Hi,
It's been a long while since I've posted here so in a sense this is a
newbie post.
In the past, I really enjoyed tinkering, futzing and toying with my
TiddlyWiki, but in the end I got stuck in the middle of the
scalability issue between a plump TW and pondering a local
serverside.
So, when good folks at Osmosoft and TiddlyTools co-hosted TiddlyWest
atop SuperNova 2008, this was a good chance to see what new magic
appeared since v2.0 and the folks behind it.
As probably the only nontechie in the audience, some of the
descriptions maybe garbled in transmission, but I hope this initial
post will stimulate more disclosures from the fellow attendees on the
great stuff presented.
Phil Whitehouse did a wonderful job of organizing and keeping the
agenda of show and tell going. I hope he can move the TiddlyTrail onto
other places.
Here are some of my notes in tw syntax:
caveat: I wasn't social tonight so I missed out on the names, please
forgive
!Use of tw with confabb notesharer
*missed; came late. argh. I came in on the tail end bit about notes in
different scopes.
but you can find more here:
http://blog.confabb.com/?p=106
!SimonMcManus on ccTiddly serverside collaborative platform
http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/CcTiddly
*a workspace is a tw file
*users can create their own workspaces on the server
*can upload files, but open permissions on server
*openid and ldap support
*basic user mgmnt
*supports a really super cool hot skin/theme by changing a parameter
in the workspace url ?skin=
*there was some talk of atom feeds or syndicating tiddlers in
different ways
!Eric of TiddlyTools on Customizing TiddlyWiki
*incredibly the presentation was done with tw and not powerpoint or
keynote. Tiddlers were slides further extending the tiddler metaphor
of mutable microcontent.
*He used his tasktimer plugin to time the presentation and ran an
activity report/table afterwards.
*showed animation plugin shooting out words
*tw bkgrd image was attached image as base64 dataURL not a link using
his Attach image plugin
*Had story viewer plugin with arrows and drop list UI navigation
*goto plugin showed incremental search
*Customizations in 3 ways
**templates
**stylesheet
**plugins
*Eric is a natural TiddlyWikiTeacher
**If you like his clear lucid explanations of TW on this group. He is
even better in person. It was a great refresher on TW internals.
**O'Reilly needs to, no wait make that Manning needs to send Eric a
book publishing agreement. He can truly author something like
TiddlyWiki, the Missing Manual
!Greg (?) of UnaMesa spoke on their support of TiddlyWiki as a
decentralized user empowering tool for social programs:
*
http://blog.unamesa.org/
*They support open source developers furthering the social program
goals of communities throughout the world
*He highlighted how tiddlywiki served as a frontend to wikispaces to
help Hesperian, a traditional print publisher explore the web as a
publishing medium:
http://disabledvillagechildren.projects.unamesa.org/
furthering their reach
*Jeremy recalled the initial email of 2005 of UnaMesa's offer of
support. Be nice to developers and good things grow.
!Phil Hawksworth demoing TeamTasks
http://www.hawksworx.com/journal/2007/10/29/teamtasks-version-03-released/
*build on top of tw for task mgmt simplicity
*simple to understand but configurable and customizable.
*applies templates to a tiddlers which the user can configure
metadata from the extended fields to cluster tasks in many ways.
*showed a real world team example with many tiddlers as tasks in a
sortable table.
!Paul Hammant with co-demoer Simon
*
http://www.paulhammant.com/ of thoughtworks
*Showed testing tool Selenium IDE
http://selenium.openqa.org/ tests
web apps and TW is such a creature.
*SeleniumIDE can create source (ruby, php, python) from recording of
actions (testing) on a tw
*The wizardry I saw: simon opened up SeleniumIDE atop a tw and set it
to record.
*A new tiddler was made and Selenium IDE picked up these actions to a
source file which could be configured to any language.
*Rerunning the source started up tw making a tiddler (the test bit)
*Paul noted that Selenium IDE would be a great boon to the
professional QA folk. I got lost after the Rspec DSL stuff, but
everything he said sounded impressive.
!Paul Downey on TiddlyProcessing
http://blog.whatfettle.com/2008/05/11/tiddlyprocessing/
*john resig brings processing to js
*Paul brings processing into tw. tiddlyproccessing = tw + processing
*He notes Simon Baird tweaked his plugin a bit.
*with a flourish, Paul dropped processing code from Resig's site for a
petalling twirling animation and like magic it showed up undulating in
the tiddler
*very neato to marry imaging with tw
!Jeremy turn at the show and tell with his incubating work on
ZoomingInterfaces
*it was a new way for users to view their tw with an Edward Tufte sort
of viewpoint
*it lowers the barrier of entry for user interactions with
accessibility of tiddler history in an intuitively visual way
*I think it is still under wraps so hopefully more will be
forthcoming...!
!Lastly, a good chap(?) presented a real show of contact juggling
*He wowed us with rolls and spins and presented a good example of tw
as a vehicle for asset management on a cd
*learning contact juggling is difficult to describe in words
*video can be set to tiddlers and tw is a framework to house
multimedia
In sum, I was surprised that TiddlyWest could fill the >3 hrs. There
was so much to see. Phil kept folks fed.
It was a good sprinking of what Eric noted as the 2 sides of
Tiddlywikiness, the collab/sharing aspects and the personal notebook/
user aspect. If there ever was a Legos of Web 2.0, I think TiddlyWiki
would be it. The tiddler metaphor is alive and well.
Hopefully someone will pipe in with better more technical descriptions
or video minutes. :-)
Cheers,
tony
ps. I want to publically apologize to Eric for not exchanging
greetings for truly it was good to see and enjoy his infectious
enthusiasm of TiddlyWiki again.
I admit, I was sleep deprived, schelepping after work so my brain
could have used a configTweak; so 'hello' to all the attendees too. :-)