Nov 16 2011
Foswiki Camp this weekend in CERN, Geneva
We’ll be meeting in CERN, for our long weekend foswiki code fest and association general assembly.
its not too late to sign up and help guide the future direction of foswiki
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Dec 15 2010
Google’s DataWiki experiment
Google Labs has just added a GoogleAppEngine based Java application called – DataWiki.
So far, project information is very minimal, but it looks like one of the features Foswiki (and its parent) have been doing for 10 years…
The timing is excellent, as I’ve been working with others in the Foswiki Community to improve Foswiki’s mashup-ability:
enable easy input/output from a variety of endpoints, e.g. via Twitter, ODK or SMS from a remote location
Right now we’re working on a proper REST API for foswiki data – enabling us to retrieve and save changes to datasets in formats that are convenient to the external endpoints – and to simplify the development to dynamic visualisation and editing tools for complex data.
Perhaps what we’re looking at is a combination of the acquired and shut down JotSpot, and a response to Yahoo Pipes 
Foswiki is an extremely mature (10 years) DataWiki capable enterprise wiki, with significant traction in workplaces around the world, and a strong, motivated developer and user community.
Apr 17 2010
New Dynamic jquery mb.Menus for foswiki
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:
Oct 15 2009
I’ve been working on a Foswiki User administration user interface again
This iteration I’ve been working using the HTTPDUserAdminContrib – as having the users and groups in the database makes it hard to work on.
Hopefully there’ll be time to use and extend it for foswiki 1.1
Aug 25 2008
firefox 3.x on debian amd64
I’ve been running a firefox 3.0 pre-release build for ages now, and finally thought I’d upgrade – (it turns out) mozilla do not provide 64 bit binaries. The i686 build that you can download from getfirefox.org does not work on my debian amd64 system – but not everything is lost.
As I’m a developer, I’m reasonably happy to play with nightly builds – and so – http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ has what I need – today its firefox-3.1a2pre.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2.
Unziped into my non-debian firefox dir, and runs seemingly fine, except that the firefox addins won’t run, as they are scared of firefox versions that they have not been tested on
That too can be solved – edit the application.ini file, and replace the Version=3.1a2pre with Version=3.0.1 or whatever the release is that your addons are willing to work on.
so far, only VMWare’s addon won’t run – perhaps I need to set the Version lower, as it worked on Minefield 3.0pre.
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=iceweasel&searchon=names&suite=testing§ion=all tells me that 3.0.1 is in amd64 debian testing since July 2008
VMWare’s addon to give console access won’t run in the 3.0.1 debian version either – talk about disappointing. The 3.1 nightly build seems to feel faster too, so I suspect I’ll be running that most of the time, and will look to migrate away from VMWare over time.
Mar 09 2007
Adding Web 2.0 interface JavaScript to TWiki
While updating the YahooUserInterfaceContrib in TWiki to the just releases 2.2 version, I started to work with the BETA DataTable module.
Firstly, I’ve had to fix TWiki to put the headers and footers into the correct thead and tfoot HTML sections, and then there are the ‘tiny buglets’
- sometimes the yui component initialises with only part of the html table
- yui hides all rows in the thead and tfoot section (so you loose the spreadsheet calculations we do in TWiki)
- you have to hand define the table header elements at the moment, rather than having an option to ‘autodetect’ their names, and possible sorty-ness
But it _is_ a nice begining. I’ll be doing further work on it in TWiki (especially in the BugsContrib, and its derived task manager), and i’m planning on replacing the Catalyst DBIx paging with the dataTable Paging in mySpending.
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