Happy TiddlyWiki user
August 12th, 2006Last week I checked out TiddlyWiki as it has been mentioned several times on JoS forums recently.
I’m impressed. It so useful and easy to use that I’m using it as the main way to communicate my progress on a custom development project I’m working on.
It’s basically a self-contained wiki. Just one html file. No setup required, no server side configuration, nothing. It looks like an AJAX app but it is not; it’s just JavaScript.
I showed it to my wife and she has become addicted to it. She is using it and sharing it with her office mates.
Nice piece of software.
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August 15th, 2006 at 3:03 am
Hi José,
This is very nice! I had never seen this before.
Actually I have been walking around with an idea lately, and TiddlyWiki makes it easier to create this idea: DbWiki (combination of DbDesc and Wiki technology)
My idea is to create tagclouds based on information found in database. When a table, view or stored procedure is referenced a lot, this table should have a larger font in the tagcloud. With this idea it would be easy for a newbie in a database to recognize the most important database table!
With TiddlyWiki and the plugin available here: http://15black.bluedepot.com/twtests/tagcloud.htm one could create a single HTML file with complete database documentation.
I’ll try to create something this week based.
Jasper
August 15th, 2006 at 3:59 am
That’s a great idea!
I’ve been looking inside the TiddlyWiki source code to figure out how to extract the contents using a XSL transformation. However it seems that it needs to be cleaned up before it could be parsed.
Integrating dbdesc and TiddlyWiki sounds fantastic! Please contact me if you need some help developing your idea.
September 13th, 2006 at 11:55 am
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