[TWiki-Announce] TWiki Newsletter 2008-10-27

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  TWiki Newsletter 2008-10-27

In this newsletter: Items posted to the TWiki 
Blog between August 17 and October 27

    1. Release Status
    2. Relaunch TWiki.org Project
    3. TWiki Application Report - Holiday Planner
    4. Case study - Improving performance of TWIKI using Glassfish/LRWPinJava
    5. TWIKI as foundation for the "NEST" Project Platform
    6. New release of ToolTipPlugin addresses security issue
    7. TWiki Based Accounting
    8. ISO 9000 Compliance System
    9. Issues Upgrading TWiki
   10. First TWiki book ever ... in German language!
   11. Project Network Diagrams From Tables

Articles have been shortened, below, to save some 
space. If you're particularly interested in one 
of these items, be sure to visit the link to the 
complete entry!

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1. Release Status

Watch for the 4.2.4 patch release, coming soon. See

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/DownloadTWiki

for current and previous release information.

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2. Relaunch TWiki.org Project

There are some tremendous opportunities for our 
project. In order to take full advantage of 
these, today Peter Thoeny and the management team 
at NET decided to re launch the TWiki.org project 
with a new governance model. We want to reach out 
to all community members to explain:

     * why we decided to do this
     * some thoughts on our new top level direction
     * our invitation to re confirm your membership in the community

We invite you to participate in this exciting new 
direction. Please read the details at 
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/RelaunchTWikiOrgProject


http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x9
-- 27 Oct 2008 -- Peter Thoeny

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3. TWiki Application Report - Holiday Planner

My group in our company had the same problem as 
all groups: How to coordinate annual holidays for 
the group members? Recently we used the wall 
calendar in my office to remember each member's 
holiday plan. After plans had changed, it looked 
odd. And it worked only inside my office. As we 
already use TWiki for project management and 
knowledge base, I looked for a Wiki based 
solution. ...
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200808x7
-- 17 Aug 2008 -- Stefan Althoefer

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4. Case study - Improving performance of TWIKI using Glassfish/LRWPinJava

A case study that shows improving the performance 
of TWIKI has been published on the LRWPinJava 
website. Glassfish/LRWPinJava improves TWIKI 
performance more than 2x with 10x less load 
compared to Apache 1.3/cgi bin on Solaris 10 and 
T2000, a Sun/SPARC CMT based system. LRWPinJava 
is an open source implementation of the LRWP 
protocol ...
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200809x2
-- 29 Sep 2008 -- Nagendra Nagarajayya

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5. TWiki as foundation for the "NEST" Project Platform

I am Marko "NarsuMan" Rintamäki and I am working 
at Ixonos PLC (http://www.ixonos.com/en) as 
Senior Test Engineer/Consultant. I have been 
using TWiki now 5 years with a good spirit! I 
would like to share my "internal feelings" about 
using TWiki as foundation for Project Platform 
smile
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x1
-- 02 Oct 2008 -- Marko Rintamaki

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6. New release of ToolTipPlugin addresses security issue

I've fixed a security issue in the 
TWiki:Plugins.ToolTipPlugin. Any sites using this 
Plugin should upgrade to the newest version. If 
your site uses any topic or web view access 
restrictions, it's especially important to 
update. The exposure has existed going back at 
least a couple of years. TWikibug:Item6040 
addresses the issue. The fixed plugin is version 
17565 (02 Oct 2008) or later.
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x2
-- 03 Oct 2008 -- George Clark

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7. TWiki Based Accounting

Last year I started to port a number of 
spreadsheets I had into TWiki. I based topics on 
some examples I found on the main TWiki site, 
such as the account ledger which used a "mashup" 
of the Spreadsheet plugin and the Comment plugin. 
The result is a number of different tools: a 
petty cash balance, a mileage calculator for 
expenses; a credit card reconciliation; bank 
statement reconciliation...
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x3
-- 17 Oct 2008 -- ChrisHogan

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8. ISO 9000 Compliance System

On the same theme as my last post, we've also 
been able to implement an ISO 9000 compliance 
monitoring system. We're members of the 
Professional contractors Group 
(http://www.PCGQS.ORG.UK) who have a scheme which 
is approved and has many accredited users. It has 
its own system, based on an SVN repository, but 
it didn't have the dynamic capability of a TWiki 
based system. We've substituted the static word 
excel documents the PCG provided with interactive 
TWiki forms. ...
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x4
-- 17 Oct 2008 -- Chris Hogan

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9. Issues Upgrading TWiki

Having just made some positive comments in my 
last couple of blog posts, I must also, sadly, 
make some negative ones. The capability of the 
configure script to import plugins is I think a 
great advance; it's a great shame I can't use it. 
My ISP has a certain set structure to its 
directories and my TWiki installation is 
therefore under a "TWiki" directory alongside the 
"cgi bin". The configure script seems to think 
the subdirectories of TWiki are at the same level 
as cgi bin, so it copies the installer scripts 
into the directory above TWiki & then can't find 
them when it tries to run them! ...
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x5
-- 17 Oct 2008 -- Chris Hogan

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10. First TWiki book ever ... in German language!

I would like to announce that there will be the 
first book about TWiki in German language 
available from November this year! Being 
passionate about TWiki since more than one year I 
thought that TWiki certainly deserves some more 
attention as it is the greatest Wiki ever!

Since the twiki.org website and the documentation 
are of no real marketing benefit I wrote a book 
to introduce the power of TWiki to the market. 
The book starts with installing TWiki to write 
your first small plugin in Perl. It is targeted 
on newbies, everyday users and administrators, 
who have to introduce TWiki quickly. ...
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810
-- 22 Oct 2008 -- Wolf Marbach

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11. Project Network Diagrams From Tables

CPM/PERT diagrams (which Microsoft Project refers 
to by the ambiguous name of "network diagrams") 
are useful for planning what needs to be done in 
what order. Often thought of as a "one-off" 
project planning aid, more generally these 
precedence diagrams can be used for visualizing 
recurring procedures like the operations in a 
manufacturing assembly line, or even a guided 
procedure for business processes (like 
on-boarding an employee, which can include 
orientation, provisioning of equipment, granting 
security access, and of course forms to be filled 
out).

This application is based on Stefan Althoefer's 
Holiday Calendar Blog, which first showed how to 
generate diagrams from TWiki tables. ...I prefer 
this application's diagrams to MS Project's 
because they are easier to configure, maintain, 
and read. It is also much easier collaborate on 
these diagrams with TWiki than to use MS 
Project's collaboration environment. ...
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry200810x8
-- 26 Oct 2008 -- Sean C Morgan

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-- Contributor editor: Main.VickiBrown -- 20 Oct 2008
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