Hi Jeremy, Thanks for sharing this article.
I agree with the author's conclusion. TW is worth receiving a "6 out of 5" rating in usefulness :) -Felix On 01/31/2016 01:38 PM, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > I thought this article was pretty cool because it gives the perspective of > someone who has been away from TiddlyWiki for a few years: > > http://www.networkworld.com/article/3028098/open-source-tools/tiddlywiki-a-free-open-source-wiki-revisited.html > > >From the introduction: > > Way back in the mists of time (actually, January 2009) I wrote about a really > cool tool called TiddlyWiki, a “non-linear personal web notebook”. Fast > forward to today and I just had an out of body experience: Completely by > accident I found a TiddlyWiki that I started when I wrote that piece and it > still works! > > Finding code that works flawlessly after just two or three years is magical > enough but after seven years?! And given that TiddlyWiki is written as a > single page Web application and considering how different browsers are now > than they were in 2009, the fact that the old version of TiddlyWiki still > works is not short of miraculous. > > Of course, in the intervening years, TiddlyWiki has evolved and the latest > version is the result of the author, Jeremy Ruston, selling his company to > British Telecom, creating related TiddlyWiki services and tools while at BT, > then leaving and rebuilding TiddlyWiki (you can find the history in the > TiddlyWiki’s TiddlyWiki). The result? Freakin’ awesome! > > TiddlyWiki has become a very polished piece of free, open source software > engineering and I was delighted to find that the latest version could even > import my ancient version's content. My old TiddlyWiki was a fairly large > collection of recipes and other than some minor formatting issues (the latest > version supports a type of markdown called WikiText so my old version’s > content wasn’t correctly formatted) everything was easily imported and > upgraded. > > --- > > It might be a good article to send on to friends, family, co-workers etc in > our quest to get more people to look at TiddlyWiki: > > http://tiddlywiki.com/#HelpingTiddlyWiki > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/BLU436-SMTP475959F6B64DE554894B7FCEDD0%40phx.gbl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
