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By: Codality » Blog Archive » Google Map Control and why EPiServer is so cool!

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:23:14 +0000

[…] been wanting to write this control for quite a while and since I deployed a wiki for my family and started filling it in. I had a really nice experience with this Google Map extension to the […]

By: Codality » Blog Archive » EPiServer is so cool!

Codality » Blog Archive » EPiServer is so cool! — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:20:39 +0000

By: Adam Najmanowicz

Adam Najmanowicz — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:34:42 +0000

Guillaume,

I just recently switched my world from being totally desktop contric to a sligntly server based one. Somehow seeing the .com companies come and go, I have that subconcious fear that my carefully entered data may vanish with one of them or their discontinued products.

I just feel more comfortable being able to backup the database and I’m determined to make it easy enough for them to edit it. I am also not 100% sure I’m willing to provide some third party with so much of my personal data to harvest. (Granted my current provider could do it too, but that would be much harder/pointless for a small general purpose hosting company).

Luckily I am geeky enough to have my own hosted domain with php/perl/MySQL/Postgress support.

I already added Google Maps support to the Mediawiki. I’ve written a plugin to show the person’s status on Tlen/GaduGadu (locally popular IM clients) and edited the wiki code/functionality to some extrent, which obviously is not possible or not easy enough for other general purpose hosted wikis.

The nice part of using mediawiki is the ability to copy some of the documentation form the wikipedia help pages, which is really helpful given the terrible wiki markup it uses.

I really wish though I could use the Attlassian Sonfluence. But I’m looking at Twiki at the moment and it shows some promisse.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:13:13 +0000

I started a wiki for my family some time ago, and clearly it is quite difficult to get people to use wiki syntax. On the whole, I still have problems trying to get my cousins / parents / uncles and aunts etc. to participate, but it could work with the younger generation (at least hopefully !).

I eventually choose to use Netcipia because it is quite easy to invite new people (the wiki sends them an e-mail) and there is a WYSIWYG editor on top of the wiki one. There is also a “comments” feature at the bottom of every page with which many people feel more comfortable with than wiki pages. About administration, it is quite clean (no need to know php to use it).

Netcipia is built on , which is an Open-Source Application wiki and looks quite cool (you can edit your own panels and get the wiki to look like what you want, it is more flexible than MediaWiki with its “one design fits all” policy ;-)

I do not know Confluence well-enough yet, but I should consider giving it a closer look given the topic of my blog…

Good luck for yourr own experiment !