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2008-09-20

Installed a new revision of Oddmuse with some rather big changes in the RecentChanges machinery. If you run into problems let me know!

Thanks for the update, Alex.

  • Do you suggest we try it on a test site first, or that we go ahead an install it on (one of the more quite) production WkiHives??
  • Thank you for helping BobTrower with his PrivacyHack?. That went “off base” a bit, but the end result is quite adequate nice and I’ll be aksing out support folk to implement the “module” version (as opposed to Bob’s hack) along with your new script starting next week.
  • I’ve ask Lion to both talk to you and to write up some background information on what we am doing since I wold like to add it to the expanding CommunityWikiBisiness? activities and perhas even post a bit more about that here, once you’ve previewed it.
    • After you have seen it and had a chance to interact with Lion a bit you can let us know if you think there is some merit to having us some of our business plans a bit further and perhaps even asking for agreement from the VotingMembers?.
  • I hope its obvious that I am even more deeply impressed by what you’ve done with OddMuse than I already was the last time I posted on this topic. In fact, my labRats are just in the process of recommending that we roll out the hybrid C-Side TiddlyWiki and C-Side+S-Side OddMuse software via DVD distro discs as early as 2009-Q1. I’m hoping they get approval to do that :-)

Cheers…

Thanks for the nice words.

I suggest you wait for two or three weeks before installing Oddmuse anywhere. Even though I have a ton of automated tests I’m still finding bugs – extensions that hook into the RecentChanges machinery need to adapt to the new code. Not all of them are covered by automated tests, however.

Keep an eye on Oddmuse:ChangeLog and wait for a lull.

That said, I have installed the latest Oddmuse on all my servers. ;)

  • The “nice words” are well deserved.
  • I will have someone keep an eye on Oddmuse:Changelog since I’ll be traveling quite a bit for the rest of this year.
  • I’ll suggest they plan for an upgrade after 2008-11-01.
  • Thank for your reply! Hans :-)

2008-09-07

I was trying to add this to AssumeGoodFaith, but the page isn’t saving when I hit “save.”

So, I’m attaching it here.

Alex, I keep trying to append this text to AssumeGoodFaith; When I hit “Save,” though, it keeps giving me a blank page (no HTML received.)

Is there anything I should check on my browser, or do you think this might be something in the install?

I can edit other pages just fine, so I don’t think it’s a content problem.

Continuation of AssumeGoodFaith

OK, I’ve now read all of this.

Anonymous, I am sure you are a good person. And I imagine that your effort is to ensure that oppressed peoples are heard and seen; These are admirable things. There’s certainly plenty of need in the world.

Now, my question for you is: What is your intention here?

What I mean is, what is your intention for writing on this wiki, to me, to us, … ..?

If the newcomer is unwilling to reveal their intentions, then I think this is fair grounds for dismissal.

Weird, it works for me…

2008-08-31 HwoToDo

  • Provide a preview of the new RnA? (Oddmuse) WikiHive complex.
    • Link the launch of this ‘complex’ of wikis to CwB (CommunityWikiBusiness (not Bank)).
    • 2008-09-30 update should include Contracting for Oddmuse software Maintenance & Enhancements.
    • Explain some of the implications of the underlying “InterTwingle?(d)” MicroContent architecture that uses TiddlyWiki as a Client-Side front-end to MicroContent that is both self-contained in an AJAX implementation and that is seamlessly integrated with a Server-Side OddMuse WikiEngine, for PublicDomain repository services.
  • Update the CwB ‘aggregate’ area for FrontPage TransClusion.
  • Remove the next “prior…” section to Hwo:RecentChanges to reduce this page’s Blog profile.
  • Add Search facilities for this CommunityWiki’s key topics, using both DiiGo tags and extended InterMap entries.

prior...

  • HansWobbe … [[2008-07-31_HwoToDo?]]
  • (Only a “localhost” hyperlink … [Hw:RecentChanges Hw:RCs].)
    • Consider using “c:…” as a more meaningful prefix that “localhost”.
      • Review the …Nix conventions to assess which may be more generally acceptable.
  • Done…
    • Carried the 2008-07 forward to this page.
    • Removed the prior 2008-08 material to Hwo:2008-06-30.
    • flagged these pages as DeletedPage(s).

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2008-06-09 fr

Joyeux anniversaire Lubin ! (My son is a 1 year old little boy today ! I love you).

2008-03-07

Hello Wiki readers!

May I seek a little of your time to do a research survey? If you are an active user or contributor to a company wiki, please consider taking this survey and your response will greatly assist in the study of the individual’s perceptions towards adopting Wiki technology innovation.

The title of the survey is called “Survey on Adoption of Wiki Technology Innovation”. The objective is to deepen the understanding of the adoption of Wiki technology innovation by individuals in organizations, and the Wiki technology’s diffusion within the organization. I would appreciate your expert view and feedback on the survey. Also, may I kindly seek your assistance in forwarding this email to your colleagues, friends, or anybody you think use wiki in organizations. I hope it will not take too much of your time.

Here is a link to the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=zfANP1maT_2ffOLCMljGEMbA_3d_3d
This short survey will take about 10-15 minutes to complete.

Thank you very much for your time!

Cheers, Lin Weizhang
B08249@gmail.com
Student of Singapore Institute of Management

2008-02-25

Look! they covered us here:

http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/02/the-liberator-a.html

and here http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/25/open-source-compress.html

If you know of anyone who would like to micro-fund the rapid development of this, or of flexible fabrication, or even someone who would like to place an order for flexible fabrication, we are in a position to fill orders for some of these open design products, at costs well below competing commercial offerings (sometimes a factor of 10 times below)

Or, if you are interested in open product development, or in creating a business around it, we (myself and Marcin, and others involved) are offering support and infrastructure and training. Marcin is offering to bring people to his location, and will teach you to construct these machines, plus help you build and sell as many as you want, and will give you profits to put towards start up money for your own flexible fabrication business.

2008-02-20

A question to CommunityWiki:

What IDE’s do you use or recommend (Wikipedia:Integrated_development_environment)? For Perl, for Python, Ruby, PHP, Java?

Right now, I am using eclipse for PHP, and emacs for everything else. I respect your opinions here, and any advice you can give is appreciated.

I use EMACS & the command line. (In particular, I use unittest, a Python unit testing module, to run tests.)

I used to have apretty elaborate development environment when I was writing in C: vim, make, ident, cproto, ctags, splint…

I’m still mainly working in vim (there is no better editor for remote work over ssh), but started to switch to gedit for editing local files (it’s an almost usable editor after you disable almost everything andinstall some plugins for missing commands, oh, and a non-fruit-salad color theme). Python has the advantage that you really only need a simple text editor – even syntax highlighting isn’t necessary. Oh, and for editing multiple files (and generally file management) I started to use Thunar – it’s pretty usable with its “open terminal here” command. I also started to use Mercurial as the revision control system.

I use Emacs for everything, but at work I use Eclipse for Java.

I live in GNU Emacs, but should really get out more.

Here’s a collection of more esoteric stuff I’ve found over the years that may be of interest:

http://www.SRCF.UCAM.org/~dmi1000/roboc Roboc is designed as a teaching language, so it doesn’t require any previous programming experience, and is suitable for short courses (from two hours to two weeks). Relatively young programmers (14-17 years) should find it OK. It has been developed in conjunction with programming classes for such students, and has evolved based on the issues which were observed during teaching. To keep things simple we added only those language features which turned out to be necessary (for example, and was added to conditions because deeply nested if statements caused difficulty for some students).

http://Eidola.org Eidola is a representation-independent, object-oriented, visual programming language.

http://LittleWizard.sf.net Little Wizard is a development environment for children. It is intended to be used by primary school children to learn about the main elements of real computer languages. Using only the mouse, children can explore programming concepts such as variables, expressions, loops, conditions, and logical blocks. Every element of the language is represented by an intuitive icon, making it easy to learn.

http://SmallBASIC.sf.net The SmallBASIC? project aims to provide a full featured and easy to use interpreted language suitable for non serious programming on any computing platform.

http://kidBasic.sf.net (now BASIC-256)BASIC-256 is an easy to use version of BASIC designed to teach young children the basics of computer programming. It uses traditional control structures like gosub, for/next, and goto, which helps kids easily see how program flow-control works. It has a built-in graphics mode which lets them draw pictures on screen in minutes, and a set of detailed, easy-to-follow tutorials that introduce programming concepts through fun exercises.

http://edu.KDE.org/kturtle KTurtle is an educational programming environment for the KDE Desktop. KTurtle aims to make programming as easy and touchable as possible, and therefore can be used to teach kids the basics of math, geometry and… programming.

http://wxDsgn.sf.net wxDev-C is an extension of Dev-C by Colin Laplace et. al. This program helps you to create dialogs and frames for wxWidgets visually using a form designer. With all the wonderful features of Dev-C, wxDev-C is still being actively developed. The main aim of this project is to provide the wxWidgets community with a free, open-source, commercial-grade IDE/RAD tool for development with wxWidgets.

http://BabyDevelop.sf.net BabyDevelop? is a lightweight Integrated Development Environment for C, C++, Qt and support for the GP2X/SDL. Easy to use, fast to start and compile, expandable in functional range for anyone. For Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (cygwin).

http://CodeBlocks.org Code::Blocks is a free C++ IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable.

http://UltimatePP.org Ultimate is a C cross-platform rapid application development suite focused on programmers productivity. It includes a set of libraries (GUI, SQL, etc..), and an integrated development environment. - Rapid development is achieved by the smart and aggressive use of C rather than through fancy code generators. In this respect, U competes with popular scripting languages while preserving C/C++ runtime characteristics.

http://Members.Save-Net.com/jko%40save-net.com/asm (DesktopLinuxAsm?, asmide)>>If you enjoy assember coding and think it is more than a technique to optimize slow code then you are in the right place.

http://Anjuta.org

http://April-Child.com implemented in javascript and Ruby

http://GetFirebug.com Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Ah, that firebug links reminds me that I wouldn’t be able to work efficiently without Firefox’s Web Developer Toolbar.

2008-01-31 HwoToDo

2008-01 plans...
  • 2008-01-07 … try applying some of the emerging MicroContent concepts to my postings in this Blog.
    • the <include… ‘exclude’ trick may be quite useful.
      • explain that since <include… stops after 1 level, it is possible to exclude SubWiki working notes.
    • Hwo:2008-01-31 is being used to avoid cluttering the CommunityWiki blog.

2008-01-28

As a competition to CommunityWikiBank I would like to start an institution for non-quantitative capital. There will be no one exchange standard. For the start there will be just two rules: every transaction will be recorded and everything will be subject of open debate. The main idea is in helping each other in conducting our own private businesses - i.e. things that already have a real value for us (for example projects that we are paid for) - not in doing some common projects that can have some value in the future. I think this is exactly what the metaphor of BarnRising? suggests.

ZbigniewLukasiak

I also like these two rules and have assumed that they will be incorporated into both CommunityWikiBank and CwB (CommunityWikiBusiness?), ever since Lion and Alex suggested the use of the Ledger. “Open Source” accounting software.

As for “…no one exchange standard”, I think that multiple (foreign) exchange standards are essential since even the few current CommunityWiki participants span many countries. One practical example… I’ve been quite fascinated by the incredible changes that have taken place in the relative values of the loan made to Lion in $.us that were “purchased” in $.ca. Foreign Exchange transactions are nothing new, but the swings in these relative values during the 10 months of this loan have been very large! Managing this type of shifting value is one of the significant challenges of faced by each countries central banks in their international dealings.

Just imagine how much more complicated this will get when you can also “store” value in “horseshoe nails”, “chickens” “bread” or “BobDollars”, each of which is also certain to be affected by real market “supply and demand” considerations, as well as the “cost of living” in different countries and the real competition that arises from their different standards of living!

Hmmm…Hans, I definitely agree that supporting AlternativeCurrency could throw in un-needed complexity.

Yet, I also like the challenge that I think Zby is posing, which could let the best methods and currencies rise to the top, if it is managed carefully.

But, I agree with Hans that it would be most equitable if we would at least create a way to fairly track relative values based on different factors on an ongoing basis. This is tough task, but then again leaves room for us to evolve or improve upon existing solutions and conditions.

We need a new exchange rate system, that is based on our ecology, and should be open for debate along with everything else…

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