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Darwin’s Finches

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Sam Ramji (@sramji) is a good friend and advisor to MindTouch. I met Sam while he still was at Microsoft. Now he’s onto something infinitely more interesting at Sonoa Systems, which does API management. Sonoa also runs Apigee, which provides API testing, API debugging, API analytics and API security. Sam recently spoke at the Web [...]

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Rapid Application Development So Easy, Even An Accountant Can Do It

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Disclaimer: I am an accountant. Really. And frankly, it IS so easy, that even I can do it. Being able to quickly and easily create professional, polished applications in MindTouch is something that comes up frequently. Functional, user-friendly, seamless apps that business users can develop on their own are the Holy Grail of employees everywhere. [...]

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Is that XML in your wiki?

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Every so often, I get the question of “why would anybody want to store XML in a wiki?” Granted, this question is usually brought up by a competitor rather than by a customer. At first brush, XML just makes things more complicated, but this perception quickly dissipates as your collaboration turns into automation turns into [...]

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Successful JotSpot migration to MindTouch Deki!

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Our organization is developing a wiki-based protein annotation system TOPSAN  (www.topsan.org) as a new communication channel for discovering and disseminating information about protein structures determined by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) funded Protein Structure Initiative (PSI). We initially developed our system using the Jotspot wiki, platform. However, after Jotspot was acquired by [...]

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Setting Up A Development Environment for Deki Wiki

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Hey devs! Want to write code for Deki Wiki? We just finished up some step-by-step instructions on how to set up your very own development environment. You’ll need Microsoft’s Visual Studio (for this set of instructions), and you’ll need to grab the VMWare-Certified MindTouch Deki Wiki Virtual Appliance (found here). After setting it up, the [...]