On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 05:10:16PM +0000, Laurie Brown wrote:
James Elsey wrote:
When you come across an interesting article, or figure out how to do something with a new technology your messing around with, do you document it?
This is a bit of a generalised question, just trying to find out what you guys do.
I've gone for "Blogger", is there anything exciting Wordpress offers that could tempt me over? I'm using the web interface at the moment, its a bit clumsy, are there any good linux desktop applications that make it easier to type up and organise posts?
If anyone has a tech blog, feel free to link me up, would be interested to see what others are doing
A bit late on this one I know, but anyway...
We use dokuwiki extensively. It's really good, and designed for, well, documentation!
See: http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki
It's pretty customisable, and has made a real difference to the trials of creating and maintaining documentation for us and several customers.
Cheers, Laurie.
PS. I'm tech admin on a political blog too, based on wordpress (http://www.panscourer.com/). The more I work with wordpress, the more impressed I am with it. It's a fantastic example of truly worthwhile OSS.
I'm currently looking for something to document and record a personal project and I've homed in on blogs and wikis to do it. I've currently got *loads* installed on my system for trying out. At the moment I *think* Dokuwiki is the front runner, it's not perfect because it's not written in Python :-) but it has quite a lot else going for it.
I've looked at WordPress and Pyblosxom on the blog side, both good but I've come to the conclusion that a wiki is nearer what I want than a blog. I also have moinmoin, twiki (and some others I've forgotten) installed. Twiki is too 'heavy' for my purposes, moinmoin is good and is the closest runner to Dokuwiki, it's a bit less polished, harder work to install, but it is written in Python. :-)