Ed Taekema - Road Warrior CollaborationA blog looking at business communication, knowledge management, scripting tools, OS technology news and other things of interest to mobile tech workers. As I find interesting news this will also contain pointers to thoughts related to configuration managment, change management and general software development.Lots People Dumping Palms... for paper- September 28, 2004 There is an interesting thread over at the David Allen Getting Things Done Discussion Board. It seems I am not anywhere near the only one who struggles to turn a palm pilot into an organization tool. Here are some interesting quotes. Jac says: I printed out my Next Action lists from Outlook (by context) and off I went. The thing is, I noticed a very significant increase in my productivity - somehow it was much quicker crossing off NAs as I achieved them and writing down the...http://davidco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1328&sid=bd4fc4685d8c2ec14650fe2d9a342895 Looking for a Really Light Weight Java Wiki- September 28, 2004 I am looking for a light weight java servlet based wiki that I can use to "embed" in an existing web application. My basic requirements are: Servlet based but not 2.3 servlet... I have to run it on an older version of Jetty which isn't up to the latest and greatest servlet api. No JSP stuff .. see above No database behind it .. .just simple filesystem (versioning would be nice ...) No Hibernate, Spring, Struts, etc. See above... Nice to have would be customization via Jython ......http://www.pycs.net/users/0000177/2004/09/28.html#P295 What's a wiki It's all about sharing- September 28, 2004 Anick Jesdanun from Associated has put together a good article on wikis. As usual, Wikipedia gets pretty good play. Its a good article though with an an emphasis on the business potential for wikis. Wikis have the power to change how we live and work, replacing e-mail as a tool of collaboration and spanning hierarchies. He goes on to say: Where Wikis can truly take off are in corporate and organizational settings... Technically, a Wiki's attraction is in its...http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002047031_btwikis27.html Blogging and the business world- September 27, 2004 Links worth exploring on blogging and the business world. Blogs are now being seen less as a personal vanity tool...and more as a practical tool for learning, creating a portfolio, political activism, marketing, etc...taking on many of the same characteristics as more traditional media. via elearnspacehttp://www.elearnspace.org/blog/archives/001764.html New Look Twiki Screen Shot- September 3, 2004 Quick screen shot of the new look and feel at twiki.orghttp://www.pycs.net/users/0000177/pictures/640x480/4.html TWiki has a new look!- September 3, 2004 The folks over at Twiki.org have implemented some much needed changes to the default skin for their industrial strength wiki software. Here is a quick screen shot. Nice work guys!http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/TWikisNewLook |