On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Stephen Danic wrote:
> Hi Chris. How are your other projects coming? I was really looking forward
> to seeing the further development of both Arts and Warp. Any progress?
Let's just say those things have been suffering from "is this going to
be on the exam" syndrome. Lately if it hasn't been directly related to
school it has been relegated to the back burner. I've been doing a lot
of thinking about both tools (mostly about integrating them) but no
coding.
Someone has provided a patch to Arts which allows the replacement of
an existing doc over the mail. I've not had a chance to add that and
making a new release, as I wanted to make it a configurable option, so
it needs some tweaking.
I'm at decision point with Arts. Right now it uses straight text for
everything, which makes it very easy to install, with few extras
required. Using a database backend would make it considerably more
flexible in terms of how the information could be represented both
internally and externally but would destroy the easiness factor.
I guess I could maintain both.
If I go the database direction I'd like to make the document
management layer more abstract and have the database style of
management be a subclass of that layer.
Using a database to store the docs would make including Warp a lot
easier.
All of these ideas may see some light in the Spring when I'm taking
fewer classes and trying to get these projects, which motivated me to
go back to school in the first place, back into my focus.
> Now that Alex has created Touchgraph, you may want to consider it as a free
> visualization engine for your projects.
I'll probably be taking a java based information visualization course
in the Spring in which I hope to do if not exactly that, then
something very close.
> As a result of promiscuous collaboration, Open Source projects are looking
> more and more like expensive knowledge management systems. I'm not sure what
> InXight, Lotus K-station or The Brain EKP offer beyond what Wiki, Warp,
> Everything and Lucid provide, given the right visualization layer.
Indeed.
Speaking of Wiki: this has probably been mentioned before, but is
there a place where I can find some comparisons of the various Wiki
engines out there? I'd like to do some feature comparisons.
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