December 18, 2007
Deki Wiki 1.8.3 RC2 released!
royk @ 10:59 pm
I hope the holiday season finds you well! Here at MindTouch, we’ve been incredibly busy juggling tons of projects over the past month. All the exciting stuff in the pipeline will surely lend to an interesting 2008 :). If you’re looking for a change of scenery, you should definitely check out our hiring page. If you’re not looking for a change, you should still check out our hiring page for its GQ-esque photo spread of a certain super seg-shi (SINGLE!!!!) MindTouch developer. Damien and Aaron obviously had my best interests at heart when putting that page together, and I thank them. Ah, but enough of looking for love in the wrong places…
Today, we’ve posted Deki Wiki 1.8.3 Release Candidate 2 for your public consumption. The source release is only a RC because of the extended holiday - with most of the MindTouch development staff out of the office, we decided to hold off on the “official” release until after we all return. The last thing we want is for a critical bug to be reported, and nobody here to fix it! We plan on releasing 1.8.3 Final on January 4th - at that time, all VMs will be upgradeable using our updateWiki.sh script.
Don’t be deceived by the incremental release number - this is a huge upgrade which contains better enterprise support, higher performance (vetted live with our hugely popular Wik.is), more extensive configuration support, and a cure for the blues1.
The OpenGarden community has been tremendous in shaping the direction of this release - with our attention divided during this release cycle, it’s been wonderful to have such strong voices in our forums improving Deki Wiki (especially with the recent localization work!). Be sure to join our community … you can help define the direction of Deki Wiki 
1 Subject to FDA approval in 2008
Download Deki Wiki 1.8.3 or read the release notes.
I don't understand one thing about your "hiring" page: why the hell it does not mention Mono?
Comment by knocte — December 19, 2007 @ 7:39 am
Because our engineering needs for mono are currently well covered.
Comment by Steve Bjorg — December 26, 2007 @ 10:01 pm
Interesting. But are you still translating all PHP code to Mono C#? What's the percentage of conversion?
Comment by knocte — December 27, 2007 @ 11:32 pm
The business logic of Deki Wiki is in C#. You can think of the PHP layer as an interface to dekihost (the C# biz logic). The PHP "client" is really a presentation layer. Similar to the Desktop Connector, which provides a Winform interface to the API. _All_ of the platform's logic is implemented in Dekihost (all C#) and is exposed via the REST API http://wiki.opengarden.org/Deki_Wiki/API_Referenc.... Anyway, it's not so much a matter of porting PHP to C#. That hasn't been the case for over a year now.
Comment by Roebot — December 31, 2007 @ 1:27 pm
The business logic of Deki Wiki is in C#. You can think of the PHP layer as an interface to dekihost (the C# biz logic). The PHP "client" is really a presentation layer. Similar to the Desktop Connector, which provides a Winform interface to the API. _All_ of the platform's logic is implemented in Dekihost (all C#) and is exposed via the REST API http://wiki.opengarden.org/Deki_Wiki/API_Referenc.... Anyway, it's not so much a matter of porting PHP to C#. That hasn't been the case for over a year now.
Comment by Roebot — December 31, 2007 @ 1:27 pm