High Productivity With Applications Wikis - Presentation Transcript
High Productivity
With Application Wikis
about:me
twitter.com/jvelo
XWiki.org core committer
● Development of platform & products
● Contribs of plugins, extensions & apps
XWiki SAS employee
● XWiki Romania team leader
● Customer projects
about:xwiki
twitter.com/xwiki
XWiki.org
● LGPL platform & products
● > 10000 download/year
XWiki.com
● 28 people - French, European start-up
● Big-names customers in Europe & US
Agenda
Application wikis :
➔ High productivity for developers
➔ High productivity for end users
save &
What is a wiki? in 1999?
● “The simplest online
database that could
possibly work”
(Ward Cunningham)
● Web pages anyone with
access can edit, with:
• Linking capabilities
• Revision history
What is a wiki in 2009?
● WYSIWYG
● Enterprise integration (LDAP, Office,
rights management, PDF)
Knowledge
● Unstructured AND/OR structured
data pages Base
Editable script runtime!
+
●
● Extensible, Integrable (mashups,
APIs, apps) Platform
● ...this slide is not enough
Use cases
Wiki Apps: NOT FOR
A Flight Simulator
●
A Media Player
Real-time/embedded apps
Wiki Apps: FOR
Document-centric
Collaborative apps
Wiki Apps: FOR
Wiki Apps: why?
My
Apps
Developers say yay
How do I implement X, Y or Z?
wait...
It is there already !
Developers say yay
● 10” Document Type + CRUD
● In-wiki scripts
● Java plugins/components
● UI extensions (JS/CSS)
● APIs REST/GWT/XML-RPC
● IDE integration
Users say yay
How do I perform X, Y or Z
wait...
I know it already !
Demo
App Wikis: Future
Arnold says:
cool
● Annotations
● Real-time collab
● P2P
● Offline
● Mobile
● Semantic
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