Wikis and notepads and text files, oh my!

The other night, @verso tweeted a question about running a little wiki on a home file server. I responded with TiddlyWiki, which is a whole wiki contained in a single HTML file. It actually may or may not fulfill her needs, since there are huge concurrency and remote access issues — it’s designed to be … Continue reading Wikis and notepads and text files, oh my!

The Office Wiki Stored in my iPhone

Yesterday, I was looking for a way to carry around a local copy of a wiki on my iPhone. It seems that there are several apps that let you carry around an offline copy of Wikipedia — in case you are stuck on an airplane or out of cellphone range and need to look something … Continue reading The Office Wiki Stored in my iPhone

Who Broke Wikipedia? (and IP5 recap proctastination)

Okay — who broke Wikipedia??? I’ve never seen this error screen before! I’m still recovering from Too Much Terminator Stout, otherwise I’d be writing about how cool Ignite Portland 5 was instead of posting Wikipedia error messages. Maybe tomorrow. I return home soon and expect to be sleep almost immediately. Posted in:

StackOverflow Gets a Facelift

I have this little site I run, StackOverflow.org, which is primarily two things. First, it is a cache of lots of different technical documents all over the internet that I find myself referring to frequently: RFC specifications, language and library references, ASCII charts, and whatnot. Secondly, it holds a Wiki that contains a bunch of … Continue reading StackOverflow Gets a Facelift

wgFileCacheDirectory

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2007/01/Note to future self (and to anyone else who may be setting up a high-traffic[1] MediaWiki server at some point): In … Continue reading wgFileCacheDirectory

Getting Things Done

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/10/Holy carp. I think I have found the coolest app that I’ve seen in a long time. It is certainly one … Continue reading Getting Things Done

Useful Web Office Tools

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/02/A while back, Substitute made a post that referenced a situation that, I believe, most everyone that has worked in an … Continue reading Useful Web Office Tools