INTRO: TiddlyWeb at Home

[PMario]

Hi folks,

There have been a lot of discussions about saving TiddlyWiki lately
[1]. It seems browser vendors shut down our beloved file TWs.

One work around is, to use "old, insecure, unsupported" browsers. I
personally hate this workaround. I want to use the latest and greates
browsers.

An other way would be to create native programms which need to support
different operating systems and may end up, as writing your own
browser :/

* I want to store my stuff in files.
* I want to use a trusted system!
* I want to have it all!
* I want to use it now!

That's why I created the "TiddlyWeb at Home" project [3].

As the name says, everyone should be able to use it at home. It should
store my ideas in files. It needs to be reliable. It needs to be easy
to backup. It needs to work "out of the box" ...

but ...

It should scale. It should be like TiddlySpace [7][8], if it needs to
be. It's based on TiddlyWeb [10].

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The main part of the project are "Step-by-Step" HowTo's plus working
"proof of concepts". Learn more about the story at tweb-at-home [3]

Everything started, with a menu driven installation script (beta) for
Raspberry Pi owners. If you don't own one, no problem __read on__!

The setup should be the same or similar with many systems. I did
_test_ the workflow / HowTo's with the following systems:

_Bootable LiveCD_
that runs a TiddlyWeb instance out of the box and lets you install a
working environment. see the videos [11] I'm really proud about this
possibility:)

_Raspberry Pi_
with raspbian OS [5], which is a Debian based Linux distribution
running on a low cost, low power computer. see the review about the
menu driven configuration. [2]

VirtualBox image (LiveCD)
tested with Windows7
tested with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with

SliTaz OS [6]
in VBox, which is a tiny Linux distro. I'll be able to host
VirtualBox images, that should just run out of the box. (TODO)

Modified TurnKey Linux [7]
in VBox, which will create the possibility to move the stuff to your
own servers or to the cloud.

Windows native
with python2.7 .. \o/ using virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper (for
the powershell)

With MacOS and Linux, the system runs without a VirtualBox.
I used virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper, to create clean
environments, to test the workflow. I don't have the possibility to
test with MacOS but cdent uses MacOS for development :)

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* Tested but I won't use them
PuppyLinux [9]
works but it is not the system for me.
TinyCore Linux
which works, but I couldn't make the content permanent.


Many things work allready, but I need your help.

* beta testing
* feedback
* code contributions

If you like this work and want to support the project. Do me a favor
[I]

have fun!
mario pietsch

PS: You may think: "Why did he do this?" - Because I think TiddlyWeb
reliable enough, usefull enough and small enough to run on every PC.
It's much smaller than any browser but offers so much more. ...
and ... I want to make the installation process easy enough for
everyone.
PPS: and I'm crazy q;)

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_thread/thread/d875a3282c807d8a
[2] http://designspark.com/blog/building-a-personal-microcontent-server-with-raspberry-pi
[3] http://tweb-at-home.tiddlyspace.com/
[4] RasPi-TWeb https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlyweb/browse_thread/thread/84014ea229ce18bf
[5] http://www.raspberrypi.org/
[6] http://www.slitaz.org/
[7] http://tiddlyspace.com/
[8] http://pmario.tiddlyspace.com/TiddlySpaceNumbers
[9] http://puppylinux.com/
[10] http://tiddlyweb.tiddlyspace.com/
[11] http://tweb-at-home.tiddlyspace.com/tweb-at-home-iso
[12] alpha intro: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/tiddlyweb/hAFOoinOGL8

[I] http://tweb-at-home.tiddlyspace.com/do-me-a-favor

[Måns]

Hi Mario

GREAT STUFF :-D

Have to digg this soon as possible :-)

Thanks for sharing your work!

Cheers Måns Mårtensson

Ps: If you think you're crazy - don't think that you're the only
one ;-)

> [1]http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_thread/thread/d875a3...
> [2]http://designspark.com/blog/building-a-personal-microcontent-server-w...
> [3]http://tweb-at-home.tiddlyspace.com/
> [4] RasPi-TWebhttps://groups.google.com/group/tiddlyweb/browse_thread/thread/84014e...

> [5]http://www.raspberrypi.org/
> [6]http://www.slitaz.org/
> [7]http://tiddlyspace.com/
> [8]http://pmario.tiddlyspace.com/TiddlySpaceNumbers
> [9]http://puppylinux.com/
> [10]http://tiddlyweb.tiddlyspace.com/
> [11]http://tweb-at-home.tiddlyspace.com/tweb-at-home-iso

> [12] alpha intro:https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/tiddlyweb/hAFOoin...
>
> [I]http://tweb-at-home.tiddlyspace.com/do-me-a-favor

[PMario]

On 26 Feb., 23:10, Måns <humam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ps: If you think you're crazy - don't think that you're the only
> one ;-)

:)