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I’d forgotten that Processing Processing by Paul Ford was one of the inspirations for GeekWeaver.
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Reading more discussions on the business of Joel has got me thinking about the problem of marketing GeekWeaver. So here’s the pitch … in the classic 5 points of selling 😉 1) The pain you didn’t know you had! Oh, the horror, the horror, too many tags too many files, you have to reach for…
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An idea I had, over at Joel’s Business of Software : Here’s a thought. I was re-reading this a couple of days ago : http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000348.html as I’m trying to persuade the overworked developers in the place I work to take some time out for this kind of cleaning. And it occurred to me that there…
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I’ve done a slightly improved GeekWeaver screencast. Still very sketchy, and without audio, but the SWF is smaller, and shouldn’t crash. It just concentrates on the basics : * making several pages* using the .tag notation with outline indenting to save on closing HTML / XML tags* defining a reusable and parameterizable block (in this…
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I’ve been struggling with Python’s distutils over the weekend, and I’m finally making some progress. There’s a new GeekWeaver page and a new release. The page is part of a revamp of my personal site, which is now being built with GeekWeaver. And the release is the first built with distutils. I was hoping that…
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I see Zbigniew beat me to blogging about wiki-wednesday. That’s one of the perils of laying around in bed all morning. He’s dead right about Alan Wood’s presentation being very exciting. I’m probably even more impressed by Wood’s “Rel3” than Zby is. What most impressed me was Alan’s apparent good taste that seems to be…
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Know what QEDWiki reminds me of? Visual Basic. And I mean that in a good way … 😉
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QED Wiki
IBM’s QEDWiki looks pretty nice. This is really taking wiki in the direction of application development tool that I’ve been dreaming about for ages.
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Fairly crummy screen-cast of GeekWeaver basics (no sound, sorry) Need to find a decent screen-recording software. Anyone got any suggestions? More soon …
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OK … everyone who’s wondering why I’ve been so quiet and apparently unproductive lately … very soft (in little more than a whisper) announcement … GeekWeaver is a mutant cross-breed of outlining, wiki-attitude, templating and some duct-tape that would like to be a programming language … tell you more soon …