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tw5.com/tiddlers/Acknowledgements.tid

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+title: Acknowledgements
+modifier: JeremyRuston
+tags: introduction
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+TiddlyWiki5 wouldn't be possible without the ongoing support of the TiddlyWiki user and developer community. Their attention and feedback has made it possible for me to get a good understanding of what people want from the product, and their passion for the product has taught me that the project is worth the investment of effort that I am making.
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+Working in OpenSource has enabled me to stand on the shoulders of giants, by reusing these projects:
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+* [[Twitter Bootstrap|http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/]]'s CSS
+* [[Esprima|http://esprima.org]], a JavaScript parsing infrastructure for multipurpose analysis

tw5.com/tiddlers/HelloThere.tid

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 Welcome to TiddlyWiki5, a reboot of TiddlyWiki, the venerable, reusable non-linear personal web notebook first released in 2004. It is a complete interactive wiki that can run from a single HTML file in the browser or as a powerful [[node.js application|node.js]].
 
-TiddlyWiki offers a radically new way of managing your data compared to traditional documents. The fundamental idea is that information is more useful and reusable if we cut up into the [[smallest semantically meaningful chunks|Tiddlers]]. TiddlyWiki aims to provide a fluid interface for working with tiddlers, allowing them to be aggregated and composed into longer narratives.
+TiddlyWiki offers a radically improved way of managing your data compared to traditional documents and emails. The fundamental idea is that information is more useful and reusable if we cut up into the [[smallest semantically meaningful chunks|Tiddlers]] and use links, tags and macros to model the structured relationships between them.  TiddlyWiki aims to provide a fluid interface for working with tiddlers, allowing them to be aggregated and composed into longer narratives.
 
-TiddlyWiki5 is at an incomplete early alpha stage, and is not yet ready for general use. You can:
+TiddlyWiki5 is at an incomplete early alpha stage, and is not yet ready for general use. But it's the best possible time to get involved and support its future development. You can:
 
 * Explore its features online at http://alpha.tiddlywiki.com/
 * Get involved in the [[development on GitHub|https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5]]
 * Join the discussions on [[the TiddlyWikiDev Google Group|http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiDev]]
 * Follow [[@TiddlyWiki on Twitter|http://twitter.com/#!/TiddlyWiki]] for the latest news
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tw5.com/tiddlers/History.tid

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+title: History
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+! Origins of TiddlyWiki
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+Back in 1997 a colleague introduced me to [[Ward Cunningham's original wiki|http://c2.com/cgi/wiki]]. I was stunned that something so powerful could fit into just 700 lines of Perl, and fascinated by the radical reimagining of security and permissions. Like many other developers, I took every opportunity I could to try out various wikis, and to explore their use at work.
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+After watching people use wikis for a few years, I noticed that power users made extensive use of the ability to open multiple wiki pages at once in several browser tabs, making it easier for them to compare and review pages, to copy text between them and to act as a sort of queue of pages yet to be read.
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+I could see that this ability to manipulate multiple pages at once was central to the ability to refactor a wiki, and I've found that a wiki that is lovingly refactored tends to be more useful. And yet, standard wiki user interfaces have always been designed exclusively for the presentation and manipulation of single pages at once.
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+All of these thoughts came together when I saw GMail in April 2004, which used Ajax cleverly to blend individual emails into threaded conversations.
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+I started experimenting with HTML and JavaScript to explore the idea further. I'd had virtually no experience of either, just having put together some static pages and simple ASP sites in previous lives. Getting my head around these client-side technologies was painful; like everyone else, I was horrified to discover how appalling were the incompatibilities and inconsistencies of web programming.
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+Then I could show the idea with a static HTML file. So, I didn't need a serverside to demonstrate how this simple user interface idea worked. Or indeed a proper grown-up server with the ability to run cgi scripts.
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+! Launch of TiddlyWiki
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+So, in September 2004 I released a primitive [[first version of TiddlyWiki|http://tiddlywiki.com/firstversion.html]]. It was the smallest possible thing that demonstrated the idea that I had: it was a simple, self-contained static 48KB HTML file sitting on a dusty old Sun server in my friend Steph's attic.
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+The downside of writing the first version of TiddlyWiki in this way was that it made it completely impractical to use for editing - when you click 'save changes' it just pops up a window showing the data that would be saved if it were possible for an HTML page to write to the file system.
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+//To be continued.../

tw5.com/tiddlers/Improvements.tid

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 modifier: JeremyRuston
 tags: docs introduction
 
-TiddlyWiki5 is a complete rewrite of the original TiddlyWiki, incorporating many of the improvements that I've wanted to make over the years. It is now based on an elegant [[microkernel architecture|PluginMechanism]], that allows infinite customisation by replacing and augmenting the core modules.
+TiddlyWiki5 is a complete rewrite of the original TiddlyWiki, incorporating many of the improvements that I've wanted to make over the years. It is now based on an elegant [[microkernel architecture|PluginMechanism]], that allows infinite customisation by replacing and augmenting the core modules. The new code is much easier to work with, and will hopefully prove an even more fertile ground for the community of open source developers around TiddlyWiki.
 
 For end users, the important improvements include:
 
 * Improved WikiText, with much better generation of HTML, including proper `<p>` tags
+* Flexible TiddlerFilters that make it easier to work with several tiddlers in a single operation
 * TiddlyWiki can now be run under [[node.js]] as well as in the browser, allowing it to be used as a personal web server
 * Tiddlers containing images are now supported just like WikiText tiddlers, including integrated editing of bitmap and SVG images
 * Uses standard Twitter Bootstrap CSS (thus enabling the use of Boostrap themes such as http://bootswatch.com)

tw5.com/tiddlers/concepts/TiddlyWiki.tid

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 TiddlyWiki is based on the idea of making information more useful by modelling it in the smallest meaningful semantic units, referred to as [[Tiddlers]].  Structure comes from links, tags, and sequences of tiddlers called stories. Tiddlers use a WikiText notation that concisely represents a wide range of text formatting and hypertext features.
 
-People [[love using|Raves]] TiddlyWiki. Because it can be used without any complicated server infrastructure, and because it is [[open source|What is open source?]], it has bought unprecedented freedom to people to keep their precious information under their own control. TiddlyWiki was originally created by JeremyRuston and is now a thriving [[open source|What is open source?]] project with a busy [[Community]] of independent developers.
+People [[love using|Raves]] TiddlyWiki. Because it can be used without any complicated server infrastructure, and because it is [[open source|What is open source?]], it has bought unprecedented freedom to people to keep their precious information under their own control. TiddlyWiki was originally created by JeremyRuston and is now a thriving [[open source|OpenSource]] project with a busy [[Community]] of independent developers.
 
 See TiddlyWikiArchitecture and [[Introduction]].

tw5.com/tiddlers/definitions/FederatialLimited.tid

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+title: FederatialLimited
+tags: definitions
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+Federatial Limited is a software consultancy founded by JeremyRuston specializing in understanding the impact of the web on the way that we work together.
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+Through human history we've used hierarchies to organize ourselves to undertake the big challenges of raising an army, organizing a church, or building an enterprise. Now we see the rise of small, loosely federated groups that use the web to establish agreement and organize action, such as the creation of open source software. Federatial is exploring a new wave of collaboration tools that eschew the old, crude hierarchical models of organization.

tw5.com/tiddlers/definitions/JeremyRuston.tid

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+title: JeremyRuston
+modifier: JeremyRuston
+tags: definitions
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+I've spent my life inventing software products with great user experiences, and building the teams to develop them. I'm the inventor of TiddlyWiki, a popular open source personal organiser that's grown to be the platform for a whole new class of web applications. I lead the community around TiddlyWiki, and am dedicated to building a great product for users all over the world.
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+I am available through my company FederatialLimited for consultancy and speaking engagements.
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+You can find me on these services:
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+* [[@Jermolene on Twitter|http://twitter.com/#!/jermolene]]
+* [[LinkedIn|http://www.linkedin.com/in/jermy]]
+* [[Flickr|http://www.flickr.com/photos/jermy/]]
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+Further information:
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+* An [[interview with me in The Inquirer|http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/2105529/bt-software-engineer-tells-telco-source]] by Wendy Grossman
+* A [[hilarious interview with me|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auyIhw8MTmQ]] from British television in 1983

tw5.com/tiddlers/definitions/OpenSource.tid

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+title: OpenSource
+modifier: JeremyRuston
+tags: definitions
+
+OpenSource is [[defined by Wikipedia|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source]] as //a philosophy, or pragmatic methodology that promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details//.
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+For me, OpenSource speaks to a fundamental truth about software: software is unlike anything else we produce in our post-industrial revolution era. Initially, we thought that programming would evolve to be a branch of engineering: a process that was amenable to conventional techniques of mass production, and the traditional business models we have wrapped around the things we make and the things we dig out of the ground.
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+As it has turned out, programming isn't like engineering at all. In a field like bridge building, engineers can reliably build bridges to any required specification, with a full understanding of the practical limitations under which it has to operate. In software, we struggle to manage large scale development. We can't even reliably estimate the complexity of non-trivial programming tasks. Smart people think of software as being mostly a liability, and not the asset that it first appears.
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+OpenSource doesn't change the  nature of software, but instead incorporates it into the philosophy. The most fundamental insight is that programming is hard, and that the best way to mitigate the problem is to have lots and lots of smart brains working on it. But open source doesn't seek to do that by prescribing a reductionist, hierarchical breakdown of the required tasks that can be allocated to an army of programmers. Instead, OpenSource suggests that our code should be accessible to everyone, to create the widest possible surface area for potential collaborators.
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+This leads to an intense, organic, chaotic way of working, but the results are undeniably impressive.
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+TiddlyWiki is part of a small band of OpenSource projects like Firefox that don't just target software developers, but provide something that end users can use themselves, without any special programming ability.
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+Here's a video of a presentation I did in 2007 called [["How to Start an Open Source Project"|http://vimeo.com/856110]].