January 2004 - Posts

• This is outta hand - Behavior Expression Language for FlexWiki

  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 Read More... Posted Sunday, January 25, 2004 6:25 PM by dornstein | 3 Comments Filed under: Wiki

• FlexWiki Build 1480 Released

  OK, I finally got over the network problems. Seems my ISP was blocking some of Microsoft's proxy servers; all fixed. Build 1480 is now available on flexwiki.com. Among the improvements: TopicTips are nice little hover tips that tell you what a topic is Read More... Posted Sunday, January 25, 2004 6:16 PM by dornstein | 1 Comments Filed under: Wiki

• New FlexWiki build available

  I have uploaded a new release of FlexWiki to the server (www.flexwiki.com). This includes al of the latest checkins. I'm having trouble updating the rest of the site with information about the changes and new installation instructions because of a DNS Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:57 AM by dornstein | 0 Comments Filed under: Wiki

• Scripting News Blogs FlexWiki and its RSS support

  Dave Winer noticed that FlexWiki generates RSS feeds. Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:56 AM by dornstein | 0 Comments Filed under: Wiki

• A bit of order is called for

  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. Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2004 9:00 PM by dornstein | 1 Comments Filed under: Wiki

• xPlanet

  I've been playing around a bit with xPlanet . It's pretty cool, but a bit hard to get working right on Windows with the right command-line switches and options for downloading cloud data, maps, etc. I've seen some Windows clients that try to wrap the Read More... Posted Monday, January 05, 2004 10:23 PM by dornstein | 2 Comments Filed under: Geeking

• FlexWiki on the Compact Framework?

  SteveMakofsky is looking into making FlexWiki run on the compact framework. Wow. Does that mean that I could run it on my SmartPhone (er, my upgraded SmartPhone when I get the SmartPhone 2003 upgrade for my Mpx220; and no I don't know if there will ever Read More... Posted Monday, January 05, 2004 9:55 PM by dornstein | 1 Comments Filed under: Wiki

• Wiki web service and winforms client -- almost

  I got the latest FlexWiki sources down so I could try out OmarShahine 's web service for FlexWiki ( FlexWikiWebService ) and the WinForms wiki client ( FlexWikiEditor ). Alas, I couldn't get it to work. Probably just a configuration issue. I'm a web services Read More... Posted Monday, January 05, 2004 9:46 PM by dornstein | 3 Comments Filed under: Wiki

• Wow. Shared Source is a great thing.

  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 Read More... Posted Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:38 PM by dornstein | 4 Comments Filed under: Wiki

• Word and long documents

  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 Read More... Posted Saturday, January 03, 2004 9:21 PM by dornstein | 6 Comments Filed under: Microsoft

• Is w.bloggar the one?

  I'm looking for the best desktop blogging tool. It's gotta be very close by, maybe live in the tray, etc. This is my first test post using w.bloggar . I'd certainly appreciate hearing about your favorite posting tool. Read More... Posted Saturday, January 03, 2004 7:32 PM by dornstein | 5 Comments Filed under: Blogging

• OK, finally. I guess there's no avoiding it...

  Alright, time for David to have his web log. :-) I guess the first thing to mention is that I was the primary author for FlexWiki , a .NET-based wiki implementation that people seem to love. Read More... Posted Saturday, January 03, 2004 5:10 PM by dornstein | 3 Comments Filed under: Wiki