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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A lesson for open source contributors

September 8, 2008 – 9:30 am

From the TiddlyWiki Google Group, “I tried xxxxxPlugin a year or more ago, had some problems with it but never got any replies so I dropped it.” It sounds almost blindingly obvious, but this is possibly the most important lesson to learn from TiddlyWiki as an open source project – there will always be another plugin, […]

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Reflections on 9 months in Osmosoft

March 7, 2008 – 3:49 pm

Late last Summer, Osmosoft got off the ground as a part of BT. We’ve now been through two roughly identifiable phases of the experiment: the first was characterised by building the team and figuring out our place in the world, and culminated in releasing the first version of RippleRap at LeWeb3 in December; the second […]

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Revenge o’ the bagpipes (aka the gentle art of DabbleDB)

February 7, 2008 – 6:58 pm

They say revenge is a dish best served cold. The thought did cross my mind when my neighbour threatened to call the police to stop us playing the bagpipes and doing the highland fling in our garden ON BURNS NIGHT. So large was the umbrage taken at this impertinence, that I determined to see fit […]

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TiddlyTemplating part 2 – a prototype that works

January 24, 2008 – 6:20 pm

Hello, Click here for the prototype: http://jonny.jonathan.googlepages.com/TiddlyTemplating.html After going through a few options, I’ve come up with one that works. This TiddlyTemplating prototype works, in that it generates a RSS feed from templates on the fly – you can even go in and edit the templates. It’s still a prototype so it has some rough […]

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TiddlyTemplating – using TiddlyWiki to create webpages

January 23, 2008 – 9:11 pm

I’ve been thinking quite a lot recently about TiddlyWiki as a development platform. I’m talking about using TiddlyWiki in your browser to make web applications, whether or not they’re ultimately delivered client-side or server-side. The simplest form of this is the output of static webpages, which is something that TiddlyWiki kind of does already in […]

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TiddlyBlogger with tags

November 1, 2007 – 11:38 pm

Apprehensively, I’m hitting “publish to blog” having made some changes to the boycook’s TiddlyBlogger… In theory, there should be some tags attached to this post. [Edit:] Alrighty, so that worked. I’ve made a few changes – get hold of the BlogPlugin and BlogSetup tiddlers here: http://jayfresh.tiddlyspot.com/#BlogSetup%20BlogPlugin The BlogPlugin now uses a custom view template for […]

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