Why I love Osmosoft and why leaving is the best thing I can do for BT

June 28, 2009 – 7:58 am

I announced my intention to leave Osmosoft in a blog post just over a month ago, and it became real this week. When I posted my resignation, it was all about me – why I was leaving, what my plans were – but said nothing about my relationship with BT and Osmosoft, so I thought […]

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Using TiddlyWeb as a content management system for ILGA.org

June 13, 2009 – 5:36 pm

I saw Mike posting recently about how he is using TiddlyWeb with theTiddlyDocs and TiddlyGuv projects and I thought I would put something out about how we’ve been using TiddlyWeb with another Osmosoft project – the redesign of ILGA.org for the International Lesbian and Gay Association. The ILGA project has taken our use of TiddlyWeb in unexplored directions. The essential problem that we’re using this system to solve is that […]

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A warning about Agile methodology in early-stage development

June 9, 2009 – 11:33 am

Late last year, I helped Dan Morris with a project called “Geekmap“. The idea was to create “a social infrastructure for geeks”, as he put it, which resembled a social network like LinkedIn in that it allowed people to make professional contact, but the whole interface was focussed on navigating via geography and people’s skills. […]

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This is not an…

May 20, 2009 – 7:35 pm

Tomorrow is Osmosoft’s 2nd birthday. Today I’m handing in my resignation: this is it. In just over four weeks, I’ll be working for myself. In a recession? Yeah. I think it’s a fair assumption that I’ll take on some freelance work to pay the bills, but hey, everyone like’s to dream, so here’s the plan: I […]

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Release Early, Release Often (even if it’s shit to begin with)

May 14, 2009 – 2:07 pm

Yesterday, we had a “code jam” at Osmosoft Towers, with the aim of releasing, at 6pm GMT, a polished and usable version of “MediaWiki Unplugged”. MediaWiki Unplugged is a web application you run locally (in your browser), that downloads content from a MediaWiki, allows you to edit it and sync’s back. The idea, a collaboration […]

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Motivation and common ground

April 24, 2009 – 2:26 pm

I’m interested in what makes a group of independent, smart people work on a project together; and what makes such a project fizzle out or take-off. Open source projects are of the type where people are generally not being coerced into contribution by the firm hand of hard cash; and yet, there are many thriving […]

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My TiddlyWiki Workbook online – an experiment

April 14, 2009 – 6:07 pm

I’ve been keeping an online workbook for a few months now (early February was when I think I started writing in it). It’s publicly accessible at http://jnthnlstr.tiddlyspot.com. As the TiddlyWiki veterans amongst you will immediately recognise, I’m using TiddlyWiki as the vehicle for all the information in there – after nearly two years of working […]

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Playing with Cecily

February 2, 2009 – 4:00 pm

I recently started playing with Cecily, an experiment in Zoomable User-Interfaces (ZUI’s, as opposed to GUI’s) written by Jeremy Ruston (my boss). Cecily is a plugin for TiddlyWiki, which switches the interface from working as a familiar web page to a pan-able, zoomy desktop, where the size and placement of tiddlers (the content items in […]

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Mandatory Training in Osmosoft Towers

January 13, 2009 – 6:31 pm

We’re having a lovely time at Osmosoft giving in to the needs of the mightly corporation machine that pays our wages. This comes today in the form of mandatory training, residing like a sea cucumber on the company Intranet. Should be so simple, but riddled with problems! The browser plugin only works in IE and […]

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Celebration

December 15, 2008 – 5:04 pm
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