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| Ready for a regex challenge? Solve this puzzle! |
| 2021-03-15 - 08:02 by PeterThoeny in Development Regular expressions (regex for short) are powerful tools to analyze and manipulate text. They can be intimidating though. However, you can start small, and learn more as you keep using them. The presentation is... |
| TWiki turns 20! |
| 2018-09-03 - 22:10 by PeterThoeny in Community TWiki is no longer a teenager last month TWiki turned 20 years. As a kid, even though green, TWiki was trailblazing the enterprise collaboration space. Then as a teenager it was rebellious. Now TWiki continues... |
| TWiki-6.1.0 Released - Better Usability, Better App Platform |
| 2018-08-20 - 02:15 by PeterThoeny in Development TWiki 6.1.0 is released, shipped through the virtual door! This release brings a number of usability enhancements, and strengthens TWiki as an application platform. We recommend to upgrade to this latest release... |
| GitForTWikiDevelopment |
| 2018-03-20 - 20:11 by HaraldJoerg in Development For a long time now, TWiki has been developed in Subversion, also known as SVN. However, since some years I`m using Git for other projects, and it has some features I really would like to use for TWiki as well.... |
| Automatic TWiki Deployment |
| 2017-12-06 - 20:11 by HaraldJoerg in Deployment This year I haven`t done any TWiki development, but I`ve done a bit of testing, bug reporting/hunting/fixing, and taking care of support questions. While doing that, quite often I would have liked to create a fresh... |
| How to: Create a Chat Application with a WebSocket |
| 2016-04-05 - 07:56 by PeterThoeny in Development WebSockets are a relatively recent addition to the World Wide Web. Sockets are well known in Unix and Linux for many years, used to create endpoints for communication between processes that look like files. The... |
| Nested Searches or Hash Searches |
| 2016-03-12 - 20:41 by JaniHamalainen in General I`m a fairly new user to TWiki and upon encountering a scenario where I needed to do a complicated search I remembered reading about the ability to do nested searches. I implemented the nested search only to... |
| TWiki-6.0.2 Released - Better Usability, Better App Platform |
| 2015-11-30 - 08:02 by PeterThoeny in Deployment TWiki 6.0.2 is released, shipped through the virtual door! This is a patch release that brings some usability enhancements, such as easier installation, and strengthens TWiki as an application platform. The release... |
| How to run TWiki reliably on a public website |
| 2015-10-16 - 02:34 by PeterThoeny in Deployment TWiki is typically used in an access restricted environment, such as behind a corporate firewall. There are many publicly accessible TWiki sites as well, such as the NIST Computing Collaboration Site, or this TWiki... |
| Responsive Multi-Column Page Layout using CSS |
| 2015-05-08 - 01:18 by PeterThoeny in Deployment The internet becomes more and more mobile; mobile devices are used increasingly to access the internet and intranet, including company internal TWikis. The goal is to design websites that work equally well on desktop... |
| Automate Workflows with If-Then-Actions |
| 2015-04-30 - 04:28 by PeterThoeny in Deployment TWiki has a new IfThenActionPlugin to automate workflows. Administrators can define if then actions that are triggered when a topic is viewed or saved, an attachment is uploaded, or a user registers. As an example... |
| How Secure is your Passphrase? Generate a Dice-Indexed Passphrase using TWiki |
| 2015-04-20 - 02:59 by PeterThoeny in Development A passphrase acts as a master password that is used to securely store other passwords. It has to be strong so that it can`t be easily cracked and expose the other passwords. This blog has a dice indexed passphrase... |
| Setting and Getting JSON Objects using JSON Path |
| 2015-03-30 - 20:28 by PeterThoeny in Development JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data interchange format based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language. It is easy for humans to read and write, and easy for machines to parse and... |
| Structured Wiki: Enterprise Wiki & Application Platform = Flexibility & Power |
| 2014-11-01 - 07:47 by PeterThoeny in Deployment TWiki is unique in the enterprise wiki space because it is also an application platform. Sharing content among team members in a wiki has many advantages, and brings transparency and accountability to the workplace... |
| Announcement: TWiki-6.0.1 Released - Better Usability, Improved App Platform |
| 2014-10-15 - 07:42 by PeterThoeny in Deployment TWiki 6.0.1 is released, shipped through the virtual door! This is a patch release that brings a number of usability enhancements, such as drag drop file attachments, and strengthens TWiki as an application platform... |
| Internet Slowdown to Protest for Net Neutrality |
| 2014-09-10 - 20:58 by PeterThoeny in General September 10th is the Internet Slowdown. Cable companies want to slow down your favorite sites, for profit. To fight back, TWiki.org is participating by adding a symbolic `loading` icon to remind everyone what an... |
| Häppy Collaboration at Work! |
| 2014-08-16 - 22:21 by PeterThoeny in Community The Open Source TWiki Team wishes you H ppy Collaboration at Work! Peter Thoeny, TWiki.org Founder |
| Attachment drag and drop with the updated PatternSkin |
| 2014-05-28 - 02:25 by HideyoImazu in Usability PatternSkin now has an HTML5 based attachment drag and drop capability. It will be part of the upcoming TWiki 6.0.1 release. You can use the drag and drop feature simply by installing the latest version from PatternSkin... |
| How to create a print button that opens up a print dialog box |
| 2014-05-16 - 03:57 by PeterThoeny in Development I was tasked to add a print button to a TWiki application that opens up a print dialog box. This one click option is more user friendly than the standard Print Version File Print option. Searching the internet... |
| How to cache a sidebar for better performance |
| 2013-12-27 - 01:08 by PeterThoeny in Deployment If your TWiki has a sidebar, top bar or bottom bar that has a lot of dynamic content it can slow down your whole TWiki browsing experience. For example, displaying topic children in a hierarchical tree using TreePlugin... |
| Download & How To: VMware Virtual Machine With CentOS 6.4 64-bit Minimal and Apache Webserver |
| 2013-10-28 - 02:17 by PeterThoeny in Deployment CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) is a very popular Linux distribution based on RedHat Enterprise Linux. The default CentOS distribution is too bloated for webserver use. This article describes how... |
| Announcement: TWiki-6.0.0 Released - Better Usability, Scalability & App Platform |
| 2013-10-22 - 09:07 by PeterThoeny in Deployment TWiki 6.0.0 is released, shipped through the virtual door! This is a major release that has a shiny new dashboard look, brings many usability enhancements, strengthens TWiki as an application platform, and scales... |
| TWiki formatting - Doing a test report |
| 2013-08-07 - 21:05 by StefanAlthoefer in Applications Recently I started creating test reports in our company`s Twiki, which is already used for project management and knowledge base. Below you find some formatting tricks that I use for consistent rendering and topic... |
| Advanced TWiki Spreadsheet Formulas: Power and Flexibility - Not For Grandma |
| 2013-03-25 - 04:14 by PeterThoeny in Development TWiki`s SpreadSheetPlugin just got 9 new functions that add hash capabilities to TWiki. But first some history. Spreadsheets became accessible to the masses in the eighties when Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston created... |
| New TWiki Extensions to Watch Pages, Get Notified, Connect to SAP, JIRA, and More |
| 2013-03-16 - 03:55 by PeterThoeny in Deployment TWiki.org has a lot of activity recenty, especially on the extensions. Here is a quick overview on some new plugins release in the last few weeks. TWiki has a new WatchlistPlugin. It does what you know from the... |
| TWiki-5.1.4 Released: Get. Work. Done. |
| 2013-02-18 - 09:13 by PeterThoeny in Deployment We just released TWiki 5.1.4 it can be downloaded immediately from TWiki.org and SourceForge.net. The TWiki VM, a VMware based virtual machine has been updated as well. This release supersedes earlier TWiki... |
| TWiki-5.1.3 Released: Usable. Fun. Powerful. |
| 2012-12-17 - 09:24 by PeterThoeny in Deployment We just released TWiki 5.1.3, it can be downloaded immediately from TWiki.org and SourceForge.net. The TWiki VM, a VMware based virtual machine has been updated as well. I`d like to take this opportunity to thank... |
| Generate Fun Text for Social Media: Strike Out, Mirror, Flipped & Upside Down Text |
| 2012-11-20 - 05:42 by PeterThoeny in Deployment This text tool is for fun and to learn Javascript. If you want strike out text, mirrored text, flipped text or upside down text, then this is it. You can copy and paste from this tool into Facebook, Twitter, Google... |
| TWiki-5.1.2 Released: Rock Solid. Usable. Fun. |
| 2012-10-10 - 08:22 by PeterThoeny in Deployment We just released TWiki 5.1.2, it can be downloaded immediately from TWiki.org and SourceForge.net. The TWiki VM will be updated as well in the next few days. I`d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who... |
| Free Geolocation Lookup - Where is This Website or IP Address? |
| 2012-08-14 - 05:57 by PeterThoeny in Applications This blog post has two purposes: 1. Free application to find the geolocation (geographical location) of an Internet domain name or an IP (Internet Protocol) address. Multiple addresses can be specified.... |
| Häppy 25th Birthday, HyperCard! |
| 2012-08-11 - 17:08 by PeterThoeny in General 25 years ago today, Apple genius Atkinson held a press conference at MacWorld in Boston to unveil HyperCard. Apple pitched HyperCard as a way to hyperlink together a series of graphic cards or screens. The cards... |
| The Internet Map - Fascinating Ways to Visualize the Web |
| 2012-07-31 - 07:29 by PeterThoeny in General The Internet Map (click to enlarge) Ruslan Enikeev created a cool interactive map of the Internet. The four biggest circles are google.com, facebook.com, youtube.com and yahoo.com. TWiki.org is a tiny spec next... |
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