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May 6, 2008

MindTouch Dream 1.5.2 and SgmlReader 1.7.3

Steve Bjorg @ 11:34 am

In preparation of the upcoming big release of Deki Wiki v8.05 “Jay Cooke,” we’re also releasing updated versions of MindTouch Dream and SgmlReader.

MindTouch Dream 1.5.2

MindTouch Dream is a .NET REST framework for developing lightweight, highly decoupled web-services. It runs on Microsoft .NET 2.0 and Novell Mono 1.2. Dream is the foundation for web-oriented architecture of MindTouch Deki Wiki. Learn more about Dream here.

  • support for ICredentials with Plug
  • support for IPv6 based network addresses
  • support for HTTP Range headers
  • enhanced methods for manipulating XML documents with XDoc
  • improved performance for deployments with large number of aliases
  • removed status filters on service features
  • and other bug fixes

MindTouch Dream 1.5.2 is available for immediate download from SourceForge.

SgmlReader 1.7.3

SgmlReader is a versatile .NET library written in C# for parsing HTML/SGML files. The original community around SgmlReader used to be hosted by GotDotNet, but it has been phased out. MindTouch Dream and MindTouch Deki Wiki use extensively the SgmlReader library. We found and fixed a few bugs in it as well. In the spirit of the original author, we’re providing back these changes.

  • never close the BODY tag early (can cause loss of content)
  • remove “<![CDATA[" inside CDATA sections
  • remove "]]>” inside CDATA sections
  • convert elements with invalid tag names into text (e.g. <foo@bar.com>)

SgmlReader 1.7.3 is available for immediate download from SourceForge.

Fiesta PRO for Cinco De Mayo!

Damien Howley @ 10:21 am

Happy belated Cinco De Mayo! In the spirit of the holiday I have decided to release a new Fiesta skin that I’ve been working on for the last week or so. It’s called Fiesta PRO and it’s basically a more professional skin built on the Fiesta markup.

If you’ve used Deki Wiki you’re more than likely familiar with the Fiesta skin. Fiesta comes in a number of variations including Grazing Green, Sky Tangerine and Rustic Azure, just to mention a few. The skin was created in 2007 and was intended to be used primarily on www.wik.is, our free hosted wiki site. Despite the fact that Fiesta has been extremely popular it has received some criticism for being too ‘consumerish’. In an effort to curb my criticism I set out last week to put a more serious spin on the formerly fun-loving Fiesta.

There are a lot of things that I changed with the new skin. Most noticeably the round edges are now gone. The font-sizes have been reduced to make the skin more compact and a lot of the less functional elements (wiki logo, user login status, top navigation bar) have also been reduced to give the users more complete view of the wiki. Lastly I merged all of the elements together so there wasn’t so much of a ‘bubbly’ separated look. Overall the new Fiesta PRO skin is much leaner and very clean.

Another byproduct of the new layout is that it is much easier to customize. With the other Fiesta skins there are a lot of custom images with round edges and added gradients. There are also a lot of different colors which makes it harder to change. With Fiesta PRO there are fewer colors and no rounded edges. There are also a lot fewer images so you won’t need to crack open Photoshop to change things around.

As of now Fiesta PRO will only be available for download, not as an update. As with Deki CMS we’re not going to ship the skin with Deki Wiki. Fiesta PRO will be available for download at http://wiki.opengarden.org/Deki_Wiki/Skinning/Fiesta/PRO. For now Fiesta PRO will remain a beta skin and I’ll address issues and suggestions as needed. Please feel free to email me with any remarks.

Download
http://wiki.opengarden.org/Deki_Wiki/Skinning/Fiesta/PRO

Thanks
Damien Howley
DamienH[at]mindtouch.com