Wednesday June 23, 2004
Wikis and SnipSnap in particular When I was introduced to wiki a little over a year ago, I immediately saw it as an enormous leap forward in time and cost savings for web publishing. A few years ago, I led the development of an online editor for the localization of content for the JavaOne conference website. In retrospect it could be defined as a narrowly scoped wiki.
SnipSnap is a very interesting collaboration suite incorperating both wiki and blog functionality implemented in Java. I've been using the SnipSnap software since I first learned about wiki. Recently, I promoted an investigation of its use as a bi-directional communication channel for Sun's customers and their account managers. When we evaluated SnipSnap's ability to serve hundreds of discrete members-only mini-sites on a few machines, we pushed it beyond its design point. We met with Matthias Jungel (Leo) while he was in California for OOPSLA and worked out an agreement to fund the development to scale SnipSnap for this use case. Today, Leo has announced the availability of the latest version which now satisfies our requirements.
I have installed and use 3 instances of SnipSnap on a daily basis.
- As a documentation wiki on my workstation.
- Intranet documentation where for example, a FAQ about blogs.sun.com is maintained by Sun's blogging community.
- My internet playground hoffie.com.
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and you have a database backed wiki/blog server running! So, what are you waiting for? Go get it, you'll like it! (2004-06-23 10:34:25.0)
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