David Ornstein's WebLog

This evening FlexWiki took the next step in its life and has been made available at SourceForge.net under the Common Public License . With this step, the developer community will have the latest source (including all the WikiTalk features), better access...

I finally go around to writing up some solid documentation describing all the ways that that the borders on a FlexWiki page can be customized .

Today I released a new build of FlexWiki . It's got some improvements (see the list of things included in ReleaseNotes1569 ). More importantly, it's the first officially mainstream build of FlexWiki with WikiTalk ; WikiTalk is no longer in experimental...

Now that FlexWiki has moved back into gear after the release to SourceForge last week, it's time to gather round and drive FlexWiki to a SolidRelease . What do I mean by that? Well, there are lots of bug reports and lots of features that people have been...

OK. I'll admit it. I'm an Outlook tools junkie. Partly it's because of the firehose pointed at my inbox and because I need every bit of help I can get to prevent it from overflowing. I've run across another candidate: ClearContext . The main thing this...

So MSN just launched a beta sevrice called Spaces which is a pretty soup'd up blogging environment. I've been playing with it for the past few days and it's pretty nice. I'm at least going to keep my personal blog over there and I am seriosly considering...

OK. So I am a bit tired but the chaos wasn't as bad as I'd imagined. We launched FlexWiki on SourceForge yesterday (or was it today?). A few hours earlier than expected. That caused a bit of a scramble, but in the end it was no big deal. I spent some...

Very nice use of FlexWiki as a Bliki : http://bliki.salamandersoftware.co.uk/ . Nice use of WikiTalk .

Well, I haven't spent any time writing Outlook add-ins as I'd imagined. Instead, here's something positive and something nagative from my experiences so far with Getting Things Done and the Outlook add-in: On the plus side: Contexts are great. Putting...

I must say this whole blogging thing is still a bit unclear to me. I'm not sure when I should post. When do I have something worth posting? How does this relate to other material I put up (especially on www.flexwiki.com )? My attention these days is pretty...

OK. I'll admit it. I'm a tools junkie. I often think that tools can help me (and others) get stuff done faster, better, cheaper, etc. As a program manager at Microsoft it's very hard to keep my head above water. So much email. Day after day of meeting...

I have now documented the recent checkin supporting "Visitor Events". These are WikiTalk-accessible objects that can be used to show a history of the pages visited by a user during their session at a FlexWiki site. I’ve also incorporated this into the...

OK, I finally found some time to address many, but not all of the annoying and lingering problems using FlexWiki with Firefox . This came partly down to CSS work and partly down to how script and forms all fit together in the initial implementation of...

The Associated Press yesterday posted a nice (and accurate) positive article profiling Wiki technology and touting that, " Wikis are poised to become what blogs have turned into — still in the Internet avant garde yet widespread enough to be influential...

Wow. Go away on vacation and look what happens... A group of about 40 people spent a weekend and ported Keith Brown's book The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security to a FlexWiki site here . Very sweet. Part of the pluralsight.com FlexWiki site that...

Wow. Over the holidays some amazing things have happened with FlexWiki since I put it out into the shared source community. A number of people including OmarShahine , RyanLaNeve , TommyWilliams and HoopSomuah have been making some great contributions...

OK. I've started to post information about WikiTalk , my new object-oriented language for FlexWiki . It's probably going to talk another few days to get the documentation usable and it'll likely be another few days after that before I post the binaries...

OK. Time for a funny bug story. Yesterday I upgraded the running version of FlexWiki at flexwiki.com to the newest bits from my development environment. It's the first time that the whole FlexWiki UI is built using WikiTalk. I'll be posting information...

We've got a half-dozen folks working on different things in FlexWiki and it's difficult for people to tell what has been checked in, what's in the released binaries, etc. Now things should be clearer because I've described the DeveloperProcess for FlexWiki...

It's kinda embarrassing. On the WhoIsWorkignOnWhat page on flexwiki.com, I said I’d be done with all this WikiTalk stuff in January. And I’m still not done. :-( On the other hand, I’ve been doing it in the evenings with a new baby in the house. And it...

I've posted a new WikiTalkExperimentalBuild on www.flexwiki.com . This is the software that's now live on the site. This includes everything needed to make the full FlexWiki UI be based on WikiTalk -- the original goal of the WikiTalk project. I've started...

Well, I work here at Microsoft but that doesn't mean I like everything about all of our products :-) I'm using Microsoft Word on a big document with a lot of chapters and I'd really like to be able to break the chapters out into their own files, using...

I just posted the binaries for Build 1515 [ Bits ] of FlexWiki on http://www.flexwiki.com/ . It’s been a month since the last version was released and people have been buuusssssyyyyyy! In this release, we have a bunch of new features including:...

OK, I’m back to work. Paternity leave is officially over. I’ve got lots to do (and now less time for fooling around with FlexWiki J )…

OK. So one of the capabilities of FlexWiki that is just starting to be tapped is WikiBehaviors . These are the bridge to smart (i.e., code-based) capabilities that let you put dynamic content on your wiki pages. For example, you can use @@Now@@ to put...