[Bendug] Knock/KNock

[Tim Howe]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:05:00 -0800 (PST)
"Gary E. Miller" <gem at rellim.com> wrote:

> If you have the horsepower I have been pleased with tikiwiki.  Would not
> want to use it for a busy site.  Just an easy way to get some notices up
> to manage a group.  just easy enough that you can make the non-techies
> guilty they are not managing their own content. :-)

	I am actually pretty familiar with tiki, and almost used it for the site at one point.  The problem is that I am pretty familiar with just about EVERYTHING that is out there and have one reason or another that I don't want to use it.  The last thing I tried was Drupal, but it quickly rubbed me the wrong way (I used to love scoop, but the mess of Perl modules required is nuts).  I am a big fan of wikis, and have used many of them to good effect when I had a savvy group.
	I have become involved with several subsections of the Ruby community, and am playing with developer code for RailFrog (a Rails modular CMS project).  I am also watching Nitro/Og closely and am running a test site with Spark (a Nitro wiki).

	The current wiki (coWiki) used to be awesome before a server move exposed a show-stopping bug that I have not been able to get resolved.  The original developer left that project and nobody seems to know anything about the oustanding bugs.  Oh well.  I was almost the only user for that too.  I don't think people liked the login idea, which is too bad since the user permissions for coWiki are really excellent (modelled after unix permissions).  So, the wiki will probably also get replaced by either Instiki or Spark, depending on which one seems to be making me happiest.
	I have decided I am going to shun anything that is written in PHP and/or requires MySQL.  Since one of the two other active members is also a Ruby fan, I figure I will be making the people who matter happy.
	Stay tuned.  Rails 1.0 and Ruby 1.8.4 have just been released and code is flying like never before.  I would probably be running beta code for the site now, but I am getting more than my daily allowance of bit-wrangling at work lately, so I'm holding out for calmer seas.

	Our current UG server is an old, abused dual pII 350.  It will handle a light flogging, but disk space is always at a premium.

> And a Happy New Year to all!

	Indeed!

--TimH