TiddlyWiki - A great tool - No Fluff Just Stuff

TiddlyWiki - A great tool

Posted by: Venkat Subramaniam on April 17, 2006

One of the Practices in PaD is


In this practice, Andy and I, discuss how we ? software developers ? often face similar problems a number of times, and
struggle to remember how we solved it. You don?t want to get burned twice (or n times) by the same problem. We go on to
recommend some approaches to keeping a solution log. I generally maintain a document with not only solutions, but also
other interesting pointers, ideas, things to read, etc. I am sure you have something like that in various formats.

Recently, I heard Ramnivas recommend Tiddly Wiki. This is one heck of an application - JavaScripting on steroids - written
by Jeremy Ruston. You?ve got to try it out for yourself to appreciate it. You may find this tutorial very useful to start with.

Venkat Subramaniam

About Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.

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