DaveRaftery

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I am dabbling in the Squeak dialect of smalltalk and was thusly introduced to the wiki concept. I am now a wiki addict! I have set up a wiki (UseMod variant) at my employer and am preaching the virtues of wiki to my fellow employees. It is running on a NT server; everything works except for diffs - I finally got diffs working both at work and on my own machine. I finally got UseMod running on my laptop using the free Xitami server software. (I couldn't get Apache and UseMod working together; must be some configuration issue I overlooked) I am using the wiki on my laptop as a journal, PIM, collector of ideas, etc. I purchased "Wiki Way, Quick Collaboration on the Web" by Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham a month ago and found it very useful. I even picked up a book on Perl and started reading it!

I also am running a Swiki at work and Eddie Edward's WikiServer at home. My comparison of these wiki clones is as follows.

Use Mod Advantages

Subpages
Free links
Diffs appear at top of page

Swiki Advantages

XML storage
Upload capability
Allows full HTML markup
Logical And / Or search capability
Tables built in

WikiServer Advantages

Pages stored as plain text
Easiest wiki to set up on a Windoze pc
Contains its own server - all you need is a browser
Fast - compiled in C++

mailto:draftery@mindspring.com

mailto:david_raftery@raytheon.com

http://rafteryfamily.swiki.net

I think I'll join Sunir by starting my online DaveRafteryDiary - I've moved this to a private wiki on my PC

This was before I knew the differences between UseMod and Meatball :-)

In order to try out subpages let's make one for /SqueakSmalltalk

: Welcome to Meatball! The subpage feature is disabled on the Meatball wiki--it doesn't really fit the local community. Otherwise, this wiki is pretty much a standard UseModWiki implementation. Another wiki worth considering is TWiki at http://www.twiki.org/ --it has a different feel and feature-set, but some people like it very much. (I'd like you to check out the rest, and then use the best. :-)

: As for Squeak, I loved the idea, but I finally just couldn't live with the lack of modern GUI widgets. Still, it was a fun way to learn about Smalltalk. I hope to try out Ruby [1] [2] sometime soon--it seems to have a good mix of the purity of Smalltalk with the practicality of Perl. --CliffordAdams

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