Hi all, The twine project started when Amazing Rob was looking for an open source project to get into, and I suggested he rewrite Tiddlyspot in PHP. He got a couple of weekends in but ended up turning his attention elsewhere (probably I should have hooked him deeper on tiddlywiki first).
I think the choice of PHP could be reviewed. It's probably still the most well "supported" across all the crappy free/low cost web hosting setups, but it's easier to get into stuff like Heroku so maybe Ruby or Node or whatever would be fine. With TW5 the need for a simple, stable web host for TiddlyWikis continues. *The biggest problem with producing an open source tiddlyspot is time*. Simon and I now live in different cities, and we have kids, work etc to deal with. We both *want* to make a modern version of ts, but actually allocating tinkering time is super hard. I'll give you all the secret(s) to making tiddlyspot: - Don't compromise on the SIMPLE FOR USERS part. Either swallow the complexity completely, or skip the feature. User options are sign that you're failing to make it simple. - Serve the tiddlywiki as a single file straight from the disk, using nginx or apache or whatever. Don't be tempted to assemble it from tiddlers stored in a database or whatever. You don't need a database for tiddler content. - Write the plainest, most boring code you can. Don't try fancy stuff. And remember the simplest code is that code you don't even have to write. If anyone's a coder and wants to help crank the handle on a fresh new Ruby, Node or PHP version of tiddlyspot, let me know :) P.S. for any habitual TW list lurkers: I'm 821 conversations behind on my tiddlywiki mailing list reading.. feel free to cc me directly — danielba...@gmail.com — if something comes up in a thread that you think I should see. On 17 August 2015 at 03:52, manoflinux <manofli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Your code seems to have gone missing? > Any more work on this? it ever get there? > On Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 6:58:01 AM UTC-5, Daniel Baird wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've got an announcement, some rhetorical questions, and a couple of >> REAL questions I'd love to hear answers to. If you get bored, please >> scroll to the end where I ask 'em. >> >> The Announcement: >> ================ >> >> Imagine if you could just download and unzip some PHP files, and >> instantly have a tiddlyspot-type server running behind your corporate >> firewall, on your school server, or just on the Mac Mini in the back >> of your broom cupboard. >> >> That's the goal of a new project that we kicked off a couple of weeks ago. >> >> -- Daniel Baird objoke: I had a problem and decided to solve it with threading. Now, have problems. two I -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAATMBzEjxZR9gH%2Br%2Bjs_j2Uz2EMp-Fz0yavMHD3GA63uVm21wQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
