June 26, 2008

MindTouch Deki FlowPlayer Extension

I’m going to be blogging once a week about an Extension that is available for MindTouch Deki. The extension I’m highlighting this week is the FlowPlayer Extension.
FlowPlayer enables a user to embed FLV media into a Deki page. This will help liven up your MindTouch Deki site while allowing you to keep media relevant [...]

Use DekiScript to skin MindTouch Deki

Until now the only portion of a page that has been editable by the user is the content inside the editor. Logically this makes sense, however, there are times when a user or administrator may want to add additional content to the skinning template*. For instance a user may want to add advertisements, [...]

June 25, 2008

Dying to deploy MindTouch Deki 8.05.1?

Last week, we released an updated VMware Appliance and published a new EC2 public AMI for the amazing MindTouch Deki 8.05.1 (Jay Cooke) release.
This week it’s all about our Linux packages

Among several fixes and improvements, we’ve added repositories for Fedora 9, OpenSUSE 11 and Ubuntu 8.04.
Right now you can upgrade your Deki (1.9.0 Itasca [...]

June 23, 2008

MindTouch Developer Center Launch!

OpenGarden.org has finally taken its rightful place as the MindTouch Developer Center. For now, not much has changed except for the new address: http://developer.mindtouch.com. Your login continues to work and your bookmarks are redirected automatically. But in the coming weeks and months, we’ll be giving MDC a facelift and a new structure that [...]

How Strong is Your Deki Fu?

In the annals of time certain weapons have stood out, surpassing all others in strength and use. Thor swung his great hammer to smite those who stood in his way. Arthur pulled Excalibur from the stone and lead humanity to Avalon. And Beatrix Kiddo beat all odds to rescue her daughter and “Kill Bill” with [...]

June 20, 2008

MindTouch Deki Podcast at Bungee Connect

Our friends at Bungee Labs invited me to participate for one of their tech podcasts. They did a great job organizing the interview and asking great questions. Hats off to them!

MindTouch’s Steve Bjorg joins us to tell us all about their wiki platform called “Deki.” MindTouch is rapidly growing Deki’s install [...]

June 19, 2008

The Universal Edit Button!

Martin Cleaver brought to our attention the launching of the Universal Edit Button today - it’s a Firefox plug-in which shows a standardized universal icon for any page that can be edited. Check out this screenshot from the blog post explaining it:

Pretty simple and sweet! We’ve checked in the changes, which will be available in [...]

June 18, 2008

Overview of MindTouch Deki Editing Conflict Engine

Working in support I have the benefit of talking with customers and users and finding out what parts of MindTouch Deki cause confusion or need clarification. A recent recurring question is how does MindTouch Deki handle concurrent edits. Specifically if there is a conflict with edits overlapping.
First let me stress that all of [...]

MindTouch Wants You!

MindTouch wants you; to join our sales team. MindTouch is currently hiring sales engineers –60% sales 40% engineer– to help grow our customer base. We need enthusiastic, friendly, extroverted and technical people to connect with potential customers. Our goal is to build relationships with our community and help them make the choice between MindTouch Deki [...]

June 17, 2008

MindTouch Celebrates Two Years of Success at OSCON 2008

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It has been an exceptional 2 years since we first released MindTouch Deki July, 2006 at the OSCON conference in Portland, OR. In this short time we’ve had many remarkable successes. Since then we’ve achieved a lot to be proud of. We’ve established ourselves as leaders and innovators in the rapidly growing Enterprise 2.0 and [...]