http://distributedinformation.com/blog What Sven Dowideit's working on now. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:01:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And along the way, TWiki's inbuilt Topic and structured Search is going to get a boost too. I've been working on trying to bring SearchEngineKinoSearchAddOn into TWiki properly - by adding it as a configuration item in the SearchAlgorithms. So far, its a pretty cool - it super fast, especially on ... http://distributedinformation.com/blog/2008/08/06/working-towards-native-twiki-attachment-search/ This release makes over 150 improvements to the current Enterprise TWiki. Along with many WYSIWYG Editing improvements, better UTF8 support, User mapping fixes and SEARCH improvements, This release contains an optimization that should see 4.2.1 being 10-30% faster than 4.2.0. I will be updating the TWikiInstallers as soon as I can - ... http://distributedinformation.com/blog/2008/08/04/enterprise-wiki-twiki-421-update-released/ I've just updated the Experimental TWiki and Plugins repository. It now contains TWiki 4.2.0 and 212 Plugins, Contribs and Skins that you can simply apt-get install To use them, add the following 2 lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://distributedinformation.com/experimental/ experimental main contrib deb-src http://distributedinformation.com/experimental/ experimental main contrib then type apt-get update to update the available packages. you ... http://distributedinformation.com/blog/2008/07/25/debian-twiki-repository-now-with-212-twiki-plugins-contribs-skins-and-more/ I was having a discussion with someone on IRC about how TWiki is vulnerable to Cross-site scripting and Cross-site request forgery, and we realized that there are 2 possible approaches to securing TWiki effectively (both requiring a unique magic number for all URLs): add a pre process to the TWiki::UI system, ... http://distributedinformation.com/blog/2008/06/29/defense-against-the-dark-arts-cross-site-scripting-and-cross-site-forgery/ I've been using firefox 3 on my notebook since beta3, and loving its lower CPU and memory needs, but have been frustrated by the lack of 64 bit builds for my 8Gig RAM desktop development and VMWare system. It seems that they have been building 64bit binaries for quite some time ... http://distributedinformation.com/blog/2008/05/02/firefox-3-pre-release-builds-includes-64bit/ (test post using Gnome Webog poster) The last fortnight, I've been working on creating a new, soon to be released to web 2.0 'Beta' site based on TWiki 4.2.0. That means that I've been busy finding, reporting and fixing Bugs for TWiki 4.2.1. The list todate are: Item5455 BuildContrib doesn't cope ... http://distributedinformation.com/blog/2008/04/15/progress-towards-twiki-421-patch-release/ I've ported my additional DTrace probes to blead perl, adding the following probes new-sv and del-sv to track Perl allocations, main-enter and main-exit to show what part of Perl's execution phase we're in load-module-entry and load-module-return to instrument use, require, do. I've also started to document the probes at http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/perl+Provider To use the ... http://distributedinformation.com/blog/2008/02/15/blead-perl-dtrace-probes/ Given the following functionally similar Perl modules, I was curious what the internal Perl differences in execution were. To recap - (from PerlDoc) Perl use - Imports some semantics into the current package from the named module - It is exactly equivalent to BEGIN { require ... http://distributedinformation.com/blog/2008/02/13/examining-use-and-require-with-perl-dtrace/ I have just uploaded the OpenIDUserContrib for TWiki 4.2.0. It adds OpenID login and 1.1 Attribute functionalty to TWiki. Currently, it disables Registration, and limits authentication to OpenID users. It has the advantage over the OpenIDAuth apache module, that it automatically requests the User's OpenId 1.1 attributes like Name, Email address directly ... http://distributedinformation.com/blog/2008/02/12/twiki-420-openidusercontrib-consumer-released/ These Windows, OSX, Centos and Fedora Core installers are fully integrated native installers that will update your Computer with perl, apache, rcs and other tools needed to run TWiki on that platform.TWiki 4.2.0 contains many new improvements to TWiki, including a much improved Wysiwyg editor, a structured query engine, a ... http://distributedinformation.com/blog/2008/02/11/twiki-42-final-microsoft-windows-osx-and-rpm-centos-fedora-core-i386-installers/