http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog TWiki is a Web-Based Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise. en-us Copyright 2008 by contributing authors Peter Thoeny [peter.thoeny.public@twiki.net] The contributing authors of TWiki TWiki http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog http://twiki.org/p/pub/TWiki/TWikiLogos/T-logo-140x40-t.gif http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x2 I've fixed a security issue in the TWiki:Plugins.ToolTipPlugin. Any sites using this Plugin should upgrade to the newest version. If your site uses any topic or web view access restrictions, it's especially important to update. The exposure has existed going back at least a couple of years. TWikibug:Item6040 addresses the issue. The fixed plugin is version 17565 (02 Oct 2008) or later. (last changed by GeorgeClark) 2008-10-04T00:31:26Z GeorgeClark http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x1 TWIKI as foundation for NEST 1.1 Project Platform Hi TWIKI community! I am Marko "NarsuMan" Rintamäki and I am working at Ixonos PLC (http://www.ixonos.com/en) as Senior Test Engineer/Consultant. I have been using TWIKI now 5 years with a good spirit! I would like to share my "internal feelings" about using TWIKI as foundation for Project Platform :) Background for TWIKI usage Last couple years I've been working with "large" ~70 100 person multisite project where TWIKI has been used as knowledge ... (last changed by MarkoRintamaki) 2008-10-03T12:18:31Z MarkoRintamaki http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200809x2 A case study that shows improving the performance of TWIKI has been published on the https://lrwpinjava.dev.java.net/ LRWPinJava website. Glassfish/LRWPinJava improves TWIKI performance more than 2x with 10x less load compared to Apache 1.3/cgi bin on Solaris 10 and T2000, a Sun/SPARC CMT based system. is a J2EE open source Application Server while LRWPinJava is an open source implementation of the http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/WebServices/javaC LRWP/lrwp.html LRWP protocol ... (last changed by RafaelAlvarez) 2008-09-29T23:18:39Z RafaelAlvarez http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200808x7 My group in our company had the same problem as all groups: How to coordinate annual holiday for the group members? Recently we used the wall calendar in my office to remember each members holiday plan. After plans had changed, it looked odd. And it worked only inside my office. As we already use TWiki for project management and knowledge base, I looked for a Wiki based solution. I browsed through the rich TWiki plugin area, but nothing fulfilled my wishes. Especially no plugin was able to show ... (last changed by ArthurClemens) 2008-09-07T13:47:31Z ArthurClemens http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200808x6 Gardening, the K. way (last changed by MichaelDaum) 2008-08-17T11:52:47Z MichaelDaum http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200808x5 I just built and released a patch release TWiki 4.2.2 that fixes the following issues found by users: Registration with verification fails in 4.2.1 REVINFO with web specified in topic param renders as though topic does not exist. TWiki::Compatibility has undefined variable error A number of other small issues were resolved, including updating the release process. I Hope this will be the begining of a tradition of creating patch releases as soon as fixes are available. Please go ahead ... (last changed by MartinSeibert) 2008-08-10T18:06:42Z MartinSeibert http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200808x3 In his article, Introducing The Conversation Prism, Brian Solis writes: Over the last month, I worked with Jesse Thomas of JESS3, to create a new graphic that helps chart online conversations between the people that populate communities as well as the networks that connect the Social Web. The Conversation Prism is free to use and share. It's our contribution to a new era of media education and literacy. The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as ... (last changed by VickiBrown) 2008-08-27T16:54:16Z VickiBrown http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200808x2 Here is the release manager's (KennethLavrsen) reflection on TWiki 4.2.1 As release manager for TWiki for almost 3 years I have been managing the releases of quite many TWiki versions now. But the release 4.2.1 is probably the release I have put more heart and energy into and also the release I have felt most pleased with getting finished and made available for our many users. TWiki release 4.2.0 was a significant release feature wise. It introduced a fantastic new Wysiwyg editor. It introduced the ... (last changed by KennethLavrsen) 2008-08-04T22:29:45Z KennethLavrsen http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200808x1 The TWiki community has just released a big patch release for the newest TWiki version 4.2. In the new release, that can be found at http://www.twiki.org/cgi bin/view/Codev/TWikiRelease04x02x01 both stability and performance have improved . One main focus was to improve the reliability of the WYSIWYG editor : "We have made big improvements with this feature that brings TWiki one more step closer to the community of non tech savvy people." says Kenneth Lavrsen (Motorola), who is in charge of release ... (last changed by PeterThoeny) 2008-08-05T05:57:15Z PeterThoeny http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200807x4 How can you determine if old content is "moldy" (stale) or simply doesn't need to be changed regularly? TWiki is terrific. Anyone can add pages. However, if you don't have a dedicated TWiki librarian, content can become stale. I wanted a relatively easy way to mark "old" pages and ask for feedback: is this content still useful? I installed a custom view template and combined that with a comment form. Pages older than a pre defined date now appear with an extra block of text at the top: Screenshot ... (last changed by VickiBrown) 2008-08-07T17:25:23Z VickiBrown http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200807x3 One of the features of Twitter is that it runs 24/7/365. (Un)fortunately, I don't. So, I miss things. I especially miss tweets from people in the "other" hemispheres! I didn't want to miss things, so I looked for a solution. Being a programmer myself, I wanted a solution I could control and tweak if necessary. However, I didn't want to write something from scratch if I didn't have to! Twitter has a popular, published API, so I figured someone would have written what I wanted. Someone did. I found ... (last changed by VickiBrown) 2008-07-15T17:03:37Z VickiBrown http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200807x2 Where I work, we have started a page for "new people" in the department. People are added to the page as they join the group. Each person has a section for mini bio and other information and there is a table of contents. The problem: as the page gets larger, it's more difficult to find the entry for a given person. The TOC is ordered by when the person joined. It would be convenient to be able to sort the TOC alphabetically (it's just a list after all) I started looking for ways to sort a list in ... (last changed by VickiBrown) 2008-07-06T18:05:48Z VickiBrown http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200807x1 Working with TWiki doesn't need to be big and showy to learn something from it. I did lots of TWiki work last week. 1. I redid our Breadcrumbs in our home TWiki. The default for a subweb is something like CFCL TWiki Projects/Arti WebHome now (using BreadCrumbsPlugin) we have CFCL TWiki Projects Arti WebHome The vs is an artifact but Rich kinda liked it so I'll keep it. 2. I put our TopicTree code into our Shared topics so it's standardized. I also added a subwebs ... (last changed by VickiBrown) 2008-07-15T17:05:50Z VickiBrown http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2008-06-20-universal-wiki-edit-button-for-twiki There has been progress towards making the Web properly Read Write at Universal Edit Button site. TWiki.org and Bugs site have been Universal Edit Button enabled all you need to do is install the addin, and you see a Wiki Edit Icon in the Firefox URL input box. Editing then becomes as simple as clicking on the icon in the toolbar! I have checked in the template changes needed to the twiki 4.2.1 branch, but if you're impatient to see it working for your TWiki apply the patch attached to this Blog ... (last changed by CarloSchulz) 2008-07-14T14:18:15Z CarloSchulz http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2008-06-13-new-employee-application In our company with several geographically dispersed teams, we found it challenging to keep up with who our coworkers are in other offices. Another challenge was that when a new person was hired, that information often did not reach the people who needed it in order to prepare for the new employee's arrival. There are preparations to be made, such as having their computer configured, having benefits and other company information packets ready for them, and having basic orientation or training ready ... (last changed by DavidWolfe) 2008-06-13T19:57:14Z DavidWolfe http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2008-06-08-parameterized-includes I have recently been creating a number of TWiki pages that contain multiple variations on very similar code; e.g., many twisties like this one: %TWISTY{mode "div" showlink "schema info" hidelink "schema info" showimgleft "" hideimgleft "" }% where the only difference is the showlink/hidelink text. As a programmer, I don't like to repeat code. I prefer to write a function, use a macro, or set a variable. (Repeat Yourself). I asked the TWiki Community for suggestions in GenericMacroProcessing ... (last changed by RichMorin) 2008-09-01T19:18:05Z RichMorin