Archive 19. May 2011

TiddlySpace/tiddlyspace. And since I find TiddlyWiki interesting right now: this project is a hosting project for TiddlyWikis that can be linked to users there and can be networked with each other - sounds like an interesting platform for collaboration on projects, for example (projects that are not about code - there's GitHub and Bitbucket for that). TiddlySpace is also a direct platform where you can register, or you can simply take their open source project here and host it yourself.

TwMobile. Regarding TiddlyWiki - yes, there is also an app for iOS devices. By the way, it uses Phonegap to create the app. The link at the beginning goes to the user group, but here is also a link directly to the AppStore. Quite interesting because in TiddlyWiki, plugins and similar things are also automatically possible in JavaScript and thus extended access to iPhone hardware becomes possible. At the moment, the integration with Dropbox is still a bit meager: you have to send files back and forth between apps. But since in TiddlyWiki everything is in one HTML file, that's not such a big problem. Enables the same interface for a small desktop wiki on iPad, iPhone, and desktop. And one that also looks quite nice. And additionally enables onboard programming in JavaScript. Sounds like a nice toy!

QuickSilver Network. Hmm, had I already mentioned that? Doesn't matter, it's cool. It's a Smalltalk-like development environment, but with JavaScript as the language and in the web browser instead of in an application. However, it's all still very raw and some things don't quite work (at least in Safari), but somehow still nice. Somehow, I could imagine someone combining it with TiddlyWiki (for persistence) and then making a JavaScript image system like the old Smalltalk systems, but on the web. Would be somehow funny. Pointless, but funny.