Ciao Mark S.
I agree. In my own use of it, and my own interest in it is, primarily, an
AUTHOR of content who defines both the content and shaping. I really can't
see the point in overdoing trying to make TW a front-end to something else.
And its already its own database. I consider it partly a human scale
response to an over corporate server determined world. And a unique one at
that.
Though I do see interesting use cases like {{DesignWrITe}} with modest use
of external spreadsheets.
The TWFederation thing Jed is pursuing is particularly interesting as a "TW
philosophy compliant" way of interfacing with external data. A FETCH model
makes some sense to me; a server dependency model does not.
Just thoughts
Josiah
On Monday, 6 June 2016 17:47:58 UTC+2, Mark S. wrote:
>
> TiddlyWiki isn't an interface on top of some database -- it's the database
> and interface all mixed together. So it doesn't really have a "back-end"
> that can be swapped out for some external source. Since it can also run on
> node.js, I imagine there might be some klugey way to make it exchange data
> with some other back-end.
>
> But ... why? There must be a half-dozen server-based wiki's out there. TW
> is unique in that it is a single file that stands alone. It's good for
> accommodating the productivity styles of individuals, who each can set it
> up to match their particular thinking style. This sort of individuality is
> not often encouraged in the corporate world.
>
> Mark
>
> On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 7:46:28 AM UTC-7, madscijr wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone done any work on making TiddlyWiki available as a data source
>> (like ODBC or otherwise) to say, Excel/Access, or server/client-side
>> JavaScript?
>>
>> Going the other way, are there any plugins for or work being done on
>> using TiddlyWiki as a database client for RDBMSs (SQL Server, Oracle,
>> MySQL, PostGres) and/or document-based DBs like MongoDB? And perhaps a
>> tool to import rows or documents from a query as tiddlers, or to export
>> tiddlers to records in an external DB?
>>
>> I'm nowhere near an advanced enough programmer to build these kinds of
>> things on my own, but I would imagine it's possible, and I could definitely
>> imagine myself using these...
>>
>>
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