October 10, 2008
While we put the finishing touches on the 8.08.1 release (coming soon!), I thought I’d take the time to talk about some of the usability improvements in the “Kilen Woods” (8.08) release, one of them being the switch from the old Xinha editor to the new FCKeditor. If the words “double scroll bars” make you [...]
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October 9, 2008
If you have a Deki VM, It is now easy to migrate an existing MediaWiki installation to Deki! Requirements:
- MediaWiki 1.10 (or later)
- Deki VM 8.08 (or later)
The conversion process simply involves entering MediaWiki’s settings into a configuration file and launching the converter. Your MediaWiki page revision history, content, users, files, etc. will all be [...]
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October 8, 2008
Aaron caught up with Scoble and they discussed improving enterprise productivity, staving off email overload. During this conversation Aaron gave Scoble a brief demo of MindTouch Deki. Scoble discusses this at his blog and below you’ll find the conversation and a demo.
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For the upcoming 8.08.1 release we’ve added a bit of new DekiScript syntax to make code easier to write and allow more control over the flow.
Multiple variable declarations and declarations without a value
The old syntax for var required just one variable name and an initial value, like var x = 123. With the new syntax, [...]
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October 3, 2008
Wouldn’t it be great to take shortcuts to the actions you use all the time in the control panel? Well, now you can with the new Quick Links feature, added in MindTouch Deki Kilen Woods 8.08.
This week’s short demo shows you how to set up and use this time-saving feature in the control panel. Basically, [...]
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September 26, 2008
Hey everyone! We’re going to start posting short demo videos (around 1-2 minutes long) about once a week highlighting specific features in MindTouch Deki.
We’re going to kickoff this series with a focus on a really cool feature: Integration with Prince for PDF generation. I’ll show you how to use Prince to export one or more [...]
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September 24, 2008
It’s been a long time coming … our Windows MSIs are ready for download! The ease of installation we’ve long offered Linux distributions (through our RPMs) is now available to deployments which are powered by Windows Vista/Server 2008 as well as Windows Server 2003.
Download the Kilen Woods (8.08) Windows Vista MSI or the Windows [...]
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September 23, 2008
With Deki Wiki 1.8.3, we gained the ability to write extensions to DekiScript in XML, as Steve wrote about here and in the the developer wiki article “How do I… Write my first extension in DekiScript?”. But until now testing those extension meant going into the admin console and loading the script and trying it [...]
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September 8, 2008
The extension I’m focusing on this week is TinyURL which generates a shorten url for your MindTouch Deki pages. This is beneficial when you have a deep hierarchy and want a quick url to send to people. There is something unique about this extension, you don’t have to install anything. This [...]
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September 4, 2008
I hope the summertime finds all of you well! The MindTouch team has been abuzz with activity lately, and we have the official open-source release of Kilen Woods (MindTouch Deki 8.08) to show for it!
In Kilen Woods, we made a lot of dramatic user interface changes for both administrators and editors: a new control panel, [...]
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Short Demo: A Better Experience with the new FCKeditor
