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Mar 20 2009

Foswiki 1.0.4 released – OSX, Windows and Debian installers ready too

Tag: debian, enterprise, foswiki, new, nextwiki, perl, twiki, twikiapplication, twikifork, wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 8:33 pm

Foswiki 1.0.4 has been released with more than 100 bug fixes and some small enhancements. Upgrading is highly recommended. If you did not upgrade from TWiki yet, now is a good time as Foswiki 1.0.4 fixes more around 300 bugs relative to TWiki 4.2.4.

Grab it now from : http://foswiki.org/Download/WebHome – the straight and upgrade archives, OSX installer and my Windows Installers are here.

My debian package repository now spans Foswiki 1.0.4 and 168 Foswiki extensions – its never been easier to install

see http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian

Over the 4 months of our project’s existence, 33 developers have been involved in making ~3000 commits – next up, the future !

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Jan 18 2009

productivity boost – get 2 more hours in your day!

Tag: new — Sven Dowideit @ 9:39 am

For years (over 15) I’ve lived with the need to get about 10 hours sleep per night – initially to recover from Post-viral syndrome, and then later just because thats what it took to be at my most productive.

Like most people, I’ve longed to get some of those hours back, preferably without the insanity of Uberman zombie sleep.
Last week, we did it! I now wake up refreshed in 8-9 hours! every night, and less if I work through the wee hours.

The secret? We bought a new bed. Not a cheap one either – thou the 50% off sale made that decision much much easier. Total cost – equivalent to 30 hours consulting – which is a heck of a bargain, given that I now have ~ 300-600 more hours per year to work, rest and play.

So, if you need more time in your day, or perhaps just more regularly productive days – go out and buy a new bed.

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Jan 14 2009

debian repository for Foswiki

Tag: debian, enterprise, foswiki, new, nextwiki, perl, twiki, twikiapplication, twikifork, wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 12:18 am

I’ve set up a debian repository that you can help test the release package before it gets uploaded into debian proper.

To try it out, add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/ stable main contrib deb-src http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/ stable main contrib

and then run

apt-get update apt-get install apache2 foswiki

This repository contains about 108 foswiki-extensions – auto updated nightly direct from foswiki.org. The packages have as many dependencies as I was able to coerce my build scripts to work out – but there is more work needed.

Sorry, you will get a gpg error on these packages, they are updated nightly direct from foswiki.org – and signing the repository requires personal intervention (as far as I can see).

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Jan 03 2009

Foswiki v1 beta 3 Windows Installer

Tag: enterprise, foswiki, new, open source, perl, twiki, twikifork, wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 10:44 am

Yesterday I uploaded the first Foswiki Installer for windows to Foswiki Downloads. It will install Apache 2.2 (if you don’t already have it) and Strawberry Perl and then configure and install Foswiki v1.0.0 beta 3.

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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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Oct 24 2008

TWiki 4.2.3 JeOS Virtual Machine

Tag: debian, enterprise, new, open source, perl, twiki, twikiapplication, wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 12:25 pm

TWiki 4.2 JeOS VM

mirror 1 460MB (USA) TWiki 4.2.3, (does not include VMware):

Easy installation on Windows, Linux and OSX!

Trivial upgrades of TWiki and TWiki Plugins

Summary: This package enables you to quickly and easily install a pre-configured TWiki 4.2 ’software appliance’ on Windows, by using the free VMware Player or VMware Server – like another computer running within your computer. This generally performs better than a normal WindowsInstallCookbook approach and is easier to install than IndigoPerlCookbook (takes just 5 minutes, a bit like installing a hard disk that has TWiki and Linux pre-installed). Although running TWiki on Linux on top of Windows may seem complicated, it’s actually much simpler than installing TWikiOnWindows – no TWiki or Linux knowledge is needed to get a working TWiki installation!

This uses TWiki VM 4.2.3 released on 12 September 2008. It is installed using SvenDowideit’s fosiki TWiki debian package repository to make upgrades, and installation of TWiki Plugins (with external dependencies) easy.

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