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Aug 11 2010

Edit foswiki files in Microsoft Office

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 1:10 pm

Kontextwork WebDAV

Using the WebDAV for foswiki Extension, you can seamlessly edit Microsoft Office files in Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and then save directly back into the Wiki.

Purchase WebDAV for foswiki now – including 12 months access to any updates, and 12 months email based support.
Using WebDAV, users can get direct access to Wiki topics and attachments, via the WebDAV URL – making it possible to attach documents by drag and dropping them directly in Windows Explorer.

Some technical details

WebDAV for foswiki requires advanced libraries on the server – including Apache 2 mod_perl support. For full integration mode, some trust settings need to be changed in Internet Explorer, or an extension installed to Firefox.

Required Perl modules and extensions

APR::Table
APR::UUID
Apache2::Access
Apache2::Const
Apache2::Module
Apache2::RequestIO
Apache2::RequestRec
Data::Dumper
Encode
File::Find::Rule::Filesys::Virtual
File::Spec
POSIX
URI
URI::Escape
XML::LibXML => than 1.64 (declaredPrefix function is needed)
XML::Simple
Filesys::Virtual
POSIX
File::Path
JSON

Foswiki::Plugins::JQueryPlugin

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Apr 17 2010

New Dynamic jquery mb.Menus for foswiki

Tag: foswiki,javascript,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 3:44 pm

I’ve just started work adding Matteo Bicocchi’s rather stunning mb.Components – starting with mb.Menu. Along the way, adding foswiki Macro’s to make it simpler for us to use, I’ve also made some changes to the code (which hopefully I can get integrated into an mb.Menu release) that I have attached to the live demo.

Here’s the all important Screenie:

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Mar 29 2010

Foswiki 1.1 release on its way.

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application — Sven Dowideit @ 11:18 am

I haven’t been blogging for a while, because I’ve been devoting all my time to working on features for the next Foswiki release.

We’re aiming to get it out the door in June 2010 – and to make this timeline, we’re about to go into feature freeze mode – and the end of this month.

So far, result paging support for SEARCH is almost done, I’ve upgraded the icons we ship to the attractive FamFamFam icon set, simplified the Template definitions for skinning SEARCH results, improved the handling of the zeroresults parameter, and I’ve completed much of the FOREACH/format extraction code refactor.

I’m looking forward to the next month’s bug finding fest

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Dec 09 2009

foswiki for windows updated to version 1.0.8

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 10:02 pm

I built and uploaded foswiki 1.0.8 installer for windows last night – hope you like it, cos i’ll be on holidays for a few days

For the last 2 weeks I’ve been working on an SAP connector for foswiki – I can display most SAP Tables, and call most SAP functions – all via ‘RFC’ – right now we’re working towards a proactive system healthcheck report, but it pretty much will allow us to build any SAP process right into foswiki. Cool huh.

and for fun I’ve been working on making a replacement DocumentGraphics icon set based on FamFamFamContrib for foswiki – the 10 year old hand drawn one really is dated.

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Nov 03 2009

foswiki – wow.

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application — Sven Dowideit @ 9:10 pm

Our project fork hit the one year milestone a week or so ago, and Arthur noticed this amazing ‘factoid’ on ohloh..

Very large, active development team

Over the past twelve months, 36 developers contributed new code to Foswiki.

This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh.

For this measurement, Ohloh considered only recent changes to the code. Over the entire history of the project, 43 developers have contributed.

All I can say, is WOW and thank you, to everyone that has worked on our project, and to all who discover it.

The Foswiki Association & Summit is happening in Hannover at the end of this month – I wish I could be there, but its a long way from Australia – maybe next year