TWiki Newsletter 2012-05-14

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The TWiki newsletter is back from a long hiatus. Please let us know if there is anything you want to see in the next newsletter!

In this newsletter: Release Status along with a sampling of items posted to the TWiki Blog

1. Release Status
2. Book: Information System Design Using TWiki
3. How to Create a TWiki Application
4. New OpenID integration for TWiki to login with AOL, Google, Verisign and other OpenID accounts
5. New TopMenuSkin for Better Usability and Functionality
6. TWiki Case Study: Consultancy Aseaco AG
7. Adding Geolocation to TWiki
8. Evolution of TWiki use at TU Delft

Articles have been shortened, below, to save some space. If you're particularly interested in one of these items, be sure to visit the link to the complete entry!

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1. Release Status

Current release: TWiki-5.1.1, released 2012-01-14

TWiki-5.1 introduced many usability enhancements, such as point and click user data management, more visual user profile pages with picture selector, and a backup feature to help upgrade TWiki sites. This release also strengthens TWiki as an application platform to more easily build custom wiki applications.

See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/DownloadTWiki for download, and for current and previous release information.

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2. Book: Information System Design Using TWiki

Book by PhilGochenour, XML Press, ISBN: 978 0982219171, Apr 2012. Combining real world experience with a veteran teacher’s ability to communicate, Phil Gochenour’s Information System Design Using TWiki demonstrates the basic principles behind any system design, whether it’s a cookbook or a software company’s wiki.

-- 2012-05-14 - 08:08 by PeterThoeny
Read more: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201205x2

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3. How to Create a TWiki Application

TWiki applications are a wonderful part of TWiki. They help automate workflows you have at the workplace. I am writing this how to blog because not many people know about this very useful feature TWiki offers as a structured wiki. TWiki has a built in database that can be used to write custom web applications. These are wiki applications that run in TWiki!

-- 2010-09-10 - 00:18 by PeterThoeny
Read more: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201009x1
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4. New OpenID integration for TWiki to login with AOL, Google, Verisign and other OpenID accounts

TWiki has a new OpenID login feature. It allows users to log in to TWiki sites which have enabled this feature, using accounts from an OpenID provider. OpenID has been growing around the Internet recently. In response to user frustration with having to remember a login and password for every different web site, many organizations worked together to develop the OpenID standard.

-- 2010-05-03 - 09:22 by IanKluft
Read more: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201005x1

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5. New TopMenuSkin for Better Usability and Functionality

TWiki has a new skin called TopMenuSkin that will be part of the upcoming TWiki 5.0 release. The default PatternSkin is very functional and has been refined over time. The new TopMenuSkin is derived from the PatternSkin and adds better usability and a corporate look, inspired by the TWikiNetSkin and Apple.

-- 2010-04-23 - 21:55 by PeterThoeny
Read more: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201004x1

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6. TWiki Case Study: Consultancy Aseaco AG

As a mid size consulting company offering higly specialized services for SAP customers we were facing the requirement to create a new infrastructure for in-house knowledge transfer. Up to then the existing solutions we were using created huge dumps of single documents of almost every possible format. Searching across documents was not possible and thus the overall usage of the system declined. ...

-- 2010-02-25 - 10:38 by MichaelGulitz
Read more: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201002x2

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7. Adding Geolocation to TWiki

TWiki has now plugin for geolocation. Geolocation is the identification of the real world geographic location of an Internet connected computer, mobile device, website visitor or other. IP address geolocation data can include information such as country, region, city, postal/zip code, latitude, longitude and timezone.

-- 2010-01-24 - 05:52 by PeterThoeny
Read more: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201001x1

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8. Evolution of TWiki use at TU Delft

The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands has been running TWiki since 2004 at http://wiki.tudelft.nl. They created a nice visualization of the evolution of TWiki use from the very beginning...

-- 2009-11-05 - 22:33 by PeterThoeny
Read more: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200911x1

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-- Contributor editor: VickiBrown -- 2012-05-14

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