Wiki-riffic

Rather than go and pay for something as huge and as feature-laden as Confluence, I’ve decided to go the open source and free route.

I ended up using MediaWiki for HanMeta, but I’m not fully satisfied. Lacking in AJAX and using Dreamhost to host this wiki really doesn’t make it too responsive. I am however, enjoying relearning the insanity that is MediaWiki markup (Wikipedia uses this).

TiddlyWiki is an amazing feat of ridiculous JavaScripting, but seems to be missing some features… one of which is extremely important to me: history. I feel like a wiki isn’t without this feature.

Anyone know of any desktop Mac applications that does change history? I looked at VoodooPad, but that doesn’t seem to have that feature.

Seriously, anything that’s stable and exportable will be awesome, be it online or off. Change history is huge for me, because, as always, I need to know and be prepared for everything.

3 Weeks Remain

The long four day weekend was mostly spent on one of two things: Rock Band 2 and setting up for projects. And the Rock Band 2 stopped as soon as I completed the game in solo guitar mode. And no, I didn’t count the Endless Setlist… unless I can get 3 other kids to go all out for hours and hours on end.

This weekend was a blur. I don’t remember much of it. A lot of late night talks with Dean didn’t help the project progress, but was beneficial. As a sidenote, he’s my third impromptu roommate after I started living solo (I guess I should count that Jong-Sun kid, because he was over constantly, so four).

Moving on, I’m hoping to get the whole development environments set up tonight. It seems like my forearms aren’t even happy about my typing this entry. We’ll see if I’ll sleep happy or not.

Summary Of Said Weekend

I have these artifacts as evidence to the caffeinated stupor I was in.

The Six Cans of the Apocalypse

Remember, the green one’s the most tasty.

But yeah, working ’til the week hours of the night/morning, I popped on the sysadmin hat and rocked out. Finally after having installed MediaWiki (it’s a little slow, I need something faster… any suggestions?), I started to document the insanity.

I bought a new”er” slice at slicehost. I love how close to the metal all of the insanity is. I finally got to see how Derek worked his magic during the days of StatusFix… er… more like I copied and pasted commands, all the while man paging everything that went past my eyes. Lots to learn and screw up on so that I’ll learn even more.

Still need to work on Capistrano deployment from the git repository. Hoping to get this done tonight. Still not sure where I should be developing… should I be using my computer for both dev and test? Hmm.

Lots to chew this week. But indeed, only three weeks remain.