Blogs, Wikis and Tikis -- Oh My !
I've been a pretty hard core blogger for over a year now. Not that much more but still I do think I know the blogging scene pretty well. Now given my overall penchant for blogging, you'll probably be surprised to hear that I've taken the wiki plunge -- and the water is **good**. Damn good in fact. While I don't have much more time tonight to go into detail, I can say this:
- TikiWiki is **outstanding**. There are wiki tools in virtually every language but this one is in PHP, my preference.
- A wiki once you get into it feels like bloody magic. What's that you say? Its fully multi-user? It has a highly granular security model that actually works? Oh and it can version every single page and go back in time? Good heavens! And its easy too...? Damn! Where do I sign up?
- The team members (at least Marc Laporte the one I really know) are helpful, friendly and nice.
- I'd strongly recommend a Wiki as a collaborative documentation tool for technical / engineering organizations. This is how we're using it for Feedster -- we added our business plan to it, our engineering specs*, systems administration notes and more.
Downsides? Requires a bit of effort to learn. Not that much -- more switching your mind view 180 degress and then the magic begins. Documentation is solely in PDF format which made me want to take an axe to my brain. I ***loathe*** pdf for onscreen content. No readme file so I had to poke about and scrape to install it since I wasn't downloading a multi-megabyte pdf file just to try it out (note - I volunteered to write the readme file for the next release).
***Strongly Recommended***
*Yes Virginia, Feedster is moving out of "Scott's Wacky Hackomatic Approach to Rapid Internet Development" (SWHARID) and into a much more professional development cycle. And I certainly can't take all the credit for that.
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