The extension I’m focusing on this week is Gravatar. A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog (or wiki) appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. This is beneficial in MindTouch Deki as it helps with the community aspect [...]

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September seems as though it will be a very busy month for us MindTouchers. So far we have planned to attend a notable series of conferences including Office 2.0, Zendcon, BlogWorldExpo and our first conference in France, Paris Capitale du Libre and Open Source Think Tank.
Paris Capitale du Libre will take place September 24th [...]

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Guest Blogger: Vincent Daron, ASK sa
If your organization is using Lotus Notes, you probably have to manage a lot of documents stored in Lotus Notes near to your emails and your contacts. Some shared database are often used as a documentation store. Everyone can access it and some people can change it. If it is [...]

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I’m so happy to see WOA (web-oriented architecture) gaining steam. I’ve been pitching it for a while as an healthier alternative to SOA since it’s simple enough that a student can understand it and build something with it in a weekend. More importantly, the student did so without requiring a massive tool chain! It’s simple… [...]

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Today we launched a new Support Portal for our customers which includes MindTouch reviewed solutions, access to your case history, and the ability to log cases from the interface. At the same time we are in the process of updating our User Manual and improving other documentation in the constant effort to improve the [...]

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Mozilla launched a new Developer Community powered by MindTouch Deki. In an article on Dr. Dobbs about why Mozilla chose MindTouch Deki, Mike Shaver, Mozilla Chief Evangelist, stated that:
Mozilla has a large volume of developer-relevant information, ranging from traditional documentation and sample code to test suites and bug tracking data, as well as [...]

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The extension I’m focusing on this week is AddThis. AddThis makes social bookmarking easier by embedding a button on any MindTouch Deki Page that allows the user to add the page to any of their favorite bookmarking services. Also with an AddThis account, you can monitor the popularity of your Deki site to [...]

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With the launch of the MindTouch Deki 8.08 RC1, we’re also releasing updated versions of SgmlReader, the versatile .NET library written in C# for parsing HTML/SGML files. The benefit of SgmlReader is that it can cope with some fairly loosely formatted documents and convert most of the content into valid XML.
SgmlReader is being released in [...]

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If you use ESX 3.5 to deploy virtual appliances, you’ll be happy to know that it is now even easier to load up MindTouch Deki by going through the built in VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace. To simplify things even more we wrote up documentation on the steps needed to access MindTouch Deki through the [...]

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the new MindTouch Deki control panel

MindTouch Deki 8.08 Release Candidate 1 is available for download from SourceForge.
This is a release candidate and should not be used on any production systems - please use this to test our new features to see if they would be beneficial to your community; let us [...]

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