[TWiki-Announce] TWiki Newsletter 2013-03-26

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TWiki Newsletter 2013-03-26

Release Status
TWiki-5.1.4 Released. See
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/DownloadTWiki
for current and previous release information.

In this newsletter: Items posted to the TWiki Blog between 2012-07-31 and 2013-03-25

TWiki-5.1.4 Released: Get. Work. Done.
Advanced TWiki Spreadsheet Formulas: Power and Flexibility - Not For Grandma
New TWiki Extensions to Watch Pages, Get Notified, Connect to SAP, JIRA, and More
Generate Fun Text for Social Media: Strike Out, Mirror, Flipped & Upside Down Text
Free Geolocation Lookup - Where is This Website or IP Address?
The Internet Map - Fascinating Ways to Visualize the Web
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. TWiki-5.1.4 Released: Get. Work. Done.
We've released TWiki 5.1.4 it can be downloaded immediately from TWiki.org and SourceForge.net. The TWiki VM, a VMware based virtual machine has been updated as well. This release supersedes earlier TWiki 5.1 releases, which introduced many usability enhancements, such as point and click user data management, more visual user profile pages with picture selector, and a backup feature to help upgrade TWiki sites.
-- 2013-02-18 -- PeterThoeny 
Read more: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201302x1 
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2. Advanced TWiki Spreadsheet Formulas: Power and Flexibility - Not For Grandma
TWiki's SpreadSheetPlugin just got 9 new functions that add hash capabilities to TWiki... TWiki has supported tables since its inception. Spreadsheet functions were introduced with the SpreadSheetPlugin in 2001. Initially just a dozen functions were available for simple table arithmetic. Over time, many more functions have been added, allowing ever more advanced computations. This blog post describes some advanced spreadsheet topics using some of the (120) current functions.
-- 2013-03-25 -- PeterThoeny 
Read more: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201303x2 
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3. New TWiki Extensions to Watch Pages, Get Notified, Connect to SAP, JIRA, and More
TWiki.org has a lot of activity recenty, especially on the extensions. Here is a quick overview on some new plugins release in the last few weeks...TWiki has a new WatchlistPlugin. It does what you know from the watchlist feature on Wikipedia. ... The JiraPlugin allows users to add JQL (JIRA Query Language) statements in TWiki pages - the result is rendered as TWiki tables. A new SapConnectPlugin ...allows users to query content in an SAP system using the ABAP query language, and to show the result dynamically in TWiki pages. ...
-- 2013-03-16 -- PeterThoeny 
Read more: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201303x1 
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4. Generate Fun Text for Social Media: Strike Out, Mirror, Flipped & Upside Down Text
This text tool is for fun and to learn Javascript. If you want strike out text, mirrored text, flipped text or upside down text, then this is it. You can copy and paste from this tool into Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and other sites.
-- 2012-11-20 -- PeterThoeny 
Read more: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201211x1 
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5. Free Geolocation Lookup - Where is This Website or IP Address?
This blog post has two purposes: 1. Free application to find the geolocation (geographical location) of an Internet domain name or an IP (Internet Protocol) address. Multiple addresses can be specified. 2. How to: This application uses TWiki's GeoLookupPlugin and some SpreadSheetPlugin magic to provide real time lookup of addresses...
-- 2012-08-14 -- PeterThoeny 
Read more: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201208x2 
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6. The Internet Map - Fascinating Ways to Visualize the Web
The Internet Map (click to enlarge) Ruslan Enikeev created a cool interactive map of the Internet. The four biggest circles are google.com, facebook.com, youtube.com and yahoo.com. TWiki.org is a tiny spec next to facebook.com. In total, the whole map depicts 350,000 sites and two million links from 196 countries...
-- 2012-07-31 -- PeterThoeny 
Read more: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201207x2 
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Visit the TWiki Blog at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog.
Do you have a TWiki experience to share? Don't hesitate to write a blog post. We like to learn from you. Not sure what to write about? We've got some ideas! (If you don't have enough for a blog post, consider Twitter. Be sure to mention TWiki in your post. Follow @twiki for TWiki tweets.)
Do you need help? Check the Support Forum or consider hiring a TWiki Consultant.
-- Contributor editor: VickiBrown -- 2013-03-26