October 30, 2008

Extension of the Week: Google Search

The Extension I’m focusing on this week is Google Search. Google Search allows you to display results of a keyword search within a MindTouch Deki page broken down into the following categories: Web, Local, Image, Video, News, Blog, and Book.
To get started install the Google extension.
Once that is installed we can invoke the extension [...]

October 29, 2008

First Experiences With MindTouch Deki

Tuesday marked my first day as a member of the MindTouch team, and after a few hours of the standard new employee paperwork and introductions, I had a chance to get my hands dirty using MindTouch Deki for the first time.
I was given a quick overview of the application, pointed to a few wiki pages [...]

October 28, 2008

Dynamically modifying Dream Feature access

Features on MindTouch Dream use the C# native protection levels to specify who can access them:

Public - everyone
Internal - only Parent, Child or services that were provided the Internal or Private key as a service-key cookie
Protected - same as Internal
Private - only Parent or services that were provided the Private key as a service-key cookie

Initial [...]

October 27, 2008

Webinar Wednesdays: Collaborate & Connect Enterprise Systems with MindTouch Deki

We’re heading into week 4 of Webinar Wednesdays here at MindTouch with the topic: Collaborate & Connect Enterprise Systems with MindTouch Deki! Get yourself ready for our Webinar this Wednesday, October 29 at 11am (PDT). One of our experts will take you through MindTouch Deki; starting off with the basics of using Deki and then [...]

October 24, 2008

Short Demo: Moving a page in Deki

MindTouch Deki allows for hierarchical organization of content - this is great for enterprises which want to create different knowledge bases inside the same Deki instance by creating trees of content. But what happens if a page is put inside the wrong tree? Here’s the scenario: I’ll start reading a page on Deki, realize I [...]

October 23, 2008

Developing on the platform: Advanced search extension

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One of the best parts about MindTouch Deki is its extensibility. There are many avenues experienced and novice developers can take in order to integrate new functionality into MindTouch Deki. From native compiled C# extensions to remote XML-RPC extensions, the possibilities for adding new Deki functionality is only limited by the imagination of [...]

October 22, 2008

A Belated September Media Round Up

I was tasked with providing commentary on our Media Round Up from September several weeks back, you can see I didn’t do such a good job getting this done. I had asked for this task because I wanted to take the opportunity to comment on some of the fantastic comments we received from the [...]

MindTouch Deki 8.08.1 available

Our Kilen Woods release, with all of its sweeping changes, has been well-received! However, there were a few bugs that crept in, which we’ve now resolved with the availability of the MindTouch Deki Kilen Woods 8.08.1 release. This is a security/stabilization release, and should be considered a must-upgrade for anybody running 8.08.
To get a [...]

October 21, 2008

MindTouch Dream 1.5.6 and SgmlReader 1.8.1

In conjunction with MindTouch Deki v8.08.1 “Kilen Woods,” we’re also releasing updated versions of MindTouch Dream and SgmlReader.
MindTouch Dream 1.5.6
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. Learn more about [...]

Dream Asynchronicity Coroutines

In a previous post, Steve covered the Result class. This post will build on that use of Result by way of Coroutines.
Coroutines
Coroutines are similar to subroutines, functions or methods, except that they have the ability to return multiple times. This means that coroutines have multiple exits and re-entries that allow execution to be suspended and [...]