Diagram See other ArchitectureDiagrams See also CodevDocumentationProject MartinCleaver 23 Jun 2002

Who am I? I`ve been admin`ing http://docs.indymedia.org TWiki ( 11000 topics) for two years, and another (private) TWiki for one year. I`ve been reading twiki dev...

Best for the Job : Egoless Programming In his book The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerry Weinberg covers many topics, but the idea the book is most famous...

Best Meeting Practices Interesting of topics dealing with effective and ineffective meeting practices. Contributors: MeredithLesly MeredithLesly 01 May...

An approach that says it`s better to `just do things` rather than seek permission (synonym for better to seek denial ). Wiki in general is an exercise in better...

Also called `asking permission`. `To seek permission is to seek denial` Often used side by side with better to ask forgiveness . Cultures based on seeking...

Bi directional Text From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi directional text: Many of the major writing systems of the world, such as Arabic and Hebrew, are...

Contains the CgiScripts, and a few HybridCgiBinScripts Many hosting setups require: chmod og w bin chmod a x bin MartinCleaver 26 Sep 2004 This is a...

Bliki From Wikipedia:Bliki : `A Bliki (also known as a WikiLog , Wog , WikiWeblog , Wikiblog , or Bloki ), is a blog with wiki support. This means that after...

Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3080.txt BEEP is a generic application protocol kernel for connection oriented, asynchronous...

A BranchManager is a person identified as being responsible for the health of a branch. A BranchManager has the power to: 1 set the rules for checking in to the...

Who am I? I am a sys admin and software developer for a major investment bank. We use twiki extensively internally for documentation. What do I want? write access...

allows you to navigate arbitrary RDF datasets using an exploration technique called `faceted browsing`. This technique lets you easily navigate through unfamiliar...

Bug priority is not the same as bug severity . Bug priority talks about how important it is to fix a problem. The language of bug priority often deals with...

A common concept in software development is to define bugs in terms of technical severity. Sample severity list: System unusable eg an installer results in...

Bug Tracking A ChangeProposal`s BugTracking field is used for linking to Bugs in the Bugs web that track it`s implementation. Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE TWikiAdminGroup...

BugTraq mailing list is an incident reporting and discussion mailing list operated by http://www.securityfocus.com/ Security Focus. KennethPorter 24 Nov...

Bugs, Enhancements, and Misfeatures Carrying this in part over from Bugs:Item2134. A bug is not an enhancement is not a misfeature . A bug is when software...

Business Week is a leading US weekly magazine for the business world. Also available online at http://www.BusinessWeek.com/ The 07 Jun 2004 issues has two articles...

Who am I? Byron Darrah What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: MAIN, or whatever is appropriate for contributing to the EditTablePlugin....

Central Authentication Service (CAS) Central Authentication Service is a SingleSignOn protocol designed to allow untrusted web applications to authenticate...

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Pseudonym for CrawfordCurrie http://c dot.co.uk

CGI Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard method used to generate dynamic content on Web pages and Web applications. CGI, when implemented on a Web server...

CPAN Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, http://cpan.perl.org/ On twiki.org you can write InterWiki links for CPAN modules, such as CPAN:CGI, CPAN:Digest::SHA1, etc...

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Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is used by both the authors and readers of web pages to define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation. It is...

Comma separated values A comma separated values (CSV) file stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain text form. As a result, such a file is easily human readable...

CalvinSo Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am a new DevOps engineer working in MorganStanley supporting TWiki. What do I want? write access to SVN for the...

The Camel Book Programming Perl , by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal L. Schwartz. Copyright 1996 O`Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN:1565921496 Named after the...

A familiar name for the WikiWord syntax, also called BumpyWord or StudlyCaps. RandyKramer Some reckon that TWiki should allow UnderscoreWikiWords MartinCleaver...

capitonym (KAP i toh NIM) noun A word that changes pronunciation and meaning when it is capitalized. As in the following poem: Job`s Job In August...

CAPTCHA Captcha stands for `Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart`. It is a challenge response test used in account creation or...

A Category Description is a brief summary of the purpose of the category, and should give guidelines as to what should be in the category and what should not. It should...

CentOS CentOS is an Enterprise class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. Or...

This is an interesting tool for anyone wanting to improve their analysis and LeadershipSkills http://www.bcg.com/publications/change monster/change curve.jsp MartinCleaver...

To monitor only single topics, daily, on public web sites (including TWiki sites, then), one can use the nice monitoring services offered by: http://changedetection...

Change Proposals Classification Change proposals fall in to one of the following categories, each with its own template for new topics. Go to a classification`s topic...

ChatZilla IRC Client ChatZilla is a cross platform messaging client that combines Internet Relay Chat (IRC) with existing web standards like JavaScript, HTML, and...

ChrisCauser Would Like to Check in Who am I? I`m a sys admin by day, enthusiastic coder by night. My Perl skills are not as strong as some of the core developers...

ChrisLahti Would Like to Check in Who am I? What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: Core twikiplugins What can I do? Why do I want...

In order to be be HTTP/1.1 compliant: ```All HTTP/1.1 applications MUST be able to receive and decode the `chunked` transfer coding, and MUST ignore chunk extension...

ClearCase is the CM tool of Rational Software Corporation. Product home at http://www.rational.com/products/clearcase/index.jsp PeterThoeny 29 Dec 2000

A template language for web pages: http://www.clearsilver.net/. Supports multiple languages. From their website: ClearSilver is a fast, powerful, and language...

ClipMate Windows clipboard enhancer ` #8220;ClipMate turns the Windows clipboard from an underpowered utility into a true power tool. #8221; PC Computing...

Closed Proposal A proposal that has been closed for various reasons: duplicate of another proposal covered by anoher proposal retracted by submitter...

CloudMark CloudMark (http://www.cloudmark.com) is a way of combatting email spam by sharing individual users` feedback on specific emails those marked as `spam`...

instrumentation: The insertion of additional code into the program in order to collect information about program behaviour during program execution. (Testingstandards...

Codename A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word. Codenames are often used in software projects and in military...

Wiki:CodeSmell is a term invented by the ExtremeProgramming community. A code smell is a hint that something has gone wrong in the design. A code smell comes about...

https://twiki.org/p/pub/Codev/ColivreCooperative/colivre 100x100.png Colivre Colivre is a Brazilian company that provides TWiki services as consultancy, training...

Collaboration Integration With this topic I`m more coining the term than I am defining it. To me, competition is a problem often because it creates invisible walls...

Committed Developer Any proposal for new features must have a committed developer to be taken serious. It is obvious that the developer community cannot accept any...

See http://c2.com/w2/wiki/CommonWiki. From there: quote Given the large number of clones and ports of Wiki, one would wonder: Could a standard, or base Wiki be...

Communities of Practice These describe how groups of people dedicated to an interest domain share insights to build a toolkit to address issues in that domain. CoPs...

Necessary to compete Products compete. `When corporation achieved a significant competitive advantage, it quickly becomes incumbent on competitors to neutralise...

Concern Raised By As described in TWikiReleaseManagementProcess ANYONE can raise concern against a proposal for a new feature or change of existing feature. The concern...

Key capabilities: Identification and control of software and software related components as they change over time. Google page about Configuration Management...

Content Templates Default content for, e.g. WebTopicEditTemplate Not to be confused with LayoutTemplate MartinCleaver 19 Jun 2005

Contributor Roles Contributor Role Task Summary Performed by Note: This is a first cut, more roles to come. See also: CoreTeamRoles PeterThoeny...

Cool URIs don`t change In 1998 Tim Berners Lee wrote an often cited article URIs don`t change: What makes a cool URI? A cool URI is one which does not change...

Core Package Usually put together for one of the TWikiProductionReleases or TWikiBetaReleases, a core package comprises a TWikiKernel plus its associated bundled CoreExtensions...

Corporate Religion Corporate Religion is a book on branding and corporate culture by Jesper Kunde. Don`t be put off by the title, it`s just a convenient framework...

CouchDB http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/ From their wiki: Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault tolerant and schema free document oriented database accessible...

Who am I? I am a developer with 25 years experience with the following languages (C, PERL, Java, and others). I work in R D for a large Pharmaceutical, designing...

Crossing the Chasm This book (Wikipedia:Crossing the Chasm) is rather old now but is still good and will always be noteworthy for pointing out the fact that there...

Creating a scratch branch for my own use I need something that`s basically develop but with a bit less risk. I apparently need to make a topic here to make that...

Here just to be able to create a scratch branch of this name. Please don`t keep us in the dark; care to share a bit of your intention on the branch? SteffenPoulsen...

CSS Grid Frameworks source: http://nettuts.com/html css techniques/which css grid framework should you use for web design/ What is a CSS Grid Framework?...

cURL groks URLs From http://curl.haxx.se/ : Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET...

Cloaks are now implemented :) If you requested a cloak but do not appear on the list below you will need to register your nickname on freenode by typing `...

Current State workflow A ChangeProposal`s CurrentState field is used for tracking its development status. It can take the following states: Name Type...

CRM Customer Relationship Management Good definition of CRM here: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer relationship management There are and lots and http://www...

Cygwin is an OpenSource implementation of the Unix API and many GNU tools for Windows (9x, NT, 2000, etc.) It works very nicely and can be downloaded from cygwin...

Cypher Query Language A new query language, code named ...

D3 D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3...

DFP is a jocular acronym invented by CrawfordCurrie and MichaelSparks. It stands for `Delete First Programming`, and is meant to convey the semi serious idea that...

DHTML Dynamic HTML or DHTML is a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language...

DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) The Darwin Information Typing Architecture is an XML based, end to end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering...

Document Object Model (DOM) DOM is a description of how an HTML or XML document is represented in a tree structure. DOM provides a structure that facilitates access...

DTO Short for Develop TWiki Org (http://develop.twiki.org) SteffenPoulsen 26 Jan 2008

Daemonic Posture This is a term invented by Alan Cooper in his seminal work Face The Essentials of Interaction Design (buy it; it`s brilliant). A program that runs...

Who am I? I`m a system administrator and software developer with over 16 years developer experiences. What do I want? I need access to SVN for twikiplugins. I`m having...

The logical opposite of data and code separation . TWiki currently mixes data and code in standard installations. To encourage people to try a system with data...

THIS WEBTOPIC IS IN CREATION SO IGNORE LACK OF STYLE SGI`s XFS Be Inc`s BFS DataBaseLikeFileSystems // if users don`t want database, file systems will! DataBaseLikeFileSyst...

DataTables DataTables is a plug in for the jQuery Javascript library. It is a highly flexible tool, based upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, which will...

Date Of Commitment As defined by the SevenDayFeedbackPeriod in the TWikiReleaseManagementProcess, a feature proposal gets a green light to check into the repository...

Who am I? I`m a web developer and our organization is using TWiki to create an SOP (standard operating procedure) management system for a life sciences laboratory...

http://daypop.com/ is a search engine for WebLogs that also ranks the most popular postings of the moment. RichardDonkin 29 Jul 2002

The rules that make Debian integration possible. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian policy/ GrantBow 26 Jan 2003

A DesignBug occurs when a progam does exactly what was intended, however the intention is flawed, producing results which are not wanted. It`s corrallory is the CodeBug...

To put it simply, design intent requires designing products to meet the product requirements with no consideration of what is required beyond answering the question...

A DesireMeter is a `cup is half full` version of the PainMeter Funny that the default implementation does not hide the individual votes... MartinCleaver 20 Sep...

Devel::NYTProf Perl Profiler CPAN:Devel::NYTProf is an adavanced, line by line Perl code profiler with built in report generation capability. The statistics collected...

TWiki DEVELOP Branch NOTE: The DEVELOP branch has been discontinued, it is replaced by the svn trunk. NOTE: Below content is no longer relevant TWiki...

DipuDeshmukh Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am the founder of Automature, a company which develops TWiki based planning and reporting tools for SW quality...

DocBook DocBook is a markup language for technical documentation, originally intended for authoring technical documents, related to computer hardware and software...

A measure of how complete the documentation of this feature or bug is. Used for tracking purposes.

Dojo `Dojo is the Open Source JavaScript toolkit that helps you build serious applications in less time. It fills in the gaps where JavaScript and browsers don...

Don`t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability A nice book by Steve Krug about human computer interaction and web usability. The book`s premise...

Doxygen is my favorite C documentation generator, written by Dimitri Van Heesch. Free, portable, very powerful. http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/index.html...

Who am I? I`m a Software Developer working for a small Software Development company in New Zealand. I`m currently the TWiki champion in our company What do I want...

EPM From the homepage: EPM is a free UNIX software/file packaging program that generates distribution archives from a list of files. EPM Can: Generate portable...

Without a doubt, the coolest free IDE in existance. Mainly for Java. See http://www.eclipse.org MartinCleaver 31 Dec 2002 Now does perl editing! http://e p i c...

EditAndClose All TopicStatus categories: MikeMannix 21 Nov 2001

E mail to SMS Gateway An e mail to SMS gateway allows a computer to send or receive Short Message Service (SMS) transmissions. Each mobile carrier has its own e mail...

Ensure Data Integrity when changing store formats This topic explains an important item in the TWikiMission: Protect user investment To our customers the real value...

Enterprise Gamification Enterprise gamification refers to the application of game design techniques to the workplace. Gamification practitioners believe that the goals...

Enterprise Information Portals Lots of great ideas for what products like TWiki could do... http://www.nccaiim.org/Downloads/ncc0301.ppt MartinCleaver 28 Feb...

Epoz 0.74 is a cross browser WYSIWYG editor for Zope, with xhtml cleanup (tidy via xml rpc), source view, works with IE5.5 and Mozilla, falls back to textarea otherwise...

Ether Colleagues People who work together primarily or exclusively in different locations, often only talking via non telephonic electronic means. Contributors...

EtherPad From http://etherpad.com/ : `EtherPad is a web based word processor that allows people to work together in really real time. When multiple people edit the...

The notion that, without exploration into multiple directions, a piece of software becomes staid (and developers get bored), but without periodically stepping back...

Extreme Programming Extreme Programming (XP) is a lightweight methodology for small to medium sized teams developing software in the face of vague or rapidly changing...

Facebook Facebook is a social networking website that allows people to communicate with their friends and exchange information. People use Facebook to keep up with...

Faceted navigation Definitions and reference Examples Tokyo Art Beats uk.shopping.com 1 uk.shopping.com 2 What is Faceted navigation? Faceted navigation `allows...

http://www.fastcgi.com/ From their web site: FastCGI is a language independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance without the limitations...

An alternative to feature voting . Rather than having the default to exclude all features and all user contributions, the model is to have the CVS tree open to...

Process used by many open source projects to handle priorities with regard to feature acceptance/denial. Contributor puts forward code and/or feature description...

Feature X is/Is not Evil Whenever this style of statement arises lots of arguments abound, and essentially become Trolls for either side of the argument. Troll...

FeedReader is a freeware Windows based RSS (RichSiteSummary) reader it sits in your system tray and alerts you when new items appear on a TWiki site (through WikiRssExtension...

FileMaker Pro A popular (5,000,000). well established, but kind of low profile to many, quirkily setup relational database. Epitomized the `80s Mac GUI ideal...

If you get a warning about ActiveX, I would suggest you don`t allow it to run unless you have read the source and are comfortable with what it does! This is a sample...

FireFox Extensions `Extensions are small add ons that add new functionality to Firefox. They can add anything from a toolbar button to a completely new feature...

FitNesse FitNesse is a fully integrated standalone wiki, and acceptance testing framework. http://www.fitnesse.org/ FitNesse home http://fitnesse.org/FitNesse...

A fix me is a CodeBadge in code (or a WikiBadge in a wiki) that can be used to indicate where something is flawed or merely a stub in place of a real implementation...

FolderShare FolderShare is a technology owned by Microsoft. It allows you to create a private peer to peer network that will help you to synchronize files across multiple...

Folksonomies Deprecated: use Folksonomy A classification concept that has gained a lot of attention lately is folksonomies (social classification or people...

Folksonomy A classification concept that has gained a lot of attention lately is folksonomies (social classification or people`s classification management). The...

Frames Quoting from Wikipedia:Frame : A frame or framework is a structural system or a skeleton that supports other components of the object. ... In general, `frame...

Frame based languages Quoting the first graf of the below, a frame language is a metalanguage. It applies the frame concept to the structuring of language properties...

Who am I? My name is Frank Lichtenheld. I maintain several TWiki installations for DENX Software Engineering, a German company developing Embedded Linux solutions...

A popular OpenSource Unix operating system, derived from the original Bell Labs Unix see http://www.freebsd.org and MeatBall:FreeBSD for more information, not to...

FreeMind #8211; an opensource mindmap editor FreeMind is a premier free mind mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into...

http://www.freenode.org/ About the network freenode exists to provide an interactive environment for coordination and support of peer directed projects, including...

From http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free sw.html: `Free software` is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of `free` as in `free...

A friendly fork is one which strives to retain compatibility with the project it`s forked from in order to allow the exploration of new code/features/ideas which...

Note: At EdinburghReleaseMeeting2007x01x08 we decided to use FreetownRelease as the CodeName for the new release. Below content is of historical value. PTh...

See TWikiForGForge (We should get rename to leave redirect pages behind, to help Google indexing. RedirectPlugin would be a good start.) RichardDonkin 15 Sep...

GIFT From Wikipedia:GIFT (file format): The GIFT format allows someone to use a text editor to write multiple choice, true false, short answer, matching, missing word...

Who am I? I`ve been using TWiki for several years now both at work and at a website I run for the Worcester Area Pilots Association. What do I want? write access...

GeorgeTrubisky Would Like to Check in Who am I? I #39;m an accomplished and results oriented Information Systems Engineer with over 20 years of experience and...

Getting Things Done (GtD) (A book by David Allen) Getting Things Done is the name of a popular book and methodology for organising life`s tasks. NoteStudio (and perhaps...

Who am I? I`m GilmarSantosJr. Currently I`m taking a undergraduation course on Computer Science at Federal da Bahia. I love programming and I work with Perl since...

GitHub GitHub is a web based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both paid plans for private...

GlusterFS GlusterFS is a scale out NAS file system, a distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients. It is free...

All topics in Codev web with text `Go box`: PeterThoeny 18 Jan 2003

GoogieSpell GoogieSpell is an online spell checker based on the Google spell checker. It`s interface is Ajax based and feels a lot like the Google Toolbar spell checker...

Google Gears `Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using the following JavaScript...

Google Wave From http://wave.google.com/ : Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below...

Googlism.com at http://www.googlism.com/ is a search engine with a twist. Not much of practical use I guess, but certainly entertaining. From their web site: `Googlism...

Gradients Of Agreement Origins In Facilitator`s Guide to Participatory Decision Making, Sam Kaner et all introduce the At Work`s Gradients Of Agreement Scale . The...

Graphviz Graph Visualization Software Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic graph...

GraphViz for Perl The Perl GraphViz module provides an interface to layout and image generation of directed and undirected graphs in a variety of formats (PostScript...

See http://nexist.sourceforge.net/groupware.html for a good list of Groupware MartinCleaver 05 Nov 2001 Some interesting quotes from the article the Evolution...

Guide Lines for Linking to Third Party Distributions of TWiki The Download Page for a specific TWiki version On the download page for a specific release the top section...

Guide Lines for sponsor presence on TWiki.org PROPOSAL This topic is a proposal raised by KennethLavrsen We have received sponsorships over the past years without...

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hCard To fuel the discussion on user homepages hCard is a simple, open, distributed contact information format for people, companies, and organizations, which is...

HTML HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the main markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building blocks of webpages. Related Topics:...

HTML5 HTML5 is currently a W3C Working Draft and is intended to be the next major revision of the HTML standard. Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01 and XHTML...

International Business Machines IBM retrace one letter back and you have HAL. DennisDaniels 30 Jul 2001

Who am I? HaraldJoerg. Member of the Perl Mongers. Perl hacker since 1995, TWiki hacker since about August 2005. Occasionally I have made patches to CGI.pm, libwww...

Priority awarded by CoreTeam, on a scale from 1 to 100 where 1 is the highest. No two (unmerged) ChangeProposals should ever have the same priority. This is essential...

List of releases that have a patch file or workaround available that addresses this ChangeProposal. A workaround may be a documentation workaround (e.g. `don`t do...

A hidden attachment is the same as a normal attachment, but it is not normally listed at the bottom of the topic. This is done by including `h` in the attachment attributes...

HideyoImazu Would Like to Check in Who am I? I`m running a TWiki site in Morgan Stanley. What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: Core...

history flow is a research project at IBM to visualise the change history of wiki pages: Motivation `Most documents are the product of continual evolution. An essay...

HorstEsser Would Like to Check in Who am I? I #39;m new to TWiki. While using it, I found some minor but useful improvements. I #39;ve as purposed by PeterThoeny...

Hotfix (Service Pack) A hotfix is code (sometimes called a patch) that fixes a bug in a product. Users of the products may be notified by e mail or obtain information...

HTML Area HTMLArea is a free, customizable online editor. It works inside your browser. It uses a non standard features implemented in Internet Explorer 5.5 or better...

I18N (Internationalisation) Internationalisation (I18N) is the process of making software that is independent of any specific language or cultural convention. TWiki...

ImageMagick ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including...

jQuery Image Zoom Plugin This is a nifty jQuery plugin that handles image zoom on hover, as you know from eBay. Fully customizable Colored tints Fancybox...

A measure of how complete the implementation of this feature or bug is. Indicate the percentage both done and checked into TWikiAlphaRelease. (if its coded but...

Information Mapping The Information Mapping method is a research based approach to the analysis, organization, and visual presentation of information. Awfully it...

InterWiki is a concept common to many WikiClones, used to simplify links from one Wiki to another: by writing WikiName:WikiPage , you create a link to...

A link between WikiWebs on a particular Wiki installation. MartinCleaver 09 Jun 2001 `Intra` means `within`, so this means a link within one web. You need InterWebLink...

When selected, this option indicates that the ChangeProposalForm is documenting a detected or suspected bug, and that a change is required to fix it.

ChangeProposalForm is a refactoring of code or documentation for maintainance only. Notes: A refactoring normally does not change functionality APIs may...

J2EE Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition From web site: Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) defines the standard for developing component based multitier enterprise...

JSON JSON (pronounced like the English given name Jason), which stands for `JavaScript Object Notation`, is a lightweight computer data interchange format. JSON is...

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Jabber A streaming XML technology mainly used for instant messaging. `Jabber is best known as `the Linux of instant messaging` an open, secure, ad free alternative...

Japanese and Chinese Support Safe character sets use EUC or UTF 8 only You can use TWiki with Japanese and Chinese characters, at least in the limited testing...

Who am I? I am JasonHill, creater and maintainer of the current TWikiBot incarnation. What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: TWikiRelease04x...

Java Portlet Specification From Wikipedia:JSR168: The Java Portlet Specification defines a contract between the portlet container and portlets and provides a convenient...

JavaScript JavaScript is the name of Netscape`s implementation of ECMAScript, a scripting programming language based on the concept of prototypes. The language is...

JiahaoWang Would Like to Check in Who am I? I #39;m a newbie TWiki developer in Morgan Stanley Imazu san #39;s team. What do I want? write access to SVN for...

Who am I? I`m a commercial software developer since 1991, am presently deploying TWiki as a beta test for my employer`s new intranet site, and am pursuing my second...

Joel on Software http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ Joel Spolsky runs a popular mailing list about software development and software usability. He runs also a lively...

Who am I? I am one of the admins of the portal of the Brazilian Perl Mongers community in http://www.perl.org.br/. Perl development work with the approximately 3 years...

JonathanManning Would Like to Check in Who am I? I`m a bioinformaticist working for the University of Edinburgh. I have a background in Biochemistry, and in...

JoonaKannisto Would Like to Check in Who am I? Hi, I #39;m a student specialising in the fields of networking and information security. I have developed a TWiki...

JOS Wiki One of the Wiki:WikiWikiClones Current home: http://jos.sourceforge.net/ (seems to be discontinued) TWiki`s code is based on the original JOS...

A Wiki based on Java Server Pages (JSPs) and Java servlets, which includes HelpTextInEditPage among other features. JSPs/Servlets run within a persistent process,...

JulianCash Would Like to Check in Who am I? I just made an addition to OpenIdRpContrib. I #39;ve been a user of TWiki for about 6 years. I #39;ve had the...

Junkbuster is a non caching proxy server that can be used to filter out ads or any unwanted Web content. It is OpenSource and available for Windows, Linux, various...

JustinKim Would Like to Check in Who am I? I`m a computer engineer, or sometimes, an architect. I`ve worked in this area almost 7 years, but now, my major field...

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Who am I? I am the guy that keep on raising bug. I am the guy that keep on reopening discarded bugs I am the guy that reminds you of a pitbull because...

Who am I? I am responsible to make TWiki deployable in our group (http://www.isg.inf.ethz.ch/; please note, that this is still the old setup) including: Creating...

I am studying Managing Innovation at the moment. In one reading I found the following two paragraphs. For me, they highlighted the advantage of using the O`Wiki to...

Who am I? I have been using TWiki for some years now. Instead of reading the documentation, i usually dive in to the code to find out what i am doing wrong. In the...

KrassimirBerov Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am translating the TWiki user interface to Bulgarian. I am from Bulgaria and currently live there. I have passion...

Kupu From http://kupu.oscom.org/ web site: Kupu is a `document centric` open source client side editor for Mozilla, Netscape and Internet Explorer. It was written...

Who am I? Nothing special. :) What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: twikiplugins What can I do? Nothing except to contribute to CaptchaPlugin...

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LaTeX From LaTeX Project website: LaTeX is a high quality typesetting system, with features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation...

Layout Templates The templates for skin look and feel, stored in twiki/tmpl Distinct from ContentTemplate MartinCleaver 19 Jun 2005

Lazy Loading Lazy Loading is a technique for performance optimisation. The idea is not to load code modules into memory until you are sure they are going to be required...

Leadership is the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of goals. It is to be a coach, teacher, and to play an active, participative role. Bradford...

TWiki`s lib directory contains libs such as TWiki.pm, TWiki::Store, etc. It is located by CgiScripts in an installation by those scripts reading in SetlibDotCfg: this...

What is LinkRot? In brief, it`s when web pages previously accessible at a particular URL are no longer reachable at that URL due to movement or deletion of the pages...

1. magazine, monthly issues 2. Conference Expo, twice a year, once in New York City, once in San Francisco PeterThoeny 10 Jan 2004

LiquidBrowsing See http://www.infoverse.org/l2dsspace/ and watch the demo. From their site: Liquit browsing has it`s greatest strength in comparing a lot of...

See http://www.liveframe.org/ MartinCleaver 21 Jan 2002

Log4Perl http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ CPAN:Log::Log4perl is a Perl port of the widely popular log4j logging package. Logging beats a debugger if you want to know...

LoginName As of DakarRelease, DevelopBranch, the proposal LoginNamesShouldNotBeWikiNames was implemented. See the table on WikiName for details. MartinCleaver...

MAKETEXT Variable All English text in templates is enclosed in % MAKETEXT{`string` args `...` variables, which enables translators to translate the user interface...

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MHonArc is a powerful email to HTML tool, used typically as a web interface to email list archives. It has some interesting Perl code that`s relevant to InternationalisationUTF...

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See http://www.apple.com/macosx/ and Wiki:AppleMacintosh. The Macintosh operating system the MacOS X version is based on an OpenSource Unix (FreeBSD on top of a...

MahiroAndo Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am a full time developer in Morgan Stanley, as a member of our intranet TWiki development team working together...

svn trunk (was TWiki MAIN Branch) All code development is done in twiki/trunk/core of the TWiki SVN repository All plugin development is done in the twiki...

Who am I? I support and maintain a large TWiki site internal to Motorola. What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: twikiplugins What can I...

Who am I? I am a developer at a company in Germany focussed on GIS systems. My TWiki.org home is MarkusHesse What do I want? write access to SVN for the following...

Who am I? I`ve been working as research assistant (for two years) and, following that, as consultant/programmer in the financial services sector (for over three years...

MartinRaabe Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am a software developer using TWiki in smal and medium teams. I am a consultant for installation and introduction...

Who am I? I`m an application architect at the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. I`ve been managing an internal TWiki with around 3500 topics 150 registered users...

Mashup From Wikipedia:Mashup %28web application hybrid%29 A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into...

Mashup Camp `a.k.a The Unconference for the Uncomputer is an unconference style event that`s dedicated to bringing together the Internet software MashUp community...

MateuszPles Would Like to Check in Who am I? I #39;m System Engineer at Comarch. What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: twikiplugins...

MathJax MathJax is a cross browser JavaScript library that displays mathematical notation in web browsers, using MathML, LaTeX and AsciiMath markup. MathJax is released...

Who am I? MattWilkie. I`ve been addicted to twiki for 5 years (wow, it really has been that long!). I periodically wander away in search of something better and then...

Who am I? Iam a student of computer science in germany. Iam 24 years old and developing for maybe arround 8 years now. What do I want? write access to SVN for the...

MediaWiki MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/) is the Wiki used by the WikiPedia project and others. MediaWiki is written in PHP and uses MySQL as a data...

URL: http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/ From the website: Meerkat is a Web based syndicated content reader. It is based on MeatBall:RichSiteSummary (RSS), an...

What Is A Memory Leak? Quoting Wikipedia: A memory leak is a particular kind of unnecessary memory consumption by a computer program, where the program fails to...

Mental models People come with different mental models, mostly it influences from their past experience. People are very active in problem solving who always have...

Who am I? Isn`t that a rather deep philosophical question, best left to my therapist and myself? What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: Dakar...

Hints and Topic for Merging Between Branches How can I find out the basics of merging? the official Subversion Manual which is well written and easy to understand...

MichaelGulitz Would Like to Check in Who am I? I #39;m a consultant at aseac AG in Germany. I have been working for many years as a developer in the SAP context...

MichaelRubin Would Like to Check in Who am I? Professionally, I am a videogame programmer. On the side, I do IT consulting and I am helping a local organization...

Microformat From Wikipedia:Microformat : A microformat is a web based approach to semantic markup that seeks to re use existing XHTML and HTML tags to convey metadata...

Desktop Sidebar A collegue showed me this: a forthcoming standard feature from Longhorn. http://desktopsidebar.com/ http://www.freeware guide.com/month/122003.html...

Midnight Commander http://www.MidnightCommander.org is a clone of famous Commander from MS DOS days, time proven file manager which is intuitive and visual without...

MikeDoherty Would Like to Check in Who am I? Please see http://hashbang.ca/author/doherty What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: twikiplugins...

Who am I? I am an embedded software student in Tampere University of Technology/FI, currently working in Sandvik Mining and Construction. What do I want? write access...

MASE (Milos ASE) Tool Support for Agile Software Teams See http://ebe.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ebe/Wiki.jsp?page Root.MASE Has some very interesting features that TWiki...

(Proposal) Mission Stars are awarded to an idea by PeterThoeny depending on how well the idea fits with the TWiki mission. Only Peter can award mission stars. He will...

MochiKit MochiKit is a light weight JavaScript library, inspired by the Python networking framework, Twisted. It uses the concept of deferred execution to allow asynchronous...

MongoDB MongoDB is a cross platform document oriented database. Classified as a NoSQL database, MongoDB eschews the traditional table based relational database structure...

MoonEdit http://moonedit.com/indexen.htm Program features: Cooperative multi user text editing over the internet. Multiple text cursors visible on the screen...

Movable Type http://www.movabletype.org/about.shtml Movable Type is Apart`s customizable publishing system which installs on web servers to enable individuals or organizations...

Mozex From http://mozex.mozdev.org/ : Mozex is a Firefox extension which allows the user to use external programs for these actions: edit content of textareas...

Mozilla Browser (aka. Mozilla Suite) Mozilla Suite is an OpenSource web suite, based originally on the Netscape source code, that runs on almost any platform, including...

MySQL MySQL is the most popular open source relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi user access to a number of databases...

NameSpaceWeb Definition: A NameSpaceWeb is a TWiki style `Web` that defines a topic namespace. SubWebs are associated with a NameSpaceWeb using simple controls. Any...

Nerdometer An tool to measure the nerd factor. 0 is the ideal. No trace of nerdiness. And 10 is an absolute disaster. This Nerdometer and its nerd factor is meant...

Open Source Unix operating system (BSD licensed). http://www.netbsd.org JonathanCline 27 Nov 2002

Netvibes Netvibes is an Ajax based start page similar to Google Personalized Homepage. It is organized into tabs, with each tab containing user defined modules, such...

Nginx Nginx (pronounced `Engine X`) is an open source Web server and a reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols, with a strong focus on high concurrency...

NGO: Non Government Organization http://www.ljudmila.org/ Slovenia, LjubljanaDigitalMediaLab using TWiki, http://mila.ljudmila.org/twiki/bin/view/Makrolab/WebHome...

NicEdit http://nicedit.com/ NicEdit was created over the past month as an alternative for the complexity, many files and large download size ( 200KB) of popular WYSIWYG...

Who am I? Freelance programmer What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: FirefoxExtensionAddOn What can I do? Enhance this add on (which is...

Not Invented Here syndrome Not Invented Here (NIH) is a pejorative term used to describe a persistent corporate or institutional culture that either intentionally...

No Committed Developer This is a reason given for either rejecting (RejectedProposal) or parking (ParkedProposal) a proposal raised according to the TWikiRelease04x01Process...

NoSQL NoSQL is a broad class of database management systems that differ from the classic model of the relational database management system (RDBMS) in some significant...

NonAuthenticatedMode is the opposite of AuthenticatedMode. PavelGoran 06 Jul 2003

NuWiki, from Binary Star is the first collaborative Wiki built exclusively for extended relational / Nelson Pick Databases. NuWiki was built with the Nucleus IDE from...

OOB OOB is an acronym for of band. In TWiki terms, any meta data which is stored embedded in topics is referred to as being stored in band . The advantage of storing...

OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) Winer is proposing a new XML format to describe outlines. From http://www.opml.org/spec2 : The purpose of this format is to...

Ohloh `Ohloh is a resource for open source intelligence on thousands of open source projects. Ohloh collects software metrics from a variety of sources including the...

OlivierBerger Would Like to Check in Who am I? I`m a software developper involved with libre software for years. I work as a research engineer at Institut TELECOM...

Who am I? Olivier Raginel, Senior System Administrator at http://innoveo.com. Worked with TWiki in several companies and personally. What do I want? write access...

According to PeterThoeny, the `One Webmaster Syndrome` is `where input from many people hits a bottleneck when only one person is in charge of updates, and intranet...

OpenBSD is an OpenSource version of Unix with a particular focus on security it includes strong cryptography and its team`s continuous review of source code for...

OpenDocument (ODF) OpenDocument or ODF, short for the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications, is an open format for saving and exchanging office documents...

OpenID http://openid.net/ OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user centric digital identity. OpenID starts with the concept that anyone can identify...

OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/ An OpenSource MS Office clone. Mission Statement: To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that...

OpenSSH OpenSSH is an OpenSource implementation of the SSH protocol, enabling secure login and file transfer. It`s commonly found on Unix/Linux boxes but also useful...

OpenSocial Google defined a set of common APIs that application developers can use to create applications that work on any social networks (called `hosts`) that choose...

Open Source The practice of making the source code for software freely available to all, so that anyone can fix or improve it TWiki is an example of this, since...

Open Source Directory is a site listing `Open Source Software, Reviews News`, sponsored by O`Reilly Network. Two URLs, http://OSDir.com/ and http://www.opensourcedirectory...

Refactored from OpenSource. Licensing is the foundation of true OpenSource. OSS (Open Source Software) is not the same as public domain software there is always...

Open Source Web Design (OSWD) `Open Source Web Design is a collection of web designs submitted by the community that anyone can download free of charge!` http...

A WikiClone written in ASP, running on IIS, with some interesting features such as content syndication (see WikiRssExtension for example) and separation of presentation...

Opera is a very fast, lightweight browser that is also highly conformant to WebStandards it`s available for Windows, Linux, Solaris and many other operating systems...

Common vernacular for Ward Cunningham`s Wiki:WikiWikiWeb site at http://c2.com. A better name might be UrWiki, but OriginalWiki is common usage. MitchellModel...

OutOfTheBox Experience Definition From http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/term 410.txl OOBE; the interactions and first impressions a user has with technology...

Outstanding Issues A field on ChangeProposalForm. List any outstanding issues for the proposal. The list should be comma separated to facilitate counting on the release...

P2V Physical to Virtual (`P2V` or `p to v`) involves the process of decoupling and migrating a physical server`s operating system (OS), applications, and data from...

PDoc http://pdoc.sourceforge.net/ cvs d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.pdoc.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/pdoc login Since no password is necessary, when prompted for it, press...

PIM Personal Information Manager A personal information manager (PIM) is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer. As an information management...

PISG Perl IRC Statistics Generator pisg is an IRC channel statics generator written in Perl, it creates statistics from different logfile formats. It`s a funny thing...

http://poe.perl.org/ POE parcels out execution time among one or more tasks, called sessions. Sessions multitask through cooperation (at least until Perl`s threads...

PSGI PSGI or Perl Web Server Gateway Interface is an interface between Web servers and Perl based Web applications and frameworks that allows writing portable applications...

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(Proposal) A PainMeter is a way of measuring the pain a bug, missing feature, or other thingy causes to TWiki people, be they developers, adminstrators or end users...

Palm OS is the operating system behind Palm PDAs, phones and game devices see PalmSource for details on the OS (recently acquired by Access, a Japanese software...

Parked Proposal A proposal which may have been discussed but there was never a committed developer that came forward, or there was one but he is no longer committed...

Peter said in BeijingRelease: Only code that has been committed back into CVS is considered 100% complete by the CoreTeam. The 100% by the contributor means that...

A PatchMonkey is someone who applies patches provided by other developers to a development branch. The term is deprecating, as it is a generally unrewarding task to...

The following patches have been withdrawn by their contributors. Patch Topic Creation Date Topic Creator Core Assignment

PatrickDalinghoff Would Like to Check in Who am I? My name is Patrick Dalinghoff, working for Computer Science Corporation in Germany in the role of a senior...

Wikis were designed to implement PatternLanguages A pattern language is a structured method of describing good design practices within a particular domain. It is characterized...

Who am I? PaulSmith `nuff said? This question seems very existential to me. What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: DEVELOP/twikiplugins...

Peerkat is a personal syndicated data aggregator living on your computer desktop, which can present RSS (RichSiteSummary) feeds from WebLogs, news sites, NewsGroups...

Great overview of the Philosophy of Perl 6 is here: http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/2003/06/25/perl6essentials.html MartinCleaver 30 Jun 2003

Perl Archive Toolkit PAR is a toolkit to create and use perl scripts and modules stored inside compressed .par files. http://par.perl.org/ is the official PAR website...

http://www.activestate.com/Products/PerlEx/ A kind of ModPerl, but Windows only and not OpenSource. ColasNahaboo 09 Aug 2003

An ApplicationServer for Perl POE can wrap itself around a GTK loop and manage a fistful of transient, self contained, self creating objects. Or it can run a Webserver...

The perl ptkdb is a graphical perl debugger, written in perl Tk. You can use it for normal perl scripts, but also for perl CGI script in a web server environment....

Perl Tidy http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/ is a mechanism to ensure code is consistently formatted. MartinCleaver 02 Oct 2004 The CodingStandards don`t provide...

PerlUnit `The `PerlUnit` unit testing framework`, hosted at SourceForge. More at: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PerlUnit http://perlunit.sourceforge.net http...

I was looking for a Perl based webserver with which I could run TWikiOnWindowsCE From http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/WWW/...

PermaLink Links next to each article in the latest list of things blogged. These provide permanent linkage to the one article, so that people can link to the one...

PersistentPerl Speed up TWiki Perl scripts by running them persistently Summary: TWiki typically runs under CGI, which can be quite slow PersistentPerl, also...

Personas The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, published in 1998, introduced the use of personas as a practical interaction design tool. Based on the single chapter...

PicoForge PicoForge is the name for a set of libre software applications which are integrated into a Web platform for collaborative software development (a `forge...

This is a Python based Wiki not as feature rich as MoinMoin, and with a simpler UI, but with some nice features including selectable CSS based styles, WebLog support...

Plazes From http://plazes.com/ : `Plazes puts physical presence to the web. Plazes automatically detects your location and connects you to things nearby. See people...

Existing Plugin Hooks in latest Alpha $VERSION Hook parameters Description 1.000 InitPlugin $topic, $web, $user, $installWeb Called once...

Plupload File upload utility to upload files using HTML5, Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features such as upload progress...

It`s just a trick to have a transparent picture overlaid over a background for browsers that do not understand the LAYER tag. Just wrap the foreground picture within...

A fork of the popular PhpNuke, with a module based on PhpWiki. Like PhpNuke, PostNuke is used for building WebLogs. See http://www.postnuke.com/ for more information...

PowerPoint Engineering (PPE) Sometimes products (and services) can be very large and complex. These sorts of products can be difficult to sell to the customer because...

Prince2 UK government standard project management framework Has a bunch of publically available templates available at http://www.ogc.gov.uk/prince/downloads/view...

Prince XML http://princexml.com/ Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML...

ProductWiki Amazon is launching a wiki for `customer editable product information` to appear alongside most of the items the company sells. See blog at http://customerevangelists...

From Critic: When a propagandist warns members of her audience that disaster will result if they do not follow a particular course of action, she is using the fear...

Which release was/is this targeted for, Anyone can set this but that does not mean it will actually be done for that release; that will be decided by the priorities...

PuTTY PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily...

Purple Slurple http://www.purpleslurple.net/ `PurpleSlurple is a transcoding service that reformats Web pages on the fly to create granular addressability in document...

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RCS Is the RevisionControlSystem used by TWiki. It can be found at: Generally: http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/rcs/ Unix: http://www.fsf.org/software/rcs/rcs...

Short for RichardDonkin

Resource Description Framework (RDF) RDF is a standard model for data interchange on the Web. RDF has features that facilitate data merging even if the underlying...

REST REST (REpresentative State Transfer) is a technique for implementing WebServices using XML documents plus standard HTTP, using its well known operations (PUT...

RIFE Templating Engine and Web Application Framework http://rifers.org/ The framework has some interesting concepts and templating framework. Though it is in...

There`s an interesting new development called RSS Autodiscovery the idea is that websites that have RSS feeds can advertise them in a standardised way by using a...

Rapha l JavaScript Library Rapha l is a small JavaScript library to create vector graphics on the web. Rapha l uses the SVG W3C Recommendation and VML as a base for...

Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card...

Who am I? I am an IT consultant who occasionally writes code in PERL to assist my work. I`ve used PERL for over 10 years, although this doesn`t necessarily make me...

Native Windows Binaries ftp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/RCS/ File: rcs57pc1.zip 1167 KB 26/06/2001 00:00:00 File: rcs57pc2.zip 889 KB 26/06/2001...

Ready For Release Meeting Used in relation to TWikiReleaseManagementProcess A proposal has been discussed. No consensus has been reached. At least one person has raised...

Reason For Decision This field is used to identify the reason behind a decision taken by the TWiki Community in relation to new feature proposals according to the...

The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Linux and Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl compatible) regular expressions interactively. It has...

Journalling file system for Linux. Future plans include database version control like features. MichaelSparks 10 Jul 2003

Rejected By Core Veto Change proposals raised according to the TWikiRelease04x01Process will discussed and voted for at the release meetings. Anyone that shows up...

Rejected By Release Meeting Change proposals raised according to the TWikiRelease04x01Process will discussed and voted for at the release meetings. Anyone that shows...

Rejected Proposal A proposal has been rejected. This state is used when a proposal has been rejected according to the TWikiReleaseManagementProcess. Either by beeing...

Related Topics Form field of WebForm and BasicForm. It lists topics with related content. Note: Please help and populate that field for a better browsing experience...

RemoteUser See WikiName MartinCleaver 18 Oct 2004

This topic has been replaced by RequestAccessToSubversion The Develop Branch no longer exists and it was a bit confusing that this important topic had this strange...

Want access to change the Subversion trunk for core or extensions? Have you read SoYouWantToBeATWikiDeveloper already? Please complete this form if you would like...

Responsive Web Design Responsive web design (RWD) is an approach to web design aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience...

Rich Site Summary RSS defines an XML document format that allows a client to grab details of new items from a website now supported by TWiki and some other Wikis...

Also known as PodCast http://audio.weblogs.com/ MartinCleaver 11 Nov 2004

RssFeed Rich Site Summary Feed bookmark need`s to be defined see also RichSiteSummary DennisDaniels 21 Mar 2002

Rule #1 is: People spend most of the time on other websites. To be intuitive, TWiki should do it (and call it) as other sites do. I changed the wording, but...

SCSS Sassy CSS Sass (`syntactically awesome style sheets`) is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It is translated...

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Good goals and objects are: S pecific M easurable A chiveable R ealistic T imeframed http://www.scn.org/ip/cds/cmp/modules/pd smar.htm

SQL SQL (Structured Query Language) is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems (RDBMS). Related Topics:...

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) XML markup language for describing two dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated, and either declarative or scripted. Images...

SVK svk is a decentralized version control system written in Perl. It uses the Subversion filesystem but provides additional, powerful features. svk inherits the features...

SVN Shorthand for Subversion. See Wikipedia:Subversion From http://subversion.tigris.org/ : The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system...

SWIG From http://www.swig.org/ SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C with a variety of high level programming languages. SWIG...

Software as a service (SaaS) SaaS is a model of software delivery where the software company provides maintenance, daily technical operation, and support for...

Safari is a new web browser from Apple, running on MacOS X since it is based on the KDE project`s Konqueror 3.0.2 browser, KonquerorBrowserIssues may apply, but...

Who am I? Scott Hoge http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~shoge/ What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: twikiplugins Commit the LatexModePlugin to...

What is a scratch branch? A scratch branch is a place for svn developer to develop new ideas. HowDoesTheDEVELOPBranchWork#Scratch area in SVN nas more on them.

SeanLazar Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am a sysadmin and developer for a medical devices startup. What do I want? write access to SVN for the following...

SebastianKlus Would Like to Check in Who am I? At first sight, I am an architect and therefore have nothing directly to do with wikis, programming or similar...

SergeiHaramundanis Would Like to Check in Who am I? Among other things, I am a professional software developer, currently contracting with TEKsystems and Lockheed...

Server2Go Server2Go runs on Windows, a MacOS version is under development. From website: `Server2Go is a Webserver that runs out of box without any installation. That...

This is a port of Perl for various platforms including Windows, from Siemens Business Services. It doesn`t seem to be used a great deal compared to ActivePerl and...

Signature Netiquette Signatures The CodevCommunity is mainly operating in ThreadMode, which works well to discuss new features, brainstorm on ideas, and follow up...

Single sign on (SSO) SSO is a method of access control that enables a user to authenticate once and gain access to the resources of multiple software systems...

See http://www.netegrity.com/products/products.cfm?page SMoverview MartinCleaver 30 Oct 2001

Slashdot For now, see MeatBall:SlashDot and SlashCode. RichardDonkin 08 Feb 2002 Discussions 28 Oct 2004 TWiki mentioned in Slashdot http://slashdot.org/articles...

Snap Preview: External links with tooltip preview of site I just discovered a nice tooltip info tool for external links at blog: You click on the link and you will...

A toolkit for implementing SOAP Clients and SOAP Servers. Good for WebServices. http://www.soaplite.com/ , check out http://guide.soaplite.com/ MartinCleaver...

Soft security means allowing people significant latitude but tracking who did what, and enabling undesirable changes to be reversed. At least, that`s my interpretation...

Sony Ericsson make smartphones such as the P800 that can be used for WirelessTWiki. See http://www.sonyericsson.com/ for more info. Actually running TWikiOnSymbian...

Who am I? I am SopanShewale, I am Masters in Mathematics, having 8 9 years of experience in Information Technology. I am working as Technical Lead with Persistent...

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SourceForge home at http://SourceForge.net/ SshToSourceForge has some info on Secure Shell login. Check the SourceForge Site Status page for news...

Sovereign Posture This is a term invented by Alan Cooper in his seminal work Essentials of Interaction Design (buy it; it`s brilliant). A program that runs in sovereign...

SpamAssassin is a popular and very effective OpenSource tool for filtering out spam emails see http://spamassassin.org for details. Written in Perl, SpamAssassin...

Sparrow Web A writable web developed by Xerox PARC where a paragraph can be edited at a time. `Sparrow is a lightweight editing technology for the web. A Sparrow...

A measure of how complete the specification of this feature or bug is. Used for tracking purposes.

SpeedyCGI (also known as PersistentPerl) is an Apache module (Unix/Linux only) that can be used to accelerate CGI perl scripts. See http://daemoninc.com/SpeedyCGI...

SpellBound http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/ SpellBound is a port of the spellchecker code and user interface from the Mozilla Suite`s Composer that enables spell...

SpirosDenaxas Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am a computer scientist by background and currently work in public health and genetic epidemiology at University...

Just a short list of `sample` ssh, scp, rsync (later), and cvs commands, to help me keep the syntax straight. Sources: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display doc...

Who am I? I have been using TWiki since 1999, across 3 different jobs. What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: twikiplugins development What...

Based on http://www.openoffice.org/ (OpenOffice.org is an Open Source community project building the next generation of office productivity software. Sponsored...

StefanWalter Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am a senior systems administrator at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. I am responsible for customization...

Who am I? Im am located in Wikipedia:Denmark (part of Scandinavia), where I work as a system designer. At our workplace I am the local TWiki grasroot, trying to find...

Who am I? StephaneLenclud I`ve been working as a software engineer for the past 10 years doing mainly C programming. I only find out about Wikis some 3 years ago...

StikiPad http://www.stikipad.com/ StikiPad is a hosted wiki solution that gives you an easy way to organize your information and share information with others. We...

Strawberry Native Windows Perl ali.as has been working on http://win32.perl.org , to create a fully native Perl for windows, including make, and C to make cpan work...

Table of Contents: Structured Wiki Executive Summary Goal of a Structured Wiki: Combine the benefits of an enterprise wiki and a database application...

SuSE: German company that sells linux. Websites: Deutsch, English, American See TWikiOnSuSE and TWikiOnLinux.

Alternative spelling for SuSE, from their logo

SubEthaEdit From the homepage: SubEthaEdit is a powerful and lean text editor. And it`s the only collaborative one you can actually use. By combining the ease of...

SubWeb Definition: SubWebs are TWiki style `Webs` but with the detail that the topic names used in a SubWeb are combined with other SubWebs according to simple scoping...

Sublime Text Sublime Text is a cross platform text and source code editor. The program was originally designed as a feature rich extension of the VimEditor....

Subversion see SVN

SunOS is the UNIX based kernel that is the core of Sun`s Solaris Operating Environment hence, uname a on Solaris refers to SunOS. This is mainly for historical...

Support Sparklines Sparklines are `intense, simple, wordlike graphics` such as https://twiki.org/p/pub/Codev/SupportSparklines/SparklineExample.png or or /Plugins...

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SVG Web Scalable Vector Graphics for Web Browsers using Flash From http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/ : SVG Web is a JavaScript library which provides SVG support...

http://www.nokiko.com/svg/svg whiteboard.htm primitive SvgWhiteboard but shows promise! Imagine the same connected to a wiki environment with versioning control...

svn2rss SVN hooks to produce an RSS feed from commits http://www.goshaky.com/goshaky distfiles/svn2rss/ WillNorris 04 May 2005 http://develop.twiki.org/~twiki...

SynchroEdit http://synchroedit.com/ `SynchroEdit is a browser based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same time, different place groupware. It allows multiple...

Sistema de documentaci...

TDO Short for TWiki Dot Org (http://twiki.org). SteffenPoulsen 26 Jan 2008

TIM Team Information Manager A TIM is any tool that supports shared team information, in the way that a PIM supports personal information. Contributors: CrawfordCurrie...

`TLA` is a TLA for the phrase `Three Letter Acronym`. (couldn`t resist the opportunity for a pseudo recursive definition MG )

TWiki, Loving Care This is what every wiki in the world needs! WikiChampions unite! What TWiki needs from everyone to keep it running and make new things happen. TLC...

TML Short for TWiki Markup Language . See TextFormattingRules. Contributors: PeterThoeny 08 Dec 2007

The Perl Journal Some (older) issues available here: http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/ MartinCleaver 16 Oct 2004

Short for ThomasWeigert

Alpha Releases of TWiki TWiki checked out from the Subversion (SVN) repository is considered alpha code. There is a tool called pseudo install which will create the...

TWiki Applications Web applications with forms and reports that resides in TWiki pages.... They are realized as integrated sets of TWiki topics (and sometimes TWikiExtensions...

Beta Releases of TWiki Relatively stable new features Intended for testing and test driving, new code The package contains the complete distribution...

TWiki Beta Release 11 Aug 2003 Download: Note: To download, log in with your TWiki.org account. (Register if you do not have an account, or login TWiki.TWikiRegistration...

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TWiki Beta Release 30 Oct 2004 WARNING: This beta release (and in fact all other TWikiBetaReleases) has NOT been fixed for the SecurityAlertExecuteCommandsWithSearch...

TWiki Release %$DDATE% %$REV%beta Date Stable? Download Rev Type Code Name %$DDATE% : I /TWiki/TWikiDocGraphics/download.gif %...

(this topic is included from .TWikiContributor ) PeterThoeny 02 Feb 2003

Would Like to Check in Who am I? What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: What can I do? Why do I want to do it? Other Notes Topics...

TWiki Core The TWiki Core is the set of code modules, webs, templates, and pub data, that make up the minimum essential functionality for TWiki. For the uninitiated...

What`s a TWiki Customer? Trick question: there is no such thing. Customers pay for goods or services. TWiki is free (as in beer as well as in speech). Only individuals...

TWiki Doc Graphics The TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics is the icon library of TWiki. PeterThoeny 11 Feb 2005 I wasn`t sure where to put new graphics and their sources...

TWiki Extension An umbrella term for: Add ons Contributed code Plugins Skins Notes: See TWikiTerminology for related terminology...

TWikiFor Releases Refers to a package put together to address a specific application or target market segment. For example, TWikiForRedHatEnterprise, TWikiForSmallBusinesses...

See TWikiGlossary; no further updates to this page anticipated. After the chatting on this page has stopped it would probably be a good idea to delete the topic....

See TWikiGovernance

TWiki Kernel Term no longer in use; see TWikiTerminology. Used to refer to a package made up from the TWikiCore and a default set of plugins.

WikiML, TWiki style. I am interested in talking with others, comparing and contrasting TWikiML with other similar template type systems. GrantBow 25 Jan 2003 I...

TWiki Meta Data See TWiki.TWikiMetaData documentation. Related:

TWiki on Uniform Server Server is a WAMP package that allows you to run on any Windows based computer. It is also small and compact meaning you can convert a USB stick...

TWiki Package Related Topics: TWikiPackage: any functional Twiki build. (a generic term) TWikiKernel: 1.the minimum functional TWiki build possible. 2.the...

TWiki Production Release 01 Feb 2003 NOTE: This is no longer the latest TWikiProductionRelease The new TWiki Release 01 Feb 2003 (code name BeijingRelease...

NOTE: This is an outdated release please download the latest TWiki release. Download TWiki 4.3.2 rc2 Release 4.3.2 rc2: zip tgz Release 4.3.2 release candidate...

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Download TWiki 5.1.0 rc1 Release 5.1.0 rc1: zip tgz TWiki 5.1.0 rc1 release candidate 1 (not for production use) notes requirements guide manual Advocacy...

TWiki Release Naming Convention Requirements Agreed: Create a beta from the command line; no manual steps One topic in Codev web per Beta and Production...

Who has a stake in TWiki? CoreTeam CodevCommunity PluginsCommunity AdministratorsCommunity SupportCommunity WikiApplicationBuilderCommunity...

TWiki Standard Package The standard set of code, docs and plugins that make up a TWikiRelease By current convention, this comprises (from SVN) 1 The entire contents...

TWiki Tagline TWiki`s tag line is now: `Collaborate with TWiki` PeterThoeny 12 Oct 2005 Older Discussions TWiki Twiki or twiki? this is a separate topic:...

TWiki Unit Tests TWiki has a range of unit tests that are designed to isolate and test specific blocks of TWiki code. The tests are kept in the test/unit directory...

TWikiWorkbench Introduction The TWikiWorkbench is a standardized way to write and deploy TWikiApplications. It is TWikiApplication to write TWikiApplications...

Table Widgkit A table widgkit is a portable TWikiApplication that lets even the most basic of twiki users insert a self maintaining table into his or her twiki topic...

Tag Cloud From Wikipedia:Tag cloud A tag cloud (more traditionally known as a weighted list in the field of visual design) is a visual depiction of content tags...

See TWikiTaskTeams

Template Toolkit From the home of Toolkit 2: The Template Toolkit is a fast, flexible and highly extensible template processing system. It is Free (in both senses...

TerjeAndersen Would Like to Check in Who am I? My name is Terje, I`m 26 years old and work as a Technical Student at Cern. I am currently a BsC student in Computer...

LavanyaNandigama 19 Oct 2005 Hi this is test. Ignore.

The Gimp The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition...

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations Book written by RodBeckstrom and Ori Brafman, ISBN:1591841437 Description: `If you cut...

TimotheLitt Would Like to Check in Who am I? TWiki user, sometime customizer. Longtime software developer. If you really care, google will find me. What do...

TinyMCE http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ TinyMCE can be used using TinyMCEPlugin. Contributors: ArthurClemens 31 Dec 2007 Discussion Will version 3.0.5 replace...

TinyWeb TinyWeb is a small (executable file size is less than 100K), simple (no configuration other than through the command line) and fast (consumes a minimum of...

Who am I? I am Todor Cholakov. A am a Java developer and I recently have some inerest in TWiki. What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: Plugins...

TouchGraph provides a hands on way to visualize networks of interrelated information. Networks are rendered as interactive graphs, which lend themselves to a...

TrackBack Abstract From MovableType`s web site: TrackBack is a framework for peer to peer communication and notifications between web sites. The central idea...

Transient Posture This is a term invented by Alan Cooper in his seminal work Face The Essentials of Interaction Design (buy it; it`s brilliant). A program that runs...

Travis Barker`s Codev topic: Contributors: TravisBarker 29 Mar 2008 Codev Discussions for TravisBarker

Twiki Robot Twiki is a character on the TV show Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, played by actor Felix Silla. Twiki was a robot referred to in the series as an `ambuquad...

Typo3 TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while...

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration From home page ( http://www.uddi.org/ ) : `Discover businesses worldwide that offer the exact products and services...

http://www.infopop.com/business/business ubb.html URL not found can`t be that ultimate ; ) A traditional threaded discussion forum. See UltimateBulletinBoardVsTWiki...

An unfriendly fork happens where there is several of the following: No attempt to maintain some form of compatibiliy with the original Animosity between...

An extended relational data server designed for embedding in a variety of solutions. UniVerse offers configurable internationalization capabilties, high end security...

Unicode collation Unicode has support for specific collation rules, used when sorting data see the Unicode documentation and CPAN:Unicode::Collate. This may be...

Or how to get Unison to talk through PuTTY plink For people arriving from FAQ: This site is powered by TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise collaboration...

User Accessibility Guidelines There are different standards to make web content accessible by all users: WCAG link Web Content Accessibility Guidelines by...

User Experience Usability is about: Definition: Usability refers to the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness...

Meta : I`m surprised this definition doesn`t exist on TWiki.org (mind you, it does now) $ One definition might be : stuff that makes it so that the user understands...

UserLand is the home of Scripting News and tools for WebsitePublishing such as Manila see http://www.userland.com. Also supports use of MeatBall:RichSiteSummary...

UserName See WikiName MartinCleaver 18 Oct 2004

The opposite of UserFriendly. It`s often difficult for people to agree that something is userfriendly one mans skinnable GUI is another persons eye socket ripping...

Vector Markup Language (VML) XML language used to produce vector graphics. VML was submitted as a proposed standard to the W3C in 1998 by Microsoft, Macromedia, and...

http://www.binaryevolution.com/ Velocigen for Perl is a high performance Web application server using Perl as its programming language. It features CGI compatible...

Who am I? Hi I`m Vernon Lyon I work for Yahoo Europe in web tools development. I`ve created the QuickMenuSkin and would like to maintain it in SVN. What do I...

ViewCVS is a web based application that SourceForge and other sites use to enable browsing of CVS and Subversion (SVN) repositories on the web. (SourceForge used...

VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products. VirtualBox...

VisiCalc VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program. See Wikipedia:VisiCalc for details. The author, Dan Bricklin, is now developing a Wiki based spreadsheet tool...

VoodooPad is an award winning commercial application for MacOS X that lets you maintain a local Wiki, including drawings. It also lets you edit web based Wikis that...

W3C World Wide Web Consortium W3C is the owner of key web standards including HTML, CSS and HTTP. http://www.w3.org/ home http://validator.w3.org/ HTML...

WCAG Web Content Accessibility Guidelines The WCAG defines guidelines for making web content accessible to people with disabilities. The working draft of WCAG 2....

Short for WillNorris

WYSIWYG WYSIWYG means `What You See Is What You Get`. The term `WYSIWYG editor` is used to refer to software in which users edit text (or other types of content) graphically...

Who am I? Wade Turland wade.turland@optus.net.au What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: TWikiPlugins What can I do? Work on TWiki:Plugins...

The Wayback Machine makes it possible to surf more than 10 billion pages stored in the Internet Archive`s web archive. The Wayback Machine was unveiled on October...

WebDAV WebDAV, http://www.webdav.org/, stands for `Web based Distributed Authoring and Versioning`. It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows...

Web Data Commons: Extracting Structured Data from the Common Web Crawl More and more websites embed structured data describing for instance products, people, organizations...

Perl module for displaying debug output in browser as well as data/debug.txt (browser output is surpressed unless SCRIPT NAME contains `debug`. Knows how to dump...

Introduction A weblog (sometimes called a blog for short) is a site where stories are posted in time sequence, and typically people can post comments in a threaded...

WebMetaTopics The topics which are included in a web and which contain information that describe the web or control how it works. These topics include: WebPreferences...

Web Monday From http://www.webmontag.de/ : `Web Monday connects users, developers, founders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, researchers, web pioneers, bloggers...

The base topic for all RSS feeds. Located in TWiki.WebRssBase

The server that provides web pages. OS Type of server UNIX Apache Windows CygwinApache Windows WindowsApache...

WebServices is going to be very important: http://www.webbasedservices.co.uk/ Web Services in general: Good overview of UDDI and WebServices here:...

Anyone thought WebServices or UDDI? WebDAV is covered. Page refactored to above topics. MartinCleaver 07 May 2001 This topic showed a problem on the Ref by button...

Web 2.0 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web 2.0 refers to a perceived transition of the World Wide Web (`the Web`) from a collection of websites to a full...

Webs are useful to use, not things to be feared Besides a (hopefully logically) name, which gives a clear starting point, each web has or can have its own: aspect...

Who am I? Werner Randelshofer, Member of AnyWikiDraw.org What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: twikiplugins branch What can I do? I can...

What subsystems does a ChangeProposal affect. Defined in WebPreferences by WHATDOESITAFFECTCATEGORIES with values: Discussion in ChangeProposalFormDefect ThomasWeigert...

What does `consensus` mean regarding TWiki? Specifically regarding TWiki`s direction, development, writing, and organisation? The word consensus is slung around...

What is a TWiki topic logically? topic text Always : Text Sometimes : TWiki::TWikiVariables (why are they called variables...

Wicked problems have no right answers. They demand an iterative and nonlinear path to find optimal solutions. Often implemented solutions will cause more unintended...

Wiclear wiki http://wiclear.free.fr/ `Wiclear is a Wiki engine. That is, a software to create web sites where content is freely editable online. Wiclear is in...

See http://www.kwiki.org/?WaflProposal SocialText is pushing ( http://www.socialtext.com/products/kwiki/ ) `a base language that can be used to build any wiki formatter...

A WikiBadge is a phrase in CamelCase (i.e. a word that will auto link) that has some specific administrative meaning to the community in a wiki. For example, Category...

MikeMannix 21 Nov 2001

Wiki Creole Creole is a common wiki markup language to be used across different wikis. It`s not replacing existing markup but instead enabling wiki users to transfer...

Wiki Farm A Wiki Farm is a server or a collection of servers that provides wiki hosting, or a group of wikis hosted on such servers, for free or a fee. Related topics...

TWiki`s markup language, i.e. the rules you use to format text within TWiki (not including HTML). Defined by WikiSyntax and TextFormattingRules Written this way to...

This was received on the TWiki mailing list: Sorry for the ads here, but I`d like to invite all interested to a discussion about a possible future WikiMarkupStandard...

WikiMatrix http://www.wikimatrix.org/ `your number one source to find the Wiki engine that matches your or your company`s needs.` This website compares features of...

WikiName See TWiki.WikiName for user documentation. Programmatically: Term Definition TWiki::Func functions Variable In FormattedSearch RemoteUser...

A large mutlilingual free content encyclopedia. Content is manged using MediaWiki. See: http://www.wikipedia.org Wiki:WikiPedia JohnTalintyre 26 Feb...

Wiki research Mailing List Riehle, the organizer of the WikiSym, recently created a wiki research mailing list. It is `dedicated to wiki research and practice. This...

WikiRing They contributed code from 2006 to 2008. They currently are not active in the TWiki community.

SunirShah wrote in WikiForum: Subject: WikiForum mod wiki RSS extension Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:05:49 0500 From: Sunir Shah shah...

David Merrill of the LDP (Linux Documentation Project) has created a wiki for use by readers (to add comments or revisions) and authors of HOWTOs and other documents...

Wiki thicket: A wiki inwhich the threads of discussions have devolved into a tangled, inpenetrable mess. Usually the result of conventions for structuring topics being...

WikiUserName See the table on WikiName for the distinction. MartinCleaver 18 Oct 2004

Wiki Wednesdays Organized by Socialtext, Wiki Wednesdays are informal monthly gathering for all things wiki. From https://www.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi :...

Wikiwyg From http://www.wikiwyg.net/about/ : Wikiwyg is a Javascript library that can be easily integrated into any wiki or blog software. It offers the user multiple...

WikkiTikkiTavi (aka Tavi yes, it does have two `k`s in the Wiki part... ) is a PHP based Wiki that supports RSS feeds, InterWikis and other nice features. http:...

WolfMarbach Would Like to Check in Who am I? Look here: WolfMarbach What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: Plugins What can I do...

Word In A Browser Word In A Browser is a useful term for describing a mode of interaction for Javascript WYSIWYG editors in TWiki. A WordInABrowser integration of...

WordPress blogging software WordPress is a GPLed blogging software you can install on your own server. There is also a free hosted service called WordPress.com. They...

WIBNIF for short. An expression of something that the author believes would be to the advantage of TWiki and/or its users. For example, WIBNIF TWiki was independently...

CPAN WWW::Mechanize CPAN:WWW::Mechanize is a CPAN module that helps you automate interaction with a website. It supports performing a sequence of page fetches including...

eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) The XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) Project Committee is a coalition of more than 30 US finance, accounting...

XHTML XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language) is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language...

XML (Extensible Markup Language) XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a subset of SGML designed for delivery on the web. At present the standard is being developed...

XMLHttpRequest From Wikipedia:XMLHttpRequest : XMLHttpRequest (XHR) is an API that can be used by JavaScript, JScript, VBScript and other web browser scripting languages...

A varient of PostNuke and PhpNuke http://www.xoops.org/ GeoffMcCarronBenson 01 Aug 2002

xVRML Extensible Virtual Reality Modelling Language From http://www.xvrml.net/: ``This site provides access to the development of the xVRML specifications and related...

Xinha From http://xinha.python hosting.com/: `Xinha stands for `Xinha is not htmlarea`. It began as a stop gap fork of the InteractiveTools.com htmlArea WYSIWYG editor...

XML RPC From Wikipedia:XML RPC : XML RPC is a remote procedure call protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. It is a very simple...

XML Spreadheet Thoughts on SpreadSheetPluginDev led me to thinking about this file format. I assume the Xml Spreadsheet format is a vendor neutral XML based spreadsheet...

Yahoo! User Interface Library The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web...

YaojunFei Would Like to Check in Who am I? I was ever a .NET developer with 8 years working experience on windows area and web area. After I joined Morgan Stanley...

ZbigniewGrzybek Would Like to Check in Who am I? Student, currently working for CERN. What do I want? Write access to SVN to add and maintain the plugin. What...

ZoltanGecse Would Like to Check in Who am I? I #39;m a postdoc in physics at UBC working on the ATLAS experiment. What do I want? write access to SVN for the...