Colas Nahaboo personal site, with discussions about programming code, web and computing topics, surfing and SUPing, and various musings. Zola 2020-07-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://colas.nahaboo.net/tags/wiki/atom.xml 2020-07-26T00:00:00+00:00 2020-07-26T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://colas.nahaboo.net/blog/a-new-version-of-the-site-for-2020/ <p>After 10 years of neglect, it is time for a new start of this site, because:</p> <ul> <li>I am going to retire in early 2021 (in 6 months), and I will have now time to properly maintain a personal site</li> <li>I am feeling the need to archive in a central place all the contents I scatter in various different places, if only for the selfish reason to be able to retreive them more easily</li> <li>I was toying with the idea of going to a static web site, as it is now in vogue, and it has a kind of nostalgia for me as I started my web sites as static sites anyways. But by looking at the existing solutions, I was not convinced by them, as a lot seemed to naively solve the 80% easy part of the problem, and them struggle without any clear vision on how to solve the 20% hard part... a classic situation.</li> </ul> <p>I thus decided to keep on using <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://foswiki.org">Foswiki</a> (v2.1.6), as it is now quite mature, and thus stable: I like building on solid, time-tested fundations that will not change every month. And let's be honest, it is both extremely powerful and incredibly reliable. I am just tweaking it for using it as a public site (one author with all admin rights, and read-only viewers), rather than the standard wiki setup of many authors, all able to edit contents, with some able to also admin rights. My postulate is that a dynamic web site like a wiki, with proper caching, has all the advantages of a static web site, but is more practical to maintain (although more complex to implement).</p> <p>I will detail my views on how to website-ize a wiki in future posts, but for now, on 2020-07-26 at noon French time, let go live!</p> <p>Welcome to my (new) world!</p> <p>Colas.</p> 2008-12-20T00:00:00+00:00 2008-12-20T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://colas.nahaboo.net/code/my-work-on-twiki/ <p>I discovered the wiki concept in 2000, and quickly decided that this was the future of the web site building tools, after many attempts at trying various methods of Web development. Doing some research made me choose the <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://twiki.org">TWiki engine</a>, and since then I have been part of the TWiki community, providing some work and enhancements on it. For more detailed info, the best place is to go look at <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/ColasNahaboo">my page on the TWiki site</a>, and my <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/PersonalRoadmapForColasNahaboo">personal goals</a> for it.</p> <p>Of course, since the brutal TWiki fork, I have folowed the whole TWiki community into the new great <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://foswiki.org">Foswiki</a> wiki project.</p> <p>I was working on: (latest first)</p> <ul> <li>TWiki "koala" pattern skin A system to properly customize the pattern skin. This is the one I use on this site</li> <li>Enhancements to the Vote Plugin</li> <li>TWiki misc enhancements for freetown</li> </ul>