Jeremy... You created a new software paradigm! I've been using TiddlyWiki for about a year and have found it to be an amazing "enabling technology" for creating information management tools for my everyday use.
I think HTML5 and CSS3 will provide new local processing functionalities for TiddlyWiki to capitalize on as well. Combined with modern browsers, TiddlyWiki can be an excellant tool for working with information in completely free and open formats. The invention of movable-type allowed the building of printing presses which brought an end to the church's monopoly on information management (only monks wrote books... in Latin... which only they and royalty could read). Today software like Linux, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript allow the creation of tools like TiddlyWiki that are bringing an end to proprietary data formats in which so much of our information exists. I hope to use TiddlyWiki to create some easy to use, browser-based tools, so I've joined this group to learn from those more knowledgable than I. Though fairly new to these web tools, I've been programming and managing databases since 1981. As an "old-timer" (anyone over 30?), some of your comments in the recent post about your plans for TiddlyWiki5 reminded me of Charles Moore's "keep it simple" design philosophies when he created the little language, Forth. You are recreating the modern equivalent of a computer language. In those moments of design philosophy contemplation such as whether to implement a functionality with some small, general purpose, building block functions put together in different ways many, many times verses one monolithic function, I've found some of the discussions of Moore's design goals and principles helpful. Here are a couple of links... http://www.forth.com/resources/evolution/evolve_1.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_%28programming_language%29 Looking Forward to TiddlyWiki5! Robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
