October 8, 2007

Dream Asynchronicity Basics

MindTouch Dream is engineered to scale. A good way to preserve system resources when scaling is to use asynchronous operations when possible. Unfortunately in .NET, asynchronous operations tend to be hard and error prone. But with Dream, we introduced some very capable abstractions that restore sanity without compromising efficiency.
The two key tools [...]

MindTouch Deki Wiki: DekiScript, Mashups, and More…

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Slimming the PHP layer

Our development cycles are balanced by technical improvements (which yield close to no “obvious” benefits to users) and feature releases and improvements (”yay, new shiny things!”).
One of our long-running goals with the PHP component of Deki Wiki is to slim it down. Every release, I incrementally rip out more code that is crufty and [...]

Deki Wiki Now in Five Lanuages

Well, really it’s five languages plus a dialect. Thanks to Eduardo Kienetz, a Gardener, MindTouch Deki Wiki has now been translated to Portuguese - Iberian, and Portuguese - Brazilian. This is in addition to English, German, French, and Russian, the latter three were also provided by Gardeners: Tobias, Bizzz, and Zulus1 respectively. Thank you all!