WHitWoT #6 (Feb 6-12, 2008)
Daniel Baird
http://blog.deuceofalltrades.com/2008/02/whitwot-6-feb-6-12-2008.html
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WHitWoT #6 (Feb 6-12, 2008)
Welcome to the 6th edition of "What Happened in the World of
TiddlyWiki", or WHitWoT for short. WHitWoT summarises what's happened
lately on the TiddlyWiki mailing list and elsewhere in the TiddlyWiki
world.
This edition includes stories from ocalTW, WHitWoT's first
contributing editor! If you want to be a contributor to WHitWoT like
ocalTW, please contact Daniel at this email address: whitwot at gmail,
then a dot, then com.
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!News and Stuff
!!!!Make your dates prettier!
Simon Baird announced a new plugin, PrettyDatesPlugin. It's basically
a wrapup of some JavaScript by John Resig to turn "Jan 3 2008" into
"two weeks ago". That's what you really want to know anyway, right?
This would have featured in WHitWoT earlier, but the conversation
about alternate names (SmartDates, SexyDates, RelativeDates..) went on
for ages :)
[source] http://prettydatesplugin.tiddlyspot.com/
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/a7e9fa7e9dd8b378
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!!!!FND joins Osmosoft
Osmosoft is the little branch of BT that cares about TiddlyWiki, and
they've just hired on FND, who is responsible for many answers on the
TW mailing list and most of the wiki at tiddlywiki.org.
Hopefully some remuneration will let FND keep up the work he puts into
the TiddlyWiki community.
[osmosoft] http://osmosoft.com
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/ae313576850dc365
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!!!!Gracefully shorten URLs
FND also found time to produce a little plugin that overrides the way
TiddlyWiki displays URLs. The ShortURLPlugin snips out the middle of
any superlong URLs when they are shown on screen (without changing the
URL the link actually goes to). If your nice layout gets ruined by
long URLs, check it out.
[source] http://fnd.lewcid.org/tmp/ShortURLPlugin.html
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/e356a266c2739817
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!Online Discussions
!!!!Saving to tiddlyspot from Prism
Weidner asked if anyone had success uploading to tiddlyspot.com using
Prism[1]. No answers for this one.. has anyone saved to an
UploadPlugin site from Prism?
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/bd8e3d883e88dbac
[1] http://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism
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!!!!Make a link into your bug database with this: <<bug 1234>>
Prompted by a request from Harshad, resident guru Eric Shulman
explains how to use the AliasPlugin[2] to easily make links like this:
http://bugzilla.mysite.com/bug_id=100
..by just typing the bug number like this:
<<bug 100>>
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/184537f4222b8783
[2] http://www.tiddlytools.com/#AliasPlugin
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!!!!Scheduling backups of a tiddlyspot site
(by ocalTW)
XENO wanted a free solution on Windows to schedule a backup of his
tiddlyspot site. The proposed solution was to use Microsoft Scheduled
Tasks[3] and Wget [4].
Nevertheless, a security issue was raised, as the username and
password must be written in plain text in the command line that is
scheduled.
Simon Baird also suggested downloading the
http://USERNAME.tiddlyspot.com/download page.
An open question was how to check that a change had been made on the
TiddlyWiki page. As Bob Paige remarked, if it doesn't change often,
excessive backups would be causing extra traffic for no reason.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/9bcc7ea0c3cc515e/0effad86c3ee9718
[3] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308569
[4] http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
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!Quick Shots
How does TiddlyWiki handle lots of data:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/fa6809c4a79e7932
Type less with IntelliTagger and AutoWeave:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/fcbc4121d866ac1c
Link to local files from your TiddlyWiki:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/beefac7bfc13f70f
Add a logo to your header:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/d9a41654767378a1
Add an automatic summary to long tiddlers:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/e48d40a74ab9c3ba
Use the "last modified" date to show another date (like event happened on..):
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/e686097b001f3f89
Use shortcut keys in Firefox (I like Shift-Ctrl-S to save):
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/a96c9c51719d5029
Automatically reload after saving to tiddlyspot.com:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/17ade817a9829f85
Why TiddlyWiki sometimes forgets your name:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/dacaba7a5b41ce37
Change the title bar colour to show when you need to save:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/3c559d93d720ffe9
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!!!Postdrivel
Thank you to contributing editor ocalTW, who actually wrote up three
articles for this issue of WHitWoT, but thanks to a difference in
timezone, two of them actually fall into next issue's date range. For
issue #7 I plan to standardise on GMT (currently WHitWoT dates are in
my local timezone of GMT+10).
If you'd like to lend a hand preparing WHitWoT, please email me at
gmail.com, username whitwot and let me know.
;Daniel
!!!About WHitWoT
WHitWoT is distilled from the social wisdom of the TiddlyWiki Google
Group by Daniel Baird and others. Daniel is a long time TiddlyWiki
fan, runs tiddlyspot.com along with Simon of MonkeyGTD and MPTW fame,
and wonders if his one line contribution to the core code is still
there.
Find (and subscribe to) WHitWoT at Daniel's blog:
http://blog.deuceofalltrades.com/search/label/WHitWoT
..and posted ocasionally at the TiddlyWiki Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki