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Jan 01 2009

Foswiki v1.0 hits beta

Tag: enterprise, foswiki, nextwiki, open source, perl, twiki, twikiapplication, twikifork, wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 11:13 am

On the 26th of December 2008, Kenneth built Foswiki v1.0 Beta 1, and then Foswiki v1.0 Beta 2 on the 28th. Since then we’ve been busy testing and fixing things that are side effects of the Secure by default policy we’ve instigated.

I’ll be releaseing a Windows installer using Apache 2.2 and Strawberry Perl when Beta 3 is released - we’re still working through some Windows oddities.

its pretty amazing what has been achieved in the 2 months since the project forked.

Massive XSS and parameter validation changes
much more resistant input validation (Perl taint checking)
over 160 bugs fixed

Happy new year, and a happy new Data Wiki release.

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Dec 09 2008

Strawberry Perl rocks Windows.

Tag: enterprise, foswiki, nextwiki, open source, twiki, twikiapplication, twikifork, wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 4:22 pm

if you’re working or just running Perl on Windows, drop everything, run, don’t walk, to StrawberryPerl. Adam Kennedy has not only made a real Perl for windows, he’s made a _proper_ Perl . One where CPAN just plain works.

Even better, he’s made a Perl that you can use portably, from your USB stick, so you don’t even need to install Perl on your locked down computer.

To learn about his code, I’m building a FoswikiOnAStick distro based on his code, and then I hope to work out how to extend the concept to other platforms.

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Nov 19 2008

Foswiki: 790 commits in 3 weeks, and now we have a name!

Tag: enterprise, foswiki, new, nextwiki, open source, perl, twiki, twikiapplication, twikifork, wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 1:34 pm

3 weeks into a fork compelled by the Trademark problems of the 10 year old TWiki name, and we’re almost fully reborn.

Foswiki - started out as Free, Open Source Wiki - When Community matters.

Next steps for us will be to create the Foswiki Association, and to release Foswiki v1.0 - all before Christmas

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Nov 15 2008

Week 2 in ‘NextWiki’ - still running at breakneck speeds

Tag: enterprise, nextwiki, open source, perl, twiki, twikiapplication, twikifork, wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 3:20 pm

We might not yet have a name, but we’ve had over 100 commits per week, plus the 400 odd coming from my importing into our repository. The rebranding changes for the ****** v1.0 release have been declared 80% done, so the worst case estimate would see the other 80% take about 8 weeks :).

Our bug and task tracking system’s live, with connections to svn commits, twitters and lots and lots of activity both on irc and the Wiki - Its almost impossible to keep up with everything.

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