Comments on: WikiWiki Warfare In The Enterprise Leading To Situational Software? http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=801 Archivist-historian David Mattison's musings and Web tracks on digital culture preservation issues Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:30:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Graham Spencer (JotSpot) http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=801&cpage=1#comment-798 Graham Spencer (JotSpot) Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:37:25 +0000 http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=801#comment-798 I definitely believe that an application wiki like JotSpot (or XWiki, hi Ludovic :) is a great platform for building situational software. I want to emphasize something that might not be clear from the Techdirt post: the application "components" in our gallery are in fact built inside the wiki from our own wiki markup -- so any JotSpot user could build those applications or others. I also agree wholeheartedly that data integration is a key piece of functionality, which is why we use standards-based technology (XSLT, XPath, SOAP) to access data from remote sources. Anyway, thanks for mentioning us! I definitely believe that an application wiki like JotSpot (or XWiki, hi Ludovic :) is a great platform for building situational software. I want to emphasize something that might not be clear from the Techdirt post: the application “components” in our gallery are in fact built inside the wiki from our own wiki markup — so any JotSpot user could build those applications or others. I also agree wholeheartedly that data integration is a key piece of functionality, which is why we use standards-based technology (XSLT, XPath, SOAP) to access data from remote sources. Anyway, thanks for mentioning us!

]]> By: Ludovic Dubost http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=801&cpage=1#comment-476 Ludovic Dubost Thu, 07 Oct 2004 08:09:54 +0000 http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=801#comment-476 Yes.. I believe the wiki can be the basis for situational software.. It just needs a lot of work.. I have this vision for my open source project XWiki (http://www.xwiki.org) which doesn't have "limited programmability" since it is adding Velocity and Groovy as programming languages inside the page.. See some examples for yourself: - Presentation of child pages like in a blog: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/ChildAsBlogPosts - SQL Queries: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/GroovySQLBugzilla - A regular expression tester: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/GroovyRegExTester - Solution to the google challenge: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/GroovyGoogleChallenge This added to the database and form engine of XWiki you can create complete applications.. Like: - CEO bloggers club: http://ceobloggers.xwiki.com which contains structures information - Agora Wiki (in French): http://www.agorawiki.org which contains structured information and voting There is still work to be done to make this even more easy to create such programs.. Lot of it can be done using Wizards written in XWiki pages themselves. Yes.. I believe the wiki can be the basis for situational software.. It just needs a lot of work.. I have this vision for my open source project XWiki (http://www.xwiki.org) which doesn’t have “limited programmability” since it is adding Velocity and Groovy as programming languages inside the page..

See some examples for yourself:

- Presentation of child pages like in a blog: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/ChildAsBlogPosts
- SQL Queries:
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/GroovySQLBugzilla
- A regular expression tester:
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/GroovyRegExTester
- Solution to the google challenge:
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/GroovyGoogleChallenge

This added to the database and form engine of XWiki you can create complete applications.. Like:

- CEO bloggers club: http://ceobloggers.xwiki.com which contains structures information
- Agora Wiki (in French): http://www.agorawiki.org which contains structured information and voting

There is still work to be done to make this even more easy to create such programs.. Lot of it can be done using Wizards written in XWiki pages themselves.

]]> By: Life With Alacrity http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=801&cpage=1#comment-475 Life With Alacrity Thu, 07 Oct 2004 07:39:44 +0000 http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=801#comment-475 <strong>JotSpot: Application Wiki</strong> Joe Kraus, one of the co-founders of Excite, has long been rumored to be working on a new wiki tool. Today at the Web 2.0 conference Joe finally unveiled JotSpot, a new type of wiki that they are calling an "Application Wiki". Jot Spot appears to be no... JotSpot: Application Wiki
Joe Kraus, one of the co-founders of Excite, has long been rumored to be working on a new wiki tool. Today at the Web 2.0 conference Joe finally unveiled JotSpot, a new type of wiki that they are calling an “Application Wiki”. Jot Spot appears to be no…

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