new | fosiki - Part 3

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

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Oct 15 2009

I’ve been working on a Foswiki User administration user interface again

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,javascript,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application — Sven Dowideit @ 11:04 pm

This iteration I’ve been working using the HTTPDUserAdminContrib – as having the users and groups in the database makes it hard to work on.

UserManagementUI

Hopefully there’ll be time to use and extend it for foswiki 1.1

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Sep 22 2009

Foswiki 1.0.7 on a USB Stick

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 2:00 pm

I’ve updated the USB Foswiki to include foswiki 1.0.7, and updated the systray controller to be a little more slick

I’m still looking for feedback from users – Its a nice fast way to try out foswiki without needing to install anything – just unzip the archive into the root of a disk, and click start_foswiki.bat (on Windows XP the autorun should start that automatically for you)

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Sep 21 2009

Foswiki 1.0.7 released.

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 5:54 pm

Continuing our commitment to bug fixing and solving difficult security issues, we’re proud to announce that the Foswiki project has released 1.0.7.

This release contains:

an upgraded Wysiwyg editor : TinyMCE 3.2.2
table plugin sorting improvements
CSRF fixes and streamlineing
and a series of Windows related improvements

see http://foswiki.org/Download/WebHome for more details, and to download the update.

I’m updating the Foswiki On a USB Stick at the moment, and will then work on Windows and Debian.

Ohloh shows a very comforting graph for me – over the year, we’ve been maintaining our momentum, and regularly have over 10 different contributors _every_ month.

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Aug 30 2009

Foswiki on a USB stick (updated)

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 5:58 pm

I was asked on Friday night if I could make a demo foswiki USB system, and given that its high time we did one, I started to look into it. Initially I thought this would be a great oportunity to try out the HTTPEngine work Gilmar has been doing, but we’re not quite there yet. And so, I started a quick perusal of the existing WebServer on a Stick systems. Ideally, I want to use Strawberry perl, apache, and have the server and a browser start up automatically when the USB stick is inserted into the computer.

MicroApache
Server2Go
XAMPP

MicroApache was the first thing i looked at, as the contact pointed out DokuWikiOnAStick, but that server doesn’t seem to have source, nor is the upstream web site there (last release seems to be 2007, so too old for Strawberry perl too) Server2Go looks nice, but as its not really free in the debian sense, I’ll pass on that unless nothing else works. XAMPP – ~~unzipped it, foswiki and did some minor configurations.~~ unziped, removed everything except apache, added strawberry perl, and wrote a systray icon and menu system for you to control it with. TADA! FoswikiOnAStick ~~v0.1~~v0.3 (running foswiki 1.0.6). please try it out.

FoswikiOnaStick system tray menu

Instructions for use:

download the Foswiki on a Stick zip file
unzip it to the root of your USB key (or any drive)
start the systray app, web server and browser using start_foswiki.bat (goto http://localhost/ if the browser doesn’t start) (unblock / allow apache to get through the windows firewall)

before ejecting the usb key, you need to stop the webserver by running stop_foswiki.bat yes, thats all. Please report any issues or observations to me – SvenDowideit@fosiki.com

the web server runs at the standard port 80, so if there is already a web server running it will fail
when the web server starts, it will probably be blocked by Windows firewall – every time I’ve tested, a dialog pops up, and allows you to unblock it.
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Warning

I have made no attempt (yet) to reduce the accesses to the disk – so it may use up all the blue smoke in your usbkey, cause your bits to turn green, or one of many other unforseen side effects which may or may not appear amusing if they happen to someone else. I’ve tested this on Windows7rc, Windows Vista, Windows2003server, and Windows XP – if it works for you, excellent .