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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Google Chrome: Round Two

My previous experimentation with Google Chrome was cut short by Chrome’s incompatibility with Confluence. Luckily, we upgraded to Confluence 2.8, which seems to play quite nicely with Chrome. Stay tuned for more Chrome news. Edward

DokuWiki is the Wiki You Want

Seth Kinast says DokuWiki is the Best Wiki; and I agree. The flat-file back-end makes migration or re-purposing the files easy. The syntax is simple and lovely. The sidebar plugin is just awesome; and is really the only plugin you need to make your wiki perfect.

Compilation is Optimization

“Compilation will eventually come to be seen for what it is: merely an optimization tool, and one whose use is almost always premature.” – Conway, in a DevSource article about scripting languages. This is one case where the old ways are not the best ways. I still encounter those who consider compiled languages somehow naturally [...]