New Gmail themes
This iPhone bug report is an entertaining read
Either it's a bug, or her husband is cheating on her. Situations like this make me smile. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1786497
NetBeans wants to give you a T shirt
NetBeans turned 10 today. And er.. like all 10 year olds, she's giving her stuff away.
http://www.netbeans.org/birthday/decathlon.html
I've used NetBeans to build (along with co-workers) an enormous graphical document editor, including subversion support. I have to say, the "Matisse" Swing GUI editor is the best GUI layout tool I've ever used.
What's Eclipse using for GUI layout these days?
Oh, and don't forget the Ruby and JavaScript support. Nice!
Schindler's Lift
I can't possibly be the first person to make this joke, but here goes:
Look! Schindler's Lift!
WHitWoT #8 (Feb 20-March 4, 2008)
WHitWoT #8 (Feb 20-March 4, 2008)
Welcome to the 8th edition of "What Happened in the World of TiddlyWiki", or WHitWoT for short.
WHitWoT summarises what's happened lately on the TiddlyWiki mailing list and elsewhere in the TiddlyWiki world.
The WHitWoT team has had a few weeks of too-busy, so here's a bumper two-week issue to start catching up.
News and Stuff
Major new release of TWAB (TiddlyWiki Address Book)!
Vincent DiBartolo announced version 2.0 of TWAB — the TiddlyWiki Address Book. It adds some great features such as the ability to export and import contacts to any CSV format, with preset formats for Google, Yahoo, MSN and Outlook.
TWAB's documentation is among the best I've seen for any TiddlyWiki vertical. Check it out.
[source] http://www.tiddly-twab.com
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/ebc338a9aac9e7a7
In addition, TWAB 2.0 was released using the TiddlyWiki 2.2.4 core. TWAB user Yvonney requested an update to the 2.3.0 core. Vinny has since made a 2.3.0-based version of TWAB available.
[source] http://www.tiddly-twab.com/twab-tw230.html
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/76323807324d3cc4
TiddlyWiki for the iPhone
TiddlyWiki uploading legend BidiX announced his new UploadTiddlerPlugin, which works like his well-known UploadPlugin but gains a huge performance boost by uploading individual tiddlers as they are modified, rather than the entire TiddlyWiki every time.
UploadTiddlerPlugin is particularly useful in BidiX's iTW. iTW is a TiddlyWiki with the look and feel of an iPhone application, built to run in iPhone Safari. With UploadTiddlerPlugin, your TiddlyWiki is usable via your iPhone anywhere, even when you're using the iPhone's slow EDGE connection to the internet.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/c8881c147f8593f9
[source] http://TiddlyWiki.bidix.info/
[source] http://itw.bidix.info/
Online Discussions
Styling buttons in a specific tiddler
Alex Hough wanted to remove the thin border around a button in a specific 'TEST' tiddler — e.g. using
<<newTiddler label:'Name_of_button' title:'Title_new_tiddler' tag: tag_new_tiddler>> FND explained that this was a CSS specificity issue that could be solved adding a line in a StyleSheet type tiddler, such as
#tiddlerTEST a.button { border: none; } He added that such issues were mentioned[1] in the TiddlyWiki.org community wiki.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/1b1d59437c70f7f4/
[1] http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Tiddler-Specific_Styles
Using angle brackets in macro parameters
Nicolas Syssoieff wanted to customise his newTiddler button so that new tiddlers would come with some help text inside. He had a "hints" tiddler, so adding the tiddler macro into new tiddlers would do the trick, but because of the angle brackets, it was hard to tell the newTiddler macro to include the tiddler macro properly.
Nicolas tried
<<newTiddler text:"<<tiddler Hints>>">> but this didn't work. Luckily two answers to escape the >> were given:- by FND:
<<newTiddler text:{{"<<tiddler Hints>" + ">"}}>> - By Eric Shulman:
<<newTiddler text:{{"<<tiddler Hints>\>"}}>>
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/db62515a7f510b91
Quick Shots
open a local TiddlyWiki from the command line:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/b32da7f16e1ef117
give a long tiddler a clickable table of contents:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/7682a608dce07fca
Postdrivel
Every story in this edition came from WHitWoT's contributing writer, ocalTW. Thanks, ocal!
;Daniel
About WHitWoT
WHitWoT is distilled from the social wisdom of the TiddlyWiki Google Group by the WHitWoT team. Editor Daniel is a long time TiddlyWiki fan, runs tiddlyspot.com along with Simon of MonkeyGTD and MPTW fame, and wonders if his one line contribution to the core code is still there.Find (and subscribe to) WHitWoT at Daniel's blog:
http://blog.deuceofalltrades.com/search/label/WHitWoT
..and posted ocasionally at the TiddlyWiki Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki
WHitWoT #7 (Feb 13-19, 2008)
WHitWoT #7 (Feb 13-19, 2008)
Welcome to the seventh edition of "What Happened in the World of TiddlyWiki", or WHitWoT for short. Yes, this edition is a week late.
WHitWoT summarises what's happened lately on the TiddlyWiki mailing list and elsewhere in the TiddlyWiki world.
News and Stuff
CalendarPlugin now has linked week numbers
(by ocalTW)Kashgarinn asked for (and received) an update of TiddlyTools' CalendarPlugin to get a column with the week number, which when clicked would link to a tiddler for the week.
For enhanced date display (including popups), add DatePlugin.
[source] http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#CalendarPlugin
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/197c5edf7f3c82a3
[DatePlugin] http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#DatePlugin
Also, a bug with years has been fixed:
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/248571e4c3552c5d
Online Discussions
Using a shared drive to share a TiddlyWiki
(by ocalTW)kdschultz wanted to place the file on a common shared drive, where his students may access it and hopefully make corrections/changes. But each time the file gets updated a whole new file is saved to disk.
A proposed solution was to install LessBackupsPlugin[1].
Setting the txtBackupFolder subdirectory for backup files on the advanced options dialog wouldn't help as the options under the options slider and in AdvancedOptions are stored in browser cookies — i.e. in each user's browser. But in order to make those options permanent and apply them to all users, it is possible to set the default options in a TiddlyWiki once and for all as explained on the TiddlyWiki wiki[2].
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/b6821422fbed7061
[1] http://lessbackupsplugin.tiddlyspot.com/
[2] http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Configuration_Options
troubleshooting an UploadPlugin setup
(by ocalTW, from the TiddlyWikiFR group)Arnaud couldn't set up BidiX's UploadPlugin[3], which lets you save your TiddlyWiki to a Web server. He'd done everything mentioned in the documentation[4].
The answer came from BidiX who asked him to browse to the store.php file on the Web server. As the result was a pop-up window with the content of the file itself, the debug was easy: PHP was not enabled on Arnaud's Web server!
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiFR/browse_thread/thread/7effab125a4a71f9
[3] http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#UploadPlugin
[4] http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#UploadPluginDoc
Saving from Safari is still tricksy
Every now and then someone asks about getting Safari saving properly, like this thread from tonyt3. Perhaps this area could benefit from a really good wiki page. If you're a Safari user and you'd like to give back to the TiddlyWiki community, here's your opportunity!
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/d8f1625a97d1ca38
Open a URL in an overlay window, lightbox style?
Hugo Pires wants to open an external window in a big popup window. He's found a sample of what he wants, but isn't sure if it's usable as a TW plugin. Jump in if you have any good ideas.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/5a39fd9eaad40680
Adding a second menu-type area
Juergen a.k.a. spacevulture asked about adding another box to the display for some fixed content, like another MainMenu. FND's suggestion hit the mark, and now Juergen has sidebar/menu areas on the left, top and right. This is one of the things I love about TiddlyWiki; things that you think should be possible, generally turn out to be not only possible, but really easy.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/5697fddf95a575c6
Quick Shots
link to local files:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/c3b2226684abf98e
escape wiki syntax with triple double quotes:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/8a7b5636b7951753
user lowercase for custom field names:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/f25428cc61786e25
Postdrivel
I'm experimenting with the coverage of WHitWoT — basically being more picky about what I include. Let me know your opinion at the address whitwot at g mail dot com.
;Daniel
Contributors
Thanks to ocalTW who contributed some stories to this issue.About WHitWoT
WHitWoT is distilled from the social wisdom of the TiddlyWiki Google Group by Daniel Baird and others. Daniel is a long time TiddlyWiki fan, runs tiddlyspot.com along with Simon of MonkeyGTD and MPTW fame, and wonders if his one line contribution to the core code is still there.Find (and subscribe to) WHitWoT at Daniel's blog:
http://blog.deuceofalltrades.com/search/label/WHitWoT
..and posted ocasionally at the TiddlyWiki Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki
WHitWoT #6 (Feb 6-12, 2008)
WHitWoT #6 (Feb 6-12, 2008)
Welcome to the 6th edition of "What Happened in the World of TiddlyWiki", or WHitWoT for short. WHitWoT summarises what's happened lately on the TiddlyWiki mailing list and elsewhere in the TiddlyWiki world.
This edition includes stories from ocalTW, WHitWoT's first contributing editor! If you want to be a contributor to WHitWoT like ocalTW, please contact Daniel at this email address: whitwot at gmail, then a dot, then com.
News and Stuff
Make your dates prettier!
Simon Baird announced a new plugin, PrettyDatesPlugin. It's basically a wrapup of some JavaScript by John Resig to turn "Jan 3 2008" into "two weeks ago". That's what you really want to know anyway, right?
This would have featured in WHitWoT earlier, but the conversation about alternate names (SmartDates, SexyDates, RelativeDates..) went on for ages :)
[source] http://prettydatesplugin.tiddlyspot.com/
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/a7e9fa7e9dd8b378
FND joins Osmosoft
Osmosoft is the little branch of BT that cares about TiddlyWiki, and they've just hired on FND, who is responsible for many answers on the TW mailing list and most of the wiki at tiddlywiki.org.
Hopefully some remuneration will let FND keep up the work he puts into the TiddlyWiki community.
[osmosoft] http://osmosoft.com
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/ae313576850dc365
Gracefully shorten URLs
FND also found time to produce a little plugin that overrides the way TiddlyWiki displays URLs. The ShortURLPlugin snips out the middle of any superlong URLs when they are shown on screen (without changing the URL the link actually goes to). If your nice layout gets ruined by long URLs, check it out.
[source] http://fnd.lewcid.org/tmp/ShortURLPlugin.html
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/e356a266c2739817
Online Discussions
Saving to tiddlyspot from Prism
Weidner asked if anyone had success uploading to tiddlyspot.com using Prism[1]. No answers for this one.. has anyone saved to an UploadPlugin site from Prism?
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/bd8e3d883e88dbac
[1] http://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism
Make a link into your bug database with this: <<bug>>
Prompted by a request from Harshad, resident guru Eric Shulman explains how to use the AliasPlugin[2] to easily make links like this:
http://bugzilla.mysite.com/bug_id=100
..by just typing the bug number like this:
<<bug>>
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/184537f4222b8783
[2] http://www.tiddlytools.com/#AliasPlugin
Scheduling backups of a tiddlyspot site
(by ocalTW)XENO wanted a free solution on Windows to schedule a backup of his tiddlyspot site. The proposed solution was to use Microsoft Scheduled Tasks[3] and Wget [4].
Nevertheless, a security issue was raised, as the username and password must be written in plain text in the command line that is scheduled.
Simon Baird also suggested downloading the http://USERNAME.tiddlyspot.com/download page.
An open question was how to check that a change had been made on the TiddlyWiki page. As Bob Paige remarked, if it doesn't change often, excessive backups would be causing extra traffic for no reason.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/9bcc7ea0c3cc515e/0effad86c3ee9718
[3] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308569
[4] http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
Quick Shots
How does TiddlyWiki handle lots of data:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/fa6809c4a79e7932
Type less with IntelliTagger and AutoWeave:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/fcbc4121d866ac1c
Link to local files from your TiddlyWiki:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/beefac7bfc13f70f
Add a logo to your header:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/d9a41654767378a1
Add an automatic summary to long tiddlers:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/e48d40a74ab9c3ba
Use the "last modified" date to show another date (like event happened on..):
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/e686097b001f3f89
Use shortcut keys in Firefox (I like Shift-Ctrl-S to save):
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/a96c9c51719d5029
Automatically reload after saving to tiddlyspot.com:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/17ade817a9829f85
Why TiddlyWiki sometimes forgets your name:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/dacaba7a5b41ce37
Change the title bar colour to show when you need to save:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/3c559d93d720ffe9
Postdrivel
Thank you to contributing editor ocalTW, who actually wrote up three articles for this issue of WHitWoT, but thanks to a difference in timezone, two of them actually fall into next issue's date range. For issue #7 I plan to standardise on GMT (currently WHitWoT dates are in my local timezone of GMT+10).
If you'd like to lend a hand preparing WHitWoT, please email me at gmail.com, username whitwot and let me know.
;Daniel
About WHitWoT
WHitWoT is distilled from the social wisdom of the TiddlyWiki Google Group by Daniel Baird and others. Daniel is a long time TiddlyWiki fan, runs tiddlyspot.com along with Simon of MonkeyGTD and MPTW fame, and wonders if his one line contribution to the core code is still there.Find (and subscribe to) WHitWoT at Daniel's blog:
http://blog.deuceofalltrades.com/search/label/WHitWoT
..and posted ocasionally at the TiddlyWiki Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki
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