Rudi Bierach

Organization: Moonwalk

URL: http://www.moonwalkinc.com

Country: Australia

City: Brisbane

• Webpage URL: http://rudi.bierach.id.au

I'm an extremely happy user of TWiki, with multiple installations of it for web work, main work and at home for my family.

We use a old forked version of the twiki since 2003 which I maintain for my Company as a:

• Knowledge base
• Tasks system
  • with automatic links to our cvs repository
• End User Software documention production as pdfs
  • using htmldoc on the output of the publish addon, custom coded to work of the concept of a topic "contents page" which is the list of topics to include in the book

We since use the old 2003 codebase bacause:

• it's an internal twiki (don't have to worry about security fixes since then)
• it's bucket loads faster then the latest codebases
• the code changes since then haven't been compelling enough for a merge or switch over
• when evaluating the 2004-2005 codebase found it more buggy then the 2003 codebase due to massive refactorings of the core
• still using a custom version of the tiger skin and are satisfied with it
• we backport fixes from 4.1.2 as required (many of the code FIXMEs from 2000-2003 are still in 4.1.2)

We use a patched version of the old Cache Addon since 2004 to aggressively cache pages (on first view or after edits) (with custom checks to invalidate the cache based on our sites assumptions) which allowed us to run the twiki on really old sun gear with most of the content delivered as static html.

We also use the twiki as a Content Management System for websites to generate static websites based on flexible shtml/perl based templating (see http://shtml.sourceforge.net/), most of which has been open sourced.

If I fix some twiki bugs in 2003 codebase and discover them in the 4.1.2 version, I'll upload the patches or fill in bug reports with the details and fixes.

My Links

• Plugin I wrote - EditInTablePlugin - makes editing any table alot easier (very out of date and buggy, no pressing need to update or fix)

Personal Preferences (details in TWikiVariables)

• Horizontal size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 70
• Vertical size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 22
• Style of text edit box. width: 99% for full window width (default), width: auto to disable.
  • Set EDITBOXSTYLE = width: 99%
• Optionally write protect your home page: (set it to your WikiName)
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE =

Related topics

• ChangePassword
• TWikiPreferences has site-level preferences of TWiki.
• WebPreferences has preferences of the TWiki.Main web.
• TWikiUsers has a list of other TWiki users.