Thanks Robert, much appreciated. It's really the TiddlyWiki community that I have to thank, it's smart people like Eric that have turned the thing from a demo into a tool and an ecosystem that can be relied upon.
Best wishes Jeremy On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:09 PM, RobertC <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] http://www.tiddlywiki.com -- 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.
