July 31, 2008
With a wave of great new customers and several time consuming projects coming to fruition, July has been a great month for MindTouch. One of the larger projects reaching completion is the initial launch of a new MindTouch.com website. If you haven’t seen the new site I encourage you to take a look. More iterations [...]
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While we’re hard at work polishing things up for the Kilen Woods release, we’re also posting an update to the Jay Cooke family, version 8.05.2b to address issues introduced in the 8.05.2a release. This version addresses a couple of regressions, most notably a bug with group permissioning as well as patching a security vulnerability with [...]
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July 28, 2008
As usual it takes me 3-4 minutes to relax and be myself (the first half) , but I think this interview with the curmudgeony and always wonderful Robin “Roblimo” Miller is great. He asks me a little about MindTouch, so you can basically skip the first couple minutes, and then Robin asks some [...]
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I’m long overdue for a MindTouch media coverage round up. There’s a lot that have slipped through the cracks in the last couple months. Sorry for returning the link-love to those I missed. Anyway, with the announcement of our upcoming MindTouch Deki “Kilen Woods” release (RC1 forthcoming any day) it makes sense to lasso the [...]
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July 24, 2008
The extension I’m focusing on this week is Windows Live Map. This allows you to embed maps within your MindTouch Deki for pinpointing locations and even documenting directions. First install Windows Live Map by following the instructions.
Once you have installed the Microsoft Live extension then try pasting the following code into a MindTouch Deki page:
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July 21, 2008
RefreshSD is being hosted by Phelan at the MindTouch HQ.
Refresh San Diego is an open community of web designers, developers, and marketers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet in the San Diego area. Meetings are usually the second Tuesday of each month where we discuss anything from design to marketing [...]
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July 18, 2008
Congratulations to Cody DeNiro, the winner of the iPod Shuffle, from the MindTouch Survey that went out in our last newsletter. Thank you for everyone who took the time to fill out the survey, the responses were great and will help us in our effort to constantly improve MindTouch Deki. If you didn’t [...]
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July 17, 2008
The extension I’m going to focus on this week is the YUI Media Player. The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Media Player is a javascript/flash application which [...]
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July 16, 2008
Greetings all!
As just about anyone who reads this blog or has used MindTouch Deki knows, our software was developed in C# but to date has run solely on Mono inside of a Linux environment.
Well, that’s all about to change…
I’m happy announce that for the first time, MindTouch is releasing an official Windows-based beta version of [...]
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July 14, 2008
Over the weekend, Wik.is, our (free!) hosted Deki service was upgraded from Itasca (1.9.0b) to the Jay Cooke release (8.05.2). Although our release notes for Jay Cooke are very comprehensive, they can be a bit dense since they’re geared for developers. Let me break down the new features available to you on Wik.is:
The new file [...]
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