Archive for February, 2009

How to create a visually-appealing picture slider XML extension for MindTouch Deki

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Writing extensions for MindTouch Deki may seem a little on the technical side, reserved for only those with propellers on their hats and advanced knowledge of Ruby on Rails. The good news is, it’s not! As a request from the web site creation team here at MindTouch, I created an extension using some resources I [...]

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Guest Blogger: Skinning with Fiesta

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I have “skinned” or “themed” a lot of web applications over the years to include CMS’s, blog engines, and a couple collaboration applications.  Most of the time, I have a good time doing so, but the process is usually littered with a lot of issues when it comes to how the application spits out markup [...]

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Speaking at Transparency Camp in Washington DC

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I’m heading out to Transparency Camp in Washington DC this weekend to demonstrate how to use MindTouch Deki to access and analyze data from a variety of public government and non-government APIs. My presentation will start with a general overview of MindTouch Deki (editing, tagging, commenting, file attachments), the discovery of data (advanced search features), [...]

Categories   Editorial|MindTouch

Three Decades Later. Revolt Or Die.

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Enterprise collaboration is unnecessarily expensive, time consuming and frustrating. Companies and organizations are wasting untold fortunes by applying antiquated computing metaphors to how they work and collaborate. The fact is, information required to achieve goals is disconnected and fragmented across a multiplicity of application and data silos. These silos are databases, file servers, Office documents, [...]

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Speaking on CeBIT Panel: The Power of Social Networking in the Enterprise

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As some of you know, I will be speaking at CeBIT, the world’s largest and most renowned trade fair for the world of IT and telecommunications (last year they had a half million attendees!), on the ‘Enterprise Social Networks’ panel on Thursday, March 5th from 11:20am to 12:35pm. To speak at CeBIT is a huge [...]